San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom arrived in Austin, Texas, on Saturday to address the Netroots Nation conference. Newsom, who launched an exploratory ...
Gavin Newsom | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
San Francisco is one of the greenest cities in the country because we did not wait for Washington. We are taking action now to green our environment and our economy from the ground up.
Kip Williams | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
The California Supreme Court ruled that it's unconstitutional to deny same-sex couples the right to marry. It's kind of a big deal.
Karen Ocamb | Posted 05.16.2008 | Politics
The decision could be overturned if a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage makes it onto the November ballot, as expected, and is passed by voters.
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
Gavin Newsom, you won a victory for a community of which you are not a part, but in which you have a vested interest. You have my thank you. You have thousands. I was wrong, it matters.
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
Thus endeth another Petraeus week on Capitol Hill. I have to say, I was impressed at the caliber of the questions asked, but severely disappointed at ...
Thinkprogress.org | Posted 04.04.2008 | Media
Last night on CNN, host Lou Dobbs expressed his displeasure at having "one of those days" when "some folks are kind of just on you." He then aired a c...
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 03.10.2008 | Home
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is one of the prettiest but alas not one of the sharpest in the Democratic pencil box. Chatting with local pundit Ph...
Jeff Chang | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
The reason Hillary won is because the Latino and Asian American votes remain emergent, not yet insurgent. Emergent voting blocs respond to leaders in their community.
Lane Hudson | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
Now we learn that he wouldn't even have a photo taken with a straight ally who is a champion for equality.
Stephanie Losee and Helaine Olen | Posted 01.24.2008 | Life
It's less than a month into the New Year, and already a mayor of a major American city finds himself embroiled in an office romance scandal.
Trevor Butterworth | Posted 01.11.2008 | Media
Few journalists, when faced with a press release claiming some new threat to our collective well being, say, "show me the numbers."
Huffington Post | Posted 01.01.2008 | Entertainment
According to the AP, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newson is engaged to actress Jennifer Siebel. Mayor Gavin Newsom, 40, proposed to his girlfriend, act...
Tom Hayden | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics
How can the highly-regarded liberal mayor of San Fransisco have granted such lengthy exemptions to taxpayer-subsidized contractors who admittedly fail to comply with the sweatfree law?
KPIX - CBS 5 San Francisco | Posted 10.18.2007 | Home
City health officials took the first tentative steps Thursday toward opening the nation's first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot u...
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HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics