SF News Who's Defending Newsom Now! As promised -- when we find people defending Newsom, we diligently write 'em up in the column we call.... Who's Defending Newsom Now! Who's swinging for the mayor? --The mayor himself!: Before heading
SF News How'd Question Time Go? Well, we're sorry to report that everyone's day jobs managed to succeed where Wade Crowfoot did not -- namely, in preventing anyone wearing a chicken suit from gaining access to the city's very
SF News RIIIIIII-COLA!!!! And it's not necessarily because he's missing Question Time. No, he's also missing out on the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a less exciting but probably more relevant meeting featuring a Special Guest
SF News Gavin Defends Screw Tops The article isn't online, but it's a piece called "All You Really Need To Know About WINE" and Gavin's on page 138, as "Plumpjack Winery Founder and Mayor of San Francisco." It's accompanied
SF News I Saw Gavin Newsom It seems like the trick for getting something into this column is to hang out at Tosca's -- check out the following story we got passed along. Thanks, gentle reader! Last night our
SF News San Francisco's Got A Brand New Bag Naturally, everyone is a little upset. Gavin, who supported the measure, said he was deceived. Ross Mirkirami, the one who first proposed the measure, isn't very happy and wants to schedule a hearing.
SF News Your Daily Dose of Whatever Gate We're Calling It Talk about tension city-- here was the political rival of the Mayor chatting it up with the Mayor's ex-wife. And according to Matier & Ross, Kimberly signed off with these words: "all right,
Arts & Entertainment Harvey Milk Sculpture Competition SFist Jim (hardest working man in the biz!) sends along these pictures from City Hall, at the unveiling of the three finalists in the Harvey Milk sculpture contest. Harvey Milk is, of course,
SF News Only Three More Days Until Fake Question Time! Gavin buck-buck-buck'ed a testy response to this latest coop challenge, saying only, "Been there, done that. I've talked about it for one month." But not yet answered any questions from supervisors! And finally
SF News Gavin on KQED The Mayor was at his wonkish, earnest, puppy-dog best. To each question, he spent five minutes or so riffing off stats, programs, and pat responses so well that we could just picture him
SF News They Do Chicken Right Don't forget -- your insufficient substitute for Question Time will take place at 10 a.m. this Saturday at the Richmond Recreation Center at 281 18th Avenue, between Geary and Clement. We can't
SF News Today in Matier & Ross Anyways, what the story is about is that on the night Officer Bryan Tuvera was shot, the Gav was at a holiday party and when he showed up at the hospital, he was
SF News Shorter Gavin in the Examiner As we all know, Gavin is up for re-election this year (and why 2007? Aren't big elections supposed to be in even-numbered years? Is this one more "only in SF" type of thing?
SF News Happy Days Are Here Again? Now for those of you thinking "wha?" here are the reasons given: -My, look at how clean downtown looks -Look at all those happy, smiling shoppers shopping -Aren’t those fancy, schmany restaurants
SF News The Homeless. Again. Here comes the numbers (mostly compared to 2004), according to the Mayor: -4,800 less homeless people -2,600 homeless individuals were put in supportive housing -87% reduction in people claiming cash payments
SF News Gavin Vetoes Foot Patrol Legislation Part II Gavin's main bone of contention is that he thinks the police chiefs should get discretion to do what they want to do. The Board of Supes main bone of contention is they've had
SF News Can Someone Explain The Significance Of This To Us? Breaking news on a Friday afternoon -- Gavin Newsom's chief of staff Steve Kawa has resigned. Stated reason: "I want to spend more time with my amazing family." Okay, an announcement made at
Arts & Entertainment Actual Celebrities Come To San Francisco! Yeah, we know, we're stuck here at SFist fetishizing weirdo wonks like Gavin Newsom and Ross Mirkarimi because we don't have any actual celebrities in town that we can follow around and talk
SF News I'm Sorry, Did You Have A Question? Ques-tion TIME! Ques-tion TIME! Wow, Gavin doesn't want to take your questions -- he won't even take live questions on this morning's Energy 92.7 commute-time show. (We tried listening to the .mp3s
SF News Who's Newsom Attacking Now! It's a slight variation on our Who's Attacking/Defending Newsom Now columns -- Gavin goes on the offensive! The gay-focused Bay Area Reporter runs a column this week in their Political Notebook about
SF News Mayoral Poll Update So here's the poll (after the jump) again and remember, last day to vote is by Friday morning. There's been some wonky issues with the site that's hosting the contest so if something
SF News Mayoral Race Poll Now that Gavin has stopped playing coy and moved ahead with his re-election plans, the question is who will step up to run against Mr. 80% Approval Ratings? It's the parlor game anyone
SF News That's Amore The rest of the story is a bit Rashomon-like in a "Men are From Mars, Women From Venus" kind of way. The other people in the restaurant were two people on a first
SF News Question Time Will Not Be Denied The BoS Rules Committee has placed an item on the agenda (item 2) for next week's board meeting, for a motion to convene a special board meeting on.... Saturday January 13, 2007 at
