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

• Supes Want to Rescind Law that Bans Competition in SF Trash Collection

  published February 23, 2011

  Does Recology have a right to pick up San Francisco's trash forever? Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and David Campos don't think so. They plan to... More >>

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  Matt Gonzalez Partnership Could Buy DeSoto Cab Company

  published Feb 18, 2011

  Local left wing ex-politicians are staying true to their blue-collar values -- by becoming capitalists. Former supervisor Chris Daly's a barkeep, and Matt Gonzalez, the former president of the Bo... More >>

• Pelosi's Waning Power Felt with Republican $15 Million Cut for The Presidio

  published Feb 18, 2011

  House Republicans delivered a gut-punch to their nemesis Nancy Pelosi Thursday with a proposed $15 million cut in funding for the Presidio, a national park that's long been Pelosi's pet project.In ord... More >>

• Obama to Meet Only Fat Cats in San Francisco

  published Feb 17, 2011

  Why did President Barack Obama only schedule meetings this week with West Coast fat cats such as John Doerr and Steve Jobs, when he could be conversing with the people who need him the most: The poor ... More >>

• Mavericks: Coast Guard Bans Spectator Boats From Waves

  published Feb 17, 2011

  The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a special federal rule banning spectator boats from encroaching on giant waves during the annual Mavericks surfing  contest. The new rule will let boats affiliated... More >>

• Caretakers for Disabled Can't Afford Criminal Background Checks

  published Feb 15, 2011

  A policy that was designed to prevent fraud among caretakers is now undermining the ability of the disabled to obtain help bathing, cooking, shopping, and cleaning, according to the San Francisco admi... More >>

• Obama Budget Proposes $200 Million for S.F. Central Subway

  published Feb 14, 2011

  Muni boss Nat Ford on Monday praised Barack Obama for including $200 million in spending for the controversial Central Subway rail project as part of the president's federal budget proposal."The San F... More >>

• Black Firefighters Say SFFD Officer Helped White Colleagues Cheat on Exam

  published February 16, 2011

  San Francisco Fire Department Battalion Chief Kevin Taylor is a commanding figure at more than 6 feet tall, with a firefighter's all-muscle... More >>

• Seemen's Kal Spelletich Takes Fire-Shooting Robot Art to Prague

  published Feb 11, 2011

  America may not have an equivalent to Vaclav Havel, the world-renowned literary artist who led a nation to freedom. But we do have Kal Spelletich, director of the art group The Seemen. He's a leading ... More >>

• Leland Yee Opposes Proposed Ban on Shark Fin Soup

  published Feb 10, 2011

  A South Bay assemblyman has thrown the political equivalent of chum into the Bay Area by proposing a ban on shark fin soup. Assemblyman Paul Fong (D-Cupertino) says that the demand for shark... More >>

• Mayor Ed Lee, Willie Brown, and Rose Pak Have a Laugh at Dinner

  published Feb 09, 2011

  For San Francisco's new political triumvirate, the party never stops. On Jan. 6, Rose Pak and Willie Brown gleefully boasted to The Bay Citizen, that they'd orchestrated Ed Lee's selection a... More >>

• SF Barometer: Construction Spending Up, Muni Complaints Down

  published Feb 08, 2011

  Is the recession over in San Franciscor There are still some 40,000 people without jobs, business is slow, and yes, food stamps are increasing. But here's a ray of hope. In December, the value of cons... More >>

• S.F's Chinese New Year Parade Has Become a Hotbed of Controversy

  published February 9, 2011

  Spectators in Hong Kong watched a Chinese New Year Parade extravaganza last week featuring two cheerleading squads from Louisiana State... More >>

• Will Mayor Ed Lee Cave to Labor Over 'Bumping' Rightsr

  published Feb 07, 2011

  On Monday afternoon, labor organizers planned to pack a City Hall hearing room to protest Mayor Ed Lee's plans to eliminate the controversial practice of "bumping," which allows city workers who are l... More >>

• Should City's Garbage Contract Be Trashedr

  published Feb 04, 2011

  City Budget Analyst Says Question Should Be Put to VotersrThanks to a 1932 law, for 79 years only one company has been allowed to pick up and transport garbage on San Francisco streets. In a new repor... More >>

• Tide Turns Against Kaushal Niroula in Murder Trial

  published Feb 04, 2011

  A Palm Springs judge has refused to dismiss murder conspiracy charges against Kaushal Niroula and Danny Garcia, a rare setback in a pretrial process that seemed to favor the two alleged masterminds of... More >>

• Examiner's Phil Anschutz Dumps Money into California Politics -- Except San Francisco

  published Feb 03, 2011

  San Francisco Examiner owner Phil Anschutz, his companies, and his employees, donated $92,582 to 30 California politicians between 2003 and 2009, according to campaign finance filings compiled by Ansc... More >>

• Did Rose Pak Pad Travel Gift Reportsr

  published Feb 02, 2011

  Kibitzer Jon Golinger, who last month compiled Ethics Commission travel gift reports to show that the Chinese Chamber gave $19,506 in travel gifts to politicians, isn't dropping the subject.Chamber bi... More >>

• Google Art Project Snubs Hometown SF Museums

  published Feb 01, 2011

  Google Art Project, the company's new technology feature that allows you to see street views of museums, is offering 3D tours of galleries in Amsterdam, New York, and 15 other sites -- but not in San ... More >>

• BART Needs $2 Billion Worth of Repairs

  published Jan 31, 2011

  More than one-fifth of the equipment BART uses is in poor or shoddy condition -- and fixing it would cost taxpayers at least $2 billion, according to a January report by rthe U.S. Government Accountab... More >>

• Sexist double standards in the land of "Star Wars"

  published February 2, 2011

  Tabitha Totah, a Lucasfilm employee who managed Star Wars memorabilia events around the world, was about to leave for Chile in February... More >>

• S.F. Fraudsters Fueled 2008 Financial Collapse

  published Jan 28, 2011

  America's financial crisis had roots in fraudulent schemes to rope immigrants and other disadvantaged borrowers into loans they could never repay. And federal regulators knew of this problem as early ... More >>

• Local Hobos Snub Chris Daly's Bar

  published Jan 27, 2011

  Yet another reason for Chris Daly to get it on like Donkey Kong: The fellows carrying on day and night outside his bar seem to be getting their drinks from somewhere other than Buck Tavern.Videographe... More >>

• Cheryl Burke, Dancing With the Stars Champ, Molested by Retired Bay Area Postman

  published Jan 26, 2011

  A retired Bay Area postman molested U.S. reality TV star Cheryl Burke when she was a child, according to People Magazine.Burke, a professional dancer, is a two-time champion of Dancing With the Stars.... More >>

• Man Sues the World, Loses

  published Jan 25, 2011

  Kiel J. Sturm sued the world -- all seven billion of us --  claiming we were "meanies" who had turned on him. And now a judge is kicking him while he is down. A San Jose judge rejected his lawsui... More >>