SF News [Updated] Ed Jew, Where Are You? Iconic Irving Street Cafe Replaced By Illegal Bubble Tea Chain 'Quickly' When the iconic Irving Street cafe closed in the Inner Sunset late last year, some mourned and others shrugged — but it's unlikely anyone thought that a massive international chain would sneak into the
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew: Surrender Poor Ed Jew! Not only is he doomed to spend the rest of his life with "disgraced" and "former" in front of his name, but he's in terrible danger of losing his crown
SF News Oh No Ed Jew: Building Wheelchairs For Poor Children How is disgraced former SF Supe "Tapioca" Ed Jew's fight to avoid his jail term for lying and saying he lived in SF coming along? Not so well, if San Francisco's District Attorney
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew: Back From Jail, But For How Long? Though disgraced former San Francisco supervisor Ed Jew is home from federal prison (where he reportedly taught yoga; the fun with this guy never ends), he's supposed to head back to county jail.
SF News Ranked Choice Voting System Passes Judge's Muster U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg ruled last week in favor of San Francisco's ranked choice voting system, which has been in effect since 2004. Sunset district resident Ron Dudum filed the suit,
SF News Ed Jew Lands 1 More Year In Jail for Perjury After last week's sentencing was postponed due to an ill judge, disgraced former SF Supervisor Ed Jew was sentenced in state court today to an additional year in the pookey "for lying on
SF News Ed Jew Sentencing Postponed All set to receive a sentence from the state of California, in addition to the 5-plus years former SF Supervisor Ed Jew was handed in federal court earlier this month, today's hearing was
SF News Ed Jew Sentenced to 5.5 Years In Prison "Former San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew sentenced to five and a half years in prison for fraud & extortion," says CBS 5. The disgraced former supe, as most of you know by now,
SF News Ed Jew's Lawyer Is an Idiot So. Disgraced former San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew is about to be sentenced for numerous illegal activities. Naturally, he wants a light sentence. What does his lawyer, Stuart Hanlon, do? He accuses Jew
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Small Claims We know, we know, it's small potatoes after Illinois reminded us all how political corruption is , but poor former SF supervisor Ed Jew, whose only "f***in' golden" bargaining chip was not a
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Picked On, Set Up Well, at least he can officially turn off his cable and utilities in that San Francisco house now -- Ed Jew, complaining about being "picked on" and "set up," finally admitted what all
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Permit Please? Hey, remember how Ed Jew tried to strong-arm Quickly stores into giving him $80,000 for permits? Permits "required of franchise operations in the City?" Well, Sarah Phelan at SFBG reports that today
misc Crazy Boyfriend Of New SF Planning Director Sets Fire To Firehouse We're a little late to this story, in part because we spent all day yesterday trying to separate out the hilarious comments from the offensive ones on SFGate.com (it looks like the
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Calculated Attack Hooray! We're back with more Ed Jew news! And this time, with a vast Sunset-wing conspiracy. Former District 4 supervisor Ed Jew may have pled out of his state court civil suit ("okay,
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Can I Be Dismissed? On February 19, Ed Jew's current attorney, Stuart Hanlon, will, ahem, "ask a judge to throw out the federal criminal case against the ex-San Francisco supervisor." You know, his case of bribery, mail
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Year Of The Rat Oh, so now that Ed Jew's gone from the politics scene, now the truth comes out! Leland Yee reveals to Matier and Ross that he was the person who originally called the authorities
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Lights Off As of noon today, the District 4 seat formerly occupied by Ed Jew is now empty, and the Sunset has no representation on the Board of Supervisors. Quick, everyone, now's the time to
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: What Next? Well. Newsom will now appoint a permanent replacement for Ed Jew's seat on the Board of Supes (presumably interim District 4 supervisor Carmen Chu is the leading candidate, unless Jennifer Siebel-soon-to-be-hyphenate-Newsom is living
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Statement Can you read that? SFist Jim got some pictures of Ed Jew's statement at the Herrera press conference earlier today. We've taken the liberty of uploading it (page 1, page 2) to our
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Endgame --Resignation is irrevocable --Ed cannot hold office in SF for 5 years. (Is Burlingame city council still up for grabs, though?) --No admission of guilt by Ed (so will this come in for
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Reportedly Resigning That's a picture taken by reader Angela of a counter-protest sign at the June 07 Ed Jew rally that says "RESIGN" in Chinese. Well, Angela -- that day is nigh: City Attorney Dennis
misc Loosest Bay Area Screw Victor: Ed Jew Former District 4 SF Supervisor, rumored florist with a flair, __________ resident, charming fibber, and triple-threat criminal fatal optimist Edmund "Ed" Jew takes this year's title for Loosest Screw of 2007. Congrats, Ed! Velvet
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Hollow Ammo More intriguingly, though, you may remember that the feds also raided Ed's buddy Robert Chan's house (though he was referred to by the mellifluous name "Co-Conspirator No. 1" at the time). Not only
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Straight Hardball Goodbye, Ed Jew's attorney Steven Gruel! The revolving door that is beleaguered former District 4 Supervisor Ed Jew's legal team spins once again, depositing the pugnacious Mr. Gruel on the street and leaving
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Lungless Salamander Today's Chron Bay Area section takes a break from covering the plight of lungless salamanders in Korea (why is this in the Bay Area section? Yes, yes, we know, it's because Cal researchers