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The day before Mayor Gavin Newsom announced he would run for lieutenant governor, he spent hours with the city's labor leaders discussing how to bridge the deficit. Saturday, he took a few hours to dial up the homes of truant kids. The point Newsom likes to make is that even though he announced Friday he's running for lieutenant governor, he plans to be as involved and hands-on as possible in running the city."This city is in my blood," Newsom...  

Mommy and daddy, we wish you'd stop fighting. Is it because we're bad? Do you hate us? We promise to be good if you stop hating each other. Because when we read this: The Bay Guardian's total disregard of SF Weekly's lenders' senior lien rights have led those banks to ask a Delaware court to issue a temporary restraining order and injunction that would end Bruce Brugmann's increasingly frantic efforts to bleed money from the Weekly. The...  

As sources confirmed that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to officially announce his run for lieutenant governor of California sometime Friday, on Thursday night that decision was not sitting well with some residents of the city by the bay.  

SAN FRANCISCO -- Months after abruptly dropping his bid to be California's governor, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced Friday that ... seven-to-one in fundraising to then unannounced-candidate Jerry Brown. The 71-year-old Brown, the state's ...  

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom on Friday said he is running for lieutenant governor of California so he can fix "what's wrong in Sacramento." "I'm also convinced that those of us who love this state have both an obligation and the capacity now to reform it and make it better. To do that, we need to embrace a new way of doing things in Sacramento and we need new leaders who are willing to stand up and change...  

San Francisco Gavin Newsom announced a plan to reduce the hours of thousands of city employees; a move which he said will stave off mass layoffs. The plan calls for department heads to issue pink slips to about 15,000 workers on Friday - technically laying them off, said Newsom. The city will then re-hire the employees with a new schedule of 37.5 hours per week, instead of 40. That would amount to an approximately 6.25-percent pay cut, he said.  

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday fined a Hong Kong-based company $10 million after the cargo ship it operated caused a massive oil spill in San Francisco Bay in 2007. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston also ordered Fleet Management Inc. to better train its officers in navigation and safety. Court documents showed the company acknowledging its crew was poorly trained and the master failed to stop...  

"With new multimedia tours, inventive collaborations with local and international artists and, most significantly, ambitious new expansion plans, the museum is intent on looking ahead. Two weeks ago, officials said they had raised $250 million in just six months, letting the museum double its endowment and put $150 million toward the building of a new wing and other development."...  

Filipino-American Tim Lincecum became the highest-paid pitcher in his first year of eligibility in Major League Baseball (MLB) after signing a $23 million two-year deal with the San Francisco Giants. According to a report by SFGate.com, the 25-year-old Lincecum will earn $8 million this season, aside from getting a $1 million signing bonus. He will also [...]  

San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito gets out of his car while arriving for spring training baseball at Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale, Ariz., Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. The first workout for Giants pitchers and catchers is on Thursday.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg) Making a case for the Giants' Barry Zito. [SF Weekly] SF's planning department blamed for blight of unrenovated Alexandria Theater. [Appeal] Democrats mean to suburbanites...  

Barsuk Records artist Laura Veirs comes to San Francisco to play Cafe Du Nord for a 21+ show on March 10. //to read the rest of this article please visit The Foghorn Online. Thank you!  

A woman who died after apparently falling overboard from a ferry into the San Francisco Bay Friday morning has been identified as 28-year-old Shayla Hudson, according to a spokesman for the San Francisco Medical Examiner's office.  

Today, at least, there is fog all over San Francisco Bay. I can see it from the front window. I should have taken a picture – all you could see of the city were the tops of the Transamerica Pyramid and the Bank of American Bldg. But it’s tule fog – blown from inland through [...]  

After restoring power to thousands of customers along the Peninsula following an outage this evening, PG&E crews were working to restore another outage in San Francisco that briefly knocked out lights on the Bay Bridge, a utility spokesman said.