misc What's In a Name The reason why they are even debating this is because an ex-student, Mike Harold, said he got no props in job interviews when he said he went to SJSU. Hey Mike, maybe it's
SF News Today in Transportation -The Chron discovers that there's plenty of fare-evading scofflaws out there in MUNI land. And not only that, it's one of the reasons for MUNI's budget deficit. Anyways, yadda… yadda… yadda… increasing the
Arts & Entertainment We Love The Pretty Maps The map to your right (from this analysis) is the percentage of people ranking more than one choice in the supervisorial races in November -- but we just think it's awfully pretty. We
SF News Welcome to the Machines But before we sign anything, the city is asking Sequioa systems, the makers of the machines, two things. One is a paper trail, something that has been a large source of controversy because
SF News The Stuff They've Got In The Oven (Local Politics News, Non-Newsom) --The Board of Supes held hearings yesterday about whether to accept the Google/Earthlink citywide wifi plans. We must confess we're still very vague on the pros and cons of the proposal (all
SF News We're Moving On Up But that's all about to change because the idea of moving the California primary up to February is becoming more and more of a done deal.The reason is because for politicians in
SF News Moving Up the Primary The reasons for the move are mainly that we get a bit more say in electing the President. You could also make the argument that since we're more representative of America than, say,
SF News Other Things That Happened Today Sorry, we've become so obsessed with the upcoming Fake Question Time and those Yalie a capella singers that got beaten up that we totally didn't cover any of the other city news from
Arts & Entertainment It's Back to School Day for the Board of Supervisors Today was opening day for the Board of Supervisors as it were as today was the first day of work for 2007. First up? The voting in of a new President who happens
SF News American Football Spectacular: Terrell Owens Would Appreciate Your Help! " He's on pace for yet another outstanding season, is leaving defenses grasping for air, and as promised, has brought swagger back to the Dallas Cowboys. Vote Now http://www.nfl.com/probowl/ballot/
SF News Happy Paper Trails Now, all of this would be easy to fix if there was a paper trail but, alas, those whacky machines don't have a paper trial. Nothing, Nada, Zilch. Which means there's no way
SF News Ranked Choice Election Results-- Not Just For District 6 Anymore You know, we kind of like this ranked voting thing. And not just because it saves us from run-off campaigns which tend to drag the election cycle out longer than a plot-line on
SF News 51.53% Of District 6 Hates Chris After Absentee Count The absentee and provisionals are in for today -- in the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates It When We Do A Numbers Post. Hey, the YouTube footage of Chris Daly's
SF News Diary Of a Poll Worker I just got home. It took an hour and a half for the sheriff's deputy to come pick up the ballots and supplies. This was long after the parking operations guy had come
SF News The District 6 Election's First Concession District 6 candidate (and first name on the ballot) Viliam Dugovic has thrown in the towel, sending along the following concession speech to his email list. For same reason, we where put down
SF News Today's the Day Did we mention that we know we're wrong? Nevertheless what happens here is more important because while the possible defeat of George Allen will be a good thing because it'll make us less
SF News Hugo Chavez in the Voting Machine Our story begins last year when Sequoia was bought by a small software company, Smartmatic Corporation, a Venezuelan company. Of concern are some shady maneuverings involving the company and the Venezuelan government. The
SF News Mountsome! And the winner is...... (if you haven't seen it in the title of this post): MOUNTSOME! Mountsome wins with 47% of the vote! The naughty Brittanie Mountz Newsom comes in second, at 26%
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: District 8 Candidate Alix Rosenthal Alix is an attorney and civil servant, known for her love of burning man, her advocacy for SF's handgun ban, and for being of a generally lefty-artsy disposition. And with BeyondChron pointing out
Arts & Entertainment Bassists For Measure O The event's at the law offices of Gonzalez & Leigh, at 2 Shaw Alley, 3rd Floor (off Mission between 1st and 2nd), and Ross Mirkarimi's expected to be there too. We don't know
SF News Big Ballot, Big Ballot, Talk About Bum Cakes, Out State's Got 'Em Let's look at the ballots we've gotten so far. The state ballot this year clocks in at 192 pages, same as the city of San Francisco ballot. Let's see, that's...eight...carry the
SF News Thanks For Stuffing The Ballot Boxes For Us! Thanks for reading us, everyone, and thanks for voting for us too. We're thrilled to be in such august company as Taqueria Cancun and Green Apple Books (and Baker Beach, which has a
SF News Runoff? You know this correspondent doesn't know much about Oakland city politics, but we're trying to get up to speed so we can fully relish the exciting Florida-like state of affairs over there in
SF News Vote?! We bounded out of bed this morning, (that is, once we made sure that our floor hadn't been replaced by brimstone) eager to vote in today's election. OK, the eager one was actually
SF News The SFist Voters' Guide: 6/6/06 We don't care if your voter information guide isn't here yet -- we can't wait any longer! It's that time of the quarter again -- for SFist's shallow surface summaries of the important
