SF News California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom Sends White House Nasty Note Over Possible Pot Crackdown Gavin Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco who hopes to become California's Governor in 2018, hasn't been shy about his disgust with the White House, speaking out against GOP policies regarding LGBTQ
SF News Pelosi, Newsom Respond To Trump Directive Reversing School Policy On Bathroom Use For Trans Students In an effort to pander to religious conservatives who desperately want to make America straight and cisgender again, President Trump's administration issued a directive late Wednesday, as they had been expected to do,
SF News Peter Thiel Reportedly Mulling Run For Governor Of California "If you can dream it, you can do it," people frequently claim Walt Disney famously said. And when it comes to allegedly aspiring baby blood consumer and Trump-loving billionaire Peter Thiel, his newest
SF News Former Mrs. Newsom, Kimberly Guilfoyle, In Line To Be Trump's Press Secretary A former first lady of San Francisco in talks to be part of the Trump Administration? This is a topsy-turvy, upside-down world we are in, folks, and indeed the Chronicle has it that
SF News Willie Brown: George Clooney Might Take On Gavin In 2018 Governor's Race Willie Brown has floated rumors in his Chronicle column before that have not had any legs remember when he claimed within a week that both Ed Lee and Dianne Feinstein might become ambassador
SF News Videos: Watch Jerry Brown And Gavin Newsom Trash Trump At The DNC In case you missed it, Wednesday was the day for California's governor and lieutenant governor to say their peace, denounce Donald Trump, and endorse Hillary Clinton for President at the Democratic National Convention.
SF News Former Mayors Jordan, Feinstein, Brown, And Newsom Warn Against Creation Of Public Advocate Position Former mayors of San Francisco Dianne Feinstien, Frank Jordan, Willie Brown, and Gavin Newsom have joined forces in opposition to the creation of a new position that might sap the powers of the
SF News Gavin Newsom Goes On Epic Twitter Rant About Trump And The Republicans' Anti-LGBT Platform As some predictable chaos is erupting on the floor of the Republican National Convention over rules votes by the anti-Trump faction on Day 1, Donald Trump is trying to sound a positive, characteristically
SF News Puff, Puff, Vote: Recreational Marijuana Will Be On California's November Ballot Californians will once again have the chance to legalize marijuana for recreational use. The Sacramento Bee reports that the Secretary of State’s Office yesterday verified that supporters had turned in the required
SF News Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, SF Mayor Ed Lee Respond To Orlando Mass Shooting As follow-up stories and reactions spread across the country early Sunday in the wake of the horrific mass murder at an Orlando gay nightclub, the Bay Area woke up to the news just
SF News CA Lawmaker Proposes Statewide Use Of Roadside Marijuana And Opiate Test Driving while stoned could soon become a much trickier proposition if one California state lawmaker has his way. Republican Sen. Bob Huff of San Dimas (insert Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure joke) yesterday
SF News Gavin Newsom Announces Arrival Of Fourth Child (!) Following God's law that all beautiful people must procreate as often as humanely possible, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newson and his wife, thespian filmmaker/SFist commenter Jennifer Siebel Newsom have produced their fourth offspring.
SF News Newsom Proposes CA Gun Control Ballot Initiative Gavin Newsom knows what's up. "In the last 72 hours," he posted to Facebook yesterday, "68 people have been killed and 129 people have been injured due to gun violence in America." CBS
Arts & Entertainment Latino Heritage Fiesta Hosts Trump Piñata Bash Tomorrow The only thing keeping pace with the popularity of Donald Trump seems to be sales of those piñatas modeled after the presidential hopeful — effigies that,when SFist last checked in on them, were
SF News Gavin Newsom And Marijuana Task Force Want To Regulate Legal Pot-Grows Like Breweries A Blue Ribbon Commission with a mission to create a policy framework for the eventual (inevitable) legalization of marijuana in California has just released a new "Pathways Report." The report gets specific for
SF News Gavin Newsom Donates Money He Got From Donald Trump To Immigrant Charities Leading the charge to dump "presidential candidate" Donald Trump, Lieutenant Governor and gubernatorial hopeful Gavin Newsom fired back against Trump's hateful anti-immigrant positions earlier this month by re-gifting a donation from Trump to
SF News The Bay Area Reacts To Historic Same-Sex Marriage Ruling; Street Party Planned In Castro Troy Brunet is here standing at 17th and Castro in San Francisco waiving this flag -- "it's like a sigh of relief" pic.twitter.com/4KsaspMWQc— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) June 26, 2015 Cars
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SF News With Pot Legalization Likely, Scott Wiener Wants To Talk About Local Regulations Sniffing the horizon, last month Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom's Blue Ribbon Commission on Marijuana Policy released a "roadmap" for legalization. Today Supervisor Scott Weiner is following suit at the city level, announcing that
SF News Willie Brown Says Newsom Should Be Hillary's Veep, Calls Peskin A 'Troll,' And Likes <i>Furious 7</i> This week's Willie's World is full of terrific tidbits from the man we all once called Da Mayor. First off he'd like everyone to know that Gavin Newsom should be Hillary Clinton's most
SF News Day Around The Bay: Gavin For President? The Chronicle published an op-ed on why Gavin should run for president. Against Hillary. In 2016. [Chron] Stanley Roberts goes after people who bring their pets into SF food establishments. [KRON 4] Targeting
SF News Newsom-Led Policy Group Releases Road Map To Legal Pot In CA Almost a year-and-a-half after its launch, today the Blue Ribbon Commission on Marijuana Policy led by Lieutenant Governor and Gubernatorial hopeful Gavin Newsom, along with the ACLU and a team of law enforcement
misc Gavin Newsom, Alice Waters, Others Are Inadvertently Leaking Their Exact Locations on Instagram Many Instagram users may not realize they are making their exact whereabouts public whenever they post pictures with the photo-sharing app .Some people who do not realize this are famous. After seeing Fusion’
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink PlumpJack Group Purchases The Lexington Club, Closure Date Announced Any replacement for the long-loved, soon-to-close Lexington Club was sure to draw criticism and even controversy. So, let the lamentations begin. Backing up a bit: When the Mission's Luna Park was on the
SF News This Week Marks The 11th Anniversary Of Gay Marriage In SF While the Supreme Court is hinting that the time has finally come this year for nationwide, federally sanctioned same-sex marriage, the whole idea is yesterday's news for the Bay Area. Literally. Yesterday, February