SF News Please Welcome the Bay Area's Newest Congressman, John Garamendi Filling the void left by Ellen Tauscher, former Lt. Governor John Garamendi was sworn in today "as a new representative in the House for the 10th district representing parts of Contra Costa, Alameda,
SF News SF Election Results The votes are in. Four out of five propositions passed. Here's how things went down after yesterday's election: Proposition A - Budget Process *Yes 46,023 (68.88 %) No 20,794 (31.12
SF News Scene From A Polling Place Steve Rhodes reports that, by 10 a.m. this morning, only 60-plus people out of several thousand voted at this Bernal Heights polling place. Alas, it is a snoozer of an election.
SF News Don't Forget to Vote Today For your convenience, here's a handy voter guide. Too much for you? Well, SF Bay Guardian has a concise list of their endorsements. Also, SF Green Party, via their endorsement guide, are strongly
SF News Tomorrow Is Election Day! Oh, What A Day! What A Day! Hey kids! Tomorrow is Election Day across this great land of ours and you know what good citizens do on Election Day? They vote, that's what! Here is a quick run down of
SF News Quote of the Month: Newsom On Taking the Bait While everyone and their pet goldfish thinks they're the only ones to have predicted that SF Mayor Gavin Newsom would withdraw his bid for California governor -- in related news, we predict you
SF News Photos: Iran Election Protest, San Francisco, 6/20 Rumor has it there's more you can do to voice your support for Iranians protesting a fraudulent election than turning your Twitter avatar green. Take, for example, participating in a protest or a
SF News SF IT Director Helps Iranian Protesters Ever since "hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets" in Iran, accusing the government of holding a fraudulent presidential election, social sites like Facebook and Twitter have played a wildly
SF News Ask SFist: Iranian Election Stuff? Hey there, did you know Iran is having some sort of brouhaha, and Twitter will single-handedly bring democracy, sunshine and gumdrops to the nation? Or something like that? Anyway, reader and activist Michael
SF News 2010 Watch: Legalizing Pot Can you feel it? It runs thick in the air. The 2010 election is coming. And with that comes the deluded hopes and dreams of many a wonk who think that this next
SF News State Voters Don't Like Gavin Newsom Aw boo. It's one thing for locals to hate on San Francisco Mayor Newsom -- let's face it, most of you Bay Area types are out-of-state Asperger's Syndrome cases who zombieishly loathe anything
SF News Everyone has to be ready to have difficult conversations NOW "Everyone has to be ready to have difficult conversations NOW," said Kate Kendall (Exective Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and one of the architects of the No On Prop 8
SF News Special Election is Back On San Francisco supervisors proved their penis was bigger than Gavin Newsom's, at least for now, when they overrode the mayor's veto, setting the stage for special election to take place on June 2.
SF News Post-Mortem on Last Night's Prop 8 Post-Mortem Last night's Marriage Equality Community Forum was neat! It started with a brief hello from former New Paltz mayor Jason West. We tried to get a picture, but as you can see, he
SF News SF Judge Says 'No' To BART Extension Opponents Because these are confusing times, there are confused people out there trying to do us harm. Take, for example, the foolish opponents of the measure to extend Bay Area Rapid Transit to Santa
SF News Bart Extension Expected to Pass The proposal to raise the sales tax in Santa Clara County by a teeny one-eighth of a cent to help fund the (much-needed) BART extension from the Warm Springs section of Fremont into
misc More Prop 8 Protests Coming Up, but we See Worrisome Obstacles in the Immediate Future So what's the deal with the next round of Prop 8 protests? Oh, we are so glad you asked. The next big one in SF is this Saturday at 10:30am at City
SF News Ralph Nader Slams Obama as an "Uncle Tom," Manages to Shock Fox News Fox News anchor Shepard Smith interviewed crazy old man Ralph Nader the other night, chatting about, among other things, labeling President elect Barack Obama an "Uncle Tom." Really. A terse Smith tsk-tsk'd Nader,
SF News Prop. 8 Candlelight Vigil/Community Meeting at City Hall Tonight Oh, by the way, there will be a candlelight vigil at City Hall this evening for any and all who want to commiserate on Prop. 8 passing. Not sure what will go down.
SF News SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera Sues to Invalidate Prop. 8 Today City Attorney Dennis Herrera today, along with Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and Santa Clara County Counsel Anne C. Ravel, filed "a petition for a writ of mandate with the California
SF News How Did San Francisco Propositions Do? These "key" propositions have been called, with no real surprises. (Although the proposition asking voters to rename of the San Francisco sewage treatment facility in honor of George W. Bush went down in
SF News Photos: Election Night Revelry As predicted, last night's election night fever was dangerously high. And the Castro was ground zero for people celebrating Barack Obama's win, commiserating Prop. 8's victory, and celebrating this new era, if you
SF News How Did Prop. 8 Pass? While it's technically still too close to call, it looks like the same-sex marriage ban, Prop. 8, will prove victorious. Why? Well, one reason, according to BeyondChron's Paul Hogarth, might be that "[p]
misc And...Wow So where were you last night? We were going to go to a bar, but everywhere was so packed that we ended up at home with burritos when it was called. We didn't
