SF News Oh No, Leland Yee: He Pulled Out Of Secretary Of State Race In a move that should surprise no one, politically bedraggled Senator Leland Yee pulled out of the race for California Secretary of State today. Sacto Bee reports: "He sent a letter to Secretary
SF News Oh No, Leland Yee: He Wore A Windbreaker On a day like this, even the pastel hues of a sporty windbreaker can't paint a smile on Yee's face. Pictured here: Senator Leland Yee leaving the San Francisco Federal Building after Wednesday's
SF News Criminal Complaint Alleges Leland Yee Used Campaign Money In Arms Deal In a lengthy criminal complaint (pdf), Senator Leland Yee, a high-profile California proponent of gun control, allegedly used campaign money "in exchange for facilitating deal with arms dealer and Chinatown gangsters." Complaint alleges
SF News John McCain Thinks Apple CEO Tim Cook Is A Genius Bar Employee During yesterday's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing with Apple -- accused of avoiding taxes upwards of $74 billion -- Senator John McCain used the Q&A session with CEO Tim Cook
SF News iPhone iMessages Impervious to Government Wiretaps? [Updated] Well, isn't this intriguing. In a boon for privacy and civil rights advocates, the federal government recently discovered that they can't actually collect text messages from people they're wiretapping if they own an
SF News The Government Is All Up In Your Tweets Probably not surprising to anyone who prefers metallic headwear: government requests for Twitter users' account information has been on the rise ever since the short-winded social network started publishing this data in July
SF News Gavin Newsom's Book On Social Media Channels Farmville, Angry Birds The Lite Gov. is, as you know, an expert on social media. He tweets (sometimes angrily). He blogs. He even has a Google+ account. That's why he smartly (read: questionably) named his long-awaited
SF News June Is Totally Gay Pride Month, Proclaims Governor Brown You guys, it's Pride month. And how could you not tell what with all of the rainbow flags adorning Market Street, not to mention this provocative move on the part of Coca-Cola Corporation.
SF News Anonymous to Bring Peaceful Wrath Upon BART on Monday SF Examiner is reporting that Anonymous, the group most famous for giving Scientologists a hard time, is focusing its attention on BART on Monday. As you might have heard, BART police shut down
SF News Suspicious Package Near Federal Building Prompts Civic Center Street Closures At about 12:51 p.m. today, a man reportedly approached a U.S. marshal outside the SF Federal Building at Golden Gate and Larkin, made anti-government statements, said his backpack contained explosives,
SF News Congratulations, New York! Two years after the New York State Senate strongly rejected gay marriage, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced passage of the Marriage Equality Act today by a margin of 33 to 29,
SF News Tick Tock, It's Tax Time The ideas of April approacheth, which means it's time to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, otherwise known as filing your taxes. This year the ides are even pushed back three days, giving
SF News Editor's Inbox: Spare the Air Ruins San Carlos Man's Christmas Stubborn big-government naysayers, listen up: when Spare the Air says do not burn Duraflame logs, the mean do not burn Duraflame logs. Take, for example, Mike, a reader from San Carlos, who sent
SF News Should We Be Worried About February 9th, 2011? Last week we called your attention to this gentleman who used his two minutes of public comment at the Board of Supervisors meeting to creep us out and predict Judgement Day for February
SF News Creepy DMV Clerk Warns Transgender Woman of 'Evil Decision' As if going to the DMV wasn't harrowing enough, Amber Yust, a 23-year-old software engineer, had a particularly vile experience when she went to change register her sex denotation at the San Francisco
SF News UC-Santa Cruz Grad Shot, Killed at Pentagon Hollister resident John Patrick Bedell, 36, was shot and killed last night after pulling a handgun at the Pentagon entrance and firing at guards. Bedell held a bachelor’s degree in physics from
SF News SF Company Helped Repeal Maine's Same-Sex Marriage Law SF Appeal brings it to our attention that smarmy San Francisco-based (located on Maiden Lane, specifically) "independent integrated marketing communications company," Criswell and Associates, earned about $700K in the past couple of months
SF News House Passes Addition of Sexual Orientation to Hate Crimes Law The definition of the federal hate crimes law might finally get expanded to include sexual orientation, as the House of Representatives approved the bill yesterday, which was an attachment of the $680 billion
SF News Certified Paper Stolen From The San Francisco Office of Vital Records The latest tip on SFist's contribute page informed us that the The San Francisco Office of Vital Records has a notice on their website regarding a recent break-in at their office: "As a
SF News SF to Use Federal Funds to Provide 1,000 Jobs for Unemployed Parents for One Year Yesterday, Mayor Newsom's office announced a new initiative called JOBS NOW!, which aims to fund jobs using federal stimulus money for 1,000 San Francisco residents who have at least one child and
SF News Local Post Offices at Risk Facing a nearly $7 billion potential loss this fiscal year, The United States Postal Service selected 677 branches nationwide for either closure or consolidation, including more than a couple dozen in the Bay
misc Greening San Francisco, an Impressive Student Wiki A class of 17 juniors and seniors at the Urban School of San Francisco have brought environmental education into the 21st Century with their comprehensive eco-wiki, Greening San Francisco. Currently the site covers
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri) (1966): We were going to start throwing shade at the overall ineffectiveness of political satire -- which, by the way, The Battle of Algiers is
misc Bush to California: Choke On It The reason given is that in lieu of the recent energy bill, there's no need to have each state create their own rules, even if their rules are better than the Federal Government's.