Email Author Lauren Smiley

Awards

• 2011 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published February 3, 2010

  "The ABC's of Ditching School"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 21, 2009

  "Exporting the Dead"

• 2009 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published May 14, 2008

  "Score!!!"

• 2008 - GLAAD Media Awards, published July 11, 2007

  "Girl/Boy Interrupted"

• 2008 - Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, published October 3, 2007

  "Escape from San Francisco"

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2009 Stories by Lauren Smiley

• Perfect Homicide Arrest Rate Just Too Good to Last

  published Jan 22, 2009

  Reflecting on the end of the streak... Last week we wrote about a statistic too beautiful to survive: The San Francisco Police Department was boasting a 100 percent arrest rate for homicide cases in ... More >>

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  Obama Inaugural Whimsy in the Mission

  published Jan 21, 2009

  Think Aretha Franklin's big-ass-bow hat is as whimsical as it can get for the inaugurationr Why don't they invite groups like this to perform on Capitol Hillr While planned parties speckled the citysc... More >>

• Pro-Palestinians Co-Opt (Vandalize) Israeli Propaganda

  published Jan 21, 2009

   The description of the suspected vandal: A male in a red bodysuit with portrait of a spider on his chest...A little while ago we wrote about the Clear Channel "Visit Israel" billboards along Hig... More >>

• Exporting the Dead

  published January 21, 2009

  When Victor Cipriano Lopez collapsed and died in a driveway near the corner of 22nd and Valencia streets at 10:29 on a Sunday night last... More >>

• Rants and Graves

  published January 21, 2009

  Every day, on a little nook of Craigslist known as "Rants and Raves," the miscreants, closet racists, and pranksters of the Bay Area loose... More >>

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  Hardline Catholics: Just Because You Gays Can't 'Marry' Doesn't Mean We Should Have to Pay Taxes!

  published Jan 20, 2009

  San Francisco and Catholics just ain't gettin' along these days (if they ever did). We recently wrote about the Catholic Right urging believers nationwide to tell Mayor Gavin Newsom he's responsible f... More >>

• Mission Possibler SFPD Nails 100 Percent of Homicide Suspects in 2009

  published Jan 16, 2009

  Maybe the SFPD ate their Wheaties. Maybe they made a New Year's resolution. But you know that bit about the San Francisco Police Department having one of the worst arrest rates of homicide suspects in... More >>

• St. Luke's Doctor: DIY Abortions by S.F. Latinas Overhyped in New York Times

  published Jan 14, 2009

  Progressive San Francisco may be a card-carrying pro-choice city where abortions are readily accessible. But just because a hipster chick can wear a snarky T-shirt that could very well  get her... More >>

• Depressing Bay Area Movie Hits Sundance

  published Jan 09, 2009

  The Hollywood stars donning Ugg boots and designer parkas in an attempt to look rustic for the paparazzi at the Sundance Film Festival this month will be joined by a Bay Area... More >>

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  BART Erases Graffiti About Oscar Grant's Killing

  published Jan 08, 2009

  By Lauren SmileyIt seems riders' camera phones are BART's second worst nightmare these days. Second, of course, to Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop involved in the shooting death of Oscar Grant III on ... More >>

• Gavin's Catholic Bashing

  published Jan 07, 2009

  By Lauren Smiley Is Mayor Newsom a self-hating Catholicr The Catholic League said this week that the Mayor (and the Board of Supervisors) should be blamed for vandals scrawling the names of the pope ... More >>