Email Author Ashley Harrell

Awards

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 21, 2008

  "Snitch"

• 2009 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published May 21, 2008

  "Snitch"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 23, 2006

  "Rebreathe Deep the Gathering Doom"

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2009 Stories by Ashley Harrell

• Pot committed: S.F. doubles up on its pot task force

  published December 23, 2009

  Supervisor David Campos recently announced his intention to create a medical marijuana task force to advise him and his board colleagues on... More >>

• How Hyde Street Pier eliminated its sea lion problem

  published December 16, 2009

  First, San Francisco welcomed the California sea lion and it became our tourism spokes-creature. Then, sea lion numbers exploded as they... More >>

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  Motel Hell

  published December 2, 2009

  As one of San Francisco's most affluent neighborhoods, the Marina doesn't have a ghetto. It just has the Bridge Motel, a tilted, reeking... More >>

• Strange Courtfellows — Driver and people he ran into in parking lot

  published October 21, 2009

  It doesn't get much worse than crashing your car into a group of Girl Scout cookie peddlers outside a grocery store and causing serious... More >>

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  Too Cute to Shoot?

  published October 7, 2009

  On a wet September morning about an hour after the sun rose over San Francisco's Hyde Street Harbor, two men carried a kennel onto the Kitty... More >>

• Does Gavin Newsom really have a foster brother who's been in and out of prison?

  published September 16, 2009

  This article has been removed by the editors because of a substantial error. The article mistakenly suggested there was no record of Mayor... More >>

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  The Wrong Stuff

  published September 9, 2009

  An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that former California Senate majority leader, John Burton, supports Gavin Newsom's... More >>

• Growing pot in S.F. poses more than just legal risks

  published July 29, 2009

  Earlier this month, as the San Francisco Fire Department worked to put out a fire at a house on the 200 block of Ortega Street in the Inner... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Predators are free to move about the cabin

  published July 15, 2009

  The mother had been waiting at the Oakland airport for a very long time, and was beginning to worry. The flight had landed nearly an hour ago.... More >>

• SOMA residents peeved about Stanlee Gatti's noisy Sunday night bash

  published July 1, 2009

  As the party planner for San Francisco's upper crust, Stanlee Gatti has become quite famous himself. He served as best man at Mayor... More >>

• Officer concludes distinguished career while being investigated by the FBI

  published June 24, 2009

  After more than 36 years of dedicated service to San Francisco, police officer Paul Makaveckas has retired, according to police spokeswoman... More >>

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  A Beautiful Risk

  published June 10, 2009

  On a damp Wednesday evening, while chain-smoking on the patio at a Tenderloin gay dive bar, Stephen Gray decided he wanted to rehearse. His... More >>

• Unemployed straight guys attend transgender job fair

  published May 6, 2009

  When the man who had always been a man walked in, well, that was a little strange. After all, this was registration for the fifth annual... More >>

• Pretty Bad Girls

  published April 29, 2009

  Defendant Jillian McIlvenna was getting woozy beneath the harsh lighting of Department 21 in San Francisco's Superior Court. Doe-eyed behind... More >>

• Raw Footage

  published April 1, 2009

  Remember Greg... More >>

• Gathering Storm

  published March 25, 2009

  Linda Harper is a woman on the brink of losing her home. But it's not a home in which anybody — including Harper — would choose to... More >>

• Leader of Down Below Gang blames PTSD for killings

  published February 18, 2009

  On Feb. 9, defense attorneys disclosed part of an innovative strategy they plan to use to defend Down Below Gang leader Emile Fort, who is... More >>

• A Numbers Game

  published February 4, 2009

  San Francisco's biennial homeless count secures $18 million in federal McKinney-Vento funds for about 50 homeless programs in the city.... More >>

• Gritty in Pink

  published January 28, 2009

  When groups of office workers walk through the Financial District at lunchtime, they tend to do it in step. Their leather shoes make dull,... More >>