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Rogers' daughter, Tierra, a junior guard for Sacred Heart's women's basketball team, was pulled from the game and told by officers that her father had been shot.

One day in San Francisco politics you're in, and the next day, you're out.

Step right up! Step right up! The Gavin Newsom San Francisco carnival is coming to town! SEE .... the horrors that abound in the San Francisco Housing Authority! GAWK..... at the desperate lives of people trying to get by in the sub-standard apartment units provided by the city! GASP..... at the pitiful amounts of money residents try to live on! And then.... open your wallets! Won't you help.... for the children?

Huh -- remember that huge fight we all got into about whether or not to put cameras at high-crime intersections in SF? Turns out the cameras at the public housing sites are pretty much useless. To wit, they've only been used for evidence in two cases, neither of which were the homicides that they said the cameras would help solve. Whether this is because cameras don't deter crime, or because the restrictions that the civil libertarians have put on the camera usage is debatable. Also, it could just be that the cameras we have aren't great, and are particularly not useful at night, when most of the crimes occur.

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.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera took a break from harassing that nice Ed Jew today, introducing a lawsuit against three gangs. Our knowledge of streetgang etiquette is pretty much zero, but we can't imagine the "Knock Out Posse" will be giving him the courtesy of an RSVP. At any rate, the plan is to use an injunction to impose stiffer penalties for gang activity in certain areas. In the past, this technique worked against the Oakdale Mob, Dennis' office says, so hopefully it'll work again now. Now all's we need is some spiffy police work to back the injunction up.

This situation with Thursday's Western Addition shooting is just sad, sad, sad, and not just because a lot of people got hurt (seven, according to the news outlets who actually have time to investigate these things). It's becoming pretty clear that it is, yet again and as always, the result of a bunch of people making very poor choices indeed.

San Francisco's most pleasant neighborhood had its cheery, safe veneer shattered this morning with a shooting -- 8:50am, Steiner and McAllister. We are shocked, simply shocked. Surely, city officials, police leaders, and representatives of the nearby public housing will take swift and effective action to ensure that this is the only time citizens ever feel unsafe while walking through the Western Addition.

After the jump: the Guardian and the East Bay Express, the Weekly of the Week, and the YTD!

You may recall our presence at a lower Haight neighborhood meeting back in January after a spate of gun violence galvanized the area and turned out hundreds of folks along with news cams and Heather Fong. Well, during that meeting Supervisor Mirkarimi promised that he would somehow find the city funding for a security camera at the corner of Haight and Webster, which is kind of the locus of all things crack-deal in the area. Well, the camera went up!

We've all had to deal with loud, bothersome neighbors moving in next door, right? Just imagine having the neighbors at the Seneca Hotel, operated by the Tenderloin Housing Clinic. The city supplies the THC with folks in need, and the clinic must oblige by providing housing, no matter how uncomfortable those folks might make the hotel's non-clinic residents. One such resident -- he moved in years ago, when it was just a normal hotel -- has set up a video blog to collect the awkward scenes by which he finds himself surrounded: shouting tenants, drug dealers, petty theft, all caught on tape. Is the clinic to blame? No way, says the clinic; while their blogging gadfly says yes, absolutely.

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express. A Oakland teacher beats up a social worker and threatens her students -- and still can't be fired. Why can't you get a free weekly in San Leandro? Cover article: The agony of med students waiting to find out where they're going to be doctors. (It's done by computers.) Do you think male poets read Bitch Magazine? Goat meat on International Boulevard. Irish rockers on St. Patrick's Day. And Dan Savage on low female sex drives.

-Mirkarimi has a hearing over public housing. -If you were stuck on some serious traffic on the Bay Bridge this morning, that's because there was a collision.

Sulky, sulky -- Gavin Newsom was sober and mad after yesterday's Board of Supervisors inaugural ceremony, which the Chronicle tactfully described as having a "tone of political contentiousness running just beneath a veneer of polite ceremony."

The only two things Gavin Newsom is required to do as the mayor of San Francisco are 1) propose a budget and 2) give an annual speech about the State Of The City. Gay marriage, gelling and ungelling his hair, and gadding about town are all entirely optional!

Good news! The cops caught the last week's Golden Gate Park sexual assaulter. They caught him after he unsuccessfully attempted to assault another woman in the area (but fled when her children saw him), and after he exposed himself to a number of children as well. What a creep.

Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro: Gary Singh does his best Travis Bickel to help out a friend getting blackmailed for her journal. Cover article: Blogs! Will they change politics? (no.) An experimental Canadian thriller, a documentary about Israel and Palestine: it's Cinequest time. Greek food in Santa Clara -- we were taken by the title, "Your Pal Is Athena." And BET Uncut -- the educational TV program! ("Once an acoustic guitar gets to strumming, a half-naked multicultural boat party will break out." So true!)

Last week's winner, the Guardian: Gavin just wants to be able to park his cars downtown, guys! Congratulations, A.C. Thompson, for winning a Polk Award for your article about the deplorable conditions in SF public housing! Cover: This week in Steven Jones's ongoing Burning Man series -- Burning Man goes to Katrina. A review of 50 Cent's videogame, f/ the vocal talents of G-Unit, Dre, and Eminem. Get Rich Or Die Trying indeed. Someone yells at the Sonic Reducer to stop chewing her gum so loud at the Jeff Tweedy show. Email newsletter Books To Watch Out For, by the former publisher of the Feminist Bookstore News. We're signing up right now! And the newest restaurant at 22nd and Guerrero. The East Bay Express: A profile of the very busy doctor trying to recall Schwarzenegger. Goth-metal scapegoating in the Scott Dyleski trial. Cover article: Couples who buy houses instead of getting married. Peaches Christ went to Penn State? Go Nittany Lions! Ayelet Waldman's entertaining solipsism continues. Our secret boyfriend Rob Harvilla goes to the 107.7 Bone Rock Girl competition. Going all James Frey on Motley Crue's The Dirt. And SFist Eve is at the helm of her personal Starship Enterprise! Beam us up, SFist Eve! After the jump, the SF Weekly and the SJ Metro, and the Pick of the Week.