By Our City Hall Correspondent Democratic Party Boss Aaron Peskin ate his own gun last night. Peskin fired a political bullet at San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, challenging his right as the state Democratic Party’s nominee for Lt. Governor of California, to name a representative to vote on the city’s 26-member Democratic County Central Committee [...]

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By Our Political Correspondent Mayor Gavin Newsom has appointed former deputy City Attorney John Shanley as his ex-offico representative on the San Francisco Democratic Party Central Committee. According to people familiar with the situation, former Board of Supervisors president Aaron Peskin has engaged legal counsel and will challenge the mayor’s appointment to the party panel [...]

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By John Shanley Editors Note – John Shanley is a native San Franciscan.  He is a former spokesperson for District Attorney Terence Hallinan and recently served as a deputy city attorney assigned to the San Francisco Police Department. My phone started ringing on Friday afternoon as word began to spread that newly appointed San Francisco [...]

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An early San Francisco Alms House — from The Annals of SanFrancisco, 1855 Supervisors Vote Would Doom Venerated Hospital as Home of Last Resort For the City’s Elderly Poor Board Puts Off Final Action, Schedules to Again Reconsider Vote Next Week Elsband, Heeding West of Twin Peaks Outrage, Succeeds in Delaying Tactic; Daly Plays The [...]

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Arthur Bruzzone interviewing Warren Hinckle on San Francisco View more clips of this interview online

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