SF News Marin Residents Flip Out Over Not Having State Senator A little quirk following the redrawing of State Senate districts has left Marin County without a senator, and you better believe they are FREAKING OUT about this. As a poor spokesperson for Senator
SF News Corporations May Soon Bear More Tax Burden Via Changes to Prop 13 Democrats now have supermajorities in both the California State Senate and Assembly, and this means that some long overdue changes to the state tax code with regard to corporate property are soon on
SF News Second Petition Effort to Repeal Gay History Law Fails The California law requiring public schools to acknowledge the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in history lessons will live on without challenge another few years. A petition drive to get
SF News Ca. Schools Must Teach Gay History, Says Jerry Brown California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation today that would require state schools in include gay history in the curriculum. "The legislation, authored by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, was approved in the Legislature
SF News State Senate Redistricting Could Leave Portions of San Francisco Senator-less As the California Redistricting Commission prepares to release their first draft of the latest district lines for state senate seats, the Examiner is wringing their hands over what could become of our two
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cowgirl Creamery Wins 'Small Business of the Year' Award Although difficult to make Rotel dip out of their top-drawer fromage, Senator Mark Leno will honor esteemed Cowgirl Creamery today as Senate District 3's Small Business of the Year. Regarding the touted cheesemakers,
SF News Mayor Mark Leno? Many a wonk (and even your SFist editor, surprisingly!) have had an inkling that State Senator and former San Francisco Supervisor Mark Leno could throw his hat in the San Francisco mayoral ring.
SF News Schwarzenegger Makes 'Harvey Milk Day' Official On Sunday night, Gov. Schwarzenegger (finally!) signed Sen. Mark Leno's Harvey Milk bill, one that would create Harvey Milk Day. "He really saw this signing as a way to honor the gay community
SF News Senator Mark Leno Throws A Fete In The Castro We were working on a post of images from last night's Mark Leno bash at Trigger in the Castro. But, lo and behold, Beth Spotswood beat us to it, doing an extraordinarily far
SF News Leno Delivers 40K Harvey Milk Day Signatures to Schwarzenegger Yesterday, EQCA and Senator Mark Leno (D-SF) delivered somewhere around 40,000 petitions "with names of Californians from every part of the state," demanding Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to -- finally! -- sign into
SF News 2010 Watch: Legalizing Pot Can you feel it? It runs thick in the air. The 2010 election is coming. And with that comes the deluded hopes and dreams of many a wonk who think that this next
SF News Sean Penn to Lobby For 'Harvey Milk Day' In California State Senator Mark Leno and Sean Penn plan to reintroduce a bill Tuesday to mark Harvey Milk's birthday as a "day of significance" across California. Originally vetoed by Arnold Schwarzenegger -- the lug
Arts & Entertainment Stopping Prop 8 Starts With You (and Continues on February 17) So, you've got nothing to do on a Tuesday? Well, Equality California has just the thing. Head on over to Sacramento to participate in 2009 Marriage Lobby Day, an opportunity for concerned citizens
SF News Mark Leno on Day Without a Gay Today's is Day Without a Gay. Are you without? How very sad for you. Anyway, SFist asked Mark Leno for his thoughts on Day/Gay, whether he will be taking the day off
SF News Legislators Plan to Introduce Prop 8 Repeal Measures Senator Mark Leno and (new!) Assemblymember Tom Ammiano will introduce measures that prove Proposition 8 is "an improper revision of the California State Constitution," according to reports. The measure, which should be announced
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 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 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
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 Well, At Least Carole Migden Is Winning In One Poll San Francisco Bay Guardian--who, you may recall, endorsed Mark Leno in the "Carole Migden-Mark Leno-Joe Nation faceoff," effectively pissing off SF Progressive mafia Don Chris Daly--is having a poll. And Carole Migden, as
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 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 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 Sen. Carole Migden Receives $350,000 Fine for Campaign Violations Somewhere Mark Leno is giggling, quietly. Today, state regulators handed Senator Carol Migden a $350,000 fine for 89 -- -- campaign spending and disclosure violations. The abuses reach all the way back
