Email Author Benjamin Wachs

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "The Worst Run Big City in the U.S."

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published April 14, 2010

  "The Muni Death Spiral"

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published October 20, 2010

  "Let It Bleed"

• 2011 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published October 20, 2010

  "Let It Bleed"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 16, 2009

  "The Worst-Run Big City"

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2007 Stories by Benjamin Wachs

• Whatr The city's health care plan is illegalr How does that workr

  published Dec 27, 2007

  An explanation by Benjamin Wachs Since both doctors and lawyers operate by billable hours, asking a lawyer how the city should pay for doctors is like making a mobius strip out of invoices. You cou... More >>

• Counter-Intuitive Christmas Miracle Number 2: Religion Doesn't Cause Religious Violence!

  published Dec 24, 2007

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• Double Payer

  published December 26, 2007

  Just days before state Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a deal moving California closer to... More >>

• Dear God: Please Make Mark Morford Stop Writing About You

  published Dec 20, 2007

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• Doh! Mathematically Clueless City Causes Homeless Attacks

  published Dec 10, 2007

  The stabbing of a 23 year-old woman by a homeless man in the Outer Sunset has got people thinking: could there be so many more homeless people wandering around the City now because we kicked them out ... More >>

• WOOOOHOOOO! America (Virtually) Rocks!

  published Dec 07, 2007

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• Warrantsr We don't need no stinking warrants!

  published Dec 06, 2007

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• Better Than N.Y.!

  published December 5, 2007

  Rudy Giuliani's new campaign ad calls New York "America's most liberal city" — which means he's definitely lost the San Francisco vote.... More >>

• 15 Ways Gavin Could Have Lost the Election

  published December 5, 2007

  15. Actually enforced drug laws 14. Guest-hosted for Rush Limbaugh 13. Pardoned Ed Jew 12.... More >>

• San Francisco Mayoral Candidates Get Arrested

  published October 31, 2007

  "Thank you for not arresting me ... yet," mayoral candidate Grasshopper Alec Kaplan told the S.F. Board of Supervisors. He spoke from... More >>

• Golden Gate for Sale

  published September 19, 2007

  The Golden Gate Bridge: It's San Francisco's most famous icon. Next week the public agency that oversees the bridge may decide whether to allow... More >>

• The Muni Paradox

  published August 29, 2007

  If the devil is in the details, Satan's a frustrated Muni rider. A review of a huge amount of transit data comparing San Francisco and... More >>

• Citizen Bronstein

  published August 15, 2007

  Say what you will about San Francisco's daily newspaper of broken record, it never actually started a war with another country. William Randolph... More >>

• Off the Books

  published August 1, 2007

  If you have a peddler's permit from the Municipal Transportation Agency in certain areas of the city, you have until 1989 to surrender it to the... More >>