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2001 Stories by Jeremy Mullman

• Apples and Oranges; Water Fight

  published December 19, 2001

  Apples and Oranges When San Francisco Supervisor Gavin Newsom married lawyer Kimberly Guilfoyle recently, an event that included a ... More >>

• A Moving Experience

  published December 12, 2001

  Sitting in the midst of her living room, 64-year-old public housing tenant Sally Lee is surrounded by stacks of bags that nearly reach her... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published December 5, 2001

  Au Couture, Mon Frére! As much as journalists like to snicker at the end of the dot-com boom, in our more honest moments we... More >>

• Most Sparkman invective is resereved for the Chron's touchy-feely columnists.

  published November 28, 2001

  Waffling With Authority Is it us, or has the Board of Supervisors gone soft? It's been barely a year since our current batch of... More >>

• Will Blackouts Be Back?

  published November 14, 2001

  Remember when the scariest thing in the mail was the energy bill? Thanks in part to much-lobbied-for federal price caps, electricity prices... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published October 24, 2001

  What Did You Sing in the War, Daddy? The folk song "We Shall Overcome" has been enjoying a bit of a revival since Sept. 11; it's... More >>

• Rural Cleansing

  published October 3, 2001

  Leo Bergeron struts into Yreka's Greenhorn Grange Hall like he owns the room: dark-blue jeans, large white cowboy hat, enormous silver "L" belt... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published September 12, 2001

  Dead, But Not Dead Enough We were in a pretty good mood last week. With fall fast approaching, it's a time for small thrills, tiny... More >>

• Some People Have All the Luck

  published August 29, 2001

  On the unseasonably gorgeous afternoon of Aug. 16, San Francisco developer Michael Strausz was sitting high above home plate at Pacific Bell Park,... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published August 29, 2001

  Overpriced Sports Star Joins Local Team Skip Bayless' farewell sports column for the Chicago Tribune began with three... More >>

• Rikke's Angels

  published August 22, 2001

  Operation CFO Rikke Christensen's blue eyes give the cocktail party a once-over as she pours herself another glass of... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published August 22, 2001

  If there was one thing the ongoing battle over whether to build a new power plant in southeast San Francisco didn't need, it was more combustible... More >>

• Power Politics

  published August 1, 2001

  On Thursday, the California Energy Commission will try again to hold a public hearing on the "environmental justice" of the Mirant Co.'s proposed... More >>

• How Legends Are Born

  published July 18, 2001

  The San Francisco Chronicle has arrived, apparently, in the circle of world-class newspapers. Just ask the folks running it. This past... More >>

• Gray Skies

  published July 4, 2001

  Perched atop the peak it's named after, the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House is one of San Francisco's least-known architectural treasures.... More >>

• "They're Hijacking Our Rally!"

  published July 4, 2001

  Even in this build-power-at-all-costs political environment, it's not impossible for traditionally powerless, already polluted communities like... More >>

• The November Wild Card

  published July 4, 2001

  It's hard to predict what bearing any or all of the three public power proposals on November's ballot might have on the Potrero plant. The... More >>

• Dragon Bites

  published June 13, 2001

  A Beautiful Day to Be Irradiated It was a warm, sunny day with a light breeze, and the view from the high ground there alongside... More >>

• Contract Killings

  published May 30, 2001

  As California's energy crisis heads into what promises to be a brutal summer, the degree of dysfunction within the state's electricity market is... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published May 23, 2001

  Former schools Superintendent Bill Rojas made a blustery return to San Francisco last week to appear before an obscure supervisors' committee, and... More >>

• The Software That Wouldn't Die

  published May 16, 2001

  When we last left Sandy Rosen, in November, he was trying to explain the magnitude of the albatross the San Francisco Unified School District had... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published May 2, 2001

  The Chronicle's editor, Phil Bronstein, has been on a drive for respect lately, judging by some of his recent pronouncements. The... More >>

• The Return of the Screw

  published April 25, 2001

  Reporting to shareholders 10 days after putting its utility subsidiary under bankruptcy protection, PG&E said it absorbed a $4.12 billion loss... More >>

• General Excellence

  published April 18, 2001

  It's a couple of minutes past 7 on an overcast March morning, and Zone 1 of the S.F. General emergency room is jammed. Rounds are ready to... More >>

• Law and Order in the ER

  published April 18, 2001

  It's 3 a.m. on the lightest overnight shift anyone at the S.F. General emergency room can remember, and nurse practitioner Lucretia Bolin looks a... More >>