A new plan to legalize marijuana in California would create a $1 billion tokin' tax and thousands of green jobs. Now that's a stimulus plan!
By Katharine Mieszkowski Mar 3, 2009
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Let Republicans act clueless while Obama rallies the country around school construction and aid to locals, and wins back higher ground.
By Joan Walsh
February 11, 2009
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Sean Penn leaps to the front of the Oscar race with his uncanny invocation of the slain gay-rights leader. Gus Van Sant's vibrant biopic meets the challenge -- almost.
By Andrew O'Hehir
November 26, 2008
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The drug- and homeless-infested city portrayed in a Fox report shows what the whole country will become under Obama.
By Jeanne Carstensen
November 19, 2008
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Two years ago, high oil prices made Rob Anderson's crusade against bike lanes look dumb. Today, words fail.
By Andrew Leonard
August 20, 2008
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"Beautiful Losers" chronicles the art rebels of the '90s, fueled by punk, skateboarding, graffiti and trash culture. Now brought to you by Nike!
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 7, 2008
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Six years ago she said she never wanted to see me again. The other day she called.
By Cary Tennis
August 6, 2008
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Every Olympics is a miniature world -- and leaves you feeling more hopeful about the human race than you were before.
By Gary Kamiya
August 5, 2008
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San Franciscans may get a chance to vote to name their sewage treatment plant in honor of President Bush.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
June 24, 2008
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Meet the lesbian pioneers who will be San Francisco's first legally married same-sex couple.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
June 10, 2008
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A political ad burning up the Internet tries to link a Democratic congressional candidate to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco and gay people.
By Alex Koppelman
May 21, 2008
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April in the Sierra foothills is the cruelest month -- and the most beautiful.
By Gary Kamiya
April 22, 2008
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The Olympic torch ducks out of sight in San Francisco, leaving the streets to thousands of politicians.
By King Kaufman
April 10, 2008
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Feeling old and in the way, I revived my spirits among the beautiful young wired generation out West.
By Garrison Keillor
March 12, 2008
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In a San Francisco appearance, Bill Clinton talks about the need for blogs at all levels of government.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
February 4, 2008
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Last week 58,000 gallons of oil spilled into the San Francisco Bay. It could not have come at a worse time for the million birds stopping to rest on their journey south.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
November 17, 2007
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Popular proposals to choke off federal support to immigrant-friendly "sanctuary cities" would also dry up anti-terror funding for the cities most at risk.
By Alex Koppelman
October 4, 2007
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Bill Walsh transformed football into a work of art, and gave San Francisco a boost when the city needed it most.
By Gary Kamiya
August 7, 2007
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"The Bronx Is Burning": Eight-part soaper/cop show about the '77 Yankees and the Son of Sam is a big step forward for ESPN.
July 3, 2007
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Raised to worship the New York Times on Sundays, I found myself going to church and praying instead. I thought a lot about God and flesh and blood -- and didn't tell my friends I was becoming a religious freak.
By Sara Miles
February 17, 2007
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On Feb. 14, same-sex couples make their love official -- just not with a marriage license.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
February 12, 2007
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Why did Ruby Rippey-Tourk confess her affair with the San Francisco mayor to her husband? What good would that do?
By Cary Tennis
February 9, 2007
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San Francisco Mayor's testy exchange with a reporter regarding "the drinking."
By David Puner
February 7, 2007
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S/M media giant Kink.com stirred up controversy by announcing plans to move its headquarters into San Francisco's Mission District. But for Kink's performers, sex is all in a day's work.
By Stephen Elliott
February 7, 2007
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It's not the federal government or law enforcement or the people who tried to rescue him from the Oregon wilderness.
By Sarah Keech
January 11, 2007
Everybody must get stoned
Party on, GOP
The man who blew up America's closets
Bill O'Reilly is very afraid of San Francisco 
The bane of San Francisco cycling
The art world's Pepsi Generation
Can a fractured friendship be renewed?
Let the games begin!
"I now pronounce you wife and wife" 
Life, death and spring
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
My San Francisco buzz
Oiled migration
Congress to New York (and Chicago and L.A.): Drop dead
His beautiful game
My daily bread
Gavin Newsom, before the flood
My day at the Porn Palace
Who's to blame for James Kim's death?
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald