SF News To Help Curb Violence, Newsom Proposes Nightclub Reform With nightclubs like Jelly's, Whisper, and 715 Harrison playing host to fatal mischief over the past few months, yesterday Mayor Newsom and Police Chief Heather Fong went on the offense against SF nightlife.
misc Barack Obama Rising in California -- Rally at City Hall Of course Hillary Clinton is still a formidable candidate, especially in the bigger states. This all adds up to a certain humdinger of an election. This campaign trail is heading right to your
SF News Aaron "Payback's a Bitch" Peskin Tries to Slash SF's Environment Dept. Mere days after the head of the environmental department broke with Aaron Peskin and other city leaders on a Public Utilities Commission policy, this week he introduced a wee bit of legislation that
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Around The Districts Nothing too new to report on the Ed Jew got arrested front this morning, but the Chron did survey all the other Board of Supervisor members for their reactions. Let's go in order!
SF News Instant Recall (District 1 Edition) The recall campaign, which is spearheaded in part by one of the six candidates who ran against McGoldrick for the Board of Supes seat and lost (David Heller), is focusing primarily on McGoldrick's
Arts & Entertainment Compromise Can Be Healthy Too The battle over Healthy Saturdays was sort of at a stalemate until a study was released saying that attendance to the museums were up on Sundays when John F. Kennedy Drive was closed.
SF News It's Saturday-- Do You Know Where Your Sports Team Is? What's going on is that he whole development thing is sort of a chicken vs. the egg conundrum- do you develop first and bring the Niners with you or do you wait for
SF News Political Junkie: Thin Veneer Of Something Sulky, sulky -- Gavin Newsom was sober and mad after yesterday's Board of Supervisors inaugural ceremony, which the Chronicle tactfully described as having a "tone of political contentiousness running just beneath a veneer
SF News Today in the Board of Supervisors And to help fend off the Board, Police Commissioner Heather Fong, with the POA and Precinct Captains along for the ride, issued a plan to supersede the Board-- put even more cops on
SF News Everything Else Results National They called the race for Feinstein like 5 minutes after the polls closed in California. Pelosi is not only going to win, she's going to be the next Speaker of the House!
SF News Supervisor Shouting (Not Daly) We suppose the subject matter trumps the supervisor, as even a Daly-free meeting about condo conversions descended into shouting and gavel-pounding yesterday. Supervisor Bevan Dufty (pictured at right) had proposed that we give
SF News Sizzling Hot-Hot-Hot!! Love 'em for their policies? Love 'em for their sexy strut? Who cares! Clean out those cookies on your computer and stuff the ballot box for your hottie of choice! Super Hotties!Who
SF News Supes Lurve Electronic Electioneering Bill So it looks like the Electronic Electioneering resolution has passed, with the unamended version winning in a nine-to-two vote, with Supervisors Elsbernd and Alioto-Pier voting no, meaning that the board has enough votes
SF News Supes Pass Electronic Electioneering Bill -- Twice So how did Sophie Maxwell's bill do? Well, due to an SFist power lunch, we weren't able to attend in person. We were able, however, to catch up via SFGTV -- scroll down
Arts & Entertainment First Third Friday At Ross's Office The refreshements? Uh, free. SFist would like to suggest that if you want to score the wine and snacks, show up early -- they were all gone in a little over an hour.
SF News Meet the New Ethics Boss. Same as the Old Ethics Boss? Hansen is well known in the city for being an activist in the usual assortment of progressive causes, including being the co-founder of the People’s Budget Collaborative, a role that led Frank
SF News Anchor Steamed Sophie Maxwell is working on legislation to put zoning protection for businesses in place. Meanwhile, SFist really isn't sure what to think on this one -- SFist's usual liberal guilt/privilege position supporting
SF News Sophie's World The drive to recall Supervisor Sophie Maxwell has failed, with over half of the almost 6000 signatures gathered invalidated for one reason or another. Of those rejected signatures, 973 were thrown out because
