Overheard in Fog City: Daly in D5?
According to Daly, who resides a stone's throw away from the District 6/5 border at the intersection of Stevenson and McCoppin streets, he will consider a run for the D5…
Filling Prison Beds for Profit
At year-end 2010, America's prison population topped 2.4 million, including federal and state facilities, local jails, Indian, juvenile, and military ones, US territories, and numbers held by the Immigration and…
Adachi Pension Reform Measure Qualifies for Ballot
Voters will be asked to consider Adachi's proposal and a "consensus" proposal sponsored by Mayor Ed Lee and backed by financier Warren Hellman, as well as police and firefighter unions.…
Candidates Weigh In On Possible Ed Lee Candidacy
The Board of Supervisors appointed Lee to the post of interim mayor in January to complete Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom’s term as mayor on the condition and explicit understanding that…
Bock and Onek Gang Up on Gascón,
Vu Trinh Makes Refreshing Debut
In the race for San Francisco District Attorney, Alameda County Prosectur Sharmin Bock, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, former Police Commissioner David Onek and former Orange County Public Defender…
Arntz: Adachi Pension Reform Measure
Qualifying With “Comfortable Margin”
Expectations are that Public Defender Jeff Adachi's pension reform measure, dubbed "Son of Prop B," will qualify for the November ballot. Adachi said he pre-qualified the signatures before submission to…
Excluded From SFPOA Mayoral Forum, Tony Hall Releases Statement
Tomorrow there is to be a mayoral 'forum' held by the San Francisco Police Officers Association and moderated by a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. I inquired of the…