Email Author Peter Jamison

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published May 25, 2011

  "Let Him Prey"

• 2011 - Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, published September 29, 2010

  "Head Case"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published September 29, 2010

  "Head Case"

• 2011 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published February 24, 2010

  "Dead Sea"

• 2011 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published September 29, 2010

  "Head Case"

• 2010 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published September 16, 2009

  "Time Bomb"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published September 16, 2009

  "Time Bomb"

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2011 Stories by Peter Jamison

• Nancy Pelosi, Andrew Breitbart, and the Making of a Non-Story

  published Dec 30, 2011

  Newsrooms across the country went on red alert yesterday as the conservative website BigGovernment.com -- a URL one can reliably say was never destined for non-ironic use -- posted what appeared to be... More >>

• "A Charlie Brown Christmas" Composer Vince Guaraldi's Heirs Sue Berkeley Record Company

  published Dec 29, 2011

  Charlie Brown -- that soft-spoken, perpetually trod-upon, and mysteriously bald child at the heart of the beloved Peanuts comic strips and cartoons -- does not conjure thoughts of bitter lawsuits. (Th... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Ron Paul Is Crazy. Admit It.

  published Dec 26, 2011

  Congressman Ron Paul grabbed the lion's share of headlines among GOP presidential candidates last week, and not just because he is the latest improbable figure to challenge the inevitable nomination o... More >>

• Did California Democrats Rig the Redistricting Processr

  published Dec 22, 2011

  The California Citizens Redistricting Commission, formed by a 2010 ballot initiative, was supposed to drain the drawing of Congressional districts of the political influence that has poisoned it for d... More >>

• Trent Arsenault, FDA-Targeted Sperm Donor, Moonlights as Online Porn Star

  published Dec 21, 2011

  We told you a few days ago about Trent Arsenault, the one-man sperm factory whose antics have been targeted as unsound by the Food and Drug Administration. Arsenault, a Silicon Valley tech worker, has... More >>

• Media Companies Outspend Tech Giants in Fight Over SOPA

  published Dec 20, 2011

  The tech industry has been paying quite a bit of attention to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill wending its way through the U.S. Congress that would allow media companies to pursue legal remed... More >>

• Mayor Ed Lee Vetoes Supes' Bill Closing Sharp Park Golf Course

  published Dec 20, 2011

  Sharp Park Golf Course will remain open for now -- despite legislation closing the course and handing the land on which it is built over to the federal government that passed the Board of Supervisors ... More >>

• Nothing's Free: S.F. DPH Cracks Down on Foraged Dinners

  published December 21, 2011

  Iso Rabins has always done a delicate tango around environmental and food regulations. Rabins pioneered the Bay Area's burgeoning wild-foods... More >>

• San Francisco Among California's Top Three Job-Creating Cities

  published Dec 16, 2011

  "Pandering to the conventional wisdom," former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller once observed, is "the mortal sin of journalism." There are plenty of journalistic sinners out there, particu... More >>

• DA George Gascon Pleased with Feds' Investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio

  published Dec 16, 2011

  In San Francisco, District Attorney George Gascon is known as an administratively competent political moderate with a firmly established place in the ascendant "city family" headed by Mayor Ed Lee. Du... More >>

• Appeals Court Judges Grill Arpaio's Lawyer on Alleged First Amendment Violations

  published Dec 14, 2011

  An 11-member panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had some tough questions today for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's lawyer about why "America's Toughest Sheriff" ... More >>

• Appeals Court to Hear Arguments in Lawsuit Against Sheriff Who Jailed Village Voice Media Executives

  published Dec 13, 2011

  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments tomorrow in a lawsuit filed against Arizona law-enforcement officials who falsely arrested two Village Voice Media executives as ret... More >>

• Steve Jobs Statue to Be Erected in Hungary

  published Dec 12, 2011

  Cities often lay claim to the legacy of a great cultural figure by erecting a statue in his honor. Dublin has its monument to James Joyce, famously referred to by locals as "the Prick with the Stick."... More >>

• Fresh Herring Fishery off to Slow Start

  published Dec 09, 2011

  Last month we reported on a change to state regulations that will allow fresh herring to be caught and sold locally. For decades, all the herring caught by San Francisco's commercial fishermen have be... More >>

• UCSF Medical Center, SF General Fined for Surgical Screw-Ups

  published Dec 08, 2011

  UCSF Medical Center and San Francisco General Hospital have both been fined tens of thousands of dollars for operating-room mishaps, the California Department of Public Health announced today.The two ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  PHOTOS: A Peek Inside Secret Research Facilities at Apple 'Mothership'

  published Dec 07, 2011

  Extensive plans detailing the shape of Apple's 'mothership' campus in Cupertino have become public, Gizmodo reports today. Among the enticing details to emerge is that the facility will include what t... More >>

• Brazilian Gaming Company Vostu Settles Lawsuit with Zynga

  published Dec 06, 2011

  It's been a tough fall for social-gaming company Zynga, what with plenty of bad press and an IPO valuation that came in at less than half of what some had expected. But today's news cycle offers one p... More >>

• DNA Lab Cover-Up: SFPD to Investigate Claims in Secret Court Records

  published December 7, 2011

  The San Francisco Police Department is launching an internal-affairs investigation based on a whistleblower's allegations that senior police... More >>

• Judge Unseals Secret Court Records Detailing Alleged DNA Lab Cover-Up

  published Dec 05, 2011

  A judge unsealed court records today detailing a whistle-blower's allegations that police and prosecutors might have been involved in an orchestrated effort to mislead auditors about the state of the ... More >>

• On World AIDS Day, No Talk of 'Barebacking' in San Francisco

  published Dec 01, 2011

  Today is World AIDS Day, and the men and women who have devoted themselves to fighting this pandemic -- from Bono to former President George W. Bush -- can justifiably take credit for a lot of progres... More >>

• Will Tech IPOs Drive Hyper-Gentrification of Southern Neighborhoodsr

  published Dec 01, 2011

  The dot-com boom and bust of the late 1990s left an indelible mark on the southeastern portion of San Francisco. SOMA, a neighborhood formerly known for furniture warehouses, nightclubs and a few leat... More >>

• Alameda Gun Ordinance to Go Before Full 9th Circuit Appeals Court

  published Nov 30, 2011

  The quest for the rights of ordinary, hardworking Americans to carry bazookas and roll Abrams tanks across government property continues its slow advance. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ha... More >>

• Is Zynga's 'Evil' Corporate Culture Now a Business Liabilityr

  published Nov 29, 2011

  In a business sector known for cutthroat, amoral maneuvering, social-game developer Zynga stands out as, well, particularly cutthroat and amoral. At least that's the view of many of its competitors an... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Hate Expectations: Police and Prosecutors Are Quick to Claim the Presence of Racism — but Juries Are Not So Sure

  published November 30, 2011

  Cover designed by Andrew J. Nilsen. The case looked like it was... More >>

• UC Davis Chancellor: Police Defied Orders by Pepper-Spraying Occupy Protesters

  published Nov 23, 2011

  UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi is apparently sorry -- really, really sorry -- for the pepper-spraying of peaceful Occupy student protesters that set off a public-relations catastrophe last week. In ... More >>