Michael Yaki

Mayor Ed Lee ... for Mayor

A San Francisco favorite​As SF Weekly told you this morning, the notion that Mayor Ed Lee jumping in the race for mayor is becoming a reality. While he was selected as interim mayor earlier this year based solely on the fact that he would only be a "caretaker" who was committed to not running for ... More >>

Her House Divided

The most powerful female politician in the country now teeters between long-term victory and instant defeat.

The Last of the Burtons?

They have dominated state and local politics for 50 years. Now, for the first time, the future of their "family business" is in doubt.

Organ Failure

An ambitious plan to relocate a historic pipe organ to the Embarcadero threatens nothing but sour notes

Dead Presidents

An annual conference that helps indie filmmakers finance their projects gets canceled -- for lack of funding

Flying Blind

Are San Francisco International Airport managers running Honduras' airports? If so, why?

What's Come Around

'Tis the season for Cosmic Justice for Japanese whale eaters, and many, many S.F. politicos

Dog Bites

Runoff election; Fangxaminer Watch monitors amusing errors

Letters to the Editor

Letters from November 1, 2000

Disaster Plans

Face it -- Props K and L both stink as ways to manage growth. But we have another option.

It's the Housing, Stupid

Don't re-elect supervisors who've done nothing -- zero, zip, nada -- to address our housing shortage

Dog Bites

How Soon Is Now?; What He Did on His Vacation; A Cubicle of Her Own

Preaching to Their Choirs

It's political junkie reunion time at the first mayoral debate

Cothran

Choke Hold on City Hall

Cothran

Cothran

Mecklin

Support Your Local Embezzler

Hometown thieves we'll tolerate, but not southern sexists

Universal Health Scare

Proposition J promises medical insurance for everyone in San Francisco. It's a laudable goal -- but do you really want Willie Brown doctoring your insurance premiums?

Block Party

Rose Tsai, Julie Lee, and the Neighbors' Association are set to tuck into a heaping helping of Willie Brown's majority

Has Yaki Got a Deal for You

City pension fund could back bonds

Spokesman Without a Cause

For the media, Christian Lackner has equaled Critical Mass -- even though he's deeply disliked or feared by many cycling leaders

The Grid

The Grid

The Grid

Riff Raff

The Grid

Letters

The Grid

The Grid

Mulch

State and National Candidates

Night+Day

The Grid

Ringmaster Willie

Although Mayor Brown's opening acts have impressed, he's also allowed more than a few rogue elephants under his Big Top. We begin our stampede watch.

Thrash Bashing

The skateboarding community's unofficial lobbyist warns that crackdown proposals are self-defeating

Night+Day

You're Either on the Bus or off the Bus

Pols and bureaucrats thumb their noses at Proposition AA

Judging Matthew Rothschild

Why is the Democratic Party elite backing an underqualified party operative for the local judiciary?

Off-Base (Part II)

The most vituperative battle ever fought over the Presidio pits a handful of activists (and a certain weekly newspaper) against a local coalition of environmentalists, business, and the majority of elected officials. Is the congressional compromise to es