SF News California's Best-Paid Mayor Is...SF's Own Ed Lee Based on his salary from last year, San Francisco mayor Ed Lee is the best paid mayor in California, beating out Los Angeles, Oakland, and every other town in our state. But it
SF News Stanford Administrators Accept Salary Cut Stanford University, that higher-learning institute that most of us did not get into, is feeling the economic pinch just like their public school plebeian counterparts. Senior administrators at Stanford plan on taking a
SF News Muni Executive Director Defers His Yearly Raise, Bonus As the SFMTA looks deep into the abyss of a budget deficit in the $40 million range, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency chief Nathaniel Ford has decided he wants to halt the annual
SF News Late Last Night When We Were All In Bed, Margaret Pavese Left The... Aw. This kind of sucks. School teacher Margaret Pavese got slapped with a misdemeanor charge for causing the 47+-acre Lick fire that erupted on Labor Day Weekend. Apparently, she was using a
misc Former Superintendent Ackerman Sues San Francisco Unified School District! According to a press release put out on PR Newswire by her attorney, Dr. Arlene Ackerman has filed suit against the San Francisco Unified School District in San Francisco Superior Court. She is
misc Teachers In E. Palo Alto School Dist. Going To Be Slightly Less Underpaid Ahh, teaching. That difficult, underpaid profession. We're totally behind those who are bringing future generations up to speed with the world being better compensated. Unfortunately, the salary typically given to this profession is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soon, More People Can Pay Too Much For Groceries The East Bay Biz Times is reporting that Whole Foods is planning a major expansion throughout the East Bay. Yes, soon enough, Lafayette, Dublin, and Oakland will be able to experience the "whole
Arts & Entertainment Mo' Money, Mo' Young Lawyers, Mo' Problems For Their Firms? It's good to be a lawyer at a big firm these days. Cal Law reports that a number of prominent, large, local firms keep raising salaries for starting associates, leading to peers to
SF News The Warriors: Ain't Nothin' but a Ballgame "Ain't nothin' but a ballgame fellas, ain't nothin' but a thing." That's probably what Baron Davis and Stephen Jackson were telling their teammates Tuesday night on the flight home to Oaktown after letting
SF News Muni Drivers' Union Boss: "I feel the system works now." Fun fact: Muni is required to pay its drivers based on what the two highest-paying transit systems in the country offer. Right now, that works out to about $27 an hour, and amazingly,
Arts & Entertainment Fly Us to the Moon Spring is springing all around us (Hello, Sunshine!) and while we can't afford to go on a real vacation on our salary, we can afford to dream. Which is why we love Flight
SF News 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
SF News 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?
SF News The Other Barry Signing: Day Two First, more details of the deal has been released. The key thing is that Zito will make only $10 million this year as he agreed to backload some of his salary to help
SF News Not Signed Yet You know what hasn't been done yet? Barry Bonds' contract. In fact, while everyone is saying it's a done deal, it's not quite done, meaning that the i's haven't been dotted and the
SF News Ron, Not Matt: Our New Column! We thought we saw some bubbling vats of tar and a pile of feathers from freshly-plucked fowl in San Jose the other day -- the San Jose city council's got humiliation on the
SF News The Niners Get A Head Now here is where things get interesting because that was the job supposedly manned by Stat Head Paraag Marathe. You know, the guy who was supposed to turn the Niners into the NFL's
misc SFist Answers: Things To Make You Cry A friend of SFist writes: "Someone in my office was just arrested for possession of child pornography. The case has been relatively high-profile in the area. The suspect seemed like a nice guy,
SF News QB Kerry Cut Remember how we said the Rai-duhs weren't going to release Kerry Collins? Oops. Yesterday they officially released Collins in an attempt to save the Raiders 9.1 million against the salary cap. We
SF News Kerry Eleison This year we find the Bay Area teams at opposite sides of the salary cap spectrum. The Niners got rid of some deadweight (like Ahmed Plummer) and are rolling in dough. That sounds
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Symphony, Which Then Goes to China. The trip will happen, and it would have been a shame if it had ended up being cancelled: for one, classical musicians are not being paid much compared to other entertainers in this
SF News The Ivory Money Tower Former Cal chancellor Robert Berdahl got an annual salary of $315,000 for a 13 month leave, provost MRC Greenwood is on a 15 month leave at a $301,840 salary, and the
SF News Will We Get What We Paid For? His base pay will be $298,000, but he has eligibility for up to "$337,000 when all compensation is taken into account." We got excited hearing that last bit, thinking "maybe they'll
misc Down and Out at the University of California What's been going on is that the UC have been hiring people for average kind of salaries (for professors and school administrators) but then giving them lots of free stuff on top of
Arts & Entertainment Please, Sir, Can We Have Some More Production Companies? Remember three years ago, when all your media-employed friends had to suddenly go from pulling down a dot-com salary to working retail and collecting unemployment? We spoke to a manager at a North
