Maybe Tony Hall needs to put a yellow sticky on his campaign credit card and label it "FOR CAMPAIGN USE ONLY" -- the SF Ethics Commission has decided to proceed on charges against the former city supervisor based on the alleged misuse of funds in his star-crossed attempt to run for mayor last year, and his defense is that he used the wrong credit card. more ›

Today's Chron Bay Area section takes a break from covering the plight of lungless salamanders in Korea ( is this in the Bay Area section? Yes, yes, we know, it's because Cal researchers are researching them -- we're asking the question in a more philosophical sense.) to report that: oh no! Ed Jew's state criminal trial has been postponed again, to at least April 08. more ›

The supernatural forces behind the Ed Jew storyline are not pleased with Halloween and earthquakes hogging all of the attention. As of today, Ed Jew officially has his fourth legal suit brought up against him. After asking Jerry Brown if he could get all litigious on Jew a few months ago, today SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera finally filed the lawsuit we've all been waiting for -- or not -- that he didn't live where he was supposed to live when he ran in 2006 and took office in early 2007. more ›

We're back from our inadvertent hiatus -- here's hoping it's a less busy week for us at the day job and an even more busy week for Ed Jew news! more ›

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! Cover article: A guy who makes money suing small businesses under the ADA. A review of the Kiki & Herb show. The Simpsons movie is okay. Meredith didn't much like her North Beach wine bar. Why did political cartoonist Ted Rall get moved to the food listings? Let's Get Killed reviews the Pamela des Barres book, feels ambivalent about it. And Savage Love: "is this a weird fetish?" (The lady's clapping on a date story was pretty funny.) more ›

Well, just to follow up on yesterday's day of violence, we can't find anything about the late-afternoon incident on Ellis Street that a couple of you guys saw, but there was another shooting around 11:50 p.m. in Visitacion Valley. That one was fatal. (The Examiner also has a list of other recent daytime shootings in SF, if you're interested.) more ›

Last week's winner, the SF Weekly. Hey, why is Sucka Free City before the letters this week? Anti-Jewish slurs at Rainbow Grocery. The story behind that weird killing in Hayes Valley you guys got all worked up at us about (blah blah blah, hipsters, blah blah, SFist is racist, blah blah). Cover article: Disbar more lawyers. We are adoring the cautious yet game-for-adventure tone in this Southern Exposure pie delivery service piece! Meredith Brody bills the Weekly for her belly dancer. Hey, SFist Ced liked it! Let's Get Killed on the spate of bands coming in to perform single albums live, including Sonic Youth with Daydream Nation. We find that phenomenon so mysterious. The Bouncer passes along the theory that there are three types of bars in this city: Irish, hipster, and bars with two Asian women behind the bar. Also -- you may have heard the new Weekly web guy is now no longer with the Weekly -- best of luck to you, Matt Stroud! He was super super nice about the Day Around The Baymixup and we were looking forward to getting to know him! more ›

Tapioca Ed Jew's made public the statement he provided to the SF City Attorney in response to their request that he submit paperwork demonstrating his residence in District 4, the district he's supposed to be representing on the Board of Supes. more ›

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We have no illusions anyone's going to read this column today what with all this news about Gavin Newsom's affair with his campaign manager's wife -- but we soldier on nonetheless. more ›

It's cold out there, people, as cold as our Junior Year prom date. -The Board of Supes voted by a 9-2 margin for the public financing of Mayoral races. The city will give a maximum of $1.375 million dollars for those who want in and will be given to candidates who have raised at least $525,000 on their own. That should at least keep Starchild from getting some of that money. Cost in total? $1.5 Million a year and a little over $6 mil an election cycle. more ›

Dan Gillmor bows out of Bayosphere in Businessweek -- reactions from JD Lasica, Jonas Luster and Thomas Hawk. Blogger Tom Foremski says he's doing just fine, claiming to be more popular with PR folks than the Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg. Hey, at least no one has had to resort to astroblogging (astroturfing + blogging, natch). more ›

public funding of Mayoral races was looked over by the Ethics Commission and approved, moving the proposal up to the Board. Some experts say, however, to Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences. The reason is because in doing something proposed by the progressives to help progressive candidates, it might help conservative candidates too. And as we all know, that would be bad. The reason is that in limiting candidates to a certain amount of tax-payers money to spend on campaigns, it'll open things for people on the fringes, like progessives. Or conservatives. more ›

So it looks like the Electronic Electioneering resolution has passed, with the unamended version winning in a nine-to-two vote, with Supervisors Elsbernd and Alioto-Pier voting no, meaning that the board has enough votes to override a veto by the Gavster. more ›

Well, when we suggested that Sophie start a blog to help counter some of the diatribes by critics in her constituency, we were only partly joking. Sure, we were jealous that our friends in District Six have a blogging supe, and we don't. But really, we tend to like Supervisor Maxwell, being the child of activists ourselves. But her public perception is about to take a hit again, this time on an international level, and as usual, she doesn't entirely deserve it. more ›

Although the confirmation has been delayed, it looks like San Francisco is all set to get a new head of the Ethics Commission. By a 2-1 vote, the Rules Committee of the Board of Supes voted for Eileen Hansen to replace current head Michael Garcia. Voting for her were Sophie Maxwell and Mini-Matt Gonzalez, Ross Mirkarimi, and voting no was Michaela Alioto-Pier. The vote before the full board was postponed for a week to await the return of a traveling Bevan Dufty. While Hansen's confirmation is considered to be a done deal, Michael Garcia is still fighting for his job despite mounting criticism of the Ethics Committee for not being watchdog-y enough. more ›