Subject: San Francisco Board of Supervisors

• District Attorney Files Criminal Charges Against Supervisor Ed Jew

  June 12, 2007

• SF's Needs to Kill Its Armenian Genocide Resolution

  October 30, 2007

• Democracy Deferred: Board of Supervisors Finally Considers New Voting Machines

  November 6, 2007

• SF Gov't InAction: This Week It's All About Troops ... and the Budget

  May 26, 2008

• Gavin's Catholic Bashing

  By Lauren Smiley Is Mayor Newsom a self-hating Catholic? The Catholic League said this week that the Mayor (and the Board of Supervisors) should be blamed for vandals scrawling the names of the pope and the San Francisco archbishop next to a Nazi symbol on Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in the Castro. Why? Because he doesn't do anything to stop such Catholic-offending acts like naked dudes running amok at the Folsom Street Fair, of course.Here's the statement of Catholic League preside

  January 7, 2009

• Pull My (Trigger) Finger

  April 2, 2008

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

  March 5, 2008

• Armenian Genocide Resolution Blog Posting at SFWeekly.com Draws Armenian Ire

  November 7, 2007

• USS Iowa, Any Takers?

  Will $250,000 hole in the water stay afloat or be scrapped for target practice?

  September 12, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  June 28, 2006

• Best Glimpse of San Francisco's Past, Present, and Future

  May 11, 2005

• 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

  January 14, 2004

• The Horror

  October 2, 2002

• Political Relativity

  July 17, 2002

• Urine a Bad Spot Because of Them

  July 10, 2002

• Pinocchio and SFO

  Once upon a time, there were airport officials who wanted to spin tall tales, spend $745,000 on Honduran boondoggling, and not explain very much

  June 12, 2002

• Intended Consequences

  Our supervisors tilt at a lot of silly windmills. But the city's recognition of Mexican consular IDs may help change national immigration policy for the better.

  April 24, 2002

• Mark of Effectiveness

  February 27, 2002

• Land Ho

  A new deal with the Navy means S.F. supervisors can finally consider accepting part of Hunters Point Shipyard

  February 6, 2002

• Dead Mud Walking

  A ballot measure that would create a Municipal Utility District has so many legal flaws, it's all but DOA. In fact, passing the measure might delay the advent of public power here for years.

  October 10, 2001

• Dog Bites

  September 26, 2001

• Flight Capital

  September 12, 2001

• Heavy Issues

  September 5, 2001

• Warning: Deconstruction Ahead

  The Village Voice thinks postmodern deconstructionism explains the S.F. Board of Supervisors; but why invoke Derrida, where ignorance will serve?

  June 6, 2001

• Axing Permission

  May 30, 2001

• Delusions of Power

  April 4, 2001

• Flying Blind

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

  March 28, 2001

• As a Matter of Fat

  The city's new weight discrimination law is badly reasoned, legally defective, costly, and bad for public health

  January 17, 2001

• Fear, Loathing, and Non Sequiturs at Chico State

  Or, how humanoids, hemp, and Ralph Nader will save us from Propositions I, L, and M

  November 1, 2000

• Unexcused Absence

  School leaders snub supervisors, refuse to show at parleys

  March 8, 2000

• Dog Bites

  March 8, 2000

• Make Room for Dot-Coms

  Forget about live-work lofts. The newest fight for San Francisco's soul is over multimedia office space.

  February 16, 2000

• Benign Neglect

  There's a pot of money available to investigate real estate fraud, but Terence Hallinan isn't using it

  November 24, 1999

• Cothran

  June 23, 1999

• Cothran

  March 17, 1999

• Mecklin

  December 23, 1998

• The Redevelopment Sinkhole

  Years of reckless borrowing have sent the city's Redevelopment Agency spiraling into debt. Mayor Brown's pet projects may flush it down the drain entirely.

  February 4, 1998

• The Grid

  August 20, 1997

• The Grid

  June 18, 1997

• Falling for the Gap

  May 28, 1997

• The Grid

  April 16, 1997

• Un-Welcome to Mr. Roberts' Neighborhood

  The Chans were set to build a nice, simple home on their own property. Then Chronicle honcho Jerry Roberts and his relentless wife moved next door. Suddenly, everything became very complicated and very nasty.

  April 9, 1997

• Achtenberg's Third Act

  Roberta Achtenberg bristles when anyone dares say that Williw Brown is the one who gets things done. "I have gotten things done my entire life, right?" she says, citing when her accomplishments as a law school dean, her 800-page book on sexual orientatio

  August 30, 1995

• SF Gov InAction: Supes To Spend Week Memorializing Extra, Extra Hard

  Most Government offices in America took Monday off to honor those who fell in our nation's defense. For the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, however, Memorial Day is really about honoring what all the other holidays, from Veterans Day to Christmas, are really about honoring: the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. That's why, whenever there is a holiday -- of any kind, at any time -- they try to take the entire rest of the week off. Because to take any less vacation time would be to disho

  May 26, 2009

• Supervisors Push for Resolution Supporting Alleged Cop Killers

  San Francisco Eight, Board of Supervisors, Sophie Maxwell, Eric Mar, San Francisco Police Department, Sgt. John Young, Black Liberation Army, Black Panthers

  June 8, 2009

• San Francisco Has a Budget -- and Chris Daly Has Left the Building

  Once more, for old time's sake. Lost somewhere between the news of Sacramento's impending raid upon municipal revenue streams and President Obama's comfy jeans, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors yesterday passed the city's contentious, agonizing $6.6 billion budget. This wasn't done without Supervisor Chris Daly's acknowledged "best friend" John Avalos -- whom he so designated during an awkward public browbeating/recitation of the second-most famous line from Jerry Maguire earlier this month

  July 22, 2009

• It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

  Can you answer Question No. 1? It's Chris Daly's world and the rest of us are just paying rent (you think we can buy in San Francisco?) It was another fabulous week in the city -- or did you black out and miss it, Muni-style? Let's see if you were paying attention: 1. Supervisor Chris Daly, champion of low-income urban dwellers -- arguably at the expense of the middle class -- announced Wednesday he's bought a home for his family (actually, two homes) in what Bay Area suburb? A. FairfaxB. F

  July 24, 2009

• SF GOP Opposes Sanctuary Legislation in Letter-Writing Offensive

  Supervisor David Campos​If an angry Republican writes a letter in San Francisco, and no elected official cares enough to read it, did it ever really exist?San Francisco's local curiosity of a G.O.P. is currently seeking pen-pals in city government with a barrage of letters to Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supervisors decrying Supervisor David Campos' legislation on the treatment of illegal immigrants suspected of crimes. The letters come less than a week after the S.F. G.O.P. passed a re

  September 10, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: Supes Try To Save Cats, Unify Ireland, and Create Public Power

    The moral high ground in San Francisco may be the most valuable real estate of all. Last week Gavin Newsom -- who thumbed his nose at state and federal law on gay marriage -- tried to claim it by saying he couldn't help illegal immigrants because he has too much respect for the law. The Board of Supervisors also tried to claim the moral high ground by saying that Gavin Newsom -- whom they supported when he thumbed his nose at state and federal law on gay marriage -- has to help immig

  October 26, 2009

• Mayor's Office: Supes' Veto Override on Immigrant Policy 'Cannot Take Effect'

  San Francisco's Board of Supervisors today mustered enough votes to override Mayor Gavin Newsom's veto of a law softening the city's treatment of juvenile undocumented immigrants who are arrested. But the mayor's office was quick to dismiss the widely expected vote as a symbolic gesture that would have no effect on city policy.A crowd gathers around Supervisor David Campos after today's veto override​"This veto override cannot really take effect," Newsom spokesman Nathan Ballard said immediate

  November 10, 2009