Email Author Lisa Davis

1996 Stories by Lisa Davis

• Mulch

  published December 25, 1996

  Dear Santa: Please bring us 100 Easy Bake ovens for Christmas so that we can serve 27,000 lunches every day to schoolchildren of both the... More >>

• Mulch

  published December 18, 1996

  Visiting Nurses Recover... Following four months of triage and therapy, Visiting Nurses & Hospice (VNH) -- an arm of California Pacific... More >>

• School Work Needing Supervision

  published December 11, 1996

  The public tab continues to run in the bizarre Hunters Point school renovation fiasco. The fracas pits state Sen. Quentin Kopp and the tax... More >>

• Mulch

  published December 4, 1996

  Peace Through Credit In 1994, San Francisco State University erupted over a mural named for Malcolm X, unveiled in the campus quad. The... More >>

• Mulch

  published November 27, 1996

  IOU on Y Japanese-American community leaders have issued a challenge to the San Francisco YWCA: Surrender title to the Japantown Y next... More >>

• Mulch

  published November 20, 1996

  Un Junket, S'il Vous Plait? The Hotel de Crillon is frequented by celebrities, diplomats, and, last week, Mayor Willie Brown, courtesy of... More >>

• The Quick Fix

  published November 13, 1996

  It is late morning on the kind of beautiful, clear day that compels artists to paint the San Francisco Bay. Bob is in the bedroom of his home,... More >>

• Mulch

  published November 13, 1996

  Caveat Sipper The S.F. Department of Public Health has begun testing owners of Yi Xing Purple Grit Teapot sets for lead and cadmium... More >>

• Mulch

  published November 6, 1996

  Peace Through Prostate International seminar leader, holistic healer, massage therapist, Tantra teacher, and "sacred initiatress" Ishtara... More >>

• Mulch

  published October 30, 1996

  Pediatric Proctologists Need Not Apply In a roundabout way, academia has validated what everyone at this year's S.F. Health Summit and... More >>

• Mulch

  published October 23, 1996

  If Only They Wore Cement Shoes The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp.'s annual Celebrity Pool Toss used to be a sleepy fund-raiser,... More >>

• Logic Boards, Not Blackboards

  published September 25, 1996

  Scores of business wonks, parents, teachers, and other volunteers are set to assemble next month for the second NetDay of the year. In March, the... More >>

• N-E-G-L-E-C-T

  published September 11, 1996

  Hurried health care has a price tag. More than 300 people are killed or placed in danger annually because of nursing home negligence. Among... More >>

• Trickledown Health Care

  published September 11, 1996

  Her name is "Patient A," at least that's how she's memorialized in a Hillhaven Skilled Nursing Facility citation file at the California Department... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published August 28, 1996

  Divorce, Doctor Style Consumer advocate and presidential candidate Ralph Nader drew first blood last week in the war of the stethoscopes... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published August 7, 1996

  Phone Book of Revelations The Jesuits at the University of San Francisco have finally exorcised their telephone prefix, which for more than... More >>

• Cleaning Slates

  published July 31, 1996

  From the stairwell of Visitacion Valley Middle School, you can see the morning fog floating above the houses in Brisbane. From the cafeteria, you... More >>

• What Price Hygiene?

  published July 31, 1996

  Cesar Mejia scrubbed the toilets, emptied the trash, waxed the floors, and generally cleaned up the residue that business left behind every night... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published July 17, 1996

  Back to the Future Last week, SF Weekly warned that you might want to take pause before plunging your savings into the stock offering of... More >>

• Unappointed Rounds

  published June 12, 1996

  Doris Flynn promptly mailed two checks to pay her property taxes last November and went about her business, thinking all was well. By... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published June 12, 1996

  Pepper Report A San Francisco coroner's report released on May 31 concludes that a cocaine overdose killed Mark Garcia, the Milbrae... More >>

• The Nameless and the Dead

  published June 5, 1996

  The second report crackled across the police radio three minutes after the first, with barely a pause in the action. It was shortly before 4 a.m.... More >>

• A Haunting End

  published June 5, 1996

  A lost soul in a transient city, Leslie George Ward died in singular circumstances. He had 25 names but no identity. Others leave this realm in... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published June 5, 1996

  Food Fight Geraldine Johnson, African-American community activist and until recently a restaurateur at Yerba Buena Gardens, is crying foul... More >>

• Final Deadline

  published May 29, 1996

  After a few peppermint schnapps, C. David Burgin walks over to the jukebox at the Warehouse, a favorite hangout of police officers near the... More >>