SF News The Schiavo Bill: How'd Our Senators Vote? And Why Didn't Any Bay Area Congressmembers Vote? It occurred to us that we don't pay that much attention to the individual voting records of our representatives. When elections come around, we pay some lip service to candidates' voting records, but
SF News Do You Know The Way? Feel free to make your own "there isn't any there there" jokes; we here at SFist try to avoid cheap shots at our sprawling stepsister to the south. San Jose is the eleventh-largest
SF News No Barry? The reasons for the Barrisimo’s announcement is his knees. Since last season, he’s had two knee operations, which is hard enough on anyone, let alone someone whose 40 years old. And
SF News Cal Faculty Board Faults National Merit Process In the ongoing debate between those who support a blanket meritocracy in school admissions versus a weighted approach that considers race, class and gender, the Faculty Board of Admissions and Relations With Schools
Arts & Entertainment Kimberly Guilfoyle Bolton? So as it rains so hard, we stare out the window and we wonder, with a little sigh in the heart -- what is our plucky broken-hearted former first lady Kimberly Guilfoyle doing
SF News Just Say No For Now Today, Gavin Newsom put a lid on places that sell lids and called for a moratorium on marijuana clubs. And we bet we're the only one's in the -ist family who'll ever have
SF News Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? Over here at SFist's fortress of solitude (above Jerry's Tattoo and Java), we've just been informed that "Big" Dick Cheney is currently ensconced at the Mandarin Oriental downtown, and an entire block of
misc California Highways Still Safe for Porn Last week, the legislature defeated a bill by Assemblyman John Benoit (R-Palm Desert) that would have made it illegal to watch porn from the comfort of your car. The problem with watching porn
SF News Get Ur Geek On Special Edition: We Guessed Right! While at first we were concerned about whether or not Yahoo was going to let folks still fool with Flickr's API after a purchase, after said discussion on Friday, it looks like Yahoo
SF News Iraq War Anniversary Protest The rain held out just long enough for the march from Dolores Park to arrive and the speakers and performers to get through the rally. Thousands upon thousands were there, though it seemed
SF News Layoffs At E*Trade Naturally, this didn't go over that well with everyone as they began to wonder what the chances of keeping their job are when they've just trained Sanjay and Apu to do it. Or
SF News The Great Flag Fight With the two-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War this Saturday, the SF Board of Supervisors (once again delving into foreign policy) unanimously passed a resolution to have the flag at
SF News We hope you're still with us/To see if they float or drown</a> Is baseball really the only sport that has a steroid problem or do you believe 350 pound lineman can run the 40 faster than Speedy Gonzalez on a meth bender? Does anyone really
Arts & Entertainment SF VMAs? The Chron's Matier and Ross get back to the gossip we pay twenty-five cents in the MUNI for and report that Gav Daddy Newsom is aggressively wooing MTV to throw the 2005 Video
SF News The Giants Want You! Doing what hasn't been determinted, but the job does carry with it the title of "Special Assistant." Why, you’ll be just like George Costanza, although we don’t think Sabean will allow
SF News Richmond & Oakland Want Reparations Supporters behind the bill hope that the laws passed will pave the way for slavery reparations. It also continues with a trend of suing companies that are believed to have profited from slavery.
SF News Gays Have Equal Rights Breaking news: Judge Kramer of the San Francisco Superior Court has ruled that laws restricting marriage to heterosexuals violate the California constitution. We're still looking for links to the order, and reporting about
Arts & Entertainment Bad News For Bloggers SFist Jackson's not here today, but we know he'd want us to let you know that, as expected, Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Kleinberg ruled against the bloggers and for Apple. Judge Kleinberg
SF News Chron Management to Media Workers Guild: How Shall We Screw Thee? Let Us Count The Ways... The company says the changes are necessary to cut labor costs, reverse the newspaper's financial losses and forestall the possibility of an asset sale. Despite the major changes proposed, the company is still
SF News Enter Congress Now some of you might be wondering why congress would want to get involved in such a matter. After all, they haven't been able to figure out yet what happened to those WMDs,
misc They Voted Today? There were elections yesterday? We had no idea! Well, we don't live in Marin, Contra Costa, Sonoma, or San Mateo County, but apparently pretty much everyone loves to Save The Music. (That ad
SF News Free Munia! The idea behind it all is to force everyone involved to, as they said back in those halcyon days of dot.com yore, "think outside the box." While BeyondChron is claiming some sort
SF News Trouble at Technorati [] Friend of SFist Niall Kennedy managed to cause something of an uproar in the blogosphere this week. Trying to make a point about the tension between blogging and corporate public image by creating
SF News Outsource The Governor We're getting so sick of this Schwarzenegger guy -- the unusually small head, the smug perma-grin, the SUVs and cigars, and -- oh yeah! -- the completely unjustified hate for underappreciated working-class people
