Photo of an alleged Chistmas Tree in San Francisco's Civic Center more ›

In today's installment of "Ask a Muni Security Guy" our security guy answers questions that commenters asked last time around. He will also discuss this week's Muni news about budget cuts and their impact on Muni security. And before we go to the post, we'd like to formally announce that "Ask a Muni Driver" will be returning next Monday as we have another driver willing to answer all your questions. more ›

Oh, if only this had been around for Mark Jen. SFist's nerd crush Annalee Newitz and Kurt Opsahl of the EFF just passed us a press release to highlight their on-line instructional pamphlet "How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else)." From the release (because it's late, we're lazy, and we need to go hit six art shows tonight): more ›

Buried inside the Chron's Bay Area section a while back, we found a story about an East Bay blogger who is currently embroiled in a court battle against Kaiser Permantente. As we're always looking out for the underdog here at SFist, our "benefit of the doubt" went out to the blogger, and not the massive HMO. We're funny like that. more ›

SFist managed to get their hands on the latest memo to the members of the Northern California Media Workers Guild at the Chronicle. Looks like they have now entered into negotiations with the management of the Chronicle. What's troubling is that unlike previous contract negotiations, which involved all the locals that represent employees together as the Chronicle Newspaper Unions, each local is now bargaining on their own (the Teamsters have already renegotiated their terms until 2010). The writer's Guild hopes to have a contract ironed out by February, and the other union employees contracts expire in July. more ›