SF News Is Your Little Blessing a Tagger? God, sometimes we love Orange County. It's such a parody of itself at times, which we admire. Especially when it comes to brilliance like the following found over at Laughing Squid. You see,
SF News The Board Of Supervisors Date The Boss 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
SF News Toilets, They Have Arrived Well, well, well. According to Alix Rosenthal (Citizens for Halloween), ahem: Word has arrived from a credible source in city government. The City has rented 120 toilets to be placed in the Castro
SF News August Muni Payout: $131,695.06 The biggest payout is $47,500 to a guy who broke his ankle when the bus lurched forward before he could sit. Ouch. The driver in question was Daniel Johnson, driver number 1324.
SF News Shorter Gavin in the Examiner As we all know, Gavin is up for re-election this year (and why 2007? Aren't big elections supposed to be in even-numbered years? Is this one more "only in SF" type of thing?
SF News Au revoir, Annemarie Conroy's always been an interesting story. She was Frank Jordan’s goddaughter and for whatever reason just seemed to go from job to job in city government year after year without any explanation
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: District 8 Candidate Alix Rosenthal Alix is an attorney and civil servant, known for her love of burning man, her advocacy for SF's handgun ban, and for being of a generally lefty-artsy disposition. And with BeyondChron pointing out
SF News Who Really is Rob Black? See, Rob joined the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and traveled to several third world countries to try and bring democracy to them. It didn't go so well. Or, at least, a
SF News How Dry We Are The decision was at the behest of the neighborhood types who complained about the drunken hordes of riff-raff acting all riff-raff-y. They were opposed by neighborhood businesses and organizers of the festival who
SF News Political Junkie: SFist's First Write-In Candidate! We love it when our commenters get involved in local affairs! We were so proud when we first noticed a commenter had gotten a letter to the editor published. We wonder if another
SF News Ski Jump Redux So now that Laurie Beijan had her dream wedding at Flood Mansion uninterrupted by cries of "Tubular!" from outside -- what's going on with Jonny Moseley's ski jump plans now? The good folks
SF News Haggling With Comcast The concerns over The City's new franchise agreement with Comcast have been bubbling under the surface for a while now, but things are just starting to get nasty. Gerardo Sandoval, in a Bay
SF News Is That a Suspicious Package, or Are You Just Happy to See Me? And if you tinfoil hat-wearers think it's more than a coincidence, since last time we were at City Hall there was a bomb scare, none of us were anywhere near City Hall today.
SF News Anarchy Out The EssEff Here in The City, hordes of anarchists are as mundane as hordes of shoppers at Union Square or crab-cracking tourists at Fisherman's Wharf. But in the rest of the country -- particularly over
SF News SFist Goes To City Hall -- What's Up With SFPD Press Passes? We were originally tipped to the meeting of the San Francisco Government Audit and Oversight Committee by a friend at the SF Call, a local alternative news source that you can find online.
SF News A Million for Tsunami Relief? By a 2-1 margin, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Finance Committee Ok-a-lee-do-keed a proposal to give one million dollars out of the San Francisco General Fund for tsunami relief. The two supervisors
SF News We Feel Your Pain At the beginning of the year, our earnest Boy Wonder of a Mayor said that in the spirit of sharing the pain of the inevitable budget cuts, he would cut his own salary