Archive for November, 2008

North Beach is the recipient of a new piece of artwork, and the unveiling draws a marching band, scantily-clad interpretive dancers, and even a few local politicians.

Willie Brown discusses the woes of cab drivers, applying to the Obama administration, and a few recent parties in San Francisco.

The team discusses Bonds’ new spokesmanship deal, going green at City Hall, and art for sale at the Chamber of Commerce.

C.W. Nevius discusses how far Dennis Herrera has come, and what he might end up doing next.

Mayor Newsom is criticized for his recent trip to Montana.

The Washington Blade interviews the San Francisco Mayor about his role in Prop 8 and his plan for a gubernatorial run.

San Francisco Recreation and Park Department to lay off employees in order to help meet its decreased budget.

Choose only one answer.  San Francisco Superintendent Carlos Garcia announces that the achievement gap between Latinos and African-Americans, and Asians and whites is: (A) getting smaller, slowly but surely; (B) getting wider; (C) staying the same; or (D) cannot be determined.  Answer: Read up to find out!

Mayor Ed Lee’s office has announced a plan to provide free electric vehicle charging stations at SFO and city owned parking garages that could transform the future of driving in San Francisco. And the craziest thing about this? It’s all being charged with hydroelectric power! (I’m sorry, but that is SO cool!)

A Chron columnist describes how a new development on 6th Street may possess a formula to create enough new housing opportunities to allow the City to move past the forgettable era of "live/work" units.

Melissa Griffin details (er…reenacts?) an exchange between two Supervisors over the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan and provides an update on last year’s Christmas Day Tiger Mauling.

We’ve reviewed all the entries, compared your predictions with the data from the Department of Elections, and can announce that Hope Johnson has taken first place in our “Best Political Mind in San Francisco” contest. More than two months before the election, Hope correctly predicted all the Supervisorial race outcomes, and did so with greater accuracy than her competition. Amazingly, Hope predicted three of the seven Supervisorial races within one point of accuracy.

Jason Fried finishes second to Hope in our main contest, and wraps up third place as well by correctly predicting fourteen out of the fifteen races for Supervisor, College Board and School Board. Hope wins $500, and Jason $350. Congratulations to you both - and thank you for helping us raise $2355 for San Francisco non-profits along the way!

CLICK HERE for detailed results of our contest.

The entries have been sorted and reviewed, and we’ve compared your predictions with data from the Department of Elections. And what did we find? Ladies and Gentlemen, the winner of our Best Political Mind in San Francisco contest is …. Hope Johnson. Winning second and third place …. Jason Fried. Click Here to read all the details about how shockingly accurate they were, more than two months before the election. (Hope predicted three Supervisorial races within one percentage point of their eventual outcomes - holy cow!)

Congratulations to you both!

The Guardian asks, hypothetically, what Harvey Milk might think of our political city today.

A building housing a federal job corps program on Treasure Island is named for the former Supervisor.

The Guardian examines the plans to merge the Taxi Commission with the Municipal Transportation Agency.

The Weekly’s Joe Eskenazi takes a look at the political fortunes of our City Attorney.

SF Weekly columnist Matt Smith comments on legislation proposed that would have changed how public noticing works in San Francisco.

In order to get an accurate read on parking demand for the upcoming SFpark program, the City is installing parking senors in Hayes Valley to monitor the flow.

Football stability, revolving political doors, and hearing from Ed Jew’s attorney what he thinks his client ought to have done differently.

As he prepares to leave his family and go to prison, Ed Jew sits down with Vic Lee for a fascinating interview.  Yes, you can watch the video through the Big Tubes on all the Internets.

John King writes about the lack of a centralized location for public gatherings, and what’s being done about that.

Senator Feinstein takes a few moments to reflect upon the tragedy of the Milk and Moscone assassinations.

As the City mandates green building standards, the costs to upgrade our City’s libraries spirals upwards.