SF News Political Junkie: Hall Monitor If this blog entry suddenly disappears, you'll know why -- P.J. Corkery of the Examiner reports that after his column gently mocking Tony Hall and P.J.'s friend Frank Gallagher as
SF News Political Junkie: Have You Seen Me? Kevin? Kevin? Where are you, Secretary Shelley? Shelley declined to appear yesterday at a state legislature committee hearing investigating what exactly he did with all the federal get-out-the-vote money he was supposed to
SF News Political Junkie: Across the Bay Your intrepid junkie takes the lower deck of the Emperor Norton to report on some news from the Oakland City Council: city councilman Danny Wan, who represents Oakland's District 3 (Grand Lake and
SF News Political Junkie: You're A Mean One Mayor Gavin the N, fresh from meat-slicing duties, found his press conference on how he plans to use funds from Prop 63 (money for mental health services) upstaged by caroling progressives protesting his
SF News Political Junkie: Movie Casting Okay, we're stealing this link from Usual Suspects, who found it first. (but if we give them credit, it's all okay!) PlanetOut.com, in connection with their voting Newsom the person of the
SF News Political Junkie: World Mayor Pretend He's (almost) Miss World, can't look us in the eye -- Hizzoner Newsom announced that he was nominated but did not win in the online World Mayor 2004 contest. (That Giacometti-like figure to
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: One Scoop Or Two? Okay, we have to confess that we haven't really been paying much attention to the plans about developing the Hunters' Point shipyard (though we did note through our usual sporting interest in housing
SF News Political Junkie: Say It With Flowers You didn't think we'd go a week without more postings on our favorite city supervisor, did you? Naw! The Body Politic reports that Chris Daly is the recipient of a lovely pot of
SF News Political Junkie: Anger Management Well, he wasn't wearing a t-shirt to promote his new rap album, but, like Ron Artest, Chris Daly ain't sorry. Well, that's not entirely fair. At yesterday's unprecedented censure motion hearings before the
SF News Political Junkie: Puttin' the F back in SF (We've been dying to use that title for weeks now!) All of you who make that trendy organic soap, sales should be skyrocketing through your thatched roofs with all the mouth-washing-out that's underway
SF News Political Junkie: Number Crunching Now, SFist and your Political Junkie are not really statisticians, but the preliminary data coming in from the RCV reports compiled by the Center for Voting and Democracy yield some pretty interesting results,
misc Political Junkie/Housing Bubbles: The Daly Show The Land Use Committee of the Board of Supervisors met yesterday, to discuss whether the city should put caps on the number of owner-occupied two-unit buildings that can be converted from tenancies in
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Free H. Brown! ... and the District 5 race claims another victim. Last-place candidate H. Brown, a writer and self-described homeless man who garnered 43 votes in the election, had spent Tuesday night, like us, drinking heavily.
SF News Political Junkie: RCV results (background music of tapping telegraphs).... this just in -- the RCV results, with computer glitches fixed, for the contested districts. Mirkarimi wins Dist 5 with 50.3% of the vote, with Haaland in
SF News Political Junkie Those of you who page through the Bay Area section of the Chron on your way to the funnies may have noticed the words "nepotism" and "cronyism" buzzing around the name "Mabel Teng.
