Melissa Griffin is a Georgia native and a graduate of Cornell Law School. After living in New York for several years, she moved to San Francisco, where she follows City Hall closely at www.thesweetmelissa.com.
Supervisor Sean Elsbernd’s drive to collect signatures for the Fix Muni Now initiative is in full swing. The point of the effort is to put a City Charter amendment on the November ballot requiring the transit operators union...
Today is the final installment of my voter guide for Tuesday’s election. We end with Proposition A, which is a tax measure for schools. (For those of you who are not my mother and thus do not have...
At the Jan. 9, 2008, ceremony where he was sworn in as mayor for a second term, Gavin Newsom announced, “We will create baby savings bonds to deposit $500 for every new resident born in our city.” The...
"I’m worried about the earthquakes out there,” my dad said to me recently. “What show was it?” I asked, knowing full well that the only reason this Alabama resident would be thinking about the...
“Also, when you go to a store and you’re buying like fruit or vegetables or a meal or something, and you know it has like high fat and it’s like a piece of chocolate, you...
QUOTE OF THE MEETING “You can’t sugar-coat s--- and call it ice cream.” — Supervisor Chris Daly at Monday’s Public Safety Committee hearing, on Mistermayor’s proposed sit-lie law. Actually, I...
Arizona is not the only candidate for the top spot on Santa Francisco’s Naughty List. British Petroleum’s recent decision to give free oil to all manner of marine life in the Gulf of Mexico has angered...
When a city employee retires, they receive a guaranteed monthly amount based on a formula that uses several factors, including the employee’s highest compensation for any one year of earnings. Proposition D on November’s ballot says...
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi just launched an effort to put a measure on November’s ballot that would increase the amount of money city employees must pay for retirement benefits. Recently, he sat down with me to...
Remember the good old days when The City’s retirement plans had a surplus? Back in 2002 when our investments were making so much money that we didn’t have to pay into The City’s retirement...