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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2008 Stories by Matt Smith

• SEIU boss Andy Stern wouldn't mind if McCain gets elected

  published October 1, 2008

  In the final moments of a historic campaign, an old political hand pulls an outlandish stunt that will either damage him, or help make him one... More >>

• Facing foreclosure? Con man Paul Noe II has a deal for you

  published September 24, 2008

  Dunstanto Lopez stands at the center of the foreclosure storm that's boarding up neighborhoods around America. The value of his home in Hayward... More >>

• Gavin Newsom's out-of-town businesses with SF addresses

  published September 17, 2008

  What with his expensive suits, recent A-list wedding, and patronage from the Getty oil fortune, Gavin Newsom doesn't seem the kind of man who... More >>

• Press Democrat Gives Misleading Solace to Area Bank Depositers

  published Sep 10, 2008

  Talk about missing the trees for the forest. Michael Scott, a reporter at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, put a local North Bay spin on the national mortgage crisis Sunday with a feature story that be... More >>

• Dubious UCSF Study Claims Cops Extort Sex

  published September 10, 2008

  Amid the hubbub of the 22,000 academics, bureaucrats, and policy wonks attending last month's International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, one... More >>

• Double Bogey

  published September 3, 2008

  How many people in San Francisco are involved in multimillion-dollar illegal tax shelters? Would you believe: more than 200,000? That's... More >>

• Gavin Newson's New Age adviser gives voters some advice

  published August 27, 2008

  To relieve anxiety from the too-close-to-call 2008 presidential campaign, look to another election whose conclusion is all but foregone. Events... More >>

• Shaky bond insurers cost taxpayers money

  published August 13, 2008

  Sage editors, wishing to impress upon cub reporters that nothing is news unless it's extraordinary, repeat a journalism adage: We never write... More >>

• Dr. G. Newsom Gets Hands Dirty

  published Aug 06, 2008

  So much commentary about San Francisco's mayor focuses on his dishonesty, laziness, drunkenness, frivolity and narcissism. That's why SF Weekly was gratified to find this image of Gavin Newsom doing w... More >>

• Little GoCars are big polluters

  published August 6, 2008

  Anyone frequenting North Beach, Fisherman's Wharf, or other S.F. tourist haunts has been startled by the chainsawlike whine of tiny yellow... More >>

• November ballot measures promise eco-confusion

  published August 6, 2008

  The next time your nosy cubiclemate says you should do more to save the planet, call her a chump. If you've been sitting on your ass while... More >>

• Chron insiders hate Willie Brown's new column

  published July 30, 2008

  In 2004, apparently unbeknownst to his employers, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Phil Matier cut a deal with Mayor Willie Brown and... More >>

• Fixie-Fashionistas Find Olympic Outlaw Cred

  published Jul 28, 2008

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• Claim: Dockworkers Stalling West Coast Cargo

  published Jul 28, 2008

  To collapsing banks and rising fuel prices, add laggard dockworkers to the plagues afflicting the U.S. economy. As San Francisco-based negotiations drag on between the International Longshore and Wa... More >>

• The Pork Park

  published July 23, 2008

  When a public official employs treachery, pork-barrel politics, and doublespeak in the name of good policy, what is a priggish columnist to... More >>

• Public Power Grab

  published July 16, 2008

  After a decade of trying, San Francisco is still a long way from stopping the diesel smoke that spews over the city's eastern neighborhoods... More >>

• Air Heads

  published July 9, 2008

  Efrain Vanegas, a reporter with La Tribuna newspaper in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, emphatically agrees when I propose the word "chaos" to... More >>

• Stealth Bloggers

  published July 2, 2008

  What with viral videos such as will.i.am's "Yes We Can" spot on Barack Obama and online jabberwocky about a supposed... More >>

• Progressive Justice

  published June 25, 2008

  This week's Feature is a Matt Smith comic! Click here to flip through the... More >>

• Video: Adam Werbach Describes New Job

  published Jun 20, 2008

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• Eminently Logical

  published May 28, 2008

  If you're an environmentalist, an antipoverty activist, or a member of any other well-meaning civic group, your fellow travelers have told you... More >>

• For Whom the Bridge Tolls

  published May 14, 2008

  When financial executives have to pay an extra dollar for crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, terrorists win. At least, that's one moral to be... More >>

• Can't We All Just Roll Along?

  published May 7, 2008

  To envision the future he'd like to see, architect Robin Levitt shows a small downtown crowd of transportation geeks a selection of postwar... More >>

• Fall Into the Cash

  published April 23, 2008

  Don Fisher, the iconic founder of the Gap stores, is known for the messes he and his sons step into. A few years ago, he invited a boycott of... More >>

• Cruise Control

  published April 9, 2008

  For public health advocates, the Internet, and its ability to spread disease through anonymous sex hookups, is the new tobacco. Just as the... More >>