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• Posted Old News: Chris Daly Attacks to SFist
  Well, this is a post we haven't had to write in awhile -- an angry Supervisor Chris Daly lashed out at a meeting last night! Obscenities may have been used! Oh, yay!!! We've missed blogging about Chris Daly! Daly apparently dropped an f-bomb on Michael Scanlan, the head of Caltrain, after Scanlan expressed concern about accepting $400 million in stimulus money to extend Caltrain into SF when people still weren't sure if the SF...
• Posted Mission Pool Closing For The Spring to SFist
  Man, we are always late to things! We just discovered the awesomeness that is the outdoor Mission Pool on 19th and Linda Street like two or three weeks ago, and, just when we were getting settled into a routine, the budget cuts to SF Parks and Rec are requiring them to close until May 19. We're totally bummed! The Mission Pool staff always kept the water warm, so even when it was cold and/or...
• Posted Gavin Newsom, A PUMA Comes Home to SFist
  Are you following these exciting trackers of Congressional Republicans who voted against the stimulus bill but are now issuing press releases at home being like, "I brought home the bacon for you, my constituents"? Well, we've got a little of that going on here in SF, as Gavin Newsom races to tell the world that he is friends with Barack Obama!!!!!1! ZOMG! Hmmm... was it so long ago that Gavin Newsom was busy telling...
• Posted Oh No, Ed Jew!: Small Claims to SFist
  We know, we know, it's small potatoes after Illinois reminded us all how political corruption is done, but poor former SF supervisor Ed Jew, whose only "f***in' golden" bargaining chip was not a Senate seat formerly occupied by the new president, but instead just a bubble tea shop, is still fighting on -- today's Matier and Ross reports that Ed made a special trip up from Burlingame to appear in the glamorous halls of...
• Posted Bye Bye Bush to SFist
  A friend of SFist forwards along this picture, of the official photo of George W. Bush being taken down at the SF Federal Building early this morning. Bye, Dubya!...