Jack Yan on Vox

Gavin Newsom considers run for Calif. governor in ’10

2008-07-02T02:37:39Z

The Los Angeles Times believes San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is considering exploring running for California’s governor when Arnold Schwarzenegger’s term finishes in 2010. Gov Schwarzenegger cannot run again due to his state’s term limits. G...

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Can we make 2008 a civil year?

2008-01-02T11:27:05Z

With the good news of the engagement between my friend Jennifer Siebel and Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, whom I had some contact with in his first year on the job, I have to note that the usual anti-Jen bloggers have been more silent. Ei...

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Laural watch

2007-04-01T10:59:21Z

Last month, a who-cares-but-the-lowest-common-denominator story saw my friend Jennifer Siebel’s Google references go from the five figures to half a million. It is interesting to watch that despite it being Sunday, Laural Barrett has gone from 30...

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Letter from New Zealand, no. 6

2007-03-23T12:22:27Z

[Cross-posted] I thought it was the ﬁfth when I made the recording, but it’s actually the sixth. This is a long recording: 15 minutes long, but I think it is more enjoyable than a few of my earlier ones. Click at the left icon to stream. 0.00 Int...

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Information beats ignorance (I hope)

2007-03-15T10:25:13Z

Photographed by Charles Thompson It may be best to fight ignorance with kindness: I have arranged for Jennifer Siebel’s 2005 article on conservation to be put up at Lucire’s online edition. They may discover the real Jen through that: it’s in h...

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I tolerate color, defense, maneuver and feces; well, maybe not feces

2007-03-15T03:40:01Z

Just because I’ve been defending my friend Jen on the SFist blog, I have been accused of working for her boyfriend’s office and now, someone tells me on my main blog that I have spelt defence wrong (the writer thinks it is defense) and, therefore,...

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Just another set-up

2007-03-13T10:51:37Z

[Cross-posted] I know my friend Jennifer Siebel has attracted some negative press over some comments in the San Francisco media. To my colleagues in the media: give over. So, someone can’t express an opinion any more, just because she’s dating ...

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