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Your phone rings: the caller ID is from a distant area code. It turns out they are friends or family announcing plans to visit you and tour the area. They have never been to San Francisco. There is a lot to see, you only have one day and they expect you to be the expert being you LIVE here!

Tobacco companies have reason to be confident after waking up with a 51-49 lead against an initiative that would raise cigarette taxes by $1 per pack in California, but neither side was prepared to declare the Proposition 29 race over this morning.

Assemblyman Bill Monning is vying for the 17th state Senate seat effectively vacated when Sam Blakeslee decided not to run again.

Voters in San Diego and San Jose overwhelmingly voted to pare back retirement benefits for city employees, setting the stage for a showdown over public pensions in Sacramento later this year.

Cam Bentley walked into a Fort Lauderdale record store this dreary afternoon, head nodding to Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” streaming from iPod to headphones. She walked past the CDs to the Soul section of the vinyl department – stacks and stacks of LPs stuffed between Alternative and Blues – on an earnest hunt for the same song on wax.

Sherbert is a 10-year-old Main Coon who loves to be combed and pet. She would be best as an only cat with an elderly person. She has been at the San Martin Animal Shelter for a couple months and needs a home. If you are interested in adopting an animal at the shelter, please call (408) 686-3900.

Kim Lemaire, Executive Director of the Hope Center along with the all volunteer Board of Directors: Christy Rector, Kim Ruiz and Terri Britton, announced today that four local French Bulldogs are holding their third annual food drive for families and their pets in need on Saturday, June 16th from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at Sweet Elena’s located at 465 Olympia Avenue in Sand City.