SF News As You Might Have Expected, Gavin Newsom Announces That He Is Running For Governor In 2018 For the second time in recent years, former San Francisco mayor and current Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom will run for Governor of California, he announced in a "personal" email sent to
SF News City Hall Power Player And Infamous SFist Sock Puppet Peter Ragone Reportedly Returning To SF Hey, do you guys remember Peter Ragone, the former communications director for then-mayor Gavin Newsom who became of figure of San Francisco fun after it was revealed that he was posting sock-puppeted, trolly
SF News Kamala Harris Will Go After Boxer's Senate Seat California's newly reelected Attorney General and former SF District Attorney Kamala Harris will, as predicted, be vying for the Senate seat being vacated by Barbara Boxer in 2016. She has succeeded in brokering
SF News Gavin Announces He Won't Run For Senate; Willie Brown Thinks Jerry Brown Should Run Kamala Harris is most definitely going after outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer's seat in the 2016 election as this morning SF's very own favorite hair model Gavin Newsom announced he would not be chasing
SF News Are Gavin Newsom And Kamala Harris Headed For A Political 'Demolition Derby'? Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris are both well known and respected California Democrats with designs on higher offices, but are they going to come to some sort of gentleman's agreement about who's going
SF News Statewide Election Results: Gavin, Jerry, Nancy, And Kamala Keep Jobs; Wins For Criminals, H2O There were few (if any) election day surprises in California's statewide races. The end! Now go read about Lou Seal! Ha ha just kidding, we're still going to tell you about what happened.
SF News Free Underwear, Police Dogs, Double-Decker Buses: Everything You Need To Know About Today's SF Giants Parade As many as 2 million people are expected to come out for today's parade celebrating the 2014 World Champion SF Giants. Are you one of the thousands already staking out a seat, or
Arts & Entertainment Here's A Photo Of Gavin Newsom Clutching A Penguin Former San Francisco mayor/current Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom once (in)famously wondered if the Lt. Gov actually does anything. But as he heads into the end days of his first
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Finally Closing; PlumpJack Team To Turn It Into A Bar I don't know about you, but Luna Park (694 Valencia Street) has been one of those longstanding, mediocre Mission restaurants that always makes me go "That's still there?" So suffice it to say
SF News Gavin Newsom: 49ers' Decision To Play Ray McDonald Is 'Painful Affront To Every Victim Of Domestic Violence' About five hours before the 49ers began their first home game of the 2014-2015 season, Lt. Gov/former SF mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife, filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom, were not, as you
SF News Day Around The Bay: Cowork With Gavin Newsom Gavin Newsom is sharing space with a bunch of techies at Founders Den in SoMa. [Chronicle] That cell phone kill-switch bill we told you about is a done deal and goes into effect
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Gets His Hair Wet Our very own Lieutenant Governor got soaked for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge at AT&T Park today. [7x7] Also, Gavin is super excited about marijuana legalization. [HuffPo] San Franciscans have Grouponed
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rally Possum Driven by tech, Bay Area wages are rising twice as fast as those in any other major metro region in the country. [Oakland Tribune] A possum that wandered into the field during Monday
SF News State Commission Led By Gavin Newsom Suing S.F. Over Waterfront Height Limit Measure Prop B the local ballot measure that will force a public vote for all waterfront height-limit exemptions which passed in the June election that no one voted in might just be illegal under
SF News Gavin Newsom Demands Apology From Rick Perry Over Gay Comments Lieutenant governor and gay marriage hero Gavin Newsom took to Twitter yesterday to scold Texas governor Rick Perry for his ignorance about gay stuff. And he's demanding that Perry apologize. To recap, Perry
SF News The Ten Best Things Gavin Newsom Said To The Chronicle (This Week) With a successful primary race behind him, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has a lot to be happy about: it looks like he'll be keeping his job (the one he says should be abolished!
SF News Election Winners (SF Propositions, Gavin Newsom) And Losers (287,000 Voters) As the (twitter, booze, whatever) hangovers from yesterday's primary election fade, the winners and losers become (somewhat) clearer. Local wins include those for a waterfront development proposition and an earthquake bond measure, while
SF News Oh No, Leland Yee: Shrimp Boy Heads To Court, Yee Stole Suntan Lotion In Hawaii Nary—nary!—a week has passed since Senator Leland Yee was arrested and already a slew of politicians have spoken out, journalists taken more than their fair share of the Leland pie, and
Arts & Entertainment Video: Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom Debate Legal Weed, Homelessness With A 26-Year-Old Alleged Sinatra progeny and 26-year-old MSNBC on-air personality Ronan Farrow is tackling some tough issues on his recently launched talk show Ronan Farrow Daily. He's already asked Kenyans what they think of President
SF News A Challenger Rises: Former GOP Chair Announces Run Against Gavin Newsom Former SF Mayor, now California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom has been busy this month, what with hanging out with the French President, pulling his support from CA's high-speed rail project, and encouraging everybody
SF News World-Class Philanderer Swings Into Silicon Valley Today in San Francisco, French President François Hollande met with fellow adultery scandal survivor Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, humble mustache support system Mayor Ed Lee and a cabal of notable tech luminaries to
SF News Gavin Newsom To Fire Up New Weed Legalization Team Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom will be the new point man on the ACLU's marijuana legalization task force, the civil rights group announced yesterday. Newsom, who reminds everyone he is not a smoker himself,
Arts & Entertainment 7 Illustrated Quotes From The L.A. Times Profile Of Gavin Newsom In the Los Angeles Times this week, the SoCal paper of record has an interesting profile of erstwhile San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom. In it, the reluctant Lieutenant Governor vents his many frustrations
SF News Newsom Clan Adds Third Offspring Distracted by the glossy sheen of Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom's hair, the news media largely ignored any signs of pregnancy from the second first lady of California over the past nine months. Just
