It turns out the mayor does have a device for communicating with David Chiu. It's called a press release.Yesterday we wrote about how Mayor Gavin Newsom announced at the San Francisco Business Times breakfast that he was proposing an overhaul of the city's payroll tax -- which came as news to Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, who had proposed overhauling said tax two weeks ago. It turns out that the proposals are, indeed, different -- and the mayor's payroll proposition was just one of
We're living through the "interesting times" of the apocryphal malevolent Chinese proverb when folks' first reaction to hearing that Caltrain plans on raising fees while cutting services is "thank God!" The fewer trains running on the tracks, the fewer Gunn High students can end their brief lives beneath Caltrain's steel wheels. The propensity of the Palo Alto school's students to induce what the French innocuously call "accidents of person" shifted from tragic to bizarre last night when onlooke
Audrey Fukuman, based on original illustration by @yiyingluGavin Newsom and the Bay Bridge came up short this weekIf you see a tall, handsome man with slicked-back hair wandering forlornly through the city on Halloween, it may not be a denizen dressed as Gavin Newsom. It may be the real thing. The mayor's traveling political roadshow came to an end today when he fired off a press release acknowledging he is dropping out of the governor's race: "It is with great regret I announce today that I
