SF News California Announces Closure of 70 State Parks California park officials today announced the closure of 70 parks, including Tomales Bay, due to the state's harrowing budget deficit. Sacramento Bee reports: "Gov. Jerry Brown's January budget plan proposed reducing the state
SF News Jerry Brown Won't Reach Budget Deal On Time Much to no one's surprise, Governor Jerry Brown admitted this morning that he might not reach a budget deal by Thursday, "his self-imposed 60-day deadline," even though floor votes in the Legislature are
SF News Gov. Brown Orders State Hiring Freeze For his third executive order since taking office in January, Governor Jerry Brown has ordered all state agencies to "freeze hiring" in an effort to reduce further spending. "We have a $25 billion
misc California Ephemera Project: See How Much and How Little We’ve Changed If the San Francisco Eats exhibit at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library has whetted your appetite for more than food, do yourself an instructive favor and spend a few
SF News California Schools Get a C Grade In a national survey released yesterday, schools in California received an overall grade of a 76.2 out of 100, putting the quality of education in the Golden State just below the national
SF News Brown To Confiscate 48,000 Cell Phones Call him Governor Viola Swamp if you must, because Jerry Brown just ordered an astounding 48,000 government-paid cell phones - that's around half of those used by government employees - be returned
SF News Watch Prop. 8 Hearing Live Though somewhat boring and dry (save the marble walls, which are appropriately stunning), watch the Proposition 8 sponsors appeal U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling right here. Also, for your convenience, Matt
SF News California: World's 8th Largest Economy Falling between Italy and Brazil, the glorious state of California has, once again, ranked as the world's 8th largest economy. A report released yesterday by the Palo Alto-based Center for Continuing Study of
SF News Facts: Over $69 Million in State Welfare Funds Spent Outside of California by Andrew Dalton Well, now this is interesting - The LA Times reported yesterday that over $69 million worth of California welfare money has been drawn out of state. If you're unfamiliar, the
SF News S.F. Is Skinny Did you know that San Francisco is one of the skinniest counties in the state, along with equi-pinko Marin, Sonoma, and Santa Cruz counties? According to a recent report in California Watch, it's
SF News S.F. Unemployment Numbers Still Awful Second verse, same as the first: San Francisco's unemployment rate skipped from 9.6 percent in June to 9.7 percent last month. Although, as SF Weekly reports, we're not the worst in
SF News Gray Davis > Arnold Schwarzenegger According to a new Field Poll (pdf), California voter give Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger "the lowest rating for a sitting governor in more than 50 years," trumping Gray Davis as one of California's worst
SF News John Pérez Selected As First Gay Assembly Speaker Assemblyman John Pérez of Los Angeles, a former union leader and a cousin of LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, was unanimously chosen yesterday by his Democratic colleagues to succeed Karen Bass as the 68th
SF News The Future of State Parks: Partnerships, Closures & Possibly Corporations California State Parks director Ruth Coleman said that the agency faces a total of about $39 million in cuts after the new budget, which directly states a $14.2 million cut, was signed
SF News Calif. Budget Passed, Schwarzenegger Speaks Oversized wristwatch connoisseur, former Hollywood thespian, and Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has some news: "@Schwarzenegger: Budget passed. Thanks to the legislature for the hard work last night and today. Plan to sign
SF News Gov. Schwarzenegger & Lawmakers Reach Budget Agreement Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and your legislative leaders came to a tentative agreement this evening to (finally!) "balance California's $26 billion deficit by cutting broadly across state government, shifting costs into the future and
Arts & Entertainment Launch of David Lynch's 'Interview Project' The endearingly batshit auteur who brought us Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and most recently, Inland Empire, is up to something new: a web-based series of interviews that appears to be a kind of
SF News Coverage of Protests Outside CA Supreme Court KRON4 has this coverage from earlier this morning of protesters at the ready outside the court where the Prop 8 announcement is set to be announced in just over an hour. They also
misc Poll: And Your Next California Governor Is... Last night, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom "officially kicked off his campaign" for governor of California 2010. That is to say, you'll see even less of Newsom over the next year or so. If
SF News California Returns Paintings Stolen by Nazis to Oppenheimer Family Yesterday in Sacramento, the State of California returned three paintings to the heirs of Jakob and Rosa Oppenheimer, which were recently discovered to have been the subject of a “judenauktionen,” a coerced sale
SF News California State Budget Passed It is done. (Well, almost done.) By 7 a.m., both houses of the Legislature passed the shiny budget plan. The 33 bills include "$15 billion in spending cuts, $11.4 billion in
SF News A Look at the Map and List of National Prop 8 Protests The above image -- showing just how large scale Saturday's national Prop 8 protest will look -- is from the flyer used to promote the big event. All of the demonstrations start at
misc Only 8,444 of you Have Donated to No on 8 -- What Are You Waiting For? And it's not just individuals; four SF companies have have launched attacks on local families, too: - Blackford Construction gave $200 - Visionary Electronics gave $99 - Large Format Computing gave $1500 -
SF News Once Again, Only You Can Save Marriage California, Please Vote No On Proposition 8 from Stop8.org on Vimeo. While Sarah Palin held her own last night during last night's debate, more or less, and Joe Biden shed an effeminate
misc Only You Can Save Marriage Hey gay couples! You're in terrible danger. Fortunately, we can help. Well, not exactly -- SFist_Matt, to be specific, has taken a break from writing stern emails to Muni, and is now
