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
SF News The Person Who Controls Newsom's Twitter Account Writes Ahem. @GavinNewsom: "Just signed SF's [$6.6 Billion] budget. Worked w/ colleagues to increase funding for univ health care program, protect jobs for teachers, police + fire." The budget also "prevented the closure" of
SF News The Person Who Controls Newsom's Twitter Account Writes Ahem: @GavinNewsom "Just announced plan to build UN environmental center in SF to promote sustainable and clean technologies." Meanwhile, San Francisco is still poor.
SF News Team Newsom Loses its Matt Damon Wade Crowfoot is leaving Team Newsom. Aw. Crowfoot, "that guy with the fake job about weather who all the gays think is hot," has been hired by Environmental Defense Fund for yet another
SF News Newsom Goes to L.A. Hello there, So Cal brethren! If you're in the Los Angeles area tonight, you might want to head over South Los Angeles Town Hall to catch our famous, Prop. 8-hating, named-dropped-on--boasting, inarguably sexy
SF News Day Around the Bay Photo by Jeff Minton for the New York Times. "The Gavinator" graces the cover of this coming weekend's NY Times Magazine. (NYT) Former eBay Chair Meg Whitman raising more campaign funds than the
SF News Recidivists Beware, Newsom Signs Composting Law Thank God for garbage disposals. Seriously. On your knees. Because Mayor Gavin Newsom just signed a ruling calling on all San Franciscans to compost their eggshells, coffee grounds, apple peels, dead roses and
misc Gavin Found Although his colleagues couldn't find him, Mayor Gavin Newsom was spotted in WeHo on Sunday, kicking it at LA's Gay Pride. Here is he with Los Angeles Mayor and gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa.
SF News New Police Chief Pick Not Sure About Job Offer First, the good news: Mayor Gavin Newsom picked a new police chief, one that will follow Heather Fong, who announced her retirement last December. Now the bad news: The chosen one, according to
SF News Newsom's New "Unparalleled" Ashbury Heights Mansion? As already mentioned by SFist Chron favorite Leah Garchik, Mayor Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel plan to buy designer Candace Barnes' house. And according to On the Block, it's probably this house, circa
SF News Why So Low, Murder Rate? Newsom, That's Why. Yesterday, after SFist asked why the San Francisco murder rate in 2009 has been so low, the Examiner answered: Mayor Gavin Newsom. While the city almost hitting 50 at the same time last
misc 311 and Twitter, Together at Last The Ballard just posted this message, "@biz and @gavinnewsom just announced that you can report potholes in SF by tweeting @sf311." The seem to be having some sort of live press conference about
SF News Newsom's Budget Cuts 1,600 Jobs, No Police Layoffs Mayor Gavin Newsom unveiled his proposed budget for fiscal year 2009-10 which would take affect July 1st, and in it he proposes eliminating 1,600 city jobs (including 900 currently vacant positions and
SF News Newsom Sells Bachelor Pad Sleep easy, San Francisco. Mayor Gavin Newsom has, at last, sold his Russian Hill bachelor pad. On the market for over a month, the spacious and too tastefully decorated penthouse condo, if you
SF News Gay.com Honor Thrills Mayor Newsom Gay.com named the winners of their annual Travel Awards. To no one's surprise, San Francisco was named Favorite Domestic Destination. Woo hoo! Gavin, of course, was equally elated. Because this means more
SF News Gavin's Day On Twitter It's been awhile since we've mentioned Gavin Newsom's whimsical musings on Twitter. (Speaking of the the micro-blogging network many of you claim to be sick of but secretly can't stop using, its founders
