The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously agreed to support a resolution renaming Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park after Warren Hellman, the San Francisco financier. Hellman Meadow will be the field's new name if the Recreation and Park Commission approves the change. Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, who sponsored the resolution, said Hellman has long been a supporter of Golden Gate Park and some of its most successful events. Since 2001, ......

Updated Nov. 28, 2011, 4:54 p.m. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has a challenger in the 2012 election. Elizabeth Emken, a children's advocate from Danville who lost a congressional bid in 2010, announced her candidacy Monday on Flashreport.org, the conservative blog covering California politics. According to her bio, Emken, 48, has plied the legislative corridors for 20 years as an advocate for children with autism. (She has a 19-year old autistic son.) Emken ......

A bipartisan group of California billionaires and prominent politicos -- yes, think the 1 percent -- are trying to put a initiative on the June ballot to "reshuffle" the state's tax code and boost revenue by $10 billion, according to the Los Angeles Times. There's not a whole lot of specifics right now, but the group -- consisting the likes of Google CEO Eric Schmidt, former Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and ......

Clarity Media Group, the parent company of the San Francisco Examiner, has agreed to sell the paper to a consortium led by Black Press, a Canadian publisher. The deal is expected to close Nov. 30. The sale comes seven years after Clarity, the media company owned by Denver businessman Philip Anschutz, purchased the Examiner from the Fang family. Clarity still publishes the Washington Examiner and the Weekly Standard, two publications ......

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, the state’s top elections official, will dispatch elections observers on Tuesday to monitor polling places throughout San Francisco, her office said Monday. In mid-October, several mayoral campaigns jointly called on Bowen to send observers after Mayor Ed Lee’s supporters were filmed in Chinatown helping elderly voters fill out their ballots. Several campaigns condemned the actions as illegal ballot tampering and elections fraud. District Attorney ......