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Jean Quan Is Oakland's First Female (and Asian American) Mayor

It's official: City Councilwoman Jean Quan has won the Oakland mayor's race, beating out Don Perata in the ranked-choice voting tally by a margin of 51% to 49%

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Perata Leads Oakland Mayor's Race, Final Tally Due Friday

Former state senator Don Perata has a fair lead in the race for Mayor of Oakland, with city councilwoman Jean Quan trailing behind by 11 percentage points. Perata holds 35% of the vote

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Sen. Don Perata Carjacked in Oakland, Car Found Safe/Sound

California State Senate President pro tempore Don Perata's car was recovered today in Richmond after Saturday's carjacking. The auto theft happened while he as en route to Oakland City

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We Read The Weeklies

Since SFist Sarah L didn't get to the SJ Metro last week, we hit them next! There are too many pigeons in the South Bay, says Gary Singh. Moms other than

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Day Around The Bay

--Are you into those Iowa Futures Market invisible-hand-of-the-marketplace economic-based ways of predicting political races? Usual Suspects has started one for the SF mayoral race. Gavin Newsom is pegged

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Now the Entire State Hates Our Freedom

Laugh now, but when we hand over the state to Osama, we'll see how things go. Just envision Disneyland turning into Talibanland and having Space Mountain become Jihad Mountain where animotronic

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SchwarzenWatcher Gets Caught on Tape

Anyways, there's some somewhat juicy stuff in there, mainly Mr. Positive saying not so very nice things about Democratic legislators. You know, the guys he's all buddy buddy with.

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State Senate Shenanigans

Well, the latest rumor (from the Bay Area Reporter) is that folks have heard tell that Aaron Peskin is now thinking about running for the State Senate seat as well. Whaaaaa? The tea-

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Drink When He Says "Special Interests"

"In these State of the State speeches, governors often begin by listing their accomplishments of the past year. I will do the same. The year before I took office as governor, California

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Troubled Bridge Over Local Waters

It was reported at the end of last week that the Govenator rejected the suspension design for the eastern span of the Bay Bridge, opting instead for a skyway design not unlike the

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Political Junkie: One Scoop Or Two?

Okay, we have to confess that we haven't really been paying much attention to the plans about developing the Hunters' Point shipyard (though we did note through our usual sporting

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Senate Leadership Stays by the Bay

Yesterday the Democratic Caucus of the California State Senate voted to replace termed-out senator John Burton [D-San Francisco] with Don Perata [D-Oakland] as the new President Pro-tempore of the