being run over by speeding motorists. ... Motorists who fail to yield to these pedestrians will be cited by uniformed police officers." It stands to reason that motorists who run over plainclothes cops are in trouble, too.
The next sting will be 9 a.m. at Everglade Drive and Sloat Boulevard on April 1 -- and here's hoping the saps getting pulled over don't take this for an April Fool's joke.
"People in the neighborhood have been objecting that they can't get across the crosswalk because of the speeding cars on Sloat. Sloat is like a speedway," Chignell explains. "We deal with the most egregious violations. When someone's in the middle of the crosswalk, we've seen drivers swerve around them or start honking. We've seen some unbelievable conduct by San Francisco drivers.
So, gentlemen, start your engines -- at your own peril.
"Candidates, presbyteries and committees who have sought to actfaithfully under the current constitution have only been rewarded with
challenges and allegations. This decision fosters on-going confusion
and demonstrates clearly just how unworkable the current policy is for
those seeking a fair hearing.
More than anything, I'mmindful of all the other lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
candidates for ministry who only want to serve our church. The way
forward for them need not be this complicated. This ruling, though
technical in nature and limited in scope, nonetheless has deeply
personal and painful repercussions for my life and in the lives of
other LGBT people earnestly seeking to serve the church."
In 2006, the Ethics Commission's staff devised an ordinance calling forDuring our research for that story, we e-mailed Angela Calvillo, the clerk of the Board of Supervisors, and asked her whose responsibility it was to make the filings this law calls for. She sent us a copy of Ethics Commissioner John St. Croix' Dec. 31 letter informing elected officials to not bother making filings as the commission would no longer be enforcing that law. She did not reply to a subsequent e-mail querying who should have been making those filings between 2006 and 2008 -- and wasn't (not that any pressure was being applied by the Ethics Commission).elected officials who vote upon city contracts of $50,000 or greater to
report this within five days to the commission; this rule was meant to
spot any "pay for play" where those awarded contracts would, in turn,
donate to the elected officials making those decisions. The Board of
Supervisors approved the ordinance by a 10-0 vote; six of those Supes
are still on the board. Then, last year, Mayor Gavin Newsom placed
Measure H on the ballot. This initiative, which essentially affirmed
and expanded the ordinance, was overwhelmingly approved.
Our parents' generation used to assault each other with their fists, bike chains, pipes, or, perhaps, the odd knife over largely meaningless disputes. But we ... we are well-armed. This is more efficient, but hardly a sign of progress.
Take the case of Leonard R. Hawley. The San Francisco party DJ, late of McAllister Street, was on Monday convicted of assault with a firearm, felony illegal gun possession, and misdemeanor possession of a loaded gun -- which could carry a nearly 15-year prison term according to his lawyer. The issue that spurred this conviction: An argument with a fellow DJ over a pair of $20 bills and a speaker.
As reported in the Palo Alto Daily News, Hawley, 30, gave his colleague a ride home following an August party when the two bickered over who owed whom 40 bucks. When the other DJ inadvertently dropped one of Hawley's speakers while unloading his own equipment out of the trunk -- well, that done teared it.
Hawley -- who goes by Raphael or "Raph" -- was convicted of pointing a handgun at his colleague and threatening his life before grabbing the man and firing a shot into the ground to put the exclamation point on the evening.
Defense attorney Alexandria Carl told SF Weekly she feels the jury "didn't follow the instructions of the court" and wrongfully convicted her client (Hawley claims it was the other man who fired off the gun). She added that the San Mateo County Superior Court -- where this case was tried -- tends to be "quick to convict without properly analyzing the case." She said an appeal will be forthcoming following next month's sentencing.
In any event, if you didn't know it already, this case is yet another sad reminder that it really doesn't take much these days for folks to start shooting at one another.
Keep that in mind the next time you hassle a wedding DJ to play some more Kool & the Gang.
Daniel Garcia, 27, one of five San Francisco alleged con men charged with murdering and robbing a retired Palm Springs art dealer, knew nothing of the purported crimes, his attorney said Wednesday.
So how is it that during the two weeks following the Dec. 4 disappearance of Cliff Lambert, 74, Garcia used Lambert's bank card to make 21 withdrawals and purchases totaling more than $13,000? And why did alleged co-conspirator Miguel Bustamante, 26, finger Garcia as among the group allegedly involved in Lambert's disappearance, according to police?
