SF News SF Wants to Legislate Your Health, Fatties Gone are the days of free love, free LSD, and freedom to eat whatever you want. After last week's historic decision to make San Francisco the first in the country to ban the
SF News Tony Hall Running for District 7? From the far-superior-to-SFist blog Fog City Journal, Elaine Santore tweets, "Spotted: Tony Hall Hall filing papers for D7 at City Hall." Hmmm. Interesting, indeed. (elainesantore/Twitter)
SF News Noted Psychic Reveals Nothing About Newsom and Siebel's Future Phillip and Andrew kick things off this morning with a little bit of sorcery. One-time Silicon Valley ad executive and current psychic spiritual healer and "intuitive consultant" Simone (nee Carol Simone), the lady
SF News Old Man McCain Comes to SF, Anti-War Protest Follows Republican presidential nominee John McCain is in town today. It seems the former P.O.W. will be dinning over at the Fairmont (for a $10,000/plate fundraiser). But wait, there's more:
SF News And So It Begins Found on Battery Street yesterday afternoon. Charming. God, we're going to have to deal with this Naderian shit until November, aren't we? (Hint: yes.)
SF News And In Other Election News Prop 98? Defeated. The eminent domain reform proposition, which would have seen rent control eliminated in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, failed to win last night. It seems that about 61 percent of
SF News Leno Wins Noted San Francisco Assemblyman Mark Leno won the Democratic primary in the state Senate throne, taking it away from incumbent Carole Migden. With 81% of the precincts reporting, according to the Chronicle, Leno
SF News Obama Takes It According to the Associated Press, "Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday." Is it done. The tally was based on public declarations from delegates as well as from another 15 who
SF News Gay Marriage Ban Initiative to Show Up On California Ballot? Hold on there, June brides. The Secretary of State announced yesterday that an initiative to re-ban same-sex marriage in California has qualified for the November ballot. Uh oh. The California Marriage Protection Act
SF News Remember: Vote Today's election day, kids. Remember to get out there and vote, etcetera, etcetera, and so forth. That said, is Migden wearing a Rachael Ray terrorist scarf? Sort of? Maybe? A derivative of it
SF News Best Comment Argument Ever Over At SFBG Oh man. Like... wow. This is entertaining, exciting stuff. Let's back up a bit: It all started last Friday after a not-so-innocent yet fraudulent slate card endorsing Migden boasting the SFBG logo (something
SF News Photo: Dude, Did You Go To the Save Rent Control Party? While we were out perusing second home possibilities in Rincon Hill all weekend long (exhausting!), a smattering of predominately white liberal arts majors had a kick-ass party on Valencia Street this past weekend.
SF News Pelosi Hearts Leno Before entering a voguing competition (we can only assume) to the sounds of Seal at Saturday night's Black & White Ball, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced her endorsement for Assemblyman Mark
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SF News Who Worked "Change" and the Arms-Crossed Look Better: Leno or Migden? Mark Leno and Carole Migden, please step forward. For their final photos, Leno and Migden chose to use the exact same pose message in order to win your votes in next week's California
SF News San Francisco Proposal For George W. Bush Sewage Plant Gets the FOX Treatment As most of you know by now, the George W Bush Sewage Plant proposal--news that SFist broke way back in March (yay, us!)--is making the rounds all across this great country of
SF News UPDATE: Mark Leno Loaned His Campaign $100K On Saturday? This is for all your political fetishists out there: why is Mark Leno donating this sum of cash to his own campaign? (Go here, type "leno" in "Name of Filer," "10000" or so
SF News Let's Hear It For Newsom's Make-Me-Governor Tour It's been an incredible success, yes? He's gone to Israel in order to (allegedly) build a bridge between the Bay Area and Israeli business leaders. (See what you've wrought, Rainbow Groceries?) And according
SF News More Anger Over SFBG's Leno Endorsement Hurt feelings have translated into a gruff Bay Guardian op-ed piece over last week's endorsement of Mark Leno over Carole Migden in the Third Senate District race. Penned by top-tier progressives (and then
SF News Oh Snap! SFBG Defies Chris Daly, Endorses Leno After much hair-pulling, open letters, and Cathy-trying-on-a-bikini hysterics, SF Bay Guardian decided to endorse Mark Leno in the Third Senate District race. This goes against SF Supervisor Chris Daly's expresses wishes that the
SF News Remember: George W. Bush Sewage Signature Drive Starts Tonight Before you get plastered tonight, saunter over to Cafe Flore beforehand to help the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco collect signatures. In order to get the ordinance initiative on the November ballot--you
SF News Daly to <i>SF Bay Guardian</i>: Endorse Carole Migden SF city supervisor Chris Daly penned an open letter to the folks over at SFBG today, asking them to endorse la Migden for reelection. In an exhausting race for State Senator, over the
SF News Barack Obama Goes for the Gays, Fratboys, Gay Fratboys? Unless you're a major wonk, there's no need to watch the above footage in its entirety. (It's Obama prattling on endlessly about losing to Clinton in Pennsylvania, how he'll win, how some of
SF News Matt Gonzalez Chats About Barack Obama The backlash has started. A few are livid over Barack Obama's surreptitious statements about the poor, armed, and God-fearing that he made over at the Getty manse; others are going into hysterics over
misc Offensive Bumper Sticker of the Day Bumper sticker found on a vehicle in Oakland on Broadway and 20th Street. Oh joy Is this what we have to look forward to until the election? Jesus.
