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Josh Wolf announces plans to run for mayor

Will "The Hook Up Neighborhood Service Fairs" Help Suppress the Rising Tide of Deadly SF Violence?

Where Your $6 Billion Goes: The SF City Committee Shuffle

SF Schools: High-level talks result in ... progress!

SF Mayor Race: Daly Out, Chicken and Wolf In

Newsom’s Resign-O-Rama: Sixteen Reasons it Could Become a Fiasco

The Cosco Busan Oil Spill Clean-Up as PR? One reader wants to know

Van Sant's 'Milk' Locked, Loaded while 'Mayor of Castro St.' Cock-Blocked By Writer's Strike

Newsom’s Muni Budget Shell-Game Not New

Even more TV no one watches! Every San Francisco government meeting is on deck

SF Gov't InAction: 2,400 Square Feet in SF Renting for only $200. WHAT?

Homicide Update: 2008 Bigger Than 2007 So Far

Mayor Proposes 712 Job Cuts in SF Government

Hand it to Mayor Gavin Newsom's office for upholding the bureaucratic tradition of euphemism. In a statement today outlining the mayor's plan for addressing San Francisco's revenue shortfall this year, estimated at up to $125 million, Newsom calls for "solutions" -- in the form of spending cuts and ... More >>

Fong Retires with "Dignity"? Nope: Try "Perjury."

Every time I think the Mayor's office couldn't take 100 homicides any less seriously, he one-ups himself with a stunt like this. By Benjamin Wachs There's lies, damn lies, and then there's the stunt that Gavin Newsom and Heather Fong just pulled. Silent Fong's supporters are going on about how SF' ... More >>

Introducing a New Recurring Feature: Correcting the Mayor's Corrections Page

This week, as part of its ongoing effort to avoid any give-and-take with an entity it does not control, the mayor's office unveiled a "corrections page" of media stories on Gavin Newsom's city Web site. On this page, Nathan Ballard, the mayor's spokesman, promises "When the media publishes inaccurat ... More >>

Ain't That the Mayor's SUV Blocking Two Handicapped Access Ramps and Crosswalks?

One ticket for blocking a handicapped curb ramp? $250. Two tickets? $500. Being mayor and dumping your SUV wherever you like? PricelessYesterday we wrote about how Mayor Gavin Newsom's taxpayer-funded Chevy Tahoe Hybrid gets awful mileage, is only marginally more efficient than a regular Tahoe, and ... More >>

Public Defender Unapologetic About Playing Budget Chicken with Mayor, Says It's Impossible to Cut His Costs

Public Defender Jeff Adachi has no qualms about refusing to adhere to Gavin Newsom's demands he cut his budgetIn recent weeks, SF Weekly (and others) have covered the increasingly nasty public exchanges between Public Defender Jeff Adachi and the Board of Supervisors and Mayor's Office. In a nutshel ... More >>

Public Defender Says Stint at Community Justice Center Is No Stunt -- Pledges to Return Every Day

Jeff Adachi says see you at the CJCIt would raise eyebrows around the city if the fire chief grabbed a hose and doused a burning building, the planning director checked in for work behind the permitting counter, or the head of the Department of Public Works hosed human effluvia off city streets. And ... More >>

Clerk of Board of Supervisors Falls on Sword, Claims Supes' Failure to Obey Law Was All Her Fault (Even Though It Wasn't)

Angela CalvilloAs noted previously on this page, we've always admired Board of Supervisors Clerk Angela Calvillo's professionalism and steadiness when dealing with deranged lunatics during public comment sessions at meetings. And now we add that we can add that we admire her candor in claiming total ... More >>

Lawyers may sue city for turning juveniles over to feds

Angela CalvilloAs noted previously on this page, we've always admired Board of Supervisors Clerk Angela Calvillo's professionalism and steadiness when dealing with deranged lunatics during public comment sessions at meetings. And now we add that we can add that we admire her candor in claiming total ... More >>

SF Supervisor Aaron Peskin's Message to Newsom: Quit Attacking Me!

Angela CalvilloAs noted previously on this page, we've always admired Board of Supervisors Clerk Angela Calvillo's professionalism and steadiness when dealing with deranged lunatics during public comment sessions at meetings. And now we add that we can add that we admire her candor in claiming total ... More >>

Newsom Snubbed by Democrats

Even without a major opponent, Mayor Gavin Newsom fails to get a Democratic Club's endorsement

A Step Forward

Whether it's Agnos or Gonzalez, one of them needs to jump into the race

Muni-Me

Gavin Newsom may be the city's top official, but he's not its highest paid--not even in his own office

The Deal With Treasure Island

Gavin Newsom may be the city's top official, but he's not its highest paid--not even in his own office

The Money Went Fore What?

As parks funds were moved -- behind the scenes -- to a golf tournament, Gavin Newsom was out front seeking the spotlight. It's what he does best.

S.F. Hosing Authority

City government promised Katrina victims a haven, then it gave some of them the shaft

The Daily Lickspittle

Journalism has a lot of problems, but too many of them are manifestations of a sycophantic attitude toward the big-e Establishment

Museum Quality

The new de Young Museum is an architectural marvel; its parking garage shows what's wrong with S.F. development policy

A Pair of Aces

Either Newsom or Gonzalez will make a good mayor, but Gonzalez has the creative edge

The Chick Factor

He's idealistic, he's good-looking, and he's even a great listener

Laborer Pains

The San Francisco Day Labor Program loses city funding amid a labyrinthine dispute between its political supporters and the Mayor's Office

Dog Bites

What's $100 Million When You're Homeless?; We Feel Safer Already

Down on Brown

Many blacks in Bayview/Hunters Point say they feel ignored by the mayor. In this election, they are returning the favor.

Breaking Ranks

Union leaders endorsed Willie Brown, but the rank and file has other ideas

Mecklin

Union leaders endorsed Willie Brown, but the rank and file has other ideas

Cothran

Union leaders endorsed Willie Brown, but the rank and file has other ideas

Gavin Newsom is no civil service reformer

Union leaders endorsed Willie Brown, but the rank and file has other ideas

Mayor's Office Strikes Back at David Chiu In Memo On Nightclub Violence

It's gettin' hot in hereThe Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice has sent a memo to Board of Supervisors President David Chiu asking him to back off efforts to set up a stricter nightclub permitting process, the latest volley in an intensifying intra-city feud over how to handle rising club violence.T ... More >>

The Daly Show

It's gettin' hot in hereThe Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice has sent a memo to Board of Supervisors President David Chiu asking him to back off efforts to set up a stricter nightclub permitting process, the latest volley in an intensifying intra-city feud over how to handle rising club violence.T ... More >>

Oops, They Did It Again -- Public Campaign Finance Advocates Bemoan Latest 'Raid'

​Public campaign financing isn't just a political football here in San Francisco -- it's a football so frequently kicked, punted, or otherwise buffeted the laces have come undone. And is there any money to fix it? Don't ask! The latest instance of San Francisco politicos stating they like the idea ... More >>

SEIU's Claim Mayor 'Broke Promise' to Union Is a Tough Sell

​Yesterday's contentious SEIU protest at City Hall was both similar to and different from the protests that proceeded it. It was different in that it featured a 14-foot-tall puppet and some sort of altercation with a Native American group. And it was the same in that it probably won't save the job ... More >>

Newsom Spokesman Nathan Ballard Says His Piece, Quits

Nathan Ballard​The upside of having multiple spokesmen is that when one leaves, others can announce it. That's what happened today, when Mayor Gavin Newsom's chief spokesman, Nathan Ballard, announced he's leaving the mayor's employ. Ballard and Newsom praised one another in a release sent moments ... More >>

Mirkarimi: Mayor's Departing Spokesman Shouldn't Be Replaced

There's an allegory here, somewhere...​Older politicians and older political reporters pine for the days when dueling politicos could check out at the end of the day like Ralph and Sam the coyote and sheep dog in old Looney Tunes shorts ("Morning Frank." "Morning Sam."). There was a glimmer of thi ... More >>

Newsom Resign-O-Rama Continues -- Is it Business as Usual or Beginning of End?

So long, Mr. Ryan...​With today's announcement of the departure of Kevin Ryan, the head of the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, Gavin Newsom passed an important pinnacle. His right-hand men and women have now quit more times than Brett Favre. It took a while, but Newsom caught up. On a serious ... More >>

Screwed

So long, Mr. Ryan...​With today's announcement of the departure of Kevin Ryan, the head of the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, Gavin Newsom passed an important pinnacle. His right-hand men and women have now quit more times than Brett Favre. It took a while, but Newsom caught up. On a serious ... More >>

While our hypocritical mayor vows to reduce homeless population, city eyes cutting shelter beds

So long, Mr. Ryan...​With today's announcement of the departure of Kevin Ryan, the head of the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, Gavin Newsom passed an important pinnacle. His right-hand men and women have now quit more times than Brett Favre. It took a while, but Newsom caught up. On a serious ... More >>

Pissing Contest Between Newsom, Avalos May End Next Week

​When conjuring up Catch-22 analogies involving Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor John Avalos, one runs into a stumbling block right away. Which one is Yossarian? And who gets to be Major Major? (Personally, we see Newsom as Milo Minderbinder; they have similar feelings about privitazation). In an ... More >>

Stimulating Debate

​When conjuring up Catch-22 analogies involving Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor John Avalos, one runs into a stumbling block right away. Which one is Yossarian? And who gets to be Major Major? (Personally, we see Newsom as Milo Minderbinder; they have similar feelings about privitazation). In an ... More >>

Frantic E-Mail Bemoans Scant Submissions For Mayor's Teacher, Principal Awards

When it comes to submissions, the mayor's office has got it bad, got it bad, got it bad...​An urgent e-mail fired off to every member of the Board of Supervisors and other government officials pleads with them to drum up entrants for the Mayor's Teacher of the Month and Principal of the Year Award ... More >>