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The Examiner reports on the dark clouds looming over the second Sunday Streets festival this year and why organizers are hopeful the rain will not discourage citizens from attending.

The impacts of the declining price of cardboard are felt on the streets of San Francisco.

The San Francisco Examiner launched a Sunday Edition of the paper on July 13th but neglected to print a routine announcement causing the Board of Supervisors to cancel this week’s meeting.

City Attorney Herrera petitions the Superior Court to change bike lane regulations at hazardous, high-traffic locations.

The Examiner voices support for the Mayor’s proposal to close much of the Embarcadero on two Sundays this summer.

The Board of Supervisors is critical of a program proposed by the Mayor to give sixth-graders coupons for cultural activities.

The City unveils its plan for improving San Francisco’s streetscapes.

City Clerk alerts Mayor’s Office that the city seal was not being used appropriately on a website that sold goods related to Sunday Streets.

The Examiner team reports that Muni’s Board of Directors will be voting on stricter drug regulations for its transit providers on Tuesday.  Among the changes are a larger list of controlled substances and more frequent testing because the sight of intoxicated bus drivers barreling down the streets of San Francisco just sounds like a recipe for disaster.

The Chronicle gives us its two cents on the measure proposed by Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier that would enact Laura’s Law in SF, which would provide court mandated drug treatment to many frequenting our city’s streets.

A new wave of ambulances and sirens could be hitting the streets soon as three private ambulance providers propose to respond to 911 calls in the city.

The Bay Guardian takes a look at one of the Bay Area’s most contentious topics these days.  No, not the SFPD crime lab or sit/lie in the Haight, transportation.  Muni, neighborhood streets, bike policy, you name it: the SFBG’s got you covered today.

It’s the Sunday Internet Holdback over at the Chron - and what got held back?  Matier and Ross cover the Harris/Kelly fight in the Dem primary for AG, where the polls stand in the Whitman/Poisner fight in the Reep primary for Gov, what’s what with Arizona boycott news, and a candidate for Interim Mayor.  (A job you undoubtedly didn’t know we didn’t have.)  And Willie Brown talks up doorman jokes, the independence of a local pol, what’s what with cabbies, and his personal views on renaming Third Street.

… or up to 500 clams if Supervisor Daly gets his way.  The District 6 Elected introduced legislation to make it illegal to tell a lie on city streets.

Susan Sward of the New York Times weighs in on the abundance of potholes plaguing San Francisco’s streets and why this may only be the beginning.

Nope – we’re not doing an advertisement for the ‘80s new wave band.  We’re pointing out that you’re going to have to buy a Chron today – or wait until Tuesday – to read about what Willie Brown has to say about Newsom and the LG race, statewide politics, and how limping and forgetting members of the Black Eyed Peas are related.  But, what good fortune awaits our readers as Matier and Ross is again magically available online after three weeks of online silence on Sundays. All the while, the print version maliciously tells us that we can only read the prose of our dynamic duo with the paper in hand.  Oh, to what do we owe this Sunday harvest of journalistic intrigue?

In an attempt to raise revenues, the New York Times will start charging users for the majority of their online content in 2011.  This will likely have reverberations for newspapers throughout the country — though I’d like to think this move is reflective of the Chronicle’s recent decision to limit its Sunday online content.  You know what they say: as goes the San Francisco Chronicle, so goes the New York Times!

Each Sunday, two of our favorite Chronicle columns deliver a political gossip fix that makes the approaching Monday slightly more bearable. The words of Matier & Ross and former Mayor Willie Brown are an essential part of our weekend routine but alas, we’ll no longer be able to share them with you until Tuesday each week. Starting today, these must-read columns for politicos are only available in the paper’s print edition. So skip your morning latte and use those three bucks to buy a paper people. Or just hold your breath for a few days and hope you haven’t missed anything too juicy!

On Sunday, the Chronicle offered an in-depth look at Board of Supes’ President David Chiu.

Apparently, our city streets aren’t in great shape. And for just $249M, we can keep them that way.

The Examiner takes a look at a new policy that allows elected officials to receive event tickets without officially classifying them as gifts.  Until further notice, the Board will be meeting on Sunday afternoons at Candlestick Park, somewhere around the 50-yard line.

This column appeared in the New York Times yesterday, but it was too fabulicious for us to pass up.  San Francisco-based author Andrew Sean Greer opines on the sanctity of Sunday routines and gives a Shout Out to one of his favorite political news websites, The Usual Suspects.  Thank you, Mr. Greer.  We aim to please.

As a pilot project extending meter hours to Sunday is set to begin, the MTA looks to the Board of Supervisors to gauge their opinions.

The City is back with a new plan that may blow a hole in your Bubble Yum.  That’s right.  In these tough economic times anything can be hit up for a fee.  On the heels of the tobacco fee’s success, Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Department of Public Works are exploring a chewing gum fee to keep the city’s streets pristine.

Who’s for a tax to fix the City’s potholes?  After examining twenty different ways to fix our bumpy streets, the Street Resurfacing Finance Working Group (nope, I did not make that up - that’s the real name) thinks a tax is the way to go.  Members of the Street Resurfacing Tea Party Ninja Squaredancing Working Group did not return this reporter’s calls by our deadline.  Oh, and please visit the Suspects Political Organization Generator.  Enjoy.