SF News Newsom Speaks Finally. Mayor Gavin Newsom was cornered by spoke to reporters yesterday outside his office. While the Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam visited City Hall last night, Newsom stayed inside his office, hiding from
SF News Nate Ballard Quits Newsom Administration Witty and wise Newsom spokesman Nathe Ballard made a choice decision today: he quit Newsom's (sinking?) ship. To the press release: San Francisco, November 16, 2009 — Today Mayor Gavin Newsom announced that Nathan
SF News Daly to Newsom: Who Paid for Your Life Coach? Yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting was, by all accounts, highly entertaining. Then again, anything involving the bizarre practice of life coaching is always something to behold. You see, Gavin Newsom, while running for
SF News Battle Over Teenaged Illegal Aliens Planned for the Board of Supervisors Today The Board of Supervisors will be casting votes today on whether to override Mayor Newsom's veto of Supervisor David Campos's legislation amending the City's sanctuary law. As you may recall, the legislation approved
misc Quote du Jour: Jon Carroll On Newsom SF Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll had this to say this morning regarding Gavin Newsom and the discreet charm of underage men. "When you elect boyish charm, you also get boyish behavior." In related
SF News Newsom Sightings Reported as Mayor Returns to Work Ever since Gavin Newsom dropped out of the California governor's race, and ran off to Hawaii without telling his staff, residents are dying to get a peek at our mayor post-wound lick. Let's
SF News Newsom Mainland Watch: Gavin Returns Tonight Breaking news, folks. It looks like Newsom will return to San Francisco tonight, and be back to work come tomorrow morning. The mayor, if you recall, vanished from San Francisco and City Hall
SF News After Gov. Race Withdrawal, Newsom Takes Hawaiian Vacation Where does one go to figure out what to do with the rest of their life? If you're former gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom, you go to Hawaii. CBS 5's Joe Vazquez has first
SF News Rumor Mill: Newsom Dropping Out of Governor's Race? Speculation time, folks! Los Angeles politics blog Mayor Sam's Sister City reports that SF Mayor Gavin Newsom will (allegedly!) announce his withdrawl from the California gubernatorial race this afternoon. Mayor Sam says: We
SF News Newsom Takes A Calculated Dump on the Rights of Young Illegals Our local sanctuary city drama continues as Mayor Newsom went ahead yesterday with his threat to veto legislation passed by the Board of Supervisors amending a local ordinance that governs when city employees
SF News Newsom Wants to Remove Cars, Muni from Market Street Though not a new idea, its sanity level, or lack thereof, remains the same: permanently removing vehicles and Muni lines from Market Street. This is the latest idea tinkering around inside Newsom's sleek
misc [Insert Headline Here] As much as we try not to do 'caption this!' posts, we couldn't resist this one. Have at it, folks. (Thanks for sending this our way, Matt Baume.)
SF News I'm Staying And You're Gonna Love Me, Cries Newsom Trailing behind Jerry Brown in both the polls and fundraising, one might assume SF Mayor Gavin Newsom would bow out at this point. Not so. Even though rumors are swirling -- swirling! --
SF News Sacto Mayor Robbed In SF's Union Square Well, this stinks. Former NBA player and current Mayor of Sacramento Kevin Johnson was mugged robbed over the weekend while acting like a Boy Scout in San Francisco's Union Square. NBC Bay Area
misc Photo du Jour 480 Speaking of republicans, here's Mayor Gavin Newom posing with Bush disaster #1 and some golfers at yesterday's Presidents Cup. Some sort of golf humor is going on here, but... it's completely lost on
SF News Pick The Red Newsom Campaign Logo Taking a cue from American Idol, team Newsom is having a contest where you, the voter, get to decide which logo will represent Gavin Newsom's crapshoot for Governor of California. Part of Newsom
SF News Comb Your Hair Like Gavin Newsom Day, 10/9 We brought this up in yesterday's Day Around the Bay, but this newfangled holiday sounds so special, it deserves its very own post. What are we talking about? Newsom's lovely hair. Going back
SF News Scene From a Clinton-Newsom Gathering This begs for some sort of poll. Here you go: 0(polling)
SF News Newsom Slams Local Blog For Creating "False Controversy" The sweet scriubes over at Streetsblog posted a might fine article on how San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, allegedly, "has been quietly pressuring MTA Chief Nat Ford to delay or prevent proposals to
SF News New SF Tax For Smokers To Help Clean Up City Streets This morning, a fresh new ordinance went into effect: cigarette addicts now must pay 20 cents extra per pack "in order cover the costs of cleaning up discarded cigarette butts throughout the city.
SF News Newsom Wants More Wind to Power SF Setting himself up for countless "hot air" punchlines, Gavin Newsom "is calling for windmills throughout the city," reports KCBS. An estimated 29 of them might pop up in SF sometime in the very
SF News Newsom, You Are the Father: Baby Montana Links SFist has, for the most part, spared you any vile "baby bump" talk during Jennifer Siebel-Newsom's pregnancy. But now that SF Mayor Gavin Newsom and Jen Jen are first-time parents -- Jennifer had
SF News Jennifer Siebel-Newsom <s>In Labor</s> Gives Birth OK. Here we go. Jennifer Siebel Newsom is in labor. Gavin Newsom, via Twitter, says: gavinnewsom: "Arrived at hospital -- hours away from becoming a father" about 2 hours ago from txt gavinnewsom:
SF News Will Suliman Ashby/Stephen Akabar/Suleman Akabar Be Newsom's Joe the Plumber? It's an interesting question, one raised this week by SF Weekly's Ashley Harrell. See, way back in 2005, Newsom talked to the San Francisco Chronicle about his Arnold Drummond-like foster brother, whom he
SF News Newsom Responds to BART Strike But what does Mayor Gavin Newsom and/or the Mayor’s Office of Communications have to say about Sunday's impending BART strike, you ask? Good question. Here's the answer. Ahem: Today, I am
