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Sorry we're late on this one! Not much to report, just that Board of Supes president Aaron Peskin has named himself the chair of the Budget and Finance Committee after firing Chris Daly from the position, and proclaimed his intent to make it a "no-drama" budget approval process this time around. more ›

Man, we're bummed the Chron still hasn't put back up the pictures of the Canton Flower Shop and their stymied attempts to inspect the legendary shower in the back -- but we do have a new Matier and Ross column to summarize from the Tapioca Ed perspective: we call it M&R and Everyone We Know. more ›

--Spot (at least) four problems with this picture! [zippy_monster on Flickr, from the SFist Flickr stream.] more ›

--Chris Daly gets booted as the chair of the Budget and Finance Committee. more ›

--...and as promised, here's the back of the Ed Jew calendar, from reader Jake. Thanks, Jake! Irony alert! Can you guys see the "please contact me if you have problems or if issues concern you" tagline? more ›

Those electronic voting machines everybody loves could be coming to a voting place near you as San Francisco is looking into signing a $12.6 million four-year contract with Sequoia Voting Systems Inc. The proposed contract would give us 610 optical scan voting machines (machines that read a paper ballot) and 610 touch-screen voter machine for the disabled. more ›

Riddle us this, Batman: what does it mean if there's no parking to be had in the city, yet revenues made from parking meters isn't nearly what it should be? Give up? Well, so has everyone else because nobody can quite figure it out. And nobody's really happy about it. more ›

Chris Daly's having a party! Look at the elaborate evite he's designed, inviting Gavin Newsom to appear before the Budget and Finance Committee meeting tomorrow today [we forgot today is Wednesday!] at 1 p.m to explain why he needs extra money for the police department. "Please join me for an exciting Budget and Finance Committee meeting tomorrow to discuss your 'Violence Response' supplemental appropriation!" Ha! We bet it will be exciting. more ›

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