Where there's smoke, there's ... more shenanigans from Examiner.comThe other day, thanks to Google Alerts, I stumbled across an Examiner.com article about the Top-10 places to meet men in San Francisco. This isn't a need for me personally -- and I feel for the woman who resorts to surreptitiously chatting up would-be suitors at Giants games or sporting goods stores. Still, it was a cute enough little piece and certainly seemed to be written by the person whose name adorned the article. In other
Jim HerdWhoosh! There goes your parking revenue! As first reported on Streetsblog and then this morning in the Chronicle, Mayor Gavin Newsom has made clear that he's no fan of alleviating Muni's revenue headaches by extending parking meter hours. Muni's pledge to study the merits of extended parking meter hours was one of the only takeaways for progressives during the painful Muni budget dustup from earlier this year; let Newsom's current behavior be a warning to anyone else who sees fit to s
Jim HerdThere is grandeur in this view of life...Text by Joe Eskenazi. Gorgeous photos by Jim Herd. In the many months between when we first reported the inception of the San Francisco-based United Football League up to the moment we wandered into a largely abandoned AT&T Park for the Saturday night home debut of the California Redwoods, we never did figure out the league's "mission statement." The UFL, it reads, "was developed to fulfill the unmet needs of football fans in major markets