SF News Former Senator Barbara Boxer Got Assaulted and Mugged In Oakland Former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer was reportedly shoved to the ground and robbed of her cell phone near Oakland's Jack London Square on Monday afternoon.
SF News Video: Senator Barbara Boxer Gives Farewell Address California Senator Barbara Boxer's long career in politics is coming to an end. She announced in January of last year that she did not intend to run for reelection, and will soon be
SF News California Senator Barbara Boxer Takes Ceremonial Stab At Abolishing The Electoral College Though it's purely a gesture at this point in a Republican-led, lame duck Congress, retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer today filed legislation to abolish the Electoral College system. It's something that has been discussed
SF News Gavin Announces He Won't Run For Senate; Willie Brown Thinks Jerry Brown Should Run Kamala Harris is most definitely going after outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer's seat in the 2016 election as this morning SF's very own favorite hair model Gavin Newsom announced he would not be chasing
SF News DiFi Gets Student's Deportation Delayed The protest to keep 20-year-old Steve Li in the country on Friday was outside Barbara Boxer's SF offices, but it was Senator Dianne Feinstein who stepped in Sunday to ask immigration officials to
SF News Gather Outside Barbara Boxer's Office at Noon to Protest This Kid's Deportation All over the news the past day or so has been the story of 20-year-old Steve Li, the would-be nursing student who was arrested at his San Francisco home in September for being
SF News Newsom Takes Lieutenant Governor, Boxer Wins (Barely), California Democrats Feel Lucky The NYT, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Chron are calling it for Boxer, with a 4-point spread and 30% of precincts reporting, ending a bitter fight with Republican Carly Fiorina that might
SF News Sen. Boxer Sends Best Wishes to Hospitalized Fiorina Disgraced ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina was sent to the hospital this morning due to an infection stemming from reconstructive surgery she had after battling breast cancer. She is expected to make a full
SF News Biden In S.F. Tonight For Boxer Event Prefacing Obama's arrival on Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden will be in town tonight to support Barbara Boxer. BCN (via SF Appeal) reports, "Tonight's event is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
SF News Feinstein and Boxer Introduce Legislation to Strengthen Pipeline Safety and Enforcement In the wake of the September 9th San Bruno natural gas explosion, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer introduced legislation to "strengthen oversight of the nation’s pipelines and increase the penalties for
SF News Fiorina Holds Lead Over Boxer According to a CBS 5 KPIX-TV poll, "California Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has increased her lead over Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer to five percentage points." Boxer, it seems, lost a
SF News Pelosi and Boxer on Hand for Transbay Groundbreaking, Willie Brown Arrives Late The ceremonial groundbreaking for the Transbay Terminal is already underway downtown, featuring Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Transportation Secretary Roy La Hood, and a slew of local politicians on stage. SF Citizen has already
SF News Barbara Boxer's New Nemesis: Superman Producer While amazon techie women from Silicon Valley could rule California after the November election, if recent polls are any indication, there's a new contender taking aim at Sen Barbara Boxer: Hollywood producer Brian
SF News John McCain: 'The Arizonans Hate California... They've Stolen Our Water Senator John McCain made a jingoistic off-cuff joke during President Obama's health summit yesterday. "There's two examples right now of medical malpractice reform that is working. One's called California, the other called --
SF News Gov. Schwarzenegger Confuses Boxer With Feinstein Possibly suffering from senioritis, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger confused Sen. Barbara Boxer with Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Oops. "California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger left a meeting this morning at the Capitol with Sen. Barbara Boxer repeatedly
SF News VP Joe Biden Vists SF for Barbara Boxer Wondering what all of that security in SF was for on Saturday? Well, Vice President Joe Biden was in town, showing face at a private party. (Matt Baume has footage of his royal
SF News Elderly Health Care Zealots Protest Barbara Boxer Book Signing On Saturday, your grandfather and his Shriner buddies protested Barbara Boxer's book signing in Danville. According to Mercury News, "[a]bout 100 people, many with picket signs, covered the sidewalks outside Rakestraw Books
SF News Quote du Jour: Call Her "Senator" On Tuesday, after getting into a minor dust up with Army Corps of Engineers division leader Brigadier General Michael Walsh over Hurricane Katrina cleanup, Barbara Boxer corrected him over something minor: "Could you
SF News <em>SF Chronicle</em>'s Zachary Coile Announced as Boxer Communications Director Proving that there's life after print publishing, former San Francisco Chronicle’s Washington Bureau reporter Zachary Coile will join Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Washington office. Coile will be her new Communications Director, overseeing
misc Stop Expending Energy Hey, stupid! Are you using incandescent light bulbs and doing your laundry at 4 in the afternoon? Christ, what an asshole. Barbara Boxer is going to box your ears. She's got a list
SF News Your Oil Spill Weekend Roundup So...ugh. Birds died, gastronomic seasons were delayed. What's more, it hasn't even been a week, and already some of your favorite local and national politicos are personalizing the spill, more than ready
SF News Carole Migden's Health Revelations After poking some good-natured fun at State Senator Carole Migden for her driving mishaps last week, we now feel obliged to tell you guys that she's revealed that she was diagnosed with leukemia
SF News What We Would Have Told You About Today ...had the server not been down. (Things look a little better now after hours, but expect further delays tomorrow). Update: Hey! Comments are back! Try 'em so we can see if they're still
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Dumber & Smarter at The Marsh Republicans need love, too. Especially in San Francisco, where even Barbara Boxer practically gets assaulted by protestors. So, performers and SF Mime Troupe veterans Amos Glick and Ed Holmes, playing
SF News Thinking Outside the Boxer, Ha Ha Ha Bet She Never Heard That One Before Whether or not you enjoy Barbara Boxer's senatorial antics, there's no denying she's a master of making grandiose gestures without actually committing to any specific action. Fer instance, she sent out some emails
