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

• Nursing Home Lobbyist Quits After He Predicts SEIU Powerplay

  published April 2, 2008

  On Wednesday, March 19, at 8:52 p.m., Scott Carlson, executive director of California Alliance to Advance Nursing Home Care, was apparently in... More >>

• Let the Sun Shine, You Hypocrites

  published March 26, 2008

  During the summer of 1999, trucks containing almost 15,000 tons of contaminated dirt made their way from the Altamont Landfill near Livermore... More >>

• Working-Class Struggle

  published March 19, 2008

  Gloria Esteva, a diminutive housekeeper from Oaxaca, Mexico, is wearing an orange T-shirt and carrying a large bullhorn. She exhorts a crowd of... More >>

• ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports on Socialist Holiday

  published March 12, 2008

  Arriving in the Port of Oakland at 6 a.m. last Thursday, the grey-blue colossus auto carrier Century Highway No. 3 carries enough cars... More >>

• Gonzalez/Nader Hysteria

  published March 5, 2008

  In 1846, hard-drinking, red-eyed wildman Ezekiel "Stuttering Zeke" Merritt helped roust a few neighbors from their settlements in the upper... More >>

• Supes Spread Manure

  published February 27, 2008

  Imagine the most bitchin' personal ad in the history of self-promotion. It would conjure a man both wealthy and sensitive, possessing ambition... More >>

• Local Union Leader Rosselli Blasts SEIU Boss Andy Stern

  published February 20, 2008

  Somewhere in California there's a woman alone in a nursing home with bedsores that grow more painful and life-threatening by the day. And down... More >>

• New College Out of Money: Teachers Unpaid, Not Teaching

  published February 13, 2008

  Katie Paul, a tall, brown-haired psychology student, is driving south along the peninsula, watching her future recede in the rear-view mirror.... More >>

• West Coast Dockworkers Dispute Could Paralyze U.S. Economy

  published February 6, 2008

  Imploding U.S. mortgage markets leave behind trillions of dollars in economic damage. The dollar's slide against the euro and the yuan raises... More >>

• Four Steps to Success for Gavin Newsom

  published January 30, 2008

  Yakking and posing-wise, Gavin Newsom got his second mayoral term off to a busy start. To differentiate between his promises and the truth,... More >>

• Epidemic of Violence Against SF Day Laborers

  published January 23, 2008

  Alonso Aguirre, his face swollen from recent surgery, promises he'll tell me how gangbangers recently broke his jaw in two places with a... More >>

• Newsom-Linked Non-Profit SF Connect Twice As Inefficient As National Average

  published January 16, 2008

  San Francisco spends a small nation's budget on and around the problem of homelessness. Numerous programs sprawl over multiple bureaucracies,... More >>

• Attention SF Giants, DiFi - Matt Smith's New Year's Resolutions Others Ought to Follow

  published January 9, 2008

  Now that I've completed the heavy lifting of my own New Year's resolutions, I'm moving on to lighter fare: drafting 2008 self-improvement... More >>