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Perambulate is a great word, isn’t it? It sounds like something a fancy fop in a waistcoat and coattails would do after dinner. And that’s because it is! To perambulate is to go for a walk, and lately I’ve been perambulating like the top-hatted, riding-booted, cane-carrying geezer on the Johnnie

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A bombshell report in today’s San Francisco Examiner shows that a top City Hall department head, who had just resigned in good graces after 11 years on the job, was perhaps not in such graces after all. Turns out the official had directed $1.2 million in city contracts to their

History is a tricky thing. It’s rare that you can perceive the exact moment a cultural shift occurs while it’s actually happening. Usually the slow, steady, relentlessness of time obscures the importance of events, and it’s not until you look back that you realize “That! That was the moment everything

Guest Post by Amy Farah Weiss Recall Fever on Social Media Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez’s latest Examiner column provided the first media mention of burgeoning efforts to place a recall vote of Mayor Lee on the upcoming November 2016 ballot. When “Rise of the Recall” was posted on the Vote 1-2-3 Facebook