SF News Who Said Being Governor was Going to be Easy? Supporters of the measure claim that the ruling is merely nothing but politics as usual and the political establishment sticking it to noble reformers. They also said that the changes-- a few rewritten
SF News Political Junkie: Meet The Assessor We're so excited! We've never actually someone we've written about in the Political Junkie column before! Usual Suspects is reporting that 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place is abuzzzzzzzz with the word that
misc Housing Bubbles: The Market Is Falling! Panic in the streets of San Francisco! Further adding to housing hysteria, the Chron prominently fronts an article reporting that the housing market is going to crash some time next year. Set your
SF News Mo' Money, Mo' Problems Let's start off with the extra money for the city budget. Thanks to the super-hot real estate market, the city found an extra $43 million to help plug the $102 million dollar debt
SF News For Sale: Castle In Hunters Point You read that headline right. The Albion Castle, a structure which dates to 1870 and was a brewery right up until prohibition, is being put on the market by it's owner in a
misc Re-Assessed Breaking news: Mabel Teng has resigned as the San Francisco assessor. After a sunny start as the face of gay marriage, Teng was facing increasing scrutiny over her, um, unorthodox hiring procedures in
SF News Dogster Nominated For Webby In the interest of full disclosure, SFist Ted, our new weatherman, also happens to be Dogster Ted. And while we've harshed on the Webby Awards only just recently, we're still proud. You can
Arts & Entertainment This Octavia House Duboce Street's loss is Hayes Valley's gain, as the City and Caltrans laboriously rebuild the Central Expressway offramp one block over from where they laboriously tore it down, but leave Octavia to become
Arts & Entertainment Dredging up the Past with the Essefficist Welcome back to the wonderful world of the Essefficist, where no amount of steroids could possibly help us answer your questions any better than we already do. But could help us answer your
SF News The Battle for the Golden State Northern California and Southern California are locked in battle. It's not over the quality of coffee, the issue of transportation, of taxes or water or real estate or celebrity sightings. It's a battle
misc Housing Bubbles: What Am I Bid? Buying a house is even worse than buying something on ebay -- you promise to pay people you've never met some exorbitant amount of money that you clearly don't have, you write a
misc Bird? Plane? Billboard. SFist just has to say that if you want to propose to us, we don't really like grand gestures like getting down on one knee on the Jumbotron, or on live TV. We
misc Ugly Buildings The Chron today does a feature on the biggest architectural eyesores in San Francisco. The writer of the article focuses his ire on the Marriott Hotel across the street from the Metreon, saying
misc Housing Bubbles: Monkey Knife Fight Oh, boo frickin' hoo. The Examiner today profiles an angry yuppie living across from the ballpark who says that a piece of graffiti is ruining his "million-dollar view." The disgruntled homeowner paid $850,
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
SF News Some Follow-Ups Mimi the pregnant toe-licking Japanese Chin dog has been found, wandering University Avenue in Palo Alto. Since being taken home, Mimi has mostly been hiding in a closet. The City of San Jose
misc The Land Alone Would Cost A Million Everyone's favorite cube dweller and corporate critic Dilbert just moved into new digs - Dilbert's Ultimate House. Teaming up with Home and Garden Television, Danville's Scott Adams synthesized reader input from over three
misc Housing Bubbles: The Real Estate Column In what we're forced to accept as celebrity gold in this two-bit horse town, a B-list actress who no longer lives here and is no longer married to the local newspaper's editor in
misc Housing Bubbles Is it just us, or is it just sort of hilarious that a two-bed one-bath condo on 18th Street is being offered at $737,000 and a single-family house in Pacific Heights is
SF News Watch Where You're Blowing That Fan Usually, when SFist hears that a former industrial brownfield is being cleaned up and rehabilitated, we think of that as good news. But apparently not everyone does. SIMEON real estate developers and Cherokee
Arts & Entertainment You're Hired, San Francisco! Boo yeah! San Francisco's repping large on this season's Apprentice -- with not one, not two, but three 415 area contestants vying for the affection of Donald Trump. So John is a 2003
SF News Funny Money Fallout Kevin Shelley still has his job do you have yours? Its time for a SunsetGate update! In the week since SFists hard-hitting book report about the strange fundraising transactions between Shelley
