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Well the Landslide Will Bring it Down

This all happened around 3 in the morning and luckily all sorts of alarms went off alerting people that something was up. As a result, nobody was hurt. The landslide pushed a pile

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Hail Fellow Well Met

Check out the hailstone that SFist Jim captured on film at around 9:07 p.m. in the Haight! In his poetic phrasing, "bigger than a bb, smaller than a lemon drop." This

A Hella Good Fight Over a Helipad

First the details. In 2003, the San Francisco’s Health Commission approved a plan to build a helipad on SF General. The target date for an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was 2005. It

She Sells Sanctuary

A recent wave of immigration sweeps (or, as Indy Bay calls it "Gestapo Immigration Raiders") is creating a bit of a fuss not only in San Francisco but throughout the Peninsula and East

RagoneWatch (A Day Late)

Here's our Caption Action entry for the picture above! Oscar winner Al Gore, Oscar-less Leonardo diCaprio, and our pick in the pool for Best Supporting Actor (in the role of John Nelson), Peter

Cycling: Stage 7 Closes out Strong

Despite a few anxious laps during the climactic Stage 7, wire-to-wire overall race leader Levi Leipheimer (Discovery Channel) found just enough energy to fend off a cheeky breakaway from Danny Pate (Slipstream) and

Cycling: Stage 6 Belongs to CSC

Levi Leipheimer successfully defended his gold leader's jersey yesterday in Stage 6 of the 2007 Amgen Tour of California (TOC), but it was Team CSC that commanded everybody's attention. Refusing to concede a

Matt vs. Gavin: the Rematch?

Fog City Journal is reporting that Matt Gonzalez has been in talks with a campaign manager, Nicole Derse, about running. We're all guessing it's for Mayor but who knows with Matt? We've heard

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Kamala Harris addresses Immigrant Resources Fair

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris spoke before a crowd assembled at the Centro Del Pueblo auditorium in the Mission today. Her primary message to the community was that people should not

Cycling: Stage 5 Separates the Field

It's one thing to sit in a team's slipstream or ride the momentum of the peloton, but the truest measure of a cyclist is how he (or she) performs in an individual time

What About Bill?

Hillary is in town to give a speech at one of the housing projects in Bayview to talk about the importance of lifting people out of poverty. Nah, we're just joking-- she did

Carrying To Term

Dufty says the reason why he's doing this is because a more experienced Supervisor means a better Supervisor. He's also proposing it to keep people from constantly scheming about what other position they

Cycling: Stage 4 Drags Down the Pace

Snoo-zer. Aside from the final five seconds of the race, the most exciting part of Thursday's Stage 4 in the 2007 Amgen Tour of California was the scenery. Relatively undistinguished topography and the

Leno v. Migden: It's On!

Gavin, Schmavin -- bored now. Call us when a shorn-headed Gavin goes bananas outside Kimberly Guilfoyle's house and starts whacking an SUV with a bright-green umbrella! (Maybe Britney was just looking a little

Welcome to the Machines

But before we sign anything, the city is asking Sequioa systems, the makers of the machines, two things. One is a paper trail, something that has been a large source of controversy because

Gavin Speaks!

The big money quote? Gavin channeling Popeye to say "I am who I am, imperfect and a work in progress." He also denied cocaine use, said he was going to Delancey Street almost

Cycling: Elevation Profile like an EKG in Stage 3

It was poetry in motion out there in Stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California, like a ragged stream of consciousness. Hills, . . . hills-hills mark the stage most crucial to date, elevation profile

Everybody (Still) Loves Gavin

ABC 7 is the latest people to do a survey on Gavin and all the recent Gavin news and found out that the dude is still pretty popular in town, all to the

Cycling: Stage 2 Delivers Capitol Thrills

Let's face it, in the peloton of American spectator sports, cycling got cracked off the back on the first climb out of town and is just now working its way back into the

The Latest From Richmond: So Much More Than the Last Stop on a BART Line

Not too surprisingly, Richmond residents are still a little testy about the whole thing. In particular, residents are upset that the plants' much-hyped warning system failed to notify them. Most residents slept right

Checking in on Gavin's Re-election campaign.

The Examiner has a story this morning saying Gavin's re-election campaign is up and running and has already raised a million dollars. The fund raising was suspended for a few weeks after the

Cycling: Stage 1 Ends with a Walk-off Homer

Stage 1 of the Amgen Tour of California (TOC) started out in the brilliant sunshine of Sausalito but ended 156.2 kilometers (km) later under a cloud of controversy in downtown Santa Rosa.

Cycling: Hometown Boy Makes Good, Again

For most of the day it looked like a total Cinderella story for unknown Jason Donald, but when the very last rider of the 2007 Tour of California (TOC) prologue crossed the finish

Peter Ragone By The Numbers

We've learned so much about mayoral communications director Peter Ragone from this article in the Sunday Chron! Since it's a Sunday (and there's no Swells today), we're naturally giving it the SFist By

Today In <i>As The Gav Turns</i>: Friends With (Sick Leave) Benefits

You think Gavin Newsom'll shave off all his hair next, just like rehabbing Britney Spears? Okay, so where were we the last time we checked in with the Ruby Rippey-Tourk sick leave investigations?