Bear with us as SFist is experiencing technical difficulties this morning, mainly in that we're really hungover. -In Oakland, families of murder victims met to honor their loved ones. This story is all sorts of sad. -Meet your new Supervisor, Ed Jew. Gezundheit. -Mayor McDreamy says deal for city-wide WiFi could come as soon as next week, still down to EarthLink and Google. SFist wonders why we just spent a whole lot of money signing......

Because we've started the column "Who's Attacking Newsom Now!", we figure it's only right to start the counterpoint column next: Who's Defending Newsom Now!. So who's Mayor McDreamy got on his side? (beside these young ladies in the picture above, that is!): --Ken Garcia!: The Examiner columnist looks for the silver lining (.pdf, page 5) on the gloomy month that Newsom's been having. Ed Jew'll vote with Gavin on the Board of Supervisors (even......

This week Newsweek hops on the "San Francisco Values" bandwagon with a story on Pelosi and what they refer to as San Francisco's "Loony Left." The story makes it seem like we're Nancy's redheaded stepchild. Oh wait, we're probably going to get a comment about saying something bad against redheads and stepchildren so we'll say crazy aunt instead. Oh now we'll get comments about discriminating against aunts and crazy people and, well, forget we even mentioned it. ...

Today, your San Francisco Board of Supervisors take up legislation both big and small. First up is a possible override of Gavin's veto of the foot patrol legislation. The board needs eight votes to override Mayor McDreamy's veto, one short of the seven they got when they passed the bill. Right now, it's not looking like it'll happen. Luke Thomas reports in Fog City that two of the seven have been flipped. The two who......

So picture Gavin. He wakes up bright and early, maybe goes for a jog, maybe kisses Jennifer good morning, and then sits down to read the papers. There's not much about him in the Chron other than more headaches on the 49ers front and oh, Liz and Anthony seem to be heating up on "For Better or Worse" again. Then he picks up the Examiner and blammo, there's an editorial by Arthur Bruzzone saying Gavin shouldn't even thinking about running again. ...

Two months after Newsom became the umpteenth Mayor to try and roust the homeless from the parks the Examiner checks on in to see how everything is going. The answer? Just swell says Recreation and Park Department General Manager Yomi Agunbiade. According to their stats, the city has torn down 380 encampments and placed 66 homeless people in housing and 33 have been given services. They also tallied who was in the park and discovered that the majority of them are between 18 and 34 and between 30 and 40 percent were from out of town...

There's lots to be said about this election (we won the House!), and lots to be learned about local politics (YouTube -- the wave of the future), and that's for political scientists that are sharper than us to figure out -- but the one totally obvious point that this election's highlighted is that Gavin Newsom can't get his friends elected. Take Doug Chan in District 4, for example. Newsom was the conservative (for SF) Police......

Matier & Ross today has an interview with Gavin about the upcoming Mayoral election and his future in politics that's getting a lot of play. So what does the future hold for Mayor McDreamy? Only that he is "absolutely not convinced" that he's going to run again. How's that for definitive ambivalence. ...

-Another Caltrain fatality, yesterday around 6. It's the thirteenth this year. -McAfee is your latest hi-tech company to have a CEO go down due to stock shenanigans. ...

The urchins in Haight Street sure are in the news a lot these days. First there was the super-excellent story in this week's SF Weekly. But of even more significance is that Gavin, while in New York, studied up on Central Park and got some ideas on how to make Golden Gate Park nicer. First thing up-- trying to get rid of the homeless. ...

He's in New York! Tuesday he took off to the Big Apple to attend a three day event for the Clinton Global Initiative conference. That's Clinton as in Bill Clinton, not George Clinton. The Clinton Global Initiative is some big huge three day conference in which various political and governmental big wigs gather to discuss the environment and helping the poor people and Africa and all that stuff that George Clooney and Angelina Jolie talk about. ...