SF News Watch: Excellent ESPN Mini-Documentary Shows Tom Ammiano Getting His Long-Overdue Varsity Letter You’re gonna need a bigger box of Kleenex for this emotionally charged ESPN Pride month mini-documentary about Tom Ammiano’s varsity letter saga, which includes the moment he received the sweater he’d been denied for 63 years.
SF News Former SF Supervisor and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano Honored With Long-Overdue Varsity Letter His high school denied him a varsity letter for odd reasons that he chalks up to homophobia and his being effeminate. 63 years later they made it right.
SF News Ed Lee Has A Mayoral Opponent: Amy Farah Weiss, The YIMBY We haven’t had a notable non-establishment candidate for mayor in this town since 2007 when Chicken John and Josh Wolf both cracked 1%. But those guys didn’t have the fortune to
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFPD Short On Toys The SFPD toy drive came up short, and here's why. [Examiner] Payne Mansion opens as hotel and events space, but it's still for sale. [Business Times] The SOMA Leadership council opposes the Commonwealth
SF News Too Many Bogus Signatures: CA's Anti-Trans Kids Measure Fizzles California's secretary of state announced late Monday that a measure designed to roll back California's laws protecting the rights of transgender students lacked a sufficient number of signatures to qualify for the November
SF News Ammiano Could Be Contender Against Mayor Lee, But 'Not Shopping For Drapes Yet' Matier and Ross are just putting this out there: Tom Ammiano is so far the strongest progressive opponent for Mayor Ed Lee when he comes up for re-election in 2015. The openly gay
SF News Campos Wants Ammiano's Assembly Seat Continuing the path paved by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D9's David Campos tossed his hat into the ring to take Tom's seat once he's termed out. BCN/NBC Bay Area notes: "If Campos wins
SF News Ammiano Suggests Marijuana Industry Be Policed By Alcohol Board [Updated] There are now rumblings in Sacramento about how the state might start regulating the largely unregulated medical marijuana industry, and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has an idea: Let the ABC do it. The state's
SF News Dangerous Octavia-Market Intersection to Get Traffic Cameras You'll recall how last year a report determined that the intersection of Octavia and Market, where the freeway sort of abruptly turns into a Boulevard, was the most dangerous in the city. Well,
SF News Corporations May Soon Bear More Tax Burden Via Changes to Prop 13 Democrats now have supermajorities in both the California State Senate and Assembly, and this means that some long overdue changes to the state tax code with regard to corporate property are soon on
SF News Schwarzenegger "F*ck You" to Ammiano: "A Strange Coincidence" Yesterday, we talked to you about Schwarzenegger's clever missive to Asm. Tom Ammiano, where the governor tossed him a good ol' fashion "fuck you" while informing him that he vetoed his Port of
SF News Gov. Schwarzenegger to Tom Ammiano & SF: F*ck You The fine folks over at SFBG did a little sleuthing over Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent vetoing of Assemblymember Tom Ammiano's AB 1176, a simple bill that involved the Port of San Francisco and
SF News Castro Gay Men to Tom Ammiano: "Stay Out!" Oh geez. Looks like a smattering of gay men in the Castro -- a neighborhood famous for its refinement, restraint, and good taste -- are livid at Asm. Tom Ammiano over his heckling
SF News "You Lie," Shouts Tom Ammiano at Gov. Schwarzenegger This is why getting violently ill sucks. You miss wonderfully uncomfortable stuff like this. See, at last night's Democratic County Central Committee gala at the San Francisco Fairmont, a surprise guest showed up.
SF News Tom Ammiano Makes A Political Funny From the weekend answering machine of Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, after helping deliver the finalized state budget: "What do Green Acres, the Roseanne show, and the governor's mansion have in common? A pig named
SF News 2010 Watch: Legalizing Pot Can you feel it? It runs thick in the air. The 2010 election is coming. And with that comes the deluded hopes and dreams of many a wonk who think that this next
SF News Media Circus at Ammiano 'Legalize Pot' Press Conference this AM at State Building With support from Supervisor David Campos, CA Superior Court Judge James P. Gray, and SF Sheriff Mike Hennessey, Tom Ammiano held a frenzied press conference at the State Building this morning. The topic
SF News Judiciary Committee Passes Resolution Opposing Prop 8 California is one step closer to getting Prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban that passed in November, overturned. Hopefully. A judiciary committee passed House Resolution 5 today (care of one Tom Ammiano, D-San
Arts & Entertainment Stopping Prop 8 Starts With You (and Continues on February 17) So, you've got nothing to do on a Tuesday? Well, Equality California has just the thing. Head on over to Sacramento to participate in 2009 Marriage Lobby Day, an opportunity for concerned citizens
SF News Legislators Plan to Introduce Prop 8 Repeal Measures Senator Mark Leno and (new!) Assemblymember Tom Ammiano will introduce measures that prove Proposition 8 is "an improper revision of the California State Constitution," according to reports. The measure, which should be announced
SF News End of a Tom Ammiano Chapter Photo by travelswithspider Weep no more, my lady. He's going on to bigger and brighter things, free from the Board of Supervisors. But still: sob.
SF News Tom Ammiano Pleads With City Hall to Help Curb Mission Violence Due do the recent smattering of murders plaguing the Mission district -- e.g., since August 22 the hood has played host to seven murders -- city supervisor Tom Ammiano "sent letters to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *FILM: The final release of Ridley Scott''s love-it-or-hate-it science fiction noir thriller — now with added footage, re-mixed sound, and minor improvements on visual effects! — screens at the Castro. COMEDY: SF Supervisor Tom Ammiano
SF News Penn to Hit Castro Bars as <i>Milk</i> Shooting Starts Undergoing a procedure to erase 30 years from its face, the Castro neighborhood is going retro, circa 1978, for the filming of Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic, Milk, which starts shooting this
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
