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    October 10, 2012

    Supervisor Christina Olague Explains Her Vote to Save Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi

    The cheers from no-longer-suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's supporters were still echoing in City Hall when the fallout started hitting Supervisor Christina Olague.Less than 12 hours after casting the crucial vote to give Mirkarimi his job back, she sat inside her City Hall office and read the foll ... More >>

  • News

    November 9, 2011

    Guardian pick Leland Yee Also Wins Approval from PG&E

    The cheers from no-longer-suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's supporters were still echoing in City Hall when the fallout started hitting Supervisor Christina Olague.Less than 12 hours after casting the crucial vote to give Mirkarimi his job back, she sat inside her City Hall office and read the foll ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    Adachi Campaign Alleges Lee Door Hangers Violate Campaign Finance Law

    Ed Lee​Interim Mayor Ed Lee is facing new allegations of wrongdoing on the eve of the election, capping a slew of ethical complaints that has dogged his campaign this fall.Public Defender and mayoral contender Jeff Adachi says he filed a complaint with the San Francisco Ethics Commission this morn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    HIV Activist Calls Mayor Ed Lee a Name the Chronicle Would Never Print

    Wonder how he feels about Jeff Sheehy ... ​In this election, Mayor Ed Lee has been called many charming names -- crooked, double-crossing, sneaky, Republican. Now he can add "dick" to that growing list of insults.    According to the Bay Area Reporter, Jeff Sheehy, who was the HIV czar f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    Republicans Love Mayor Ed Lee

    Ed Lee welcomes support ... from everyone ​In a liberal bastion like San Francisco, what Democratic candidate would want the support of the Republican Party? Turns out, plenty. Supervisors David Chiu and Ross Mirkarimi, and mayoral candidate Michela Alioto-Pier, to name a few. But as far as the ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Ed Lee's Praise of PG&E Draws Fire

    Smi23leYou take the good, you take the bad...​Mayor Ed Lee's kind words for PG&E -- a company whose name conjures up horrific images of fire -- are drawing some fire of their own. Fellow mayoral candidates Dennis Herrera and John Avalos this morning issued press releases blasting Lee's "lavish ... More >>

  • News

    February 2, 2011

    How Chris Daly saved San Francisco from a bad America's Cup deal

    Smi23leYou take the good, you take the bad...​Mayor Ed Lee's kind words for PG&E -- a company whose name conjures up horrific images of fire -- are drawing some fire of their own. Fellow mayoral candidates Dennis Herrera and John Avalos this morning issued press releases blasting Lee's "lavish ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Tony Winnicker Says 'Farewell' to Everyone but SF Weekly

    You don't write, you don't call​Mayoral spokesman Tony Winnicker has quit his job after working for the last year as former mayor Gavin Newsom's mouthpiece and then Mayor Ed Lee. Will we miss him? Not really, and here is why: He never calls us back!The fact that Winnicker has frozen out SF Weekly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Two Shot to Death at Fisherman's Wharf; Homicides No. 9 and 10

    It's been a bloody January​Two people were shot dead Sunday evening in Fisherman's Wharf inside a souvenir store on Jefferson Street.Police say they have detained a man who they believe is connected to the shooting, according to media reports. Authorities identified Qiong Han Chu, 30 and Feng Ping ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Mayor's Office: Kamala Harris Will *Not* Name Her Successor

    I didn't say that thing I said...​Earlier today, SF Weekly noted that reports of Mayor Gavin Newsom allowing District Attorney Kamala Harris to name her own replacement came as a surprise to even the DA's office. Turns out the mayor was a bit surprised, too. Mayoral spokesman Tony Winnicker said t ... More >>

  • News

    November 24, 2010

    Big Pharma lobbies against S.F. drug proposal

    I didn't say that thing I said...​Earlier today, SF Weekly noted that reports of Mayor Gavin Newsom allowing District Attorney Kamala Harris to name her own replacement came as a surprise to even the DA's office. Turns out the mayor was a bit surprised, too. Mayoral spokesman Tony Winnicker said t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Has Gavin Newsom Outfoxed Supes in Appointments Battle?

    Gavin Newsom loves recess, too...​Getting someone appointed to a city commission these days is a contact sport. Mayor Gavin Newsom dragged his feet filling gaping vacancies on the appointed boards that, ostensibly, run a big chunk of this city -- then progressive supervisors made some of those app ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    Gavin Newsom Sweet-Talks Transbay Terminal Homeless Into Housing

    It's hard to tell who's using whom....​Before the crowds arrived for the last tours of the creaky Transbay Terminal Friday, Mayor Gavin Newsom showed up for his own private walk through ("private" in mayor's terms means followed by his spokesman Tony Winnicker, staffers, Chron reporters and us). A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    'Smart Reform' Pension Measure Would Blow $20M Hole in Budget. Or Would It?

    ​The Board of Supervisors had a fun decision to make today: Whether to suck on or spit out an ingenious little poison pill. Buried within the Memorandums of Understanding the mayor's office hammered out with public safety unions -- in which cops and firefighters agree to $11.2 million and $8.7 mil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Is Gavin Newsom Attempting to Gut Pension Reform?

    Gavin Newsom is accused of pulling a fast one. But will the supes give a damn? ​The organization Public Defender Jeff Adachi formed to push his "Smart Reform" pension measure today sent out a frantic call to arms, claiming Mayor Gavin Newsom is attempting to subvert the charter amendment before vo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    City's Plan to Keep 49ers: Wait and Hope Team, Santa Clara Are Broke

    We'll spare you the football jargon, but suffice to say the San Francisco 49ers took a huge step towards saying goodbye to Candlestick Park on Tuesday night. Voters in Santa Clara approved at the ballot a land lease deal for a proposed $937 million stadium by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. Of that $937 mil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Good News For Gavin Newsom! Former Flack Votes For Him.

    ​With today's projected turnout at 33.3 percent -- a palindrome, and all-time low -- it means the record amount of money spent will be spread over a potential record few number of voters.So, every vote counts. And, in a bit of good news for Mayor Gavin Newsom, his former flack, Nathan Ballard, inf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Newsom Spokesman's Mantra: 'We Report, We Don't Deport'

    Well, these guys do deport​Rare is the catchphrase that makes the jump to the public consciousness. If the glove doesn't fit,  you must acquit: Johnnie Cochran at the O.J. Simpson trial (they acquitted). Read my lips; no new taxes: George H.W. Bush (he enacted new taxes). Mayor Gavin Newsom's ... More >>

  • News

    April 14, 2010

    The Muni Death Spiral

    Your transit system is terribly inefficient, extremely slow, and wildly expensive. Here’s how you can fix it.

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    Pissing Contest Between Newsom, Avalos May End Next Week

    ​When conjuring up Catch-22 analogies involving Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor John Avalos, one runs into a stumbling block right away. Which one is Yossarian? And who gets to be Major Major? (Personally, we see Newsom as Milo Minderbinder; they have similar feelings about privitazation). In an ... More >>

  • News

    January 20, 2010

    While our hypocritical mayor vows to reduce homeless population, city eyes cutting shelter beds

    ​When conjuring up Catch-22 analogies involving Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor John Avalos, one runs into a stumbling block right away. Which one is Yossarian? And who gets to be Major Major? (Personally, we see Newsom as Milo Minderbinder; they have similar feelings about privitazation). In an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Is Gavin Newsom Leaving Politics?

    The short answer, according to his spokesman, is no. But you could be forgiven for getting a very different impression from Maureen Dowd's latest column in The New York Times, in which the Times' sorta-funny, sorta-edgy political scribe wonders aloud why San Francisco's mayor is "leaving politics ju ... More >>

  • News

    October 14, 2009

    Fixing Hetch Hetchy Dam costs $1 billion more than it should

    The short answer, according to his spokesman, is no. But you could be forgiven for getting a very different impression from Maureen Dowd's latest column in The New York Times, in which the Times' sorta-funny, sorta-edgy political scribe wonders aloud why San Francisco's mayor is "leaving politics ju ... More >>

  • News

    June 10, 2009

    Graft and Gaming

    City employees are bleeding the city to death. One way is legal and the other is not.

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    SFPUC On the Take, Alleged Bribe-Taker Says

    San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission has long had a "gift policy" in which employees were allowed to accept lavish trips and other presents from suppliers doing business with the city -- or at least that's the claim of a retired city water-meter repairman accused of accepting $13,348 from a ... More >>

  • News

    May 30, 2007

    Tapioca and Water

    An aide to Supervisor Ed Jew believes PUC officials released his house's water records, which cast doubt on whether he lives in SF, to get payback

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