SF News Catching You Up With the Joneses -After Gavin vetoed the "Healthy Saturdays" initiative, the Board of Supervisors voted to see if they could override Gavin's veto but couldn't. Once again, the vote came down to a 7-4 vote, not
SF News Election Scandal Threatens To Undermine World's Ugliest Dog Contest Apparently, someone hacked into the fair's site and erased over 70,000 votes. To rectify this damage, the voting will begin again on May 22, with greater security in place. Of course, this
SF News To Be Continued... Two stories from last week are still being stories this week, so we thought we'd update everyone on what the latest has been. First up, North Beach, where yet another big, fun festival
SF News Black Box Comes to California You might remember the Diebold Voting Systems black boxes from such films as "Ohio: How to Steal an Election" or "Georgia: How to Steal an Election, the Phantom Menace." Not to mention such
SF News Red Staters Welcome! See that guy over there on the right? That's Barry Goldwater, accepting the Republican nomination for president in our fair city back in 1964, in the same venue where we now try out
misc The State Department Not Feeling the Whole Brokeback Thing According to the State Department, one of the groups in question, the International Lesbian & Gay Association, was once associated with NAMBLA. Years ago. And expelled them. And haven't been associated with since.
misc Gay Law Soldiers On Just because the governor put a stop to marriage equality a few months ago, don't think gay legislation is down for the count. There's still plenty of work to be done: next week,
SF News "The Daily Show" Takes on the Perils of Pelosi Yes, our beautiful city and it's congressional representative once again made the "Daily Show." Yay! And could we be more provincial? Anyways, the bit was on latest political meme being that despite all
SF News Home Is Where the Depot Is Neither are opponents of Home Depot. Leading opponent Tom Ammiano said the vote "sucks." And Jake McGoldrick said that Home Depot came "into our community and caused deep and perhaps lasting harm by
SF News SFist Votes Folks who voted before work were smiling and nodding at each other on public transportation today (in part because -- really, these red "I Voted! Ya Vote!" stickers they're giving out in SF
SF News The SFist Guide To Election 2005: The Local Stuff Wait, what's that you say? There's lots of political bickering in San Francisco? Well blow us down! We'd never have guessed. As usual, this year's local ballot features some posturing, some confusing language,
misc SFist Rants: La Cumbre Taqueria La Cumbre, on Valencia at 16th, is the kind of place people tell visitors to San Francisco to go to get some "real Mission Mexican." Heck, it's the sort of place we can
SF News Protect Our Daughters! From, uh, Childlessness. WorkinDevil Originally uploaded by Canon Fodder. Praise the Lord! The latest issue of "SF Faith: The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newspaper" is out. What do you mean, "newspaper" might not be the right
SF News Is San Francisco Going Red State? The study was done by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research who based their results on voting patterns. A flak for the study said that race was usually the determining factor as
SF News Political Junkie: We Have A Winner! The votes from Ohio are in! The hanging chads have been dimpled! The electoral college has matriculated! We're calling the SFist Hottest SF Supervisor race -- and the Marina's own Michela Alioto-Pier takes
SF News Political Junkie: Hottest Supe Elections! Oooooh, your Junkie to vote. We vote for everything: national elections, state elections, local elections, CNN QuickPolls, the SFGate Question, BizRate surveys about our Priceline experiences, those "How'd We Do?" cards where you
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 AB 849 Clears Early Hurdle Funny, we didn't see this in the Examiner, Chron or Sacramento Bee. Yesterday, the state's Senate Judiciary Committee passed Assembly Bill 849, the "Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act," by a vote
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jeffrey Anderson Worst movie of all time: Too many people dump too much abuse on horror and sci-fi movies when the real horror comes in the form of "Forrest Gump" -- truly the most monstrous
SF News The Supreme Court Bogarts That Joint By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court voted today to overturn a decision by a San Francisco federal appeals court that allowed the use of medicinal marijuana. The court ruled that in cases
SF News Stizzem Cizzells in Sucka Free, Boyee! After a selection process that left many of the participants wondering if the voting was being done completely objectively, San Francisco has been crowned the next American Id...oh, wait, never mind. We
SF News Paying More For Less We rant and we rave, but the fact is, SFist is stuck for local transport without Muni. Even if we had a car, where the hell would we park it? So when we
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 The Great Building Inspector Brouhaha of '05 During the hearing, O'Donoghue and his allies went out of their way to say they weren’t being sexist and that the Irish love their women, it's just that, well, Lee might have
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
