Now here's a story we haven't mentioned in awhile, the poor saga of Amy Lee. Lee, if you remember, was the former head of the Building Inspection Department who was opposed by Joe O'Donaghue and his Residential Builders Association gang. During her confirmation hearing, members of the RBA got down and dirty and criticized her for all sorts of things, including the fact that she was pregnant and had "pregnancy brain." ...

Patrick Rodriguez makes an argument for saving Stan "Tookie" Williams -- those Berkeley Republicans are always throwing curveballs. Sasha over at Left in SF wonders if the Residential Builders Association and the Bay Guardian can ever get along. Kimo Crossman at Webnetic points out why you should care about the SF citywide wifi process, and suggests you drop by the Board of Supervisors to argue for more public involvement. And MuniWireless posts the MetroFi......

That whole debacle over the Building Inspector Commission? Total gift that keeps on giving. Yesterday, the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution that bars discriminatory language in public hearings. The resolution, of course, stemmed from comments made during hearings of the BIC in which members of the powerful Residential Builders Association attacked the nomination of Julie Lee because of her pregnancy. It also stems from poetry O'Donoghue wrote earlier this year which questioned the sexuality of Gavin. And how did O'Donoghue take it? Afterwards, he dismissed the resolution and referred to Board President Aaron Peskin as both an "angry dwarf" and Heinrich Peskin. We're not sure which probably got under Aaron's skin more, being height-challenged and called a dwarf or being Jewish and called a Nazi. Either way, total class, that Joe. Joe also said he's busy crafting another poem in response to all of the controversy and SFist has it's fingers crossed that we'll be so lucky to be mentioned. ...