Shake it, determine its value, and record it in your Statement of Economic InterestOne of the indignities of being an elected public official is that you are required by law to disclose all of your "income" -- which does include wedding gifts. One of the dignities of being our mayor and marrying an actress is that you get really swanky gifts. The Chronicle has cheerfully released a partial tally of what exchanged hands at the Newsom-Siebel wedding (complete with name-dropping), proving, once aga
Let's put it this way: When the Howard Jarvis anti-tax zealots are crowing in victory and San Francisco voters roundly reject a series of ballot measures -- well, something was out of kilter in this election universe to begin with. The straightforward portrayal of this as an anti-tax
voters' uprising -- already under way -- is simplistic. A wide variety
of liberals, libertarians, and conservatives soundly defeated these
measures -- because they were crap. Not that we're in for good times as
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