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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2011 Stories by Matt Smith

• S.F. Foundation to Homeless: Let Them Eat Cake

  published Aug 26, 2011

  A foundation dedicated to promoting one-on-one tutoring for school kids has expanded its mission to include helping homeless people.Their solution to homelessness: Let them eat cake.The people at the ... More >>

• Curve Magazine Calls Bevan Dufty an International Supergay

  published Aug 25, 2011

  In San Francisco, mayoral candidate Bevan Dufty is clamoring to be Mayor Ed Lee's No. 2, but internationally, the former city supervisor is already considered a "supergay" and it's not just because he... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Stripped VW On S.F. Street Bears Blunt Message: "F.U. City Tow"

  published Aug 24, 2011

  A psychiatrist might say that hauling a stripped automobile to Fisherman's Wharf, lowering it onto the street, and spray-painting "F.U. City Tow" isn't the most productive way to manage one's anger. B... More >>

• White Male Cops Sue San Francisco, Citing Racial Bias

  published Aug 22, 2011

  A white male cop, reportedly reassigned in 2005 when his unit's refrigerator was found stocked with booze, claims he was passed over for a promotion in 2007 because of racial bias. "The city has a lon... More >>

• Remembering Don Casper, a City Official Who Saved Taxpayers Billions

  published August 24, 2011

  In July I received a call from Don Casper, the former chairman of the San Francisco County GOP, vice president of the Civil Service Commission,... More >>

• FAA Moves to Curtail Tour Planes from Buzzing National Parks

  published Aug 19, 2011

  For passengers of local sea-plane and helicopter tours, nothing beats a birds-eye view of the the Point Reyes National Seashore and the Marin Headlands. For visitors to those places, however, it's a n... More >>

• Animal Activists to State Fair: Don't Have a Cow

  published Aug 18, 2011

  Bay Area animal-rights activist Eric Mills has gathered 1,500 signatures in hopes of cowing the California State Fair into ceasing its practice of displaying live animal births.Hoping to continue with... More >>

• Clapper Rail Bird, Thought Extinct in San Francisco, Found Nesting in Hunters Point

  published Aug 18, 2011

  A mating pair of federally endangered San Francisco Bay clapper rail -- a once abundant species thought vanished from San Francisco -- have been discovered alongside some chicks in Heron's Head Park.T... More >>

• Mental Health Employees Sue Over Crazy Work Schedule

  published Aug 16, 2011

  City employees who care for the severely mentally ill have sued over a severely unstable work schedule that's driving them craaaaaaaazy. They are scheduled to work four days one week, then six days th... More >>

• Ed Lee Spends Sunday Waiting for Cheering Fans Who Never Showed Up

  published Aug 15, 2011

  When Gavin Newsom was mayor, he worked hard to burnish his persona as a fabulous man of the people. He would roll up to a gritty corner in Hunters Point with a camera crew and ambush a few  pass... More >>

• Rec and Parks Infighting Kills Holiday Bash for Developmentally Disabled

  published August 10, 2011

  Last year San Franciscans were outraged when Laguna Honda Hospital administrators took money from a gift fund meant to provide simple pleasures... More >>

• How to Avoid Getting Sued for Workplace Sexual Harassment of Transgender Employees

  published Aug 08, 2011

  Thanks to Kristina Wertz, legal director of San Francisco's Transgender Law Center, Transportation Security Administration managers at Los Angeles International Airport will undergo mandatory sensiti... More >>

• What If Airbnb Hooked Up Crazies with Chainsaws, Instead of Apartmentsr

  published Aug 05, 2011

  At the Snitch, we've been saddened to see the end of the crazy Airbnb story, where travel renters terrorized a homeowner by ransacking and stealing from her apartment.We'd like to give it new life by ... More >>

• S.F. Company Recalls Computer Equipment That Catches Fire

  published Aug 03, 2011

  [Updates appended 9/03/11, 4 p.m.]You've heard of cloud computing.Next: Smoke computing.Cloud Engines' PogoPlug, a black desk-top box used to used to provide remote access to video, music and other fi... More >>

• Muni Is Shelling Out $32.8 Million on Collisions

  published Aug 02, 2011

  Muni has racked up a $32 million bill for damages resulting from recent collisions, including the July 2009 Muni crash where an operator blacked out and smashed into the back of a stationary K-Inglesi... More >>

• Danish Cult Could Be Illegally Placing Donation Boxes on S.F. Sidewalks

  published Aug 02, 2011

  Mission resident Joe Stevens has new neighbors."I left for work one day, everything was normal. And I came back, I see this fucking ugly box the size of a car on the sidewalk," he says.The yellow boxe... More >>

• S.F.P.D. Officers Finally Have E-Mail, But Department Still Lags in Tech

  published August 3, 2011

  For the first time in history, San Francisco police officers can hand a crime witness a business card and say, "If you hear or think of... More >>

• In San Francisco, Elder Abuse Is the Perfect Crime

  published Aug 01, 2011

  If you rob or beat up an elderly person in San Francisco, your chances of being convicted are fewer than one in 100, according to data in a recent city report on how local law enforcement addresses fa... More >>

• FCC Narrows Inquiry Into KUSF 90.3 FM Sale

  published Jul 28, 2011

  [Correction appended on Friday, July 29, 5:40 a.m.:]rThe Federal Communications Commission has agreed to narrow its request for documents from the University of San Francisco as the regulator investig... More >>

• iPhone App to Push Earthquake-Themed Social Networking

  published Jul 27, 2011

  Update 3:39 p.m.: App maker says he has other products, too, but won't say what they are.rSan Francisco's government is creating an iPhone app patterned after FarmVille and Foursquare where players ca... More >>

• Climate Change: $5.3 Billion Worth of Sea Walls Needed to Protect Bay Area

  published Jul 27, 2011

  Climate-change-borne threats of flood, erosion, inundation, and salinization will spur the Bay Area to spend more than $5.3 billion on seawalls and levees, according to a report by the environmental g... More >>

• Petition Drive to Legalize Marijuana Approved

  published Jul 25, 2011

  Pot advocates are taking another stab at legalization with a proposed measure that would dictate pot growers be regulated in the same way as microbrewers and vintners. Home growers would be be left al... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Good Scout, Bad Boy: Examining the Virtues of Leland Yee

  published July 20, 2011

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  FEATURED STORY

  S.F. Dating: Violence Higher for LGBT Teens

  published Jul 18, 2011

  A new survey of San Francisco Unified School District teens says gay middle-school boys were more than four times as likely to report being assaulted by their intimate partners than straight boys were... More >>

• Privatization Bill Seems Designed to Destroy Parks

  published Jul 14, 2011

  There's no doubt that lefty supervisors John Avalos, Eric Mar, Ross Mirkarimi, and David Campos meant well when they moved to put a measure on the ballot to prevent the privatization of parks.Strivers... More >>