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Who's Got Questions?

As you know, this correspondent is unabashedly in favor of this election season's Proposition I Question Time -- because we're in favor of anything that makes local politics entertaining! (We can discuss offline

San Jose to Clean Up Libraries

Yep, San Jose wants their libraries to be Spank Free. Or at least by decree of San Jose's mayor-elect, Chuck Reed. Reed was shown a clip of the story KGO ran on all

SFPD's Funniest Home Videos

All of this isn't going down with at least some measure of controversy. Police Commissioner Joe Alioto Veronese complained that it took almost a year for the investigation to take place. After all,

Where's Gavin?

8:00am The President's mansion to pick up a pair of Imelda Marcos' shoes for Jennifer. 8:35am A sit-down interview with notorious gay blogger Bryanboy about same-sex marriage. 10:00am US Naval

Random Political Odds And Ends

We can't be bothered to type up all these intriguing little political news tidbits into that many separate posts for the day! So we're compiling them all here. --That map above is from

Newsweek Calls Us Loony

It's kind of a fun article too in that it's not often you see Bevan, the Bay Guardian, and Tommi Avicolli Mecca quoted in a national newsmagazine. But why, once again, are we

Today in the Board of Supervisors

And to help fend off the Board, Police Commissioner Heather Fong, with the POA and Precinct Captains along for the ride, issued a plan to supersede the Board-- put even more cops on

Not a Good Way to Start the Day

The editorial, predominately displayed on the Examiner's getting-better-but still crappy web site basically says that Gavin hasn't even begun to make this city safe enough and probably never will due to problems he's

Homeless in the Park, I Think It Was the 4th of July

Mayor McDreamy himself went to take a tour of the park and said the park was "looking good" and talked about how this is going to be an ongoing project. He also said

Short Coattails

Take Doug Chan in District 4, for example. Newsom was the conservative (for SF) Police Commission member Chan's go-to guy -- Newsom showed up at Chan's kickoff rally; he walked the Sunset with

Saving Some Shoe Leather

The old political shibboleth about releasing unpopular news on the afternoon of "take out the trash" Friday holds true again, as Gavin Newsom sneaks in a veto on Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi's well-received proposal

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Interview: David Kiddoo

Who are you, what do you do, and where do you live? My name is David Kiddoo, and I live in Laurel Heights. I currently work as a project manager for a nonprofit

Arts & Entertainment

SFist Interviews: Bevan Dufty

I guess the first question should be is what is your reaction to critics who say you don't vote progessive enough for a progessive district? Many people view the Board of Supervisors in

Democracy in Action- Name the New Couple

We thought we had come up with some good names ourselves, but you, you people...we want to party with you (and yes, that somehow makes this the second Stripes reference of the

Whither Gavin

Matier & Ross today has an interview with Gavin about the upcoming Mayoral election and his future in politics that's getting a lot of play. So what does the future hold for Mayor

Arts & Entertainment

Interview: Two Gallants

Two Gallants will be appearing with Trainwreck Riders both Saturday and Sunday at Bottom of the Hill. Although tickets might be scarce, try your darndest to get to the show. Hey, you’ve

Political Junkie: You're E-Vited!

That Cubist-y gavel graphic Daly's picked to illustrate the evite is -- as is the greeting line: "Dear Mayor Gavin Christopher Newsom," as if some other Gavin Newsom, whose middle name is Edward,

Why Is Everybody Always Picking on Us?

Republicans, on the other hand, having nothing else to go on right now, are using Nancy's name in vain more and more as we get closer to the election. Check out this column

Political Junkie: Hair Of The Mayor That Bit You

Yes, folks, it's true -- the floppy-haired Matt Gonzalez look sported by Mayor Gavin Newsom was for one day only. Awwwwwww! We're back to the swept-back, visible-comb-lines-through-the-front (scroll down), crunchy-gelled 'do you all

SFist Week in Review: MUNI, MUNI, MUNI

Elsewhere, with the elections coming up, there was a lot of politics happening. The governor went green, his opponent went to Loserville, Population 1, Rob Black went back to Africa, Nancy Pelosi tried

Week in -Ist

Phillyist is concerned that the war on Trans fats could affect it's beloved cheese steak sandwiches, something for which we should all be concerned. They also seem to be concerned about which subterranean

But It's the Haight Man.....

The urchins in Haight Street sure are in the news a lot these days. First there was the super-excellent story in this week's SF Weekly. But of even more significance is that Gavin,

East Bay Blotter

It is now illegal in the state of California to steal free newspapers, as reported in the Berkeley Daily Planet, itself, familiar with the issue. Berkeley Mayor, Tom Bates, was happy that the

Gavin's Back!

So Mayor Gavin Newsom can't be bothered to show up for a police commissioner meeting or deal with MUNI, the taxicab commission, or the Dept. of Building Inspection -- but he's so there

East Bay News

First, the quick and dirty: the Oakland Tribune reports: one dead, two injured, 3 alarm fire at a 6 story residential hotel in downtown Oakland early Friday morning . In the Berkeley Daily Planet,