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Mayor Newsom engaged to actress Siebel| San Francisco Mayor proposed to actress Jennifer Siebel in Hawaii and the couple are now engaged to be married | |
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| Jan.3 |
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Court arguments in health insurance case |
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| Jan.4 |
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Mayor plans low-key sworn-in affair |
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| Jan.10 |
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Embattled Supervisor Ed Jew Resigns Post In exchange for the resignation, city officials dropped their ethics investigation and a lawsuit that sought to remove Jew from the Board of...
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| Jan.18 |
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City lawyers can inspect phones, not car
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| Jan.19 |
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Investigators ordered to patrol streets
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| Jan.30 |
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Restaurants asked to ban trans fats The city Board of Supervisors is asking all restaurants to take artery-clogging trans fats off their menus
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| Feb.7 |
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TIC owners decry condo conversion rules |
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| Feb.26 |
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Academy of Art saving Flower Mart
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| Feb.28 |
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$1.6m in reverse discrimination suit
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Nightclub reforms to make loitering a crime |
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| Mar.5 |
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City to pay $21M to family of crash victim
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| Mar.9 |
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Newsom Considers Run For Governor
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| Mar.12 |
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Payment for hurt in altercation w/officer
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| Mar.17 |
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Tibet Activists Want Torch Run Canceled A group of protestors in support of a free Tibet were unsuccessful in their efforts to ask Mayor Newsom to cancel the Olympic ceremony in the...
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| Mar.19 |
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City Hall handicap ramp will cost $1 Million Wheelchair-bound Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier can't access parts of the Supervisor's Chambers; the facility doesn't comply with handicap l...
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| Mar.25 |
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Activists want torch route to plan protests |
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Supe Looks To Curb Business Energy Use
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| Mar.27 |
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Supes Consider Dueling Torch Measures |
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| Apr.2 |
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City officials move to cut overtime pay
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| Apr.4 |
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Feds wants city to return $5.4m grant
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| Apr.18 |
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Torch visit cost hundreds of thousands |
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| Apr.26 |
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Cindy Sheehan plans to run for Congress
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| May.6 |
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Mission Paint Store Okd
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| May.16 |
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Firm picked to install SF solar power system
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Same-sex ruling victory for mayor The ruling was a personal and political triumph on an issue that has come to define Newsom on the national stage. He explores a run for gove...
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| May.22 |
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Harvey Milk sculpture unveiled at city hall A bronze bust of the first openly gay politician to win an elected office of any prominence
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| May.28 |
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Same-sex marriages to begin June 17
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| Jun.12 |
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Different sort of free Wi-Fi starts to thrive
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| Jun.16 |
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Same-Sex Couples Get Married Mayor Gavin Newsom presided at the wedding of Del Martin, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 84, in recognition of their long relationship
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| Jun.19 |
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ExxonMobil sued over F. wharf pollution
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| Jun.27 |
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NRA sues to overturn gun ban| The National Rifle Association sued the city to overturn its handgun ban in public housing | |
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| Jun.30 |
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City denies liability in tiger attack
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| Jul.2 |
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Sanctuary Policy Questioned After Escape| An effort by the city to shield 8 Honduran crack dealers from federal officials backfired when the youths escaped from group homes | |
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| Jul.3 |
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Mayor confronts backlash over sanctuary
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| Jul.10 |
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Newsom's Story On Sanctuary Not Add Up
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| Jul.12 |
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City to create car-free party zone City plans to turn 6 miles of city streets into a pedestrian-only party zone from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 31 and Sept. 14
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| Jul.15 |
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Engineer tampered with new S.F. network
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| Jul.22 |
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$6.4 Billion City Budget Adopted The Board of Supervisors approved a $6.4 billion budget for the coming fiscal year, despite strong opposition from some in the community
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| Jul.23 |
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Mayor visits city engineer in jail, gets codes Terry Childs had been accused of withholding the access codes and has been jailed on felony counts
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Clean energy ballot measure approved
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Triple murder turns focus on sanctuary Edwin Ramos, 21, is an illegal immigrant who had managed to avoid deportation despite previous brushes with the law
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| Jul.26 |
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Newsom marries actress Siebel in Montana| 40-year old San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to marries 34-year-old Jennifer Lynn Siebel at Siebel's parents' ranch. It is the Siebel's first marriage and the second for the Newsom, who divorced legal analyst Kimberly Guilfoyle in 2006. Newsom met the actr... | |
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| Aug.1 |
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City plan to inspect residents' garbage
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| Aug.2 |
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SF to pay millions in grants back to feds Authorities have so far provided justification for only 127 of more than 2,300 border prosecution cases the city has billed to a feds
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| Aug.7 |
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Moody's raises city's debt rating
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Newsom Tones Down Recycling Proposal
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New mission for Zoo approved
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| Aug.23 |
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Appeals court against strip search policy
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| Aug.28 |
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Fire commission rejects settlement City fire commission has rejected a proposed city settlement with the family of a Seattle man who fell to his death during a rescue attempt
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| Sep.3 |
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SFPD Launches Effort To Curb Robberies
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| Sep. 15 |
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30 Months For City Hall Bomb Threat Devon Craft, 22, was previously pleaded guilty to threatening terrorist attacks on numerous San Francisco buildings
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| Sep. 16 |
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Officials vote against zoo plan City officials have rejected a plan to turn the zoo into a sanctuary for rescued animals
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| Oct. 1 |
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Water plan calls for more conservation City have released a plan that calls for conservation and recycling over the next decade to meet the needs of the 2.5 million Bay Area resid...
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| Oct. 4 |
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Grand jury probes city sanctuary policy A federal grand jury is investigating the city's policy of offering sanctuary to illegal immigrants
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Homeless Groups Protest Over Cuts Homeless advocate groups marched on City Hall to protest policies that are threatening to reduce funding to some homeless services programs
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| Yesterday |
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Ed Jew Pleads Guilty To Corruption Ex-SF supervisor pleaded guilty to three felony charges and admitted to trying to shake down city business owners with planning permit problems