Email Author Matt Smith

Awards

• 2011 - Peninsula Press Club Awards

  "Distressed Properties"

• 2011 - Peninsula Press Club Awards

  "City Hounds the Homeless"

• 2011 - Peninsula Press Club Awards

  "Hypocritical Mayor"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 17, 2009

  "On Thin Ice"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 3, 2009

  "Domestic Spouses"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 6, 2009

  "Bumping Frights"

• 2009 - Peninsula Press Club Awards

  Matt Smith columns

• 2008 - Peninsula Press Club Awards

  Matt Smith columns

• 2007 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published April 26, 2006

  "Bank of Indifference"

• 2007 - Peninsula Press Club Awards

  Matt Smith columns

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2007 Stories by Matt Smith

• The Mayor Yells Fire

  published May 23, 2007

  On Friday, May 11, Mayor Gavin Newsom released a blue-ribbon commission report saying San Francisco public housing is so decrepit it would take... More >>

• Golf in the Hole

  published May 9, 2007

  During the past couple months, staffers in Mayor Gavin Newsom's Department of Recreation and Park have been telling anyone who'll listen that the... More >>

• Flip That Housing Authority

  published May 2, 2007

  Late afternoon last Thursday at San Francisco's Soweto, a housing project known as Hunters View, wouldn't ordinarily be described as "troubled,"... More >>

• A Step Forward

  published April 18, 2007

  Judging from the hale, serene demeanor of the co-lead barrister in the small-business and civil-rights litigation firm at Two Shaw Alley, there's... More >>

• Union Disunity

  published April 11, 2007

  “With time, my loss of Cassie began to transform the way I approached life.” —Andy Stern, Getting America Back... More >>

• Making (Radio) Waves

  published March 28, 2007

  Thin, polite, deliberate, and articulate Doug Loranger offers me a seat in his Western Addition flat and turns on a television set to a video he... More >>

• Bambi Must Die

  published March 21, 2007

  Sitting at a German restaurant near the S.F. opera house with three gravy-covered strips of meat in front of me, a glass of darkish beer to my... More >>

• A Walk in the Park

  published March 14, 2007

  For 40 years San Francisco has barred cars from the eastern section of Golden Gate Park on Sundays. The quiet, safe expanse of parkway has over... More >>

• Free Trade (in Doctors)

  published March 7, 2007

  With its thousands of acres of universities, conservatories, libraries, bookstores, teaching hospitals, med schools, and other enterprises... More >>

• Shake-down Tour

  published February 28, 2007

  Mauro Gianetti, the elegantly thin, fashionably bald Swiss former pro racer who runs the Spanish Saunier Duval-Prodir cycling team, engages me by... More >>

• Harboring a Land Bonanza

  published February 14, 2007

  San Francisco Plumbers union boss Larry Mazzola's quest to turn a concert venue into an Indian gambling casino hit a significant roadblock last... More >>

• Par for the Course

  published February 7, 2007

  I know what some of you are thinking: "Cool, San Francisco has a white Marion Barry." But I urge you to reconsider. To begin with, Gavin... More >>

• Our Money Flies Out of SFO

  published January 31, 2007

  Imagine a place where bureaucrats cause millions of public dollars to disappear into a private company, mislead the people of an impoverished... More >>

• Burnt Man

  published January 24, 2007

  In June 1976 17-year-old John Law hitchhiked to San Francisco, checked into a youth hostel, and learned from the innkeeper that he'd arrived too... More >>

• Let the Gaming Begin

  published January 17, 2007

  Democratic members of Congress say they'll forgo gifts from lobbyists such as skybox parties and rides in comfy corporate jets, and... More >>

• A Union Made in Political Heaven

  published January 10, 2007

  Democratic members of Congress say they'll forgo the gifts from lobbyists such as skybox parties and rides in comfy corporate jets, and... More >>

• Drive-by Reporting

  published January 10, 2007

  Woo hoo! Last Thursday, San Francisco became hometown to the world's most powerful woman. Party on dudes, er, babes, er, ladies, um, anyway:... More >>

• Song Cycle

  published January 3, 2007

  On Oct. 27, 32-year-old composer Flip Baber was driving through downtown San Francisco to see a movie when he got stuck in traffic. The movie... More >>

• Porkmistress Pelosi

  published January 3, 2007

  Though Nancy Pelosi only emerged from the starting gate Tuesday as American history's most powerful woman, she's been hinting for weeks at what's... More >>