Much to our surprise, the motion that almost allowed our fair Mayor Gavin Newsom to eschew his monthly cameos Board of Supervisor meeting was tabled. That is to say, it was killed. Dead. According to Sweet Melissa recounts today's nail-biting Board of Supes meeting thusly: Supervisor Daly spoke twice against the motion, at one point reading off a list of donors to the Let's Really Work Together coalition which opposed Prop E. Supervisor Mirkarimi......

It's a battle of the press releases! Watch yourselves, or you might get cut. Did anyone know about these free shuttles tomorrow night, over at the 16th Street/Mission station? We didn't. Not even the SFMTA site had info on it this morning, which we looked over for Halloween transportation info. Hmmm. Also, while we understand that closing 16th Street station will help hinder people outside the city from coming to the Castro (yet problematic......

Supervisor Bevan Dufty meets with resdients concerning Google's bus service...

Holy crap! Is it even possible? Supervisor Dufty wants to cancel a holiday? According to a statement from the Duftster's office, he wants to make "an effort to send the message that there’s no party in the Castro." No party in the whaaaaaaaa? The only possible explanation for this strange description of the Castro is that he's never actually been there. "Supervisor Dufty will present his proposal to publicly 'cancel' the event," the statement......

Who was it who said "never work with children or animals?" Well, whoever you are, Bevan Dufty's proving you wrong, as he proudly announces that he's united the two famously-warring factions in San Francisco politics and worked out a compromise about who gets to use Duboce Park. Duboce Park currently prohibits off-leash dogs -- though you'd never know it from watching the labrador and shepherd mixes gamboling bucolically on the grass there. (Full disclosure: as a devoted dog aunt, we have personally off-leashed one of the very best dogs in the world at Duboce -- maybe even just last week! Sorry, Supervisor Dufty!) Parents and dog owners have been arguing for years now about whether they could fence off an area of the open space so kids and dogs could play unimpeded by the other. After 40+ hours of meetings, all sides have agreed that there will be no fence, but the park will be informally divided into three zones: a playground with dog restrictions; an on-leash dog section, and an off-leash dog section. Now, maybe we're just being naive here, but was it really that hard to come up with that? (Apparently one small group of hardcore dog fans wanted the whole park to be off-leash, but ultimately came around to the compromise.) ...