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Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Skyscraper

A bunch of developers have gotten together and proposed building some really fracking huge towers in the SOMA district at 1st and Mission We're talking taller than any other building in the city

State Supreme Court to Hear Gay Marriage Case

How did we get here? Let's go take the Way Back Machine and see. We start in 2004 when Gavin (gaw-- that was one wife and at least three girlfriends ago) decided to

Who Wants To Run For Mayor?

We'd have a sad face too if the Chron came out against our position on Question Time, some mayoral pipsqueak in Santa Clara was out to eat our Niners lunch, and our chief

Who's Newsom Attacking Now!

It's a slight variation on our Who's Attacking/Defending Newsom Now columns -- Gavin goes on the offensive! The gay-focused Bay Area Reporter runs a column this week in their Political Notebook about

Happy Paper Trails

Now, all of this would be easy to fix if there was a paper trail but, alas, those whacky machines don't have a paper trial. Nothing, Nada, Zilch. Which means there's no way

Avoiding The Question (Time)

Ques-tion TIME! Ques-tion TIME! Gavin Newsom sees your "immature" comment and raises, Board of Supervisors! Now the mayor's announced that his first non-Question Time "community panel" will be in Jake McGoldrick's District 1

The Newest San Francisco Supervisor

Congratulations to Ed Jew, who's getting sworn in a little early for the District 4 seat on the Board of Supes -- and just in time for tonight's meeting! Extra bonus: Gavin's back

Everybody STILL Hates Chris!: The District 6 Election Redux

We're baaaaaack! (Did you think we'd ever left?) Well, we've moved on to relentlessly houding Gavin Newsom to show up for Question Time and we're also starting to gear up to cover the

Tonight's The Night

We actually owe the federal government thanks for bringing us "spare the night" nights as it appears in a fit of insanity in which they actually did something to help the environment, they

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Hot Stuff: Smells Like Faux Cookies

Have the agency folks ever tried waiting for a 14 Mission or 45 Union bus, or even done that routine lately? Itís never, ever about comfort, but maybe thatís the ad folks point.

Random Political Odds And Ends

We can't be bothered to type up all these intriguing little political news tidbits into that many separate posts for the day! So we're compiling them all here. --That map above is from

Aaron P. Is President

Where's Rakim to cut Aaron Peskin's single? The progressively-aligned District 3 representative is widely expected to win another term as the president of the Board of Supervisors in the wake of Newsom's Election

Ques-tion TIME! Ques-tion TIME!

We don't know about you, but we were when Proposition I won at the polls -- with 56.03% of the vote -- like how we were totally shocked that Jeffrey won Project

Arts & Entertainment

ChronicleWatch Watch: By The Numbers

Total number of problems fixed: 139. Breakdown by region: San Francisco -- 70 (29 street repairs, 23 park fixes, 7 public transportation fixes, 11 signs). East Bay -- 44 (21 street, 14 park,

Name That Bridge!

Okay, before we all start screaming and shouting, it's more for the Golden Gate District than it is for the bridge as the district is about $87 million in debt. And even they

You're My Blue Sky, You're My Sunny Day

See, according to Global Change Research Act of 1990, the Government is supposed to produce a report on Global Warming every four years. The last one was due in November 2004 meaning that

District 4 RCV Breakdown

Congratulations, Ed Jew! He wasn't even considered a factor when the Chron covered the race, and now he's the first person in SF RCV history to come from behind (2nd place) to win

Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Election RESULTS

District 6 -- DALY WINS. Check here. Congratulations, Chris! And in other RCV news -- Ed Jew wins. And in obsessive refresh ability -- SFIST WINS!! We got our post up first over

Ranked Choice Election Results-- Not Just For District 6 Anymore

You know, we kind of like this ranked voting thing. And not just because it saves us from run-off campaigns which tend to drag the election cycle out longer than a plot-line on

51.53% Of District 6 Hates Chris After Absentee Count

The absentee and provisionals are in for today -- in the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates It When We Do A Numbers Post. Hey, the YouTube footage of Chris Daly's

50.34% Of District 6 Hates Chris Before The First RCV Pass

The suspense is killing us -- in the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates The Absentees. Okay, time for a new District 6 post! We're going to try putting updates on

<strike>Everybody</strike> 50.34% Of District 6 Hates Chris

When does the RCV count begin -- in the District 6 election! And as promised earlier, this week's episode is indeed titled: Everybody Hates The Wait. --Man, it sounds like we the Dalys'

Up the Judicial Branch

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is where the hearing will be held to determine if Walker was right in deciding what he decided. Another hearing is to be scheduled this

Short Coattails

Take Doug Chan in District 4, for example. Newsom was the conservative (for SF) Police Commission member Chan's go-to guy -- Newsom showed up at Chan's kickoff rally; he walked the Sunset with

Everything Else Results

National They called the race for Feinstein like 5 minutes after the polls closed in California. Pelosi is not only going to win, she's going to be the next Speaker of the House!