Tomorrow BART celebrates 35 years of hauling your asses around. Revenue service began on 9/11 in 1972. Since then, according to BART Board President Lynette Sweet, BART has continued to "carry the Bay Area through good times and bad...[w]e were there to keep the economy moving when the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake knocked out the Bay Bridge, and most recently when the MacArthur Maze connector collapsed." But most important of all, BART has also......

Photo of Union Street repaving...

Gavin's not the only one looking to clean the streets this year, but the Board of Supervisors do to. Or more like Aaron Peskin who proposed using part of the budget surplus to pay for twenty new city employees to help clean everything up. The money will only be for the rest of the year but will continue onwards and upwards if there's money for it. ...

The spitball fight between the business community and the Board of Supes escalated recently as the Committee on Jobs and the Chamber of Commerce took things up a notch and sued the Board of Supervisors. Oh, why can't those crazy kids get along? Should we bring in Dr. Phil? The nature of the lawsuit is over the implementation of Prop I in 2004, or more like the lack of implementation of Prop I. Prop I, for those who can't remember and really who would, called for the creation of an economic impact report on any sort of law to be assessed before being voted on by the Board. ...

Last night's Police Commission meeting [RealPlayer] started off with rollicking public comment from officers and the public. Officers were particularly upset over the termination of officer Anthony Nelson. Nelson was terminated after breaking the arm of an anti-war protestor and then filing a report with erroneous information about the circumstances. One of the two commissioners who voted against his termination was Peter Keane, who is also the dean of the law school at Golden......

That whole debacle over the Building Inspector Commission? Total gift that keeps on giving. Yesterday, the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution that bars discriminatory language in public hearings. The resolution, of course, stemmed from comments made during hearings of the BIC in which members of the powerful Residential Builders Association attacked the nomination of Julie Lee because of her pregnancy. It also stems from poetry O'Donoghue wrote earlier this year which questioned the sexuality of Gavin. And how did O'Donoghue take it? Afterwards, he dismissed the resolution and referred to Board President Aaron Peskin as both an "angry dwarf" and Heinrich Peskin. We're not sure which probably got under Aaron's skin more, being height-challenged and called a dwarf or being Jewish and called a Nazi. Either way, total class, that Joe. Joe also said he's busy crafting another poem in response to all of the controversy and SFist has it's fingers crossed that we'll be so lucky to be mentioned. ...