Well, whaddya know. No sooner did we lavish praise upon the SF County Transportation Authority than Nat Ford, head of Muni, decided that he might be interested in committing a hostile takeover of the SFCTA... thereby making the TA as flawless as Muni. Good idea! If our agency was melting down, and there was another one making us look bad, we might want to buy it and run it into the ground, too! (That's......

Hey, the new MUNI T Third line is finally open! That's the new light rail route that goes (.gif) from Castro Station down Third Street, through Dogpatch, down the Bayview, past Monster Park, and all the way to Sunnydale Avenue. We decided to spend our day off today checking it out. The T-Third is running in beta from now until April 1-- it's only running on weekends and every twenty minutes (though we waited about......

It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day which means some of you are working and some of you aren't working. We're guessing more of you are working than not working so a whole lot of you are bitter while the rest of you are probably still asleep right now....

-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......

We apologize for being so late on this-- SFist attended that big Gavin meeting this morning and didn't get a chance to post earlier this morning. We'll review the Gavin meeting later but for now, here's the news... -Gavin wants to put the foot patrol issue on the ballot. We have a bad feeling about this.. -Meet the new owners of the armory. -Budget analyst is not a big fan of the Governator's big ideas.......

-The Board of Supes have their first meeting of the year with Gavin as their Very Special Guest Star. -What do you do when you can't make budget? Make welfare cuts!...