By Cecilia Vega, Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writers
San Francisco Chronicle

Mayor Gavin Newsom was sworn in for a second term Tuesday, promising to make San Francisco a greener city and a national leader in health care reform while praising "San Francisco values" like support for same-sex marriage and protections for undocumented immigrants. Newsom's father, retired Judge William Newsom, administered the oath of office using a family Bible under City Hall's palatial dome in a ceremony that organizers billed as low-key. The mayor was sworn in alongside his sister Hillary Newsom Callan, her two young daughters and his new fiancee, Jennifer Siebel, to whom Newsom referred in his inaugural speech as "the love of my life."

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By KEVIN J. DELANEY
Wall Street Journal
Originally Published August 6, 2007

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is taking his push for free citywide wireless Internet access to the voters with a measure that will appear on November's election ballot.

The mayor and Aaron Peskin, president of the city's Board of Supervisors, Friday jointly put forward the measure that would make it the city's policy to pursue such high-speed wireless Internet access through a public-private partnership, with protections for user privacy. Voter approval of the measure wouldn't impose any binding requirements, but rather signal public support for a high-profile mayoral initiative that has encountered major delays and opposition. Read more »

Please join Mayor Gavin Newsom as well as representatives from labor, local political clubs and enthusiastic supporters like yourself at our campaign HQ this Saturday, July 21st at 10:30AM. We will be hitting the streets of San Francisco with the Mayor, collecting signatures and talking to other San Franciscans. (If you can't make on Saturday you can download the signature forms at anytime. Just click on Aaron's blog and follow the instructions). Your signature is a mark of support for our efforts to make free WiFi a reality, improve MUNI, create a Community Justice Center and more – including passing a budget that prioritizes the basics of daily life like filling potholes, cleaning up our parks and policing our streets.

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San Francisco Chronicle
Editorial Originally Published July 10, 2007

The long, winding and sadly, whinging road toward bringing free citywide wireless to San Francisco may finally be approaching the finish line this week. We'd like to applaud Supervisor Aaron Peskin for being one of the few board members to show some actual leadership. He has countered the mayor's agreement with providers Google and EarthLink with a compromise that deserves support from all parties.

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Thousands of you have signed our petition in support of free WiFi for San Francisco and now more than ever, we need your help to make this ambitious proposal a reality.  We have just learned that the Board of Supervisors, led by Chris Daly, has called a special committee hearing for Monday (May 14th) at 2PM where they may try to kill the free WiFi plan for San Francisco, with little public notice.  We are asking you to Act Locally today.  Call or Email your supervisor.  Better yet - join us this Monday for a rally on the steps of City Hall at 1PM on the Dr. Carlton Goodlett Place side.  Then come testify at the 2PM WiFi hearing. Read more »