Email Author Lisa Davis

1999 Stories by Lisa Davis

• Schmoozing My Religion

  published December 29, 1999

  Robert Lester found love in the front row of a classroom at the Jewish Community Center. It was about seven weeks into an eight-week series of... More >>

• Rage Against the Machine

  published December 1, 1999

  Sleepless election officials were at wits' end. Nearly two days had passed since the polls closed, and still no one knew the results of the Nov. 2... More >>

• Breaking Ranks

  published November 10, 1999

  In an all-but-unheard-of move last year, Mayor Willie Brown received the early endorsement of the San Francisco Labor Council before summer was... More >>

• Jamba Liar

  published October 27, 1999

  Gumbo is a complicated creation. The holy grail of Louisiana cooking, a steaming bowl of this magic liquid is sheer Cajun rapture. Yet, every... More >>

• Making Education Pay

  published September 22, 1999

  BY A FEW MINUTES PAST 7 ON A TUESDAY EVENING, ABOUT 40 PEOPLE HAVE SETTLED INTO THE HARD-AS-HELL wooden seats of the Everett Middle School... More >>

• Dirty Laundry

  published September 8, 1999

  While a report from the Bureau of State Audits last week indicated that there might be some hope for salvaging the disastrous merger that created... More >>

• Payday for Charlie Walker

  published August 25, 1999

  For weeks now, the city's politicians and press have watched as FBI agents caromed around town, throwing down subpoenas on the doorsteps of every... More >>

• Inside the Big Floop

  published August 11, 1999

  The press release was ominous, but not surprising. Last week, Stanford University President Gerhard Casper and University of California President... More >>

• TheirNameHere.com

  published July 14, 1999

  Joseph Karwat was a bit surprised when friends and business associates began congratulating him on having taken his Oakland-based company, E-Fax... More >>

• Science of the Lambs

  published June 30, 1999

  Inside a very plain building, in an ordinary industrial office park, in possibly the most unremarkable part of Menlo Park, a scientist named Dr.... More >>

• Lab Rats

  published May 12, 1999

  Juan De La Torre remembers the night well. It was just about two months ago, and he was at home vomiting, quivering, and fighting a severe... More >>

• Drug Warfare

  published May 12, 1999

  His name is Fred, but they call him David. And in this particular story, the nation's billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry played the role of... More >>

• Eat This Logo, Sucker

  published March 24, 1999

  Info:Correction Date: 03/31/1999 Info: Eat This Logo, Sucker ValueStar wants businesses to pay for the privilege of sporting its seal... More >>

• What the Hellman Is Going on Here?

  published March 17, 1999

  While UCSF Stanford Health Care officials are supposedly paring costs and preparing to lay off employees in the wake of a mysterious $10.7 million... More >>

• Madam I Am

  published February 3, 1999

  At half-past 7 on the evening of June 3, 1998, Raeshel Keavy left her office on California Street, and drove to the Pan Pacific Hotel in Union... More >>