Here's todays wrap up of the news...

Last night was a meeting about the spate of violent crime and shootings in the Lower Haight. In attendance were various officials from the SFPD, including Heather Fong, as well as supervisors Ross Mirkirami and Bevan Dufty. Dan From Burritophile was in attendance and gives us a report, after the jump. To see photos of the event, click here....

So here's the deal: over a year ago, the Board of Supes passed a measure that would cut down on the amount of plastic bags supermarkets and other big sized stores hand out to customers. Gotta save the environment. Now, according to that measure, stores were supposed to check in with the Board to let them know how everything was going. They haven't done it. And not only have they not done it, they got the state legislature to give them a few loopholes to not have to do it....

Today, Gavin Newsom put a lid on places that sell lids and called for a moratorium on marijuana clubs. And we bet we're the only one's in the -ist family who'll ever have to write a story like this about their Mayor. What caused the moratorium is news that came out last week that a new marijuana club, the Holistic Center, had opened right below one of those Care Not Cash welfare hotels set up......