Email Author Joe Eskenazi

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

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

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 9, 2011

  "The Art of the Steal"

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

  "The Worst-Run Big City"

• 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"

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

  "Voodoo on the Vine"

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2010 Stories by Joe Eskenazi

• The process for picking the interim mayor - done in Shakespearean rhyme

  published November 24, 2010

  Supervisor Chris Daly: Round about the crockpot go In the gnarly organics throw Soup in bowl of sourdough Hair... More >>

• How Prop. 26 undermines San Francisco values

  published November 24, 2010

  On this year's voter information guide, the effects of Proposition 26 were succinctly summarized as "Requires that certain state and local fees... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Let It Bleed

  published October 20, 2010

  "Infinite" is not a word you expect to find in a report on municipal spending. It's more of a science fiction–type term —... More >>

• Mayoral candidate Harold Miller's eye-catching advice on race relations

  published September 22, 2010

  Politically involved San Franciscans received an introduction to one Harold Miller last week, when the heretofore unknown mayoral candidate... More >>

• SF residents too nostalgic to recycle Mr. Potato Head

  published September 15, 2010

  San Francisco denizens wandering outside to deposit their mandatory composting and recycling may have been startled by an unexpected companion... More >>

• Park near Coit Tower may hang plaque honoring alleged cult leader

  published August 18, 2010

  What is San Francisco's response when an anonymous family foundation wishes to exchange a hefty sum in return for a monument on city land... More >>

• Team Spirits: Spooked Giants players check out of haunted hotel

  published July 14, 2010

  Baseball players are a superstitious lot. They'll wear the same jockstrap for the duration of a hitting streak. Eat the same meal at the same... More >>

• Newsom's advisers accused of providing rollout for a coup

  published July 7, 2010

  If voters squelch Mayor Gavin Newsom's bid to ascend to the position of lieutenant governor, it seems he knows people who may be able to stage... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  The Muni Death Spiral

  published April 14, 2010

  In 1912, San Francisco founded its municipal railway as the realization of a radical notion: In an era of private for-profit rail lines, the... More >>

• Hot ticket: Politicos pitch in — unwillingly — to alleviate city deficit

  published February 24, 2010

  Former Supervisor and state Senator Carole Migden and City Attorney Dennis Herrera met recently for lunch at Firewood Cafe in the Castro. We... More >>

• Will a big-name Dem run away with the attorney general's race?

  published February 3, 2010

  Last week, on the very day District Attorney Kamala Harris fired off a press release crowing she had raised $1 million over the past six months... More >>

• City policy lets Academy of Art do as it pleases

  published January 13, 2010

  The city recently started talking tough regarding the ever-expanding real-estate acquisitions of Academy of Art University, hinting at a... More >>