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Re-Potted: Cities Can Now Ban Pot Clubs, But Dispensaries May Still Benefit

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Medical Marijuana Advocates Mourn Pot Club Closures in Mock Funeral

There were plenty of tears shed during yesterday's funeral procession dedicated to medical marijuana and all the local dispensaries that have passed in the last year. In the Haight, residents in black and white garb gathered around a jazz band a la New Orleans and a 12-foot paper-mâché puppet of U ... More >>

On Second Thought, the Guardian Is Perfect and Progressives Are Doing Great

​A strange thing happened at January's farewell "roast" for Supervisor Chris Daly -- something that neatly encapsulated the spirit of San Francisco's progressive movement. Earlier that week, David Chiu had betrayed progressives by championing Willie Brown's candidate for mayor. But even though Chi ... More >>

Supes Punt on Naming Next Mayor

Joe EskenaziLarry Edmond says, unlike Tom Ammiano, he'd be thrilled to be our next mayor​As expected, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors did not select the city's next mayor today. Instead  the process was continued to Dec. 14 (for the record, this was done on a 9-2 vote with Supervisors Ch ... More >>

Dennis Herrera, Mark Leno Say They'd Love to Be Interim Mayor

If you call them, they will come​Dennis "He's Running For Mayor" Herrera is running for mayor. This we knew. But the city attorney has told SF Weekly he'd also welcome the chance to succeed Gavin Newsom and become the city's interim mayor. Herrera additionally noted that he has not been discussing ... More >>

Man Sues For Right to Carry Gun Near Cole Valley's Grattan School

Matt SmithDon't mind me, kiddies...​After San Francisco school officials refused to allow local programmer Kevin Hall to carry a sidearm near Grattan School in Cole Valley, he sued in federal court Thursday demanding respect for what he calls his Second Amendment rights."I want to open carry in Sa ... More >>

California Democrats Stay Neutral on Marijuana-Legalizing Prop. 19

Drag​Supporters of Proposition 19 -- the Control and Tax Marijuana 2010 initiative -- can be forgiven for feeling a little paranoid these days. After the move to regulate marijuana like alcohol was lambasted by state politicians ranging from Sen. Dianne Feinstein to Mayor Gavin Newsom to Kamala Ha ... More >>

Alioto-Pier: Not Progressive, Thus Termed Out?

Can't Stop, Won't Stop​Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier just doesn't understand. Tom Ammiano served fourteen years on the Board of Supervisors, Chris Daly ten. So why, then, is City Attorney Dennis Herrera insisting that Alioto-Pier -- who's been on the Board since 2004, when she was appointed to fi ... More >>

Monday Morning Hangover: Cannabis Expo, Red Hots Burlesque, and Bed Races

This weekend offered a plethora of choices for music fans, pot fans, and people who are fans of racing household furniture through the streets. (Fans of all three basically had the best weekend ever.)Marijuana advocates and enthusiasts crowded the International Cannabis and Hemp Expo, that featured ... More >>

'Milk' Star Back in San Francisco -- Passing Water

No, it wasn't Sean Penn. Nor Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, or even Tom Ammiano, as himself, getting off the best line in the film. The former Milk star spotted back in the city was this 1977-vintage fire engine: Joe EskenaziI'm ready for my close-up, Mr. Van Sant​And yet this erstwhile movie star wasn' ... More >>

SF GovInAction: So Long, Farewell, Auf Weidersehen, Adieu

There's virtually no government happening this week, and the few meetings scheduled are so pointless that you'd be excused for calling them vanity government. David Chiu just likes to call stuff to order -- and can you blame him? But before I cover this week's vanity meetings to reveal once agai ... More >>

So You Say You Want a Constitution. But Are You Ready to Double Down?

We here at The Snitch have followed the long-running murmurs about a future state constitutional convention with interest. After all, in a state as saturated with moneyed interests and crippled by partisan hackery as California, just what rough beast might be born from a thorough redesign of our met ... More >>

Hardball: SEIU Sends Out Newsom-Emblazoned Mailers

Of course you know, this means war​In anticipation over today's pending battle at the Board of Supervisors meeting over whether or not to spend $8 million to save 40, 100, or 500 SEIU jobs at the Department of Public Health, the union has sent out a glossy, campaign-style mailer. And Gavin Newsom ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

Justin PageStay classy, San Francisco​Witness intimidation! Religious and sexual harassment! Bacteria-infested sandwiches! If that's the week it was, we're extra glad it's Friday. Also, time for a quiz: 1. Which of the following epithets did Assemblyman Tom Ammiano shout when Gov. Arnold Schwarzen ... More >>

Bay Links: Smarts, Fights & Foliage

Just like Steve Martin, San Francisco's gotta lotta brains.​San Francisco has an IQ of 165. You know, if your believe in that sort of thing. [City Insider]Break time video! Kick it with the everybody's favorite dudes who like-to-blow-things-up, the MythBusters. [SFAppeal]Tom Ammiano heckles Schwar ... More >>

Cure For City's Financial Woes: 'Fee' On Three-Card Monte

Hey, where's the city's cut of that loot?Cops from the city's central district this week reported busting up a game of three-card monte by Pier 35. Good thing, too -- apparently, the schemer was using a trio of bottle caps to conceal a ball (which he palmed, of course), and that's low-class. It refl ... More >>

'Air Sex' Championships Headed for San Francisco

Well, it had to happen sooner or later. Preceding next month's Air Guitar Championships at San Francisco's Independent will be the "Air Sex" showdown -- meaning all we need are some folks pantomiming the shooting up of heroin or toking a bong and we'll have Air Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll. What, ... More >>

Groovy: Marijuana Advocates Ecstatic About Attorney General's New Pot Policy -- See Boost for Ammiano Legalization Bill

Supporters of legal marijuana -- medical and otherwise -- will be racking their brains to find some way to celebrate a potentially groundbreaking drug policy change announced by Attorney General Eric Holder today.In short, the AG said Justice will only target those "who violate both federal and stat ... More >>

Terms of Endearment: Alioto-Pier Says She May File Suit if City Doesn't Reverse Stance That She's Termed Out in 2010

Is that Alioto-Pier's 'happy' smile or her 'I'm gonna sue you' smile?Earlier this month, Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier sat down for a cup of coffee with City Attorney Dennis Herrera. She was hoping to get him to reconsider a ruling from his office stating Alioto-Pier will be termed out of office ne ... More >>

S.F. Sheriff: Decriminalize Marijuana Now

Sheriff Mike HennesseySherriff Mike Hennessey accepted Carol Ruth Silver's resignation from his department over her concerns that the War on Drugs is an unjust failure that ought to be called off. But he sympathizes with her contentions. When asked if he believes that drugs should be legalized, he r ... More >>

Last Night: Milk Premiere at the Castro Theater

SF Gov InAction: Superheroes, Stereotypes, and all of San Francisco to become One Giant Tourism District!

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

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Dirk Dirksen Alley On Hold -- Mabuhay Gardens Snubbed at City Hall

Chicken John Contemplates Run for Supervisor

SF Weekly on Muni: Is Giving the Board of Supes Control A Good Idea?

The Daly Show

Why a supervisor needs to feel some love and back off a counterproductive assault on a nonprofit housing agency

Models in the Marina

S.F. hits the big time?

Ready, Set, Eat!

Ghirardelli's choco-tastic happening

Underground Voices

The best of Northern California filmmakers at the FilmArts Festival of Independent Cinema

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.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Tom Ammiano

Riff Raff

Transmission Theater, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Mark Hummel

Fork-Beard, Vlad, and the Fat King of France

The last millennial retrospective you need to read

Cothran

Cothran

Bunco Squad

Police brass can't account for a rogue vice operation

Riff Raff

Clarion Call

Mazel Tov!

Mulch

The House of Tudor

The Art of Discrimination

Public art museums use legal loophole, deny benefits to domestic partners

Masters of Disaster

The San Francisco Office of Emergency Services unveils its new post-apocalypse playbook

Paper Trails

Street Fight

Led by feisty traditionalists, San Franciscans to Save Army Street push for a vote on renaming the thoroughfare

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