Monica Lewinsky's interest level in working for SF city government just went up a notch, as the SF Board of Supes overwhelmingly voted down Chris Daly's proposal to ban office affairs between supervisors and supervisees. (No, not affairs with supervisors like Chris Daly is a supervisor, affairs with supervisors like your boss. We could probably get a proposition on the ballot barring affairs between the San Francisco Supervisors and their constituents, though -- because, come......

With Chris Daly focusing on the birth of his second child (congrats, Chris and Sarah!), SF Board of Supes prez Aaron Peskin has manfully taken over the essential city function of provoking District 2's Michela Alioto-Pier: today's Matier and Ross column has MAP running crying to City Attorney Dennis Herrera and DA Kamala Harris about Aaron Peskin telling her "payback's a bitch" when she asked why he'd changed his vote on her proposed charter......

With Ed Jew out of the picture for now, the SF Board of Supes wasted little time in unanimously approving a resolution tsk-tsking The Savage Nation host Michael Savage for his "[l]et them fast until they starve to death; then that solves the problem" (it sure helps us remain in control!) comment he made about students fasting in regard to an immigration reform bill last July. This kind of civic condemnation feeds the Savage......

Airport news! This morning, SFO crews found a dead body lodged in the wheel well of the nose of a United plane coming in from Shanghai. It might have been a stowaway. A woman was arraigned in Denver yesterday, after getting arrested on Monday for beating her kids on a Frontier Air flight that took off from SFO. Witnesses report that she seemed intoxicated on the flight, was yelling and hitting the kids, and......

-- "Not guilty," says you know who. [Chron, Examiner, ABC 7] -- Beautiful, steel, and glassy Rincon Hill (and its streets) want a little love, too, you know? [RinconHillSF] -- The Cesar Chavez/Mission Street condo debate goes on (and on). SF Board of Supes decide tomorrow. [Beyond Chron] -- Crunchy New College is on accreditation probation because of "sloppiness." Whoops. [SFGate, via SFBG] -- Although we're partial to show tunes and a good five-hour......

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by......

--The SF Board of Supes has imposed a moratorium on SoMa studio condo construction. --The Bay Area author of "Searching for Your G-Spot" was attacked by a shark in Maui. --Gavin Newsom's sneak-announced Fifth Fake Question Time this Saturday, in West Portal and on the topics of public works. "They're for your wife." --MUNI officials meet about the troubled T-Third. --The Newsom administration is forcing KFOG to charge for the KaBoom fireworks festival this year......

It's a bad sign when the Oakland City Council (and its participating public -- see notes in the comments below) takes the "worst behaved political activity" award on a day where not only were Chris Daly and Gavin Newsom scheduled to be in the same room but there was also a Taiwanese political protest in town. (We didn't think anyone could outfight a Taiwanese politician!) But no -- today's swearing in for new Oakland......

--Google stock hits $509.65/share, making it the second most valuable company in Silicon Valley behind Cisco. Apple also hits a record high. --Who knew two-time Dancing with the Stars winner Cheryl Burke was from Menlo-Atherton High? There she is, dancing with Menlo-Atherton vice principal Matt Zito! --Josh Wolf won't be home for Thanksgiving. --New market with fancy-food cred opening in Glen Park. --The SF Board of Supes raises salaries for cops and condemns the......

--The US Attorney's office is going to monitor the SF elections, like we're East Timor or Florida or something. --Courtney Love was 50 minutes late to her book signing in Corte Madera. --District 6 candidate Manuel Jimenez confirms neither confirms nor denies that he's Latino (see comments!), with a picture of his baptism. --The cops get back the discretion to press pot charges. --Stanford students don't really care about the election. --Does the Bayview need......

-SF Board of Supervisors Committee approves plan for more foot patrols in troubled areas. -Daly and Newsom go at it again over anti-violence measures. ...

It turns out that Rev. Amos Brown-- African-American community leader, former City Supervisor, and the head of the Third Baptist Church-- is now shilling for Schwarzenegger in the upcoming gubernatorial election. What makes this so interesting is that Brown has in the past said not so nice things about Arnie, including that Arnie was part of "the national axis of evil" and was a "partner in crime" with the President....

--C.W. Nevius informs us that politicians say the darndest things on camera. --Barry Bonds's biggest fan feels like he's getting ripped off. He's now becoming AZ Diamondback Brandon Webb's biggest fan. --They're putting WiFi on AC Transits. --SF Board of Supervisors prez Aaron Peskin is hiking the John Muir Trail. --A blind pedestrian has a run-in with Critical Mass. --A reply-all screwup plunges the Fremont Union school district (for Cupertino, Sunnyvale, and San Jose) into......

This week's episode: Everybody Hates A Scoop! A super-secret source passed on the word that the Downtown Lobby has a new candidate to run against Chris Daly in the November 2006 election for the SF Board of Supervisors' District 6 seat. That candidate? Rob Black. Yes, do we hear a question? "Who's Rob Black?" Funny you should ask! That's exactly what we asked our super-secret source! Said super-secret source revealed that Rob Black is Michela......

Sometimes we wonder if Gavin Newsom wakes up in the middle of the night and wonders why he had to become Mayor and didn’t just stick with Flapjack where he’d be the toast of the town in Manhattan with Kimmers. Case in point, the fracas now brewing over the hoisting of the flag over City Hall. With the two-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War this Saturday, the Board of Supervisors, once again delving into foreign policy, unanimously passed a resolution to have the flag at half-mast to honor the war’s dead. Gavin, however, said thanks but no thanks and will keep the flag furled high. Now the BoS are all a-twitter with Ross Mirkarimi, in a tone of complete understatement, called Gav’s actions “deplorable.” He added that in a city that is predominantly anti-war, Newsom’s refusal to not lower the flag “sends contradictory signals of the priorities of the administration. " Damn, that Gavin. Gavin, who has spent most of the week putting together a proposal to land the Stem Cell Center and bring jobs and money to the city, had no comment. ...

Update and Clarifications: Thanks to Jerry Threet, legislative assistant to Supervisor McGoldrick, for his great follow-up! He noted that the primary sponsor of the ordinance to create a CU process (as described below) is Supervisor Peskin with McGoldrick as cosponsor. We apologize to Supervisor Peskin for failing to give him appropriate credit. In addition, Mr. Threet let us know that the permanent ordinance passed the board on first reading today by 10-1 with Supervisor Ma......