Mayor Gavin Newsom’s plan to put a new kind of court in the crime- and drug-plagued Tenderloin neighborhood is in jeopardy after a Board of Supervisors committee Wednesday refused to approve a $500,000 allocation for the project.

This November, San Francisco voters will be asked to make decisions on a wide range of changes — from whether to grant more authority to city legislators over redevelopment projects to making a move towards more city-owned power.

San Francisco could put more police officers on the street by cutting the number of police stations in The City by half, according to a study released Tuesday.

A controversial plan to build a new natural gas-burning power plant at Potrero Hill to replace a more polluting plant in the same area is slated to go before a Board of Supervisors subcommittee on Monday.

The City will argue before a Superior Court judge today that two dangerous intersections should be exempted from an injunction that has stalled implementation of San Francisco’s bike plan.

While a higher percentage of San Francisco playgrounds is getting top marks, according to a study done by local park advocates, one in five is in poor condition and could pose safety risks to the children playing there.

San Francisco’s public schools are in line to receive $17.9 million to $19.7 million in city funds from a “rainy day” reserve, Mayor Gavin Newsom is expected to announce today.

The City is paying landlords nearly $40 million annually in rent for parking, office space and other government uses while it faces a $338 million budget deficit.

It is difficult, and generally a bad idea, to argue that although painful cutbacks must be made during a major budget deficit, one particular line item should be spared if at all possible. But that is exactly The Examiner’s recommendation about the current proposal to eliminate one of the San Francisco Police Academy’s five scheduled 2008 classes.

More than a decade after a fire took the lives of a grandmother and five children living in a public housing project in The City, the San Francisco Housing Authority is taking steps to pay court-ordered millions to affected family members.