-- Alameda County judge tells Berkeley tree squatters, like the scrappy Ninjah and Stork here, to climb down. For good. [SFGate] -- Car crash on the 101 kills one, lands two in jail. [Examiner] -- And yet another death on the 101, this time by gunfire. Egads. [CBS5] -- Missing Sacto woman's cell traced to SF. "She drives a silver, small model Kia with the license plate 5WMU818," fyi. [KGO, via BCN] -- According......

The Chron, giving you the news from the animal point of view! They settled the Alameda County garbage strike lockout! After a nine-hour mediation, Oakland mayor Ron Dellums announced late yesterday night that all the parties had managed to resolve the four-week dispute. No one can disclose the details, but the union will vote on whether to accept the proposal this Saturday. If the union approves the deal, regular garbage pickup could resume as early......

\ -- Poll: Should MUNI's 15-Third line rise from the dead? (Hint: Yes) [Examiner] -- San Francisco sheriff deputies accuse Sheriff Michael Hennessey of gender discrimination. [BAR] -- Father won't be charged with the death of his 11-month-old son. [Chron] -- Bonds calls out Costas' severe Munchkin-ness. [NFL Scores] -- SFPD officer hurt while directing traffic. Ouch. [KGO, KRON] -- Arf: another coyote dies in Golden Gate Park. [KPIX] -- Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums wishes......

Here's todays news...

Gavin Newsom, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums tried to out-macho each other last night at the MacArthur Maze. ...

Here's todays roundup of the news...

-The Oakland Tribune starts a three-part series on how all this Global Warming stuff is beginning to affect us locally. -Silicon Valley is back and better than before. -Ron Dellums was a hit at the U.S. Conference of Mayors. -Man shot and killed on Eddy Street early Saturday morning. -Blue and Gold fleet wants to raise prices. -Everybody loves the idea of an early primary. -Electric car catches on fire and burns down a building......

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Well, this is interesting! Bottom Feeder Will Harper is leaving the EBX to become the executive editor of the SF Weekly. We're sorry to see Harper leave, but we're excited to see what he does at the sister SF publication! Plus, this collection of Bottom Feeder's greatest hits is pretty exciting. We may not be making as much money off stem cells as everyone says we will --......

-The Chron plays "I Love the Radical '70s" -As Ron Dellums isn't in Davos, he'll be at the U.S. Conference of Mayors. ...

-Cecilia Vega loves those chickens. -Matier & Ross recap Choirgate, saying pretty much nothing that hasn't been covered here. -The T-Third line is open for business. -Ron Dellums holds a "Hands Around the Lake" event to bring unity, remind everybody of awful 80's benefits. -More baby boomer porn. -All UC employees have to take an ethics course. Ha ha. -It's cold but not record-breaking cold. And finally...we have no information on this, but SFist......

Local Comedian, Heather Gold of I Look Like An Egg, but I Identify As A Cookie fame will be at the Jewish Community Center of SF (3200 California St at Presidio) tonight with Outside In: hacking, pranking and prison-braking, an interactive talk show that's being compared to This American Life in real-time. Guests: Corporate hacker and hacking fan Bradley Horowitz (Creator of Yahoo Hack Day, VP of Product Strategy, acquirer of flickr, upcoming.org), undercover satirist......

-Pelosi starts right in with the San Francisco values: bans smoking. -The Governor's health care plan could supercede San Francisco's health care plan. ...

-The Governator has a health care plan and the Chron breaks it down. Arnie's actually getting good press from this, except with these guys. Or these guys. ...

It's a bad sign when the Oakland City Council (and its participating public -- see notes in the comments below) takes the "worst behaved political activity" award on a day where not only were Chris Daly and Gavin Newsom scheduled to be in the same room but there was also a Taiwanese political protest in town. (We didn't think anyone could outfight a Taiwanese politician!) But no -- today's swearing in for new Oakland......

-Oakland is ready to party, Ron Dellums style. -Over 1,000 people go to the beach to say impeach, put Cheney in reach....

We're tired of mojito-mixing Gavin Newsom now -- bring on the new guy in Oakland! Over on the sunnier side of the San Francisco Bay, former Congressman Ron Dellums is settling on in at 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza for his first full day on the job today. Yeah, we don't remember any dramatic hand-on-the-Bible or inaugural speechifying either -- it turns out they threw together a somewhat slapdash inauguration when someone realized that the......

-Shootout on 880 leads to one death, one injured and major traffic. -The search for the lost family continues on...

-Being a new state legislator involves lots of learning. ...

Chip Johnson at the Chronicle ruminates on the secrecy surrounding Oakland Mayor Elect Ron Dellums' citizen advisory task forces. Chip just wants to know what's in the box, er, who is on the various task forces devoted to issues such as Education, Crime, and the Arts, as the meetings are private. Dellums, who was taking applications for task force members on his campaign site is still recruiting Community Dialogue Participants. Personally, our initial enthusiasm......

You know this correspondent doesn't know much about Oakland city politics, but we're trying to get up to speed so we can fully relish the exciting Florida-like state of affairs over there in their mayoral election! So Ron Dellums, the venerated Oakland politician running on the anti-Jerry Brown-style development platform, is in a nail-biter with second runner-up Ignacio de la Fuente, who supports Jerry Brown's pro-development positions. (We think. Oakland politicos, please correct us in......

Last week's tie winners, the Bay Guardian and the East Bay Express! For some reason, though, the only weekly that's updated its site for this week is the Metro, so we're going with their cover as the picture this week. Sorry for the linklessness, folks. At least the Bay Guardian has an excuse for not updating -- its ongoing server problems. Intriguingly, though, the blog they have up in its place says that part of......

Apparently the "Draft Dellums" posters can come down in our neighborhood now, as we see that Ron Dellums has announced his candidacy to replace Jerry Brown as Mayor of Oakland. Until today it seemed that City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente was a shoe-in for the job, despite the fact that nobody was particularly excited by the idea, aside from Jerry Brown himself (who has endorsed De La Fuente). Dellums, who once sat on......