Email Author Joe Eskenazi

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"

• 2011 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published April 14, 2010

  "The Muni Death Spiral"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published June 17, 2009

  "Service with a Smile"

• 2010 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published January 7, 2009

  "Baggage"

• 2010 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published June 17, 2009

  "Service with a Snarl"

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

  "The Worst-Run Big City"

• 2009 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published November 19, 2008

  "Voodoo on the Vine"

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2009 Stories by Joe Eskenazi

• The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.

  published December 16, 2009

  Despite its good intentions, San Francisco is not leading the country in gay marriage. Despite its good intentions, it is not stopping wars.... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  San Francisco's Annals of Incompetence

  published December 16, 2009

  • Between 2002 and late 2006, the Committee on Information Technology — responsible for coordinating all city departments' hardware... More >>

• When it comes to S.F. politics, Cleve Jones isn't here to recruit you

  published November 25, 2009

  In recent days, at least three supervisorial candidates for District 8 reached out to former Mayor Art Agnos, hoping for his political... More >>

• BART may lose $780k if contractor can't get venture together

  published November 11, 2009

  Last month, BART's board of directors awarded part of a multimillion-dollar lighting contract to Nedar Bey — who, earlier this year, had... More >>

• Newsom quotes the giant within

  published October 14, 2009

  Gavin Newsom is a handsome and charismatic enough speaker that he could grab a microphone and spend 10 minutes detailing the meteorological... More >>

• Police declare air guns illegal; S.F. public defender, D.A., and state law disagree

  published October 7, 2009

  Everyone remembers the curt dismissal given to Ralphie, the protagonist of the 1983 film A Christmas Story, when he expressed his deep... More >>

• Inside BART's lost-and-found: Porn, prosthetics, and pot

  published September 16, 2009

  A recent San Francisco Examiner article about BART's lost-and-found policy somehow managed to avoid asking the massive, throbbing... More >>

• Gavin Goes Hollywood

  published September 16, 2009

  With polling figures showing Gavin Newsom trailing badly in his bid for governor, pundits say he will have to spend more time wooing voters in... More >>

• S.F. pays lobbyist to advocate for government secrecy, critics say

  published August 5, 2009

  As the Examiner reported last week, lobbyists paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the city in recent years haven't bothered to file... More >>

• Willie Brown tries to force city to restore lucrative contract with engineering firm

  published July 1, 2009

  Even though he isn't in office anymore, it looks like Willie Brown is still making surprises for the Board of Supervisors. Da Former Mayor is... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Service with a Snarl

  published June 17, 2009

  Not long ago, Charles Esler's Chihuahua, Tita, chased a woman clear across Dolores Park. The dog "just gets fixated," he says nonchalantly.... More >>

• Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi gets the boot for parking in his own spot at City Hall

  published June 3, 2009

  The truly insidious Us Weekly has a nifty little photo feature titled "Just like us!" featuring famous people caught in the act of... More >>

• Democratic Party contest pits bad boy Chris Daly against dark-past-lugging August Longo

  published April 22, 2009

  When Supervisor Chris Daly tossed his hat into the ring for the low-profile, unpaid position of Democratic Party regional director last week,... More >>

• Paris Hilton Syndrome hits S.F. Animal Control

  published April 15, 2009

  If ever you needed another reason to despise Paris Hilton — utter vapidity, being famous despite having no discernible talent, overuse of... More >>

• It's the Law ... Sort Of

  published March 25, 2009

  If few of the elected officials who signed a law into existence can be bothered to follow it, and the government commission charged with... More >>

• The Labor Lobby

  published March 11, 2009

  Last week an eye-catching ad appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle's home page; clicking on it led to the Web site More >>

• Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier says she's not termed out

  published March 4, 2009

  In early February, Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier met City Attorney Dennis Herrera for a cup of coffee. She was hoping to get him to reconsider... More >>

• Dianne Feinstein hatless at Obama's inauguration

  published January 28, 2009

  Barack Obama campaigned — and won — largely on a message of hope. And, on surveying the masses present for his inauguration last... More >>

• The New Kid

  published January 21, 2009

  Political etiquette in the state capitol dictates that you don't take on an incumbent in your own party. Even if said incumbent re-enacts... More >>

• How 'douchebag' became everyone's favorite insult

  published January 7, 2009

  Anyone with cable television or an Internet hookup knows all too well that this is the dawning of the age of the douchebag. While the term for... More >>

• Environmental reports waste tons of paper

  published January 7, 2009

  What's that really long tome everyone says they've read but no one does? No, not Ulysses. In San Francisco government, it's often an... More >>

• Baggage

  published January 7, 2009

  San Francisco is a city that enjoys being scratched behind the ears by an adoring world. And the city was certainly purring a little more than... More >>