Updated 11/2/04 11:55 PM
SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco voters today narrowly rejected a ballot proposition that would have allowed non-citizens to vote in local school board elections. Proposition F lost by 51 percent to 49 percent, with the close results reflecting a hard-fought campaign that pitted grassroots activists and the Board of Supervisors against the city’s business community.

Updated 11/02/04 11:46 PM
SAN FRANCISCO – In a defeat for Mayor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco voters Tuesday blocked Proposition K, which would have imposed a new business tax.

Updated 11/2/04 9:13 PM
SAN FRANCISCO - After facing long lines at their polling location, residents of the Haight Ashbury neighborhood, known for its political activism and progressive thinking, faced a long and potentially confusing ballot once they got inside the voting booth today.

SAN FRANCISCO -- With California out of play in the presidential race, a converted office space South of Market buzzing with lawyers in front of computer screens felt about as close as you can get here to the epicenter of election day action.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tanzila Ahmed waited outside the University of Michigan student union to talk to Indian American students as they filtered out of a dress rehearsal for the Indian club's annual culture show. She wanted the answer to a simple question.

SAN FRANCISCO -- In what looked like a scene from the 1960s, several hundred people gathered at an anti-war rally at Lowell High School October 20. Against the backdrop of an exhibit commemorating thousands of dead soldiers and civilians, veterans and military moms talked about the horrors of combat while students signed an anti-war petition and called themselves the "social conscience of society."

SAN FRANCISCO -- On his wedding day, Jim Maloney thought he was going to a gay rights protest at City Hall. Instead, he and Andrew Nance, his partner of 15 years, went home with a marriage license. The pair was one of nearly 4,000 to receive a license last winter when Mayor Gavin Newsom began marrying same-sex couples.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Voters in the most liberal part of what is arguably the most liberal city in the country face a plethora of progressive choices today for San Francisco City Supervisor. Twenty two, to be exact.

SAN FRANCISCO -- It's Friday evening in the Mission District. Offices are clearing out and bars and restaurants are filling up. For most folks here, it is the beginning of the weekend.