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  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    S.F. Voters Try to Protect Coit Tower with Ballot Initiative

    ​Some San Francisco citizens who are worried that the city's iconic Coit Tower is not getting the TLC it needs are hoping to force the city to shower the landmark with a little more money. And what better way to make sure that happens than through another ballot measure? The Protect Coit Tower Com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    The Daily Show: John Burton, Democratic Party Chair, Explains How F**ked Up California Is

    -- John Burton​It's always a great day to be a reporter when politicians are dropping F-bombs, especially when they are dropping them in reference to California's depressing finances. Of course, it makes even better fodder for The Daily Show, which did a hilarious segment last night explaining jus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Jeff Adachi Is Running for Mayor

    Joe EskenaziThe pension candidate? ​In a last-minute maneuver, public defender and pension crusader Jeff Adachi has filled out the paperwork to run for mayor. Adachi -- both a lawyer and a politician -- has, since 2010, answered our queries of whether he'd run for mayor in the following way: "I ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    LGBT History Bill is Anti-Family, Says Group Seeking Referendum

    Stop SB48 wants Harvey Milk out of the classroom​The ink has barely dried on the FAIR Education Act and already antigay groups have begun to collect signatures for a ballot referendum to overturn the nation's first law requiring public schools to include LGBT history in the curriculum. Stop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Circumcision Ban Tentatively Snipped from S.F. Ballot

    Snipped from the ballot?​The growing effort to remove San Francisco's circumcision ban from the November ballot San Francisco Superior Court Judge Loretta M. Giorgi issued a tentative ruling this afternoon, saying that because the measure attempts to regulate a medical procedure, the purpose of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Petition Drive to Legalize Marijuana Approved

    When are we going to stop toking ballot initiatives?​Pot advocates are taking another stab at legalization with a proposed measure that would dictate pot growers be regulated in the same way as microbrewers and vintners. Home growers would be be left alone, sales would be taxed, and nobody would b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    Circumcision Ban Didn't Make the Cut in Santa Monica

    Only in San Francisco​So it is only in San Francisco that a ban on circumcising would make it to the ballot. Efforts to replicate the city's outlandish proposal in Santa Monica are no more. Jena Troutman, a self-described child advocate, has been leading the charge to gather signatures to place a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Ouch! Circumcision Ban Makes the Cut for November Ballot

    Get off my dick!​At first glance, the notion of banning male circumcision in San Francisco seemed so unfathomable when it was proposed last year that even Mayor Gavin Newsom, tripped up by the notion, blurted out to reporters: "Not even Chris Daly would propose this."But that once far-fetched, onl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Latest Jeff Adachi Pension Measure Won't Be Called 'Pension Measure'

    Will The Holy One have a say in pension reform?​Public Defender Jeff Adachi is on his way to a modern record. He has now submitted six potential ballot measures regarding pension reform that the city attorney refuses to categorize with the helpful description "pension reform." Adachi's latest prop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Imperial County Clerk Wants to Defend Prop 8 Appeal

    Hold the cake.​Imperial County Clerk Chuck Storey is attempting to sign onto the legal challenge to Judge Vaughn Walker's decision last year that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. Storey submitted a brief today to the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco asking for the ability to defend Pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Prop. 8 Judge Vaughn Walker to Teach at U.C. Berkeley Law School

    Vaughn Walker, reimagined as a pimp. This is not a real photo.​Vaughn Walker, the federal judge who in August delivered a landmark ruling affirming the right of same-sex couples in California to marry, will begin teaching a class at U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law after he retires at the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Can Obama's Choice of Eateries on the Campaign Trail Predict Midterm Results?

    EsquireThe President makes a stop at Chicago's Valois cafeteria.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Today's election might be a referendum on Obama, but it could just as easily be a referendum on Obama's stomach. During the past two months of midterms stumping, Esquire's Eat Like A Man blog ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2010

    Attention, Guardianistas: Here are your endorsements.

    EsquireThe President makes a stop at Chicago's Valois cafeteria.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Today's election might be a referendum on Obama, but it could just as easily be a referendum on Obama's stomach. During the past two months of midterms stumping, Esquire's Eat Like A Man blog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Workers of the World Unite -- Around a Joint -- as SEIU Endorses Prop. 19

    Karl Marx would be proud​California's largest labor union is getting behind a ballot initiative that would allow governments within the state to regulate and tax marijuana, as the Service Employees International Union announced today that it would back Proposition 19 on this November's ballot.Obse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Vaughn Walker's Choice to Delay Gay Marriage Praised by Legal Scholars

    'Judge Walker is not a dummy...'​Judge Vaughn Walker's decision today to officially overturn Proposition 8 -- but stay that action until next week -- left a lot of same-sex couples statewide feeling like the rug had been pulled out from under them. The knowledge that their marriages were delayed a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Ronald George, California Supreme Court Justice Who Legalized Gay Marriage, to Retire

    Justice Ron George​California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George, who authored the opinion in the 2008 ruling that resulted in the short-lived legalization of same-sex marriage, has announced that he plans to step down at the end of this year.In a statement posted on the Supreme Court's web ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Study: Millions Spent on Campaigns For and Against Gay Marriage Totally Pointless

    ​A New York University professor analyzed dozens of ballot measures concerning gay marriage over the last 20 years and came up with one mighty conclusion in a study released today: expensive campaigns for and against legal recognition of gay couples do jack squat to change voters' opinions.The rep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    Santa Clara County Allows Voter Registration Via Electronic Signatures

    ​Santa Clara County has taken a historic step by allowing residents to register to vote electronically, the San Jose Mercury News reports.The new procedure allows people to register using touch-screen devices such as iPhones and iPads, and is the result of a proposal by the Silicon Valley firm Ver ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    High Times at International Pot Expo

    Chris RobertsHardcore pot enthusiasts probably didn't even notice the woman in the background of this photo. Right?​VIEW OUR POT EXPO SLIDESHOW HERE California is pot-friendly, but public mass consumption of cannabis is still a feat -- especially when it's on state property. That is partiall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Save the Deli, Berkeley Edition

    Harris Graber/FlickrDoes this fit in Michael Pollan's Food Rules?​Owning a deli in the Gourmet Ghetto can't be easy. Customers who 10 years ago prized your commitment to authenticity, your ingredients imported from the East Coast, and your reasonable prices are now coming back to you, waving their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Chronic City: Let's Vote On It -- Marijuana Legalization May Be On 2010 Ballot

    Photobucket.comTo put a new twist on an old saw, desperation is often the mother of invention. When a person, or a state, is in dire straits, it's often an opportunity for the kind of epochal change that, at other times, might not be considered.That's where we are right now with marijuana law reform ... More >>

  • News

    June 3, 2009

    Marriage equality can be achieved by separating church and state

    Photobucket.comTo put a new twist on an old saw, desperation is often the mother of invention. When a person, or a state, is in dire straits, it's often an opportunity for the kind of epochal change that, at other times, might not be considered.That's where we are right now with marijuana law reform ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    All Quiet On the Castro Front: Prop. 8 Ruling Received With a Shrug

    At 10:01 a.m., a Castro barkeep sighed, glanced at his wedding ring, and switched off the television. "Guess I'm still married," he muttered. Paraphrasing T.S. Eliot, the state Supreme Court's affirmation of Proposition 8 was received here not with a bang but a whimper -- save for the solitary cell ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Should Gay Marriage Supporters Go to The Ballot In 2010 or 2012?

    At this point it seems like a given that California voters will consider the issue of same-sex marriage in the near future. The strategic question being asked by leaders in the gay community is whether an initiative undoing Prop. 8 would have a better chance of passing next year or in three years. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Chron Helps Publicize Anti-Prop. 8 Rallies; Conservative Columnist Calls Foul

    Hmmm. What will I hate today?Conservative syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin is calling out San Francisco Chronicle political reporter Joe Garofoli for what she says is an inappropriate role in publicizing rallies in support of same-sex marriage.Malkin pointed out on her Web site this afternoon th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    California Has a Budget -- and Abel Maldonado Gets his 'Date With Brad Pitt'

    In exchange for his vote, Sen. Abel Maldonado required the political equivalent of a date with this manWhen we last spoke with Assemblyman Tom Ammiano on Monday, he predicted a budget by that day or Wednesday at the latest. So, he was off by seven hours -- legislators obtained the Republican vote th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2008

    "No on 8" activists: please, please, PLEASE, don't turn this into a holy war

    In exchange for his vote, Sen. Abel Maldonado required the political equivalent of a date with this manWhen we last spoke with Assemblyman Tom Ammiano on Monday, he predicted a budget by that day or Wednesday at the latest. So, he was off by seven hours -- legislators obtained the Republican vote th ... More >>

  • News

    November 5, 2008

    Prop. 8 campaign uses Chron content to scare voters

    In exchange for his vote, Sen. Abel Maldonado required the political equivalent of a date with this manWhen we last spoke with Assemblyman Tom Ammiano on Monday, he predicted a budget by that day or Wednesday at the latest. So, he was off by seven hours -- legislators obtained the Republican vote th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2008

    Sf Government InAction: Is Ross Mirkarimi Captain Ahab? Is Burma a Root Vegetable? And Who is that Masked Supervisor, Anyway?

    In exchange for his vote, Sen. Abel Maldonado required the political equivalent of a date with this manWhen we last spoke with Assemblyman Tom Ammiano on Monday, he predicted a budget by that day or Wednesday at the latest. So, he was off by seven hours -- legislators obtained the Republican vote th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2008

    SF Government InAction: Summer SanFranSchitzophrenia Begins! We're Saving Water! Use More Water! Keep Elections Safe from Candidates!

    In exchange for his vote, Sen. Abel Maldonado required the political equivalent of a date with this manWhen we last spoke with Assemblyman Tom Ammiano on Monday, he predicted a budget by that day or Wednesday at the latest. So, he was off by seven hours -- legislators obtained the Republican vote th ... More >>

  • News

    June 4, 2008

    The Gay Divorcees

    Gay marriage is new. Gay divorce isn't.

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2007

    San Francisco Election Analysis: The Scarecrows Have It!

    Gay marriage is new. Gay divorce isn't.

  • News

    October 31, 2007

    Voter Turnout Predicted at 25 Percent This (Non)Election

    Gay marriage is new. Gay divorce isn't.

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2007

    SF Parking Measure Stays on the Ballot

    Gay marriage is new. Gay divorce isn't.

  • News

    August 8, 2007

    Governor Newsom?

    Not likely, given his lack of spine in opposing the initiative promoting more parking

  • News

    June 27, 2007

    Quality of Hype

    Aggressive panhandlers are not getting the gentle, loving care they so need from the city

  • News

    November 29, 2006

    Life Isn't Fare

    Aggressive panhandlers are not getting the gentle, loving care they so need from the city

  • News

    August 23, 2006

    Eminent Changes

    A questionable proposition may dramatically inhibit the city's attempts to regulate growth

  • News

    June 7, 2006

    Believe It or Not!

    Let's get beyond the balderdash and take a closer look at the motivations behind some political campaigns

  • News

    September 8, 2004

    Monsturd of the Ballot Box

    Why a movie theater-restoration measure should get flushed in November

  • News

    January 14, 2004

    Same as the Old Boss?

    Why the new mayor should resist political pressure from the new shadow ayatollah of San Francisco politics, real estate mogul Clint Reilly

  • News

    February 6, 2002

    Brownout at SFO

    Mayor's attempt to end-run city voters on runways-in-bay reflects dimming of his political star

  • News

    July 11, 2001

    Common Cause

    Because she owns an apartment via tenancy in common, Sue Hestor is the perfect spokeswoman for homeownership

  • News

    June 13, 2001

    Getting the Treatment

    Proposition 36 is based on a noble idea: substituting drug treatment for prison sentences. But the measure needs practical help.

  • News

    November 1, 2000

    Disaster Plans

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

  • News

    September 13, 2000

    Past Imperfect

    Herb Caen-inspired nostalgia is no substitute for dealing practically with the dot-com boom

  • News

    February 16, 2000

    Missing in Action

    Why there's no more Knight in the Knight Initiative

  • Calendar

    June 4, 1997

    The Grid

    Why there's no more Knight in the Knight Initiative

  • News

    June 14, 1995

    Dog Bites

    Why there's no more Knight in the Knight Initiative

  • Calendar

    May 24, 1995

    Paper Trails

    Why there's no more Knight in the Knight Initiative

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