Newly arrived Haight resident Paula Poortinga captures recent images of the neighborhood celebrating Barack Obama’s presidential victory and Mount Sutro’s iconic tower.

The Beat-mobile (really it’s a silver wagon) will be doing the rounds this weekend, serving up the good stuff to y’all newsthirsty denizens of our fair district. And, if the wagon wheel falls off again, it will lend new meaning to the term Breaking News.

An estimated one million people showed up in Washington DC this morning to welcome the inauguration of the first African American president of the United States, Barack Obama, who is also coincidentally the first president since the turn of the millennium who isn’t a total douche.
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