Tom Ammiano

Medical Marijuana Activists Occupy the Capitol

As the pleasant Sacramento spring turns into the furnace of the Central Valley summer, so too is the heat turned up in the corridors of the state Capitol: It's budget season, and it's also last call for certain bills stalled in the Legislature to get a hearing before a June 1 deadline sends them int ... More >>

Wait Until 2014: Marijuana Legalization All But Dead in California

​Union Pulls Plug on Medical Reform, Other Ballot Measures Starved For Cash; Legislature, Ammiano Last Hope for Reform NowNobody likes to celebrate with a loss, but for the medical marijuana movement, 2010 and the historic defeat of semi-legalization measure Proposition 19 already look like the go ... More >>

California's Year of the Nanny

Tom Ammiano: Not an abuser of nannies. ​This has been the Year Of The Nanny in California politics. There was Meg Whitman's undocumented nanny who accused her of not paying her enough, which was perhaps the death knell to Whitman's gubernatorial campaign (Okay, technically, that was last year). Th ... More >>

Ammiano Wants Drug Overdosers To Call 911 -- And Have No Fear

Overdosing doesn't have to be a crime​Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has introduced another drug-friendly bill this week. But this one would provide immunity from prosecution to anyone who calls 911 for a drug overdose.The bill applies to both the person overdosing or someone who reports the overdose, as ... More >>

Chris Daly Won't Quit Tom Ammiano

Chris Daly is still hoping to cast a vote for Tom Ammiano -- will Tom let him? ​Earlier today we reported that Supervisor Chris Daly has started an online petition to implore Assemblyman Tom Ammiano to be our next mayor. Ammiano, meanwhile, told SF Weekly in no uncertain terms he doesn't want the ... More >>

Baylinks: Legalization, Barbie, & Death to Newspapers

Celebrate! ​Is there any S.F. pol who wants to legalize the herb (not including Tom Ammiano)? [SFAppeal]San Francisco AIDS Foundation might not have your money. [New York Times]Celebrate Chris Daly. [BeyondChron]

New York Passes Nanny Rights Bill; California's Pending

Now she can afford two spoonfuls of sugar...​New York beat out California, passing the nation's first law that extends workers' rights to the under-the-radar laborers who keep homes with two working parents going: The people who cook, clean, and care for kids. The New York bill, which passed yeste ... More >>

Guardian Editors Would Benefit from Prop. 13 Legislation They Endorsed

It's always nice to get in the game early and pull up the ladder after you...​On Nov. 3, 2003 the Wall Street Journal published a letter from Warren Buffett in which the Nebraska billionaire explained his negative view of California's Proposition 13, the 1978 law that limits property tax assessmen ... More >>

Will Tea Partiers Kill Pro-Marijuana Measure?

Fibonacci BlueSo paranoid. So uptight. So stiff. What could cure this? Hmmm...​On today of all days, marijuana is on everyone's mind. But that goes doubly for politicians: Just last week, state Democratic Party chairman John Burton told media that he and fellow Dems (like that Jerry Brown guy) ... More >>

Weed Takes Root

Marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide

Sparking Interest: The Year in Marijuana Reporting

In San Francisco, marijuana is always a topic of interest. This past year saw the city dealing with the ins and outs of medical marijuana and grappling with a debate over decriminalization. Here are some of our most read posts on the issues.Get Up, Stand Up: Ammiano Introduces Marijuana Legalization ... More >>

Top Ten Most Read Snitch Posts of 2009

It's almost the end of the year, and we're extremely grateful to the readers who visited our site in 2009. Here are the Snitch posts that garnered the highest readership, and reflect what is truly important to you: sex, crime, and weed. And serial killers.10. Lawsuit Alleges ER Doctor Let Man D ... More >>

Marijuana Legalization TV Ads to Hit Airwaves Starting Today

At a time when the governor and legislature have all but exchanged small arms fire over Arnold Schwarzenegger's insistence on a "no new taxes budget," a group of Californians today will begin airing ads pleading for the right to pay more taxes. Of course, a number of stations, including at least a ... More >>

Mirkarimi Jumps on the Marijuana Express -- and Our Bowl Runneth Over

Try San Francisco-brand medical marijuana!Coming on the heels of Tom Ammiano's marijuana legalization bill in the Assembly, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi's Tuesday proposal that San Francisco jump into the medical pot dispensary game was a bonanza for media types and marijuana nay-sayers: Everyone got t ... More >>

Marketing Marijuana

Suggestions for brand names in S.F.

Ammiano: Gavin Newsom has 'Tainted' Healthy San Francisco

Assemblyman Tom AmmianoAssemblyman Tom Ammiano knows you're angry -- he's angry too! But as many members of the progressive community, his natural base, begin to gripe about the city's plan to plow ahead full-bore with Healthy San Francisco -- the city's universal health care plan -- while slashing ... More >>

Ammiano Says There Was No 'Wink-Wink, Nod-Nod' Behind Ruling Giving Him 14 Years as Supe

Tom Ammiano says neither winking, nodding, nor a combination of both benefitted his political careerEarlier this week, SF Weekly reported on how Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier is prepared to take the city to court if City Attorney Dennis Herrera doesn't reverse a 2008 ruling that deems her termed ou ... More >>

SF Gov InAction Fire Sale: Supes Sell Their Legacies Off for Pennies on the Dollar

By Benjamin Wachs Come on down to San Francisco, boys and girls, where the deals are hot, hot, HOT! That's right, I'm Crraaaaaaazy Gavin Newsom, and this week everything must go! We have an ENORMOUS deficit looming up after the holidays and our entire inventory must be cleared out! No deal t ... More >>

The Face That Launched A Thousand Quips: Tom Ammiano Bids Adieu to His Constituency

Finally, a reason to visit Sacramento By Joe Eskenazi After eight years of racking up some of the world’s best off-color, gay-themed double-entendres – and, incidentally, governing San Francisco – Supervisor Tom Ammiano tossed a few last one-liners to his adoring public before opting to lea ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: Overtime Report Catches City Departments Working! Democracy will Save the Eastern Neighborhoods!

Get Yer Yuk-Yuks Out: Comedy Day Returns Once Again to Golden Gate Park

News & Booze Friday Edition - Absentee Mayor Puts ID Program on Hold, is Gavin Newsom Breaking Up with Us?

MTA War Is Brewing on MLK Day as Archduke Gavin Newsom Inspects His Troops. It's ...

Writer's Strikes Sends SF Government into Re-Runs: It's! ...

SF Supes Propose Less Coke-Snorting, Higher Rents to Pay for Parks: It's SFGovernmentInAction!

Is It Hot Out Here?

Making (Radio) Waves

The mayor's Wi-Fi plan is about to have its signal blocked by a group of activists

Reeferzilla Meets NIMBY-Ra

And unfortunately it's not science fiction. It's San Francisco politics, and the winner used some interesting jujitsu.

Unbalanced Budgeting

The city's proposed parking-rate increases are a scandal. They aren't nearly large enough.

Of Asterisks and Small Pols

When the city government tries to play satire police with the press, everyone with a sense of humor -- and a belief in the Constitution -- should be concerned

Vapidity Fair

Gavin Newsom's anti-homeless campaign is disgusting, but he's the only mayoral candidate talking substance

You Don't Own Me

Touring the glamorous homes of the opponents of Prop. R, which would allow thousands of renters per year to buy their own apartments

Letters to the Editor

Week of September 25, 2002

Dog Bites

Board of Supervisors; Population Growth; Dot-com Layoffs

Dog Bites

Nothing happened last week – and Laurel Wellman tells you all about it

Dog Bites

Runoff election; Fangxaminer Watch monitors amusing errors

The Revolution is Canceled

How the grand plan for district elections could backfire

Dog Bites

Summer in the City; I See Dead People; Worker's Playtime

Interview with Tom Ammiano

The full transcript of SF Weekly's interview with man who would be mayor

Dog Bites

Who Needs to Think When Your Feet Just Go?

Breaking Ranks

Union leaders endorsed Willie Brown, but the rank and file has other ideas

Mecklin

Ammiano's Surprise, and Promise

Cut-and-Paste Pols

Don't think any of the candidates for mayor measure up? Then build your own.

Bay View

Dog Bites

Cothran

The Grid

The Grid

How to Lie, Cheat, and Steal Your Way to Influence at City Hall -- Legally

Cops Watching Cops

Police watchdog agency the Office of Citizen Complaints braces for its fifth lame director