SFist Jon's away this week, so you're stuck with the former editor on your Day Around The Bay.
--Robert Haaland comes clean about his vacation during the District 6 race.
--Critical Mass in Walnut Creek last Friday didn't go so well.
--In some kind of strange shout-out to the golden spike that connected the transcontinental railroad, a bunch of people in Palo Alto signed a wireless Internet transmitter that had been painted gold. Huh.
--Richard Pombo, defeated Tracy Congressman, vows to run again.
--The Valencia Gardens housing project looks pretty nice.
--Natalie Maines was a little with the chatty-chatty at the Dixie Chicks show on Friday.
--Closing down the dairy farm at Point Reyes.
--San Francisco parents, start your engines -- it's time to start applying for public schools.
--Interview with Ed Jew in Asianweek.
--Carole Migden asks certain SF Supervisors to ixnay on the riticism-cay of Newsom and the Niners until they get everything sorted out.
--Yahoo partners with local newspapers.
Picture of San Francisco Prop J by the California League of Young Voters Education Fund.




The critical mass article describes the event: "alternately used to protest oil use, war and commercialism." WTF? Is that true? I thought it was about transit. (Actually, I think it's really about gleeful subversion, but that's not a noble enough cause to be official.)
Gee, I wonder how long it will take the corrupt dept. of housing to forget and neglect the shiny new Valencia Gardens project and let the n****** take over and destroy it?
[ed note: After some thought, SFist is not deleting this comment, but has edited out the offending language. Kramer, is that you?]