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2010 Stories by Chris Roberts

• East Coast Bias, Baseball Ruining SF Workers' Productivity

  published Oct 21, 2010

  The San Francisco Giants' playoff push is a good thing for area baseball fans, which in turn is not-so-great for the Bay Area businesses which employ them, according to a report issued Wednesday."Work... More >>

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  Poll: Dems Abandoning Pelosi. Does Nancy-Challenger John Dennis Have a Chancer

  published Oct 21, 2010

  John Dennis may live in Pacific Heights, but his similarities to fellow posh neighborhood resident Nancy Pelosi end there. The Republican challenger to most-powerful San Franciscan Pelosi supports Pro... More >>

• If You Cheered Barry Bonds, Philly Sportswriter Thinks You're Stupid

  published Oct 20, 2010

  Love him or hate him, the story of Barry Lamar Bonds is forever entwined with that of the San Francisco Giants. It was Bonds's star appeal that helped build AT&T Park (now a model for urban stadiu... More >>

• SFPD Returns Seven Pounds of Marijuana to Grower

  published Oct 20, 2010

  Should you run afoul of the law, your property may be seized as evidence. If you are acquitted or your charges dismissed, your property is returned. This principle is simple but it doesn't always appl... More >>

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  Barack Obama *NOT* Coming to SF. Blame the Chronicle

  published Oct 20, 2010

  SF Chronicle scoopmeisters Matier & Ross bring us this big steaming hot one today: President Barack Obama, who planned to attend a Democratic Party fundraiser at the Four Seasons in San Francisco ... More >>

• 'Massive' Four-Alarm Blaze 'Destroys' Nob Hill Building

  published Oct 20, 2010

  A four-alarm blaze gutted a 95-year old apartment building on Hyde Street in the Tenderknob/Lower Nob Hill area this morning. Firefighters responded to a fire at 824 Hyde Street at 5:20 a.m., but coul... More >>

• Two Haters, a Home-Burner and a Skyscraper Climber in Court Today

  published Oct 20, 2010

  Say what you want about District Attorney Kamala Harris -- the Attorney General candidate is a "different kind of prosecutor," according to a lengthy profile published in today's Los Angeles Times, an... More >>

• City Hall Meeting 'Torture' For Giants-Loving Supe

  published Oct 20, 2010

  The Board of Supervisors held their least productive meeting in recent history Tuesday, with Supervisor Sean Elsbernd -- the West of Twin Peaks representative known for his fiscal conservatism and no-... More >>

• Axis of Love, 'Medical Cannabis Community Center', Faces Eviction

  published Oct 15, 2010

  When is a pot club not a pot clubr When you walk in the establishment in question but cannot buy medical cannabis, that could be a clue. When you can't walk in at all, that says something, too. That... More >>

• Napster's Sean Parker Showers $100K on Marijuana Measure

  published Oct 06, 2010

  The e-mail came Monday from Oaksterdam University's Richard Lee, the main driving force (at least publicly) behind cannabis semi-legalization measure Proposition 19. Just like other e-mails he'd sent ... More >>

• Pot Baron Steve DeAngelo Calls For More Compassion in World of Corporate Marijuana

  published Sep 28, 2010

  Steve DeAngelo cares. The owner of Oakland's Harborside Health Center -- the largest medical cannabis dispensary in the United States, with some 60,000 patients and counting -- wants to "flip the swit... More >>

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  Tom Ammiano Tries, Tries Again With Marijuana Bill

  published Sep 24, 2010

  Everybody knows California is broke, and those same everybodies know that thar's a gold mine waiting to be unearthed -- when and if the state starts taxing adult-use recreational marijuana (everybody ... More >>

• Emergency Marijuana Legislation Proposed to Save 'Mom-and-Pop' Dispensaries

  published Sep 20, 2010

  That the city's planning and zoning laws are complex is well-known; that the city's laws permitting medical cannabis dispensaries are even more Byzantine is news even to dispensary owners, -- as SF We... More >>

• Boeddeker Park may get facelift, but will stay closed most of the time

  published September 22, 2010

  Situated as it is in the city's densest, seediest neighborhood, Boeddeker Park is not much to look at — 2 and a half acres wedged between... More >>

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  SOMA Pot Club Surprised to Learn of Ban on SOMA Pot Clubs

  published Sep 17, 2010

  South of Market's been a de-facto "containment zone" for medical cannabis dispensaries for a variety of reasons: The still-gritty neighborhood has cheaper rents, more vacant storefronts, and fewer upw... More >>

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  'Marijuana Legalization Measure' Won't Legalize Marijuana

  published Sep 09, 2010

  Should it be approved by voters in November, the Tax, Regulate and Control Cannabis Act of 2010 - also known as Proposition 19 - would do many things. It would allow adults 21 and over to possess smal... More >>

• 'Bait Car' comes to San Francisco

  published September 8, 2010

  Since last month, Hollywood TV company KKI Productions has been quietly filming San Francisco cops at work for a reality TV show. KKI has... More >>

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  Facebook Spurns Pro-Pot Ads. But You Still May See Them on Muni.

  published Aug 26, 2010

  Pot delivery service owner says Muni has accepted his ads Facebook's not so special. Updates to your Farmville aside, the de rigueur social networking platform is behind the curve, at least when it c... More >>

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  Dennis Peron, Pot Guru, Raided by San Francisco Cops

  published Aug 10, 2010

  Things haven't been going well for Dennis Peron lately. Peron, one of the authors of Proposition 215 -- the 1996 voter initiative legalizing marijuana for medical purposes in California -- is on the o... More >>

• Pot club not allowed on North Beach porn strip

  published August 11, 2010

  Despite North Beach's colorful history, there really isn't much to do on Broadway in 2010: You can go to a bar, or you can go to a strip club.... More >>

• Vegan activist protests sale of live chickens at UN Plaza farmers' market

  published August 4, 2010

  CORRECTED VERSION The oft-told chicken-on-Muni story — in which a woman holding a live chicken is prevented from boarding a bus,... More >>

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  Marijuana Dispensary Kneecapped by Disability Access Rules

  published Jul 30, 2010

  Handicapped dispensary owner told his dispensary isn't handicapped-accessible Greg Schoepp knows what it's like to be disabled -- the owner of Crown Lock and Hardware on Balboa Street has been in a ... More >>

• Illegal Pot Delivery Services Can't Be Stopped

  published Jul 23, 2010

  Lower Haight resident Aaron Chandler is a pot dealer. Or, the erstwhile employee of Project Homeless Connect is the operator of a legitimate medical marijuana delivery service. Which one is itr Neithe... More >>

• Is Berkeley Marijuana Dispensary's Maine Investment 'Cannabusiness' as Usualr

  published Jul 12, 2010

  "Cannabusiness" is a term thrown around plenty these days, what with medical marijuana dispensaries and delivery services a ho-hum regularity in California, and the prospect of full-blown legalizatio... More >>

• Owners Uncooperative

  published June 30, 2010

  With all the talk about legalization looming on the horizon, it's hard to believe that San Francisco's medical cannabis community had some good... More >>