Email Author Peter Jamison
It's natural for a mother to be curious about a stranger who controls the fate of her child. So when Robin Wilson — a Mission district... More >>
A new study by researchers at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs upends a lot of the conventional thinking about the effects of U.S. immigration policy --... More >>
Facebook users' frequent decisions to open troves of personal information to people they don't know well online is predicated on a comforting assumption: You can always "defriend" an offending party, ... More >>
It's always a pleasure to see business blogs' miasmal coverage of Bay Area start-ups pierced by a ray of real journalism. On this note, we have SF Appeal to thank for asking an important question abou... More >>
It appears that more light will be shed on one of the most controversial episodes of police response to Occupy protests across the country last fall, after a judge ruled that an independent report on ... More >>
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon roiled the calming waters in the domestic-violence case against Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi yesterday, telling the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronic... More >>
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon raised the possibility that his office might back out of a plea deal in the domestic-violence case against Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi today, citing indication... More >>
One might think that men clad in briefs, or scantier apparel, have become an accepted part of the public square since the much-noted antics of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner. Not so, acco... More >>
Angst over San Francisco's poorly enforced dog-leash laws was revived last week when a poodle was allegedly killed by an out-of-control mastiff in Huntington Park. Police continue to search for the ow... More >>
In the latest of a string of pre-trial successes for prosecutors, a San Francisco Superior Court appellate panel ruled today that a video of Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's wife describing how he physically ... More >>
Mitt Romney, the leading contender for the GOP presidential nomination, has to watch his back among voters in California's Republican primary, according to a new poll.The poll from the Public Policy I... More >>
Illustration by Taylor Callery On the morning of May 1, 2010, Tian... More >>
We last heard from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio back in December, when a panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, based in San Francisco, grilled his lawyer on the s... More >>
Planned Parenthood doesn't shy away from provocative gimmicks in its efforts to promote sex education and reproductive health; earlier this week, we brought you the news that the nonprofit has launche... More >>
The nonprofit investigative-reporting outfit ProPublica has published a handy guide to the country's top 10 super PAC funders -- individuals with enough dough on hand to bankroll, to the tune of milli... More >>
The nonprofit family-planning and sexual-health group Planned Parenthood has frequently appeared in the headlines over the past month. After a scandal over a potential loss of foundation funding, PP w... More >>
A man who proclaimed on Twitter his desire to sodomize conservative Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann with a machete will have his identity revealed to federal investigators, a U.S. District Co... More >>
Police officers have the authority to forcibly collect DNA from those they arrest, even if the suspects have not been charged with or convicted of a crime, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circ... More >>
As the battle over the constitutionality of California's ban on gay marriage wends its way through the federal courts, the challenge to a similar law in Hawaii has taken a surprising turn.Neil Abercro... More >>
Apple has settled multiple class-action lawsuits alleging that holding the iPhone 4 in a certain way cut off service to the popular smartphone -- what plaintiffs in the case called a "death grip" caus... More >>
Two former officials at the now-defunct Associated Community Action Program (ACAP) -- an Alameda County agency tasked with helping the poor manage their money wisely -- have been charged with illicitl... More >>
Earlier this month, the debate over same-sex marriage in California continued what some have speculated is an inexorable march to the U.S. Supreme Court, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth C... More >>
A class-action lawsuit brought against a group of Bay Area Hooters restaurants by the establishments' waitresses can proceed, a state appeals court ruled this week, denying the restaurants' claim that... More >>
A San Leandro doctor has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his decision to write illicit Vicodin prescriptions to undercover Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents posing as patients addicted to t... More >>
Attorney General Kamala Harris was quick to trumpet her role in securing a nationwide mortgage settlement last week with a handful of major banks, citing her decision to walk away from talks with the ... More >>
