aggregated from: San Francisco Sentinel

By Mark DiCamillo and Mervin FieldThe Field PollIn the Republican U.S. Senate contest Congressman Tom Campbell is running ahead of businesswoman Carly Fiorina by six points and leads Assemblyman Chuck DeVore by nineteen points among likely GOP primar...

topics: congressman, democrat, election, primary, race

aggregated from: SFist

AP Photo/Eric Risberg Speaking of fundraising, is San Francisco Mayor and Lt. Governor candidate Gavin Newsom violating the Political Reform Act by accepting contributions from donors who gave the maximum allowable amount during his gubernatoria...

topics: campaign, candidate, committee, election, gavin-newsom

aggregated from: San Francisco Sentinel

STRANGE de JIM S ZINGERS COLLECTIONMARCH 16, 2010 By Strange de JimBeep beep! Love from StrangeTuesday, March 16 Strangie goes to David Letterman: Did you see Harry Smith s colonoscopy on The Early Show? Harry got a clean bill of health, and they...

topics: democrat, health-care, running, san-francisco

aggregated from: San Francisco Sentinel

By Shane RichmondThe London TelegraphEvan Williams, CEO of Twitter, has announced a new platform, called @Anywhere, in his keynote at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.The service will add a range of functionality, such as allowing use...

topics: amazon, festival, running, san-francisco

aggregated from: CBS Eye on Blogs

What if an elevated mass transit line ran through the Mission and Bernal Heights and then out to Daly City? From the should-never-miss Burrito Justice, who does San Francisco history blogging like few others, this was the plan in 1930:Eric Fischer br...

topics: bernal-heights, downtown, running, san-francisco, transit

aggregated from: San Francisco Sentinel

US President Barack Obama s Middle East policy has been hesitant and indecisive. Whereas he first demanded a freeze in the construction of Israeli settlements, he has since backed away from that position. This image comes from a visit to Jerusalemi...

topics: camp, campaign, candidate, climate-change, clinton

aggregated from: San Francisco Sentinel

By Michael PollackThe New York TimesPeter Graves, the cool spymaster of television's Mission Impossible and the dignified host of the Biography series, who successfully spoofed his own gravitas in the Airplane movie farces, died Sun...

topics: arts, business, city-council, government, running

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By Scott MartelleThe Los Angeles TimesThere are a lot of reasons why Laura Skandera Trombley spent 16 years working on a book about a woman whom generations of Mark Twain biographers dismissed as inconsequential to his life. But the biggest catalyst ...

topics: book, books, running, san-francisco

aggregated from: Fog City Journal

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom attached a bronze plaqueto the historic Ambassador Hotel, Wednesday, as part of a new initiativethat creates an historic preservation district in the Tenderloin.Photos by Luke ThomasBy Luke ThomasMarch 12, 2010The lur...

topics: activist, board-of-supervisors, chris-daly, design, development

aggregated from: SFist

Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist Has California ever seen a race for Lt. Governor that has gotten so much coverage? The race for a practically unknown office is getting its due as San Francisco Mayor and former gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom face...

topics: campaign, candidate, city-council, economy, environment