Category: politics

Governor says “screw SF”

I’m back from vacation, just in time to find that governor Arnold has sent a not very subtle message to the city by the bay, and the California…

How much income would legalizing marihuana bring to California?

Rebecca Cathcart, writing in today’s NYT about Gov. Schwarzenegger calling for a study of legalizing marijuana in California, says: Sales could raise $1.2 billion to $1.34 billion in…

Begin Obama

Some pranksters civic-minded individuals replaced street signs for Bush Street in the city with Obama signs. . Image from Dawn Endico’s photostream .

Willie Brown on political ethics

Recently Willie Brown offered his take on the Blagojevich scandal. He writes: Take Caroline Kennedy, who looks like she’s in line to get Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate seat…

Video: War protest, 1967

This newsreel footage documents 1967 antiwar in San Francisco and elsewhere. .

Mayor Newsom’s press conference on California Supreme Court marriage ruling

I went over to City Hall over my lunch hour today and caught the press conference and celebration over the Supreme Court’s ruling that marriage does not depend…

“Raging Controversy” at the Goldman Awards

Yesterday I attended the Goldman Environmental Prize Awards, as I have done most years since sometime in the early 1990s. The event is held in the city’s beautiful…

Protest of Olympic torch in San Francisco

The following is an AP news story. The role of politics has dogged the Olympics almost since its founding. The 1936 games in Berlin, the 1968 games in…

San Francisco Chronicle endorses Obama

Here is what the Chronicle says about their choice: The American political system needs a period of reprieve and renewal. It needs a reprieve from a White House…

Donors to secret nonprofit revealed

“Secret” and “nonprofit” are words that should not appear together. But the donors who have been financing Arnold Schwartzenegger’s jets and luxury suites have until recently somehow managed…

Send in the tugs!

How can we prevent another catastrophic spill in the San Francisco Bay? Oil is bad enough but there are also vessels carrying chemical cargo that could potentially require…

Resignation

In one of the more Byzantine maneuvers in local politics recently, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom has requested that all city department heads and commission appointees submit their…

Rummy at Stanford

Most people think of the Bay Area as a hotbed of liberalism. Which it is. But the region was also host to a passel of robber barons. Several…

Secret List of Buildings You Can’t Photograph

I took this photo of the Bay Bridge from the Ferry Building. But a while ago when my daughter was at the Ferry Building she was accosted by…

Spat among SF Political Bloggers

So SF bloggers are dumping wine and beer on each other now, over, um, Gavin Newsom’s hair … or something … I dunno. It all smacks of desperation…