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

• Newsroom Jobs Down 49.4% in Bay Area, 36.4% in U.S.

  published Apr 06, 2011

  Bay Area news jobs have shrunk by nearly half in the last decade, which is a worse showing than newsrooms overall nationwide, which declined by about one-third, according to a new federally funded rep... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  David Weir, Local Journalist, Joins Ace News Team to Report on The Demise of Bay Area Journalism

  published Apr 06, 2011

  David Weir, the legendary local journalist who helped launch the Center for Investigative Reporting and 7x7 magazine, is part of a new crack team of reporters investigating the effects of the newspape... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Andrew Tilin, Local Journalist, Gets Busted for Steroids After Writing Tell-All Book

  published Apr 04, 2011

  The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has announced a two-year athletic competition ban for Andrew Tilin after the 46-year-old Oakland journalist and amateur cyclist released a book titled The Doper Next Door: ... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  S.F. Feral Cats Policy Good for Cats, Terrible for Birds

  published March 30, 2011

  Illustration by Dale... More >>

• Party On! Federal Bureacrats to Get Higher Per Diem When Traveling to S.F.

  published Mar 25, 2011

  Federal bureaucrats traveling to San Francisco will be getting a little extra cash to wine and dine themselves.Feds will soon be allowed to spend $221 a day on food, drink, and hotels -- money that's ... More >>

• Groupon GoogleAds Pulls a Bait And Switch, Lawsuit Says

  published Mar 24, 2011

  Groupon is being accused of defrauding consumers by purchasing advertisements on Google for services the company did not offer, according to a federal lawsuit filed in San Francisco. A Google search f... More >>

• City Overtime $40 Million More than Projected

  published Mar 21, 2011

  The city will spend $40 million more on overtime pay than its most recent projection, according to a new controller's report.That's bad. This is worse: Only one city employee -- a Muni secretary -- ha... More >>

• 'KUSF in Exile' Broadcast Goes Live Tonight

  published Mar 19, 2011

  KUSF in Exile goes live Saturday night at 8 with DJ Schmeejay's classical music show, featuring music by contemporary composers Luigi Nono and Gyorgi Ligeti."I think we're full steam ahead," said Howa... More >>

• S.F. Evictions Increase

  published Mar 18, 2011

  More tenants in San Francisco are getting evicted partly because they are either breaking their contracts or landlords say they are just plain trouble. According to the city's Rent Stabilization and A... More >>

• Chevron Sues To Guard Secrets on How to Prevent Oil Blowouts

  published Mar 17, 2011

  After the BP oil spill devastated the Gulf of Mexico, you would expect that a prominent oil company like Chevron would want consumers to trust its ability to prevent such blowouts. Yet the San Ramon o... More >>

• Trading Cars for Bikes: S.F. Merchants Turn Parking Spaces into Bike Spots

  published Mar 17, 2011

  Drivers aren't going to like hearing this: Merchants on Haight and Clement streets are taking away desired parking spaces to make room for more bikes.  As part of a city "bike corral" program, th... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  KUSF Volunteers Are Bringing the Bands Back; Old Programs Set to Relaunch

  published Mar 15, 2011

  Listeners tuning into KUSF-archives.com can be forgiven for thinking they're living in 2010 all over again. KUSF volunteers -- yes, the same ones who are challenging the recent sale of the station&nbs... More >>

• Redvelopment Rush Job: Supervisors Consider $70 Million Borrowing Plan

  published Mar 15, 2011

  The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency is pushing through last-minute legislation today that would let the city borrow $70 million for housing and public infrastructure South of Market.And that's one ... More >>

• George Gascon Opponent David Onek Vows 'Open' DA's Office

  published Mar 14, 2011

  David Onek, who is running against District Attorney George Gascon this fall, says that if elected, he will do something the sitting DA won't: Share department records with the public. He said this al... More >>

• 'Tea Party's Gonna Get You,' Ex-Presidio Trust Employee Threatens

  published Mar 11, 2011

  A federal judge has issued a restraining order banning Robert Stokes from visiting his ex-employer, the Presidio Trust, after he threatened to sic the Tea Party on the organization that manages the sp... More >>

• Safeway Sues Over San Francisco Tobacco Ban

  published Mar 10, 2011

  Safeway Inc. has sued San Francisco over a law banning tobacco sales in stores containing pharmacies, claiming that the law gives an unfair advantage to markets that don't sell prescription drugs.The ... More >>

• Larry Ellison Too Good for His Own Golden Gate Yacht Club

  published Mar 09, 2011

  While the rich like to brag that they lunch at the yacht club, the really, really rich apparently boast that they never go near the place.Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, for one, avoids his own Golden Gate ... More >>

• 'Pimp' Is a Bitch To Define for California Supreme Court

  published Mar 08, 2011

  Talk about pimping justice: The California Supreme Court must agree upon a precise definition for the term "pimp" before it can resolve a case involving a man who tried to recruit an undercover cop to... More >>

• Sheriff Wants to Monitor More Prisoner Calls

  published Mar 07, 2011

  A previous version of this story reported the sheriff was cutting back on call monitoring. A spokeswoman has said this is not the case.rThanks to budget constraints, the San Francisco Sheriff's Depart... More >>

• Subject Yourself to Rob Schneider -- for a Good Cause

  published March 9, 2011

  After more than a decade of torturing readers with depressing news and turgid prose, today I'm begging you to torture yourselves — for... More >>

• Dude, Where's My Stashr Paramedics Ditch Faulty Narcotics Tracking System.

  published Mar 04, 2011

  The San Francisco Fire Department's paramedics division, which keeps a stock of federally controlled narcotics for pain control and sedation, will abandon a notebook-based tracking system that had put... More >>

• Key Economic Indicators Hint At Local Recovery

  published Mar 03, 2011

  San Francisco hasn't yet fully emerged from the mortgage-meltdown: Lingering effects include depressed Bay Area employment, which declined 1.4 percent last year, and lackluster housing prices, which r... More >>

• George Gascon Targets Petty Theft, Mortgage Fraud

  published Mar 02, 2011

  Recently appointed District Attorney George Gascon plans to expand use of community courts for petty scofflaws, while stepping up prosecution of white-collar crimes such as mortgage fraud, according t... More >>

• Junk Food Ban Weighed -- For Seagulls

  published Mar 01, 2011

  Seagulls are mysteriously dying by the dozens at Pier 94 rendering plant after feasting on offal, and the Board of Supervisors has been urged to enforce a larine version of a junk food ban.At its Feb.... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Rob Schneider Career Slump May Kill Pacifica Music Program

  published Feb 28, 2011

  Since the late 1990s comedian Rob Schneider has given around $2 million to music programs in Pacifica, where he played trombone in the school band. Yet a recent career slump has made the actor a littl... More >>