Day Around The Bay

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.