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September 17, 2012
Coercion Allegations in Battle Over Shell Public Power Contract
Multiple accusers claiming to be representatives of Public Utilities Commission-funded nonprofits have contacted the mayor's office, alleging they were threatened by PUC officials to not publicly question the proposed "clean power" deal with Shell -- at risk of losing their funding. Mayoral spokeswo ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2011
Occupy Oakland: City Council Turns on Mayor Jean Quan
Quan is quickly learning that being the mayor of Oakland actually kinda sucksMayor Jean Quan is now taking heat from her colleagues at City Hall after a group of city councilmembers did what they say Quan should have done days ago: Marched down to the encampment and demand that police dismantle O ... More >>
News
November 9, 2011
The Men Least Likely: A Brief Survey of S.F.'s Worst Mayors
Quan is quickly learning that being the mayor of Oakland actually kinda sucksMayor Jean Quan is now taking heat from her colleagues at City Hall after a group of city councilmembers did what they say Quan should have done days ago: Marched down to the encampment and demand that police dismantle O ... More >>
News
August 31, 2011
The Billion-Dollar Bet: Which Pension Reform Measure Will Pass and Survive Legal Challenge
Quan is quickly learning that being the mayor of Oakland actually kinda sucksMayor Jean Quan is now taking heat from her colleagues at City Hall after a group of city councilmembers did what they say Quan should have done days ago: Marched down to the encampment and demand that police dismantle O ... More >>
News
May 4, 2011
List: What Isn't Working in San Francisco
Quan is quickly learning that being the mayor of Oakland actually kinda sucksMayor Jean Quan is now taking heat from her colleagues at City Hall after a group of city councilmembers did what they say Quan should have done days ago: Marched down to the encampment and demand that police dismantle O ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2011
America's Cup: Ball Is Now in City Attorney's Court
The material everyone wants to have...What are "material changes?" The answer is not immaterial.In tweaking the America's Cup agreement signed off by the Board of Supervisors, the mayor's office was entitled to make changes -- but not material changes.After analyzing the revamped deal, the board' ... More >>
News
February 23, 2011
What Questions Do People Really Want Ed Lee to Answer?
The material everyone wants to have...What are "material changes?" The answer is not immaterial.In tweaking the America's Cup agreement signed off by the Board of Supervisors, the mayor's office was entitled to make changes -- but not material changes.After analyzing the revamped deal, the board' ... More >>
News
February 2, 2011
How Chris Daly saved San Francisco from a bad America's Cup deal
The material everyone wants to have...What are "material changes?" The answer is not immaterial.In tweaking the America's Cup agreement signed off by the Board of Supervisors, the mayor's office was entitled to make changes -- but not material changes.After analyzing the revamped deal, the board' ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2011
Tony Winnicker Says 'Farewell' to Everyone but SF Weekly
You don't write, you don't callMayoral spokesman Tony Winnicker has quit his job after working for the last year as former mayor Gavin Newsom's mouthpiece and then Mayor Ed Lee. Will we miss him? Not really, and here is why: He never calls us back!The fact that Winnicker has frozen out SF Weekly ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2011
Ross Mirkarimi Asks Budget Analyst to Make Sure America's Cup Deal isn't Costing Extra
Making sure the deal is even keeled, to use a nautical term Following the approval of the America's Cup deal, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi pledged to follow up with budget reports that would analyze whether the mayor's office has made any tweaks to the deal that would cost taxpayers extra money.&nbs ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2010
Rapper Mo Wiley Wants to be San Leandro's Next Mayor
This could give a whole new meaning to Mo Wiley's finger-shaking warning, "You Can't Touch It Unless I Say So." Wiley, an East Bay gangsta rapper and mother of three whose given name is Sara Mestas, hopes to clean up San Leandro from the Mayor's Office on down. Because really, what's more g ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2010
What Do You Get For Being Mayor of S.F. Library on Foursquare?
The once and future mayor...Maybe you know someone -- maybe you are someone -- who must compulsively whip out a phone whenever entering a cafe, restaurant, or bar in order to ensure he or she will remain mayor of said establishment on foursquare. It's a fitting metaphor for San Francisco, where m ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2010
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 >>
News
February 17, 2010
Stimulating Debate
S.F.'s employment rate is relatively good, but city leaders can still create more jobs. Here's how.
Blogs
February 2, 2010
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 >>
News
January 20, 2010
While our hypocritical mayor vows to reduce homeless population, city eyes cutting shelter beds
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 >>
News
November 25, 2009
Screwed
A lawsuit against the city highlights an affordable-housing program's decades of mismanagement — and the middle-class homeowners who lost out as a result.
Blogs
November 17, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
November 17, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
November 16, 2009
Newsom Spokesman Nathan Ballard Says His Piece, Quits
Nathan BallardThe 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 >>
Blogs
November 13, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
October 6, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
July 15, 2009
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 >>
News
May 6, 2009
Gavin Newsom is no civil service reformer
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 >>
Blogs
March 27, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
March 12, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
March 5, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
February 18, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
February 12, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
December 24, 2008
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 >>
Blogs
December 9, 2008
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 >>
News
September 24, 2008
Lawyers may sue city for turning juveniles over to feds
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 >>
Blogs
May 12, 2008
SF Gov't InAction: 2,400 Square Feet in SF Renting for only $200. WHAT?
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 >>
Blogs
May 12, 2008
Homicide Update: 2008 Bigger Than 2007 So Far
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 >>
Blogs
April 17, 2008
Even more TV no one watches! Every San Francisco government meeting is on deck
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 >>
News
March 5, 2008
SF Supervisor Aaron Peskin's Message to Newsom: Quit Attacking Me!
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 >>
Blogs
January 28, 2008
Newsom’s Muni Budget Shell-Game Not New
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 >>
Blogs
November 26, 2007
Van Sant's 'Milk' Locked, Loaded while 'Mayor of Castro St.' Cock-Blocked By Writer's Strike
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 >>
Blogs
November 12, 2007
The Cosco Busan Oil Spill Clean-Up as PR? One reader wants to know
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 >>
News
September 19, 2007
Newsom Snubbed by Democrats
Even without a major opponent, Mayor Gavin Newsom fails to get a Democratic Club's endorsement
Blogs
September 18, 2007
Newsom’s Resign-O-Rama: Sixteen Reasons it Could Become a Fiasco
Even without a major opponent, Mayor Gavin Newsom fails to get a Democratic Club's endorsement
News
August 29, 2007
The Daly Show
Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed
Blogs
August 13, 2007
SF Mayor Race: Daly Out, Chicken and Wolf In
Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed
Blogs
August 10, 2007
SF Schools: High-level talks result in ... progress!
Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed
Blogs
July 30, 2007
Where Your $6 Billion Goes: The SF City Committee Shuffle
Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed
Blogs
July 13, 2007
Will "The Hook Up Neighborhood Service Fairs" Help Suppress the Rising Tide of Deadly SF Violence?
Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed
Blogs
July 5, 2007
Josh Wolf announces plans to run for mayor
Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed
News
April 18, 2007
A Step Forward
Whether it's Agnos or Gonzalez, one of them needs to jump into the race
News
April 11, 2007
Muni-Me
Gavin Newsom may be the city's top official, but he's not its highest paid--not even in his own office
News
November 9, 2005
The Deal With Treasure Island
Tony Hall's firing casts the spotlight on a real estate mega-deal that slogs along under a veil of secrecy
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