It's Wednesday, and we thought we'd save you both the ink-dusky fingers and the trouble of scanning the print weeklies yourselves, and provide you with this tidy paperless summary (with appropriate and inappropriate commentary). Now you can go ahead and use the print editions for découpage.

SF Weekly treads into territory long claimed by the Guardian, namely that of celebrating and lauding former supervisor Chris Daly — and they're doing it weeks after the man went from "firebrand" city councilman to humble liberal bar owner. (Wouldn't you know, then, that Daly gamely posed for the cover shot, in captain's hat.) Their big cover story this week is all about how his "bombast saved the city millions on the America's Cup," and that this was his "true goodbye gift to this city." They cast Daly as the only one with enough skepticism, brashness, and anti-developer attitude to force the Board of Supervisors to really look at the plans being proposed by billionaire Larry Ellison and how much it was going to cost the city and the Port, and not be all starry-eyed and impressed by it all. He threw fits, yelled at Newsom, and tasked the Board's budget analyst with coming up with the real numbers, ultimately shrinking the footprint of the eventual America's Cup headquarters from 35 acres to roughly 20. "In short," writes Joe Eskanazi, "San Francisco needed an asshole — and one with clout."