SF News The District 6 Election's First Concession District 6 candidate (and first name on the ballot) Viliam Dugovic has thrown in the towel, sending along the following concession speech to his email list. For same reason, we where put down
SF News Gavin's New Date After vetoing Mirkarimi's foot patrol proposal on Friday, Gavin Newsom skipped on over to the Red Tie Gala at Neiman-Marcus, to benefit St. Anne's Home for the elderly poor in the Lake District,
SF News Saving Some Shoe Leather The old political shibboleth about releasing unpopular news on the afternoon of "take out the trash" Friday holds true again, as Gavin Newsom sneaks in a veto on Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi's well-received proposal
Arts & Entertainment To Stay Or To Go Everyone goes through phases where they think: am I to think that I can afford to live in this city any longer? You spend so much for these teeny-weeny houses, the public schools
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: David Kiddoo Who are you, what do you do, and where do you live? My name is David Kiddoo, and I live in Laurel Heights. I currently work as a project manager for a nonprofit
SF News Mirkarimi's MUNI Meeting Does anyone else remember those awesome signs they used to have behind the driver on the old MUNI buses -- "Information Gladly Given But Safety Requires Avoiding Unnecessary Conversation"? Well, get some information
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Election (2) We figure if we get called anti-Daly by the pro-Dalys, and pro-Daly by the antis, we're probably doing something right -- in the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates Question Time
SF News Can You Bring Your Chris Daly Voodoo Doll To Your Polling Place And Other Burning Questions If you've got any legal questions about what to expect at your polling place, they're taking questions on their site now, and will publish a FAQ of the questions asked, on a state-by-state
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Bevan Dufty I guess the first question should be is what is your reaction to critics who say you don't vote progessive enough for a progessive district? Many people view the Board of Supervisors in
SF News Take A Walk on the Polk Side To remedy the situation, officials are planning on adding historic street lamps (ooohhh) and planting more trees to pretty the place up. There is also a call for a moratorium on liquor stores
SF News Marina Progressives Stand Up! Alioto-Pier (our reigning champion in the SFist Hottest Supervisor contest) is basically running unopposed, with only one declared opponent, Vilma Guinto Peoro, whose interview with the Chron was tactfully described as "free-wheeling," and
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 Don't Recycle Those Mailers! Since Greg doesn't live in an even-numbered district, he's asking in particular for any good Districts 4 and 6 mailers, or anything "freaky" from District 8 -- but will accept all your flyers
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Everybody Into The Pool Pat Murphy of the Sentinel was also there with the color commentary, reporting that Daly went into the splash with his wife Sarah, for a bid of $18,500. In reading Pat's article,
SF News Bill O'Reilly Spreads the Love Last week, San Francisco's #1 fan, Bill O'Reilly finally told his elderly and half-senile audience just what "San Francisco Values" are. And what are they? Well, let's go to the transcript, shall we?
Arts & Entertainment Local Loses Colbert's Green Screen Challenge For those of you who don't watch the "Colbert Report", Stephen has been running a green screen challenge where he asked members of the Colbert Nation to add all sorts of computer effects
Arts & Entertainment Debates Around The Districts So we're trying to compile a handy-dandy list of all the forums we can find, arranged by district and by date -- but we can barely find anything out there! So we're posting
Arts & Entertainment Old School, New School: The SFist School Board Interviews Introduce yourself, and tell us what you currently do. For the last seven years, I have been an independent contractor with the City and County of San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department. My title
Arts & Entertainment And We Can See Those Fighter Planes Of course, this means there'll be the attendant complaints about noise and from the leftier side of the political spectrum, cries of glorification of the military and this is San Francisco and wasted
SF News Ask Chris A Question! Do you have a burning question you'd like to ask Chris Daly? Post it in the comments! We can't promise you that he'll answer it or anything, but hey -- you never know,
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 So You Think You Can Dance (Gavin) Well, look who's in imminent danger of violating the curfew for the kids under 13! Here's a picture of Gavin Newsom cutting a rug at District 4 candidate Doug Chan's kickoff event, first
SF News Driver Hitting Pedestrians The police caught a driver in a black Honda SUV in Laurel Heights, at Laurel and California Streets, where he'd hit two people (one who died). A child was also struck and suffered
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Interview Summary Fear not! SFist has thoughtfully put together a table of everyone's answers to our deeply-incisive District 6 Interviews, to make your decision-making that much easier. (Just so you know, we gave everyone the
