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    Lesson Learned
    Beaten in the mayor's election, S.F. lefties vow to sign up absentee voters for future campaigns
    By Lessley Anderson
    Published: March 3, 2004

    Boris Delepine was optimistic as he drove out of the Excelsior District toward City Hall on election night last December. A full-time volunteer for mayoral aspirant Matt Gonzalez, Delepine, 31, had...

  2. Bay View

    Dead Man Running
    "Kucinich is, like, The normal laws of physics don't apply to me.'"
    By Lessley Anderson
    Published: February 25, 2004

    "Excuse me, sir, have you heard of Dennis Kucinich?" The young man in the Abercrombie & Fitch sweat shirt glanced down at the flier being offered to him on Muni. He smiled vaguely at Hillsman...

  3. Bay View

    Bugging Out
    The feds hold up germ experiments at Los Alamos National Lab
    By Ron Russell
    Published: February 11, 2004

    Facing a court challenge, the U.S. Department of Energy has delayed plans for a controversial biodefense lab at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. But DOE officials insist that a similar...

  4. Bay View

    Signs of the Times
    Have advertisers found a way to end-run S.F.'s ban on billboards?
    By Matt Palmquist
    Published: February 4, 2004

    It's been nearly two years since the passage of Proposition G, the anti-billboard measure supported by 77 percent of San Francisco voters, and in that time, the city has remained mostly untouched...

  5. Bay View

    Settling Things Quietly
    In newly unsealed court documents, S.F.'s archbishop makes an eyebrow-raising comment in the case of a pedo-priest
    By Ron Russell
    Published: January 14, 2004

    As part of a secret settlement with a whistle-blower priest authorized by San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada more than a year ago, the church acknowledged, however grudgingly, that Father...

  6. Bay View

    Parking Break
    Want parking fines to go away without paying? Sign up with S.F.'s "best-kept secret."
    By Sue Landsittel
    Published: December 10, 2003

    It's 10:42 a.m. on a Tuesday, and a street sweeper has just taken its best shot at removing grime and God knows what else from an uninterrupted stretch of San Francisco curb. The empty space...

  7. Bay View

    Plugged
    An elections commissioner's on the hot seat after his name appears on a DA's endorsement list
    By Ron Russell
    Published: December 3, 2003

    San Francisco's beleaguered Elections Commission, ridiculed as ineffectual in advancing instant runoff voting, once again has been hit by controversy, this time over allegations that its vice...

  8. Bay View

    Making Nice
    City and state elections officials finally strike a harmonious note in their erratic efforts to roll out IRV
    By Ron Russell
    Published: November 26, 2003

    After months of foot-dragging and finger-pointing, San Francisco elections officials – with a boost from California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley – at last appear ready and willing to get an...

  9. Bay View

    A Fine Mess
    A monumental sewage eruption shows tenants the downside of living in the Presidio
    By M.J.F. Stewart
    Published: October 22, 2003

    At 11:38 on the morning of July 25, Blake Manning, a 23-year-old 7-Eleven clerk, awoke to what sounded like a rushing waterfall in the Presidio apartment he shared with two roommates. "Dark water...

  10. Bay View

    Dumping Sophie
    On the heels of Gov. Davis' recall, angry constituents are trying to oust Supervisor Sophie Maxwell
    By Lisa Davis
    Published: October 22, 2003

    Recall fever has hit southeastern San Francisco, where some constituents of Supervisor Sophie Maxwell are collecting signatures for her ouster. The District 10 Alliance, a newly formed group of...

  11. Bay View

    Water on the Brain
    One energy executive claims a tidal system that meets the city's electric needs could be built in over 20 years, at a cost of $1.5 billion
    By Jack Cheevers
    Published: October 15, 2003

    Buried in the avalanche of rhetoric in this fall's mayoral race is one of the more interesting ideas to emerge from local politics in some time: harnessing tidal movements in San Francisco Bay to...

  12. Bay View

    Glowing Review
    The Navy says radiation levels are within federal safety guidelines, but are higher than what is legally acceptable for the property to be transferred
    By Lisa Davis
    Published: October 1, 2003

    Sculptors who are members of the Point, an artist community at the former Hunters Point Shipyard, have been notified that the building where they've been working -- in some cases for years -- is...

  13. Bay View

    Connerly's Con
    Ward Connerly says his new anti-racism initiative won't have any real impact on California. Critics beg to differ.
    By Bernice Yeung
    Published: September 10, 2003

    Anticipating vociferous opposition that could sink him politically, UC Regent Ward Connerly attached a laundry list of exemptions to his Proposition 54, an initiative on the Oct. 7 ballot designed...

  14. Bay View

    Archbishop's Thorn
    A priest removed from his church following allegations of sexual abuse appeals to the Vatican
    By Ron Russell
    Published: August 27, 2003

    A Roman Catholic priest who openly resisted San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada's order that he step aside as pastor of a Belmont church after he was accused of sexual misconduct has been...

  15. Bay View

    Unintended Consequences
    Right-wingers cooked up the Gray Davis recall only to see it hijacked by a political moderate named Arnold
    By Peter Byrne
    Published: August 20, 2003

    Beginning last January, right-wing San Francisco radio talk show host Melanie Morgan gleefully began throwing her wattage behind the gathering movement to recall Gov. Gray Davis. Morgan, co-host...

  16. Bay View

    Zoned Out
    For her hot new dog-mauling book Red Zone, eye-pleasing author Aphrodite Jones re-created dialogue and scenes; her publisher and the Chron don't seem to mind
    By Matt Palmquist
    Published: August 6, 2003

    The dedication that begins Red Zone , billed on its blood-colored cover as "the behind-the-scenes story of the San Francisco dog mauling," gives the first hint that the next 300 pages are bound to...

  17. Bay View

    Holy War on the Peninsula
    S.F. Archbishop Levada wants an embattled priest to leave his post at a Belmont parish. The cleric refuses to go.
    By Ron Russell
    Published: July 30, 2003

    A Roman Catholic priest accused of sexual impropriety is openly resisting San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada's order that he step aside as pastor in Belmont. "I have rights, too," Father...

  18. Bay View

    Bickering Bikram
    A copyright dispute pits yoga king Bikram Choudhury against competitors and followers alike
    By Bernice Yeung
    Published: July 16, 2003

    It is minutes before the 5:30 p.m. Bikram yoga class at Funky Door Yoga on Polk Street, and about three dozen students have taken their places in a sparse, sunlit studio. They sit cross-legged on...

  19. Bay View

    Damn, That Hurts!
    It's the dirty little secret of male distance runners: bloody nipples
    By Christopher Togneri
    Published: June 25, 2003

    As Jakub Plichta toed the starting line, he tried to prepare himself for the impending agony. There would be shinsplints and shooting knee pain. There would be too many muscle cramps to count....

  20. Bay View

    Former Pimp Laid Low
    Muni union official suspended over racy book on whoremongering past; sexual harassment alleged
    By Lessley Anderson
    Published: June 25, 2003

    James Robinson, a vice president in the labor union that represents Municipal Railway drivers, was suspended from office earlier this month following the publication of an SF Weekly story that...

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