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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It sounds to me, and even just looking at some of the proofs here, that it will stand out. People who are fans of Hunter, these are the questions, the things we’re interested in.
Nobody’s done this stuff. Well, I mean, there’s this book about Ramparts now, and I did a memoir thing way back [If You Have a Lemon, Make Lemonade: An Essential Memoir of a Lunatic Decade], but all the artwork that’s in there, even up through S. Clay [Wilson], that stuff, when you see it all together you go, “Jesus, what is this stuff?”

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By John Shanley Tough Night for Parents, Especially Natives, in DCCC Race… Tuesday night’s election results suggest that when it comes to candidates for  the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) it was a bad night for parents as candidates, especially for native San Franciscans who have spent their whole lives in the city. […]

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By Warren Hinckle First, the Supervisors chipped away at the Mayor’s powers and gave them to the Board. Then, Daly and Peskin changed the rules of the Democratic Party. Now, they plan to gain control of the Party endorsement process in the primary election to make certain that only their people will be elected to […]

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Without a doubt, Private Eye, the Brit political-satirical periodical, has done well with this current cover on the Vatican’s issues with its aging pedophiles. If you wish to download this profane image to pdf format to make your own post card or poster a a glossy to frame for your bathroom wall, see below (& […]

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We can’t figure why this story hasn’t been all over local media,  but here it Is: A Republican State Senator from Bakersfield was busted on a DUI after-bar hours closing Tuesday, the facts of the DUI, not so unusual, were reported on the news wires. The back story came up in the gay press – […]

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By John Calder, The street  in front of the Ferry Building is named after Herb Caen to honor The beloved San Francisco columnist who died on February 1, 1997. Our proposal is this: to add a neon three dots to the PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO neon  sign on the Ferry Building tower. Native San Franciscan […]

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By John Calder The builder of Fermilab, R.R. Wilson, perhaps explained best why studying fundamental physics is so important in his testimony before the Congress of the United States in 1969. Congress was looking for some sort of justification in spending $200 million. Robert Wilson: American Hero What follows is an excerpt from Wilson’s testimony […]

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At Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, screening is done in 30 minutes. The key? Look passengers in the eye. From Our Transportation Correspondent, Peter Buxton: By Cathal Kelly, Toronto Star While North America’s airports groan under the weight of another sea-change in security protocols, one word keeps popping out of the mouths of experts: […]

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