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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2010 Stories by Matt Smith

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  FEATURED STORY

  S.F. Bedbug Website Spawns Bogus Trend Stories Nationwide

  published Oct 28, 2010

  The website Bedbugregistry.com, run by San Franciscan Maciej Ceglowski, takes pains to note that its anonymous reports of insect sitings should not be taken as hard evidence of a plague. But that hasn... More >>

• Unions Convince John Avalos to Soften Local Hiring Goal

  published Oct 27, 2010

  Supervisor John Avalos says he plans to soften his proposal to require firms doing construction work for San Francisco government to hire 50 percent local workers. This comes after labor leaders compl... More >>

• Sit-Lie PR Flack Refuses To Identify Hobo 'Aggression' The Measure's Supposed to Stop

  published Oct 26, 2010

  With just one week to go before voters decide on Proposition L, the sit-lie initiative, a PR flack for the campaign was unable to provide an example of the supposed Haight Street hobo violence that ba... More >>

• Forbes Falsely Tags SF Examiner Owner Phil Anschutz As Elite Pro Cyclist

  published Oct 25, 2010

  A profile appearing in the Nov. 8 issue of Forbes magazine suggests that Phil Anschutz, the 70-year-old billionaire oil, rail, telecom and entertainment barron who owns the San Francisco Examiner, is ... More >>

• The city needs to call 911 on emergency dispatchers

  published October 27, 2010

  On May 23, 2009, not long after starting their midnight shifts, two San Francisco city employees were told they'd been laid off. Not great... More >>

• New Tech Makes it Harder To Skip Jail By Using a Phony Name

  published Oct 25, 2010

  A year ago, it was possible to get busted for a crime but evade jail time by getting booked under a phony name, according to a lawsuit we reported on Thursday. Sadly, that sort of gambit's now harder ... More >>

• In San Francisco's Public Sex Mecca, Dogs Left Out of the Action

  published Oct 22, 2010

  A person wishing to have public sex in San Francisco can find significant swaths of the city all but reserved for this activity. Buena Vista Park; the trees between South Fork Drive and JFK Drive in G... More >>

• Oops! SF Jails Wrong Man For 11 Days, Lawsuit Claims

  published Oct 21, 2010

  In an apparent jailhouse version of babies accidentally switched at the hospital, the San Francisco Sheriff's Department allegedly switched identification numbers of two Luke Smith who happened to be ... More >>

• Lawsuit Claims SF 911 Dispatchers Ditch Work, Party, Surf Internet, Even Ignore Calls

  published Oct 20, 2010

  San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management, long subject to allegations of maladministration, is described in an employee lawsuit filed last week as a den of dysfunction where 911 dispatchers ... More >>

• Juvenile Probation Department Sued Over Alleged Pattern of Racism

  published Oct 19, 2010

  Asian and Pacific Islander employees of the city's Juvenile Probation Department filed a class-action lawsuit complaining of a pattern of racial discrimination. The suit, which the employees filed las... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Nancy Pelosi's Libertarian Opponent, John Dennis, Imagines Privatized Sidewalks

  published Oct 18, 2010

  Nancy Pelosi's Republican opponent to represent her San Francisco congressional seat is the subject of a Chronicle profile today claiming he "runs to the left of" the House Speaker.But John Dennis, wh... More >>

• Rec and Parks chief Jared Blumenfeld dumps his boat to work on green issues

  published October 20, 2010

  During the past year, former San Francisco Recreation and Parks chief Jared Blumenfeld has enjoyed the best of times: In January, he was... More >>

• Feds Seize Grow Equipment, Cash from Oakland Pot Factory

  published Oct 15, 2010

  Backers of Proposition 19 say their legalize-and-tax-it approach to marijuana will raise money for the strapped California government. Recent comments by U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, along with ... More >>

• Matt Gonzalez Endorses John Dennis -- Nancy Pelosi's Republican Opponent

  published Oct 15, 2010

  Former San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez is endorsing Republican Congressional candidate John Dennis to highlight "points of agreement" between anti-war liberals and libertarian Republicans."Ther... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Fix Muni Now Prop. G Will Lead to Fewer Pee Breaks, Driver's Union Claims

  published Oct 14, 2010

  The charter amendment backed by San Francisco Supervisor Sean Elsbernd to end the guarantee that Muni drivers earn the second-highest wages in the nation could have some pretty far-reaching repercuss... More >>

• New Measure Could Double Number of Oakland Pot Dispensaries

  published Oct 12, 2010

  As Berkeley angles to become to marijuana what Detroit has been for cars, Oakland tonight seeks to overshadow its neighbor by becoming the Chinese industrial capital Guangzhou of pot.Tonight, the publ... More >>

• Investors From Mumbai, Houston, L.A., Behind $2.33B purchase of State Buildings

  published Oct 11, 2010

  The California Public Utilities Commission's San Francisco headquarters is among 11 state buildings that will soon be owned by a consortium made up of investment groups hailing from Houston, Los Angel... More >>

• De Young Museum patrons complain about crowds, kids, staff

  published October 13, 2010

  San Francisco immigration attorney Bruce Fodiman didn't know he was passing into the art world's version of hell this August when he stepped... More >>

• Kaiser Union Election Produces Winner, Legal Battle

  published Oct 08, 2010

  The Service Employees International Union yesterday decisively won an election to represent 43,000 workers at Kaiser medical facilities around California, an occurrence academic observers predict... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  EPA Honcho Jared Blumenfeld Saddened to Ditch Polluting Boat

  published Oct 07, 2010

  Jared Blumenfeld, San Francisco's former boss of both the Department of the Environment and Rec and Parks Department, was appointed in January as EPA administrator for Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nev... More >>

• New Bill Seeks to Curb Use of Environmental Review to Delay Worthy Projects

  published Oct 06, 2010

  Proposed Legislation by Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier aims to diminish the role of state environmental law in delaying local projects posing little threat to Mother Nature.And -- don't you know it --... More >>

• Report Touting Prop. 23 'Simply Nonsense' -- Stanford Prof

  published Oct 05, 2010

  The Pacific Research Institute bills itself as a think tank that champions freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility by advancing free-market policy solutions. But judging from its new report ... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Labor Pains

  published October 6, 2010

  Enemy number one of the American Worker sits with a cup of iced tea in front of a San Francisco coffee shop, looking hardly menacing at... More >>

• Bag-For-Tattoo Promotion Demonstrates Plummeting Value of Flesh-Based Ads

  published Oct 04, 2010

  San Francisco-based bag-maker, Chrome Industries, offered free tattoos at the recent Interbike show in Las Vegas. Of course, this all depends on your definition of the word "free": The promotion appar... More >>

• Missing From this Year's Bluegrass Festival: Hundreds of Bikes Hanging From Trees

  published Oct 01, 2010

  The San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks has taken steps to prevent a repeat of one of the most distinctive features of the 2009 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival: Tree branches festooned... More >>