Email Author Ron Russell

Awards

• 2009 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published February 28, 2008

  "Benched"

• 2007 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published July 19, 2006

  "Inside the Savage Nation"

• 2006 - Association of Food Journalists Awards

  Food News

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2007 Stories by Ron Russell

• BALCO Breakup - Chron Reporter Jumps to ESPN, Sourcing Gets Awkward

  published November 28, 2007

  Now that the Chronicle's celebrated BALCO investigative reporting team of Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada has split up, inquiring... More >>

• Bones of Discontent - Andrew Galvan carves a unique, controversial role in relocating Native American skeletons

  published November 21, 2007

  In the shadow of San Francisco's oldest building, surrounded by 200-year-old tombstones on the grounds of Mission Dolores, where he is the... More >>

• Richard Thalheimer, Founder of Sharper Image, Talks for the First Time About His Ouster

  published October 24, 2007

  Throughout Richard Thalheimer's sprawling Pacific Heights home are quirky artifacts from happier days when he still ran The Sharper... More >>

• Frankovich: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Disables Wheelchair Access Attorney

  published September 26, 2007

  Tom Frankovich, the flamboyant San Francisco disabilities lawyer whose clients are known for filing serial lawsuits under the Americans with... More >>

• USS Iowa, Any Takers?

  published September 12, 2007

  The competition to land the USS Iowa — the World War II battleship that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors famously rejected as a... More >>

• The Daly Show

  published August 29, 2007

  Beneath the glare of the midday sun, about 150 people have gathered for a ribbon-cutting at the city's newest affordable housing project... More >>

• Pulpit Nonfiction

  published August 15, 2007

  Here's one tome that isn't likely to show up on the Pope's reading list. Clergy sex-abuse victim Joey Piscitelli, who won a $600,000 judgment... More >>

• Wheelchairs of Fortune

  published July 25, 2007

  Inside his elegant law office in a restored century-old Victorian at the upper end of Van Ness, with his feet sprawled across an enormous... More >>

• Shadow Play

  published May 30, 2007

  City College of San Francisco has long aspired to build a new satellite campus in Chinatown. But now that college officials have unveiled plans... More >>

• All-in or Nothing

  published May 9, 2007

  In a town where the dead vastly outnumber the living and quietude is a virtue, nothing much is expected to happen in Colma. Many of its 1,600... More >>

• Battle Lines

  published April 4, 2007

  Don't look now but an on-again, off-again conflict between San Francisco's Veterans Administration Medical Center and its neighbors in the... More >>

• The Little Tribe That Could

  published March 28, 2007

  In the arcane and often contradictory world known as Indian Country, the Muwekma Ohlone have long been a special case. Claiming San Francisco and... More >>

• Earl’s Last Laugh

  published February 21, 2007

  It's noon on a Thursday and former San Francisco Police Chief Earl Sanders, accompanied by his wife, Espanola, is holding court at the Washington... More >>

• Dig This

  published February 21, 2007

  In a surprise move, the Navy has announced it will conduct yet another round of environmental cleanup in a residential area that is home to more... More >>

• Down the Drain

  published January 17, 2007

  Chalk up another Bay Area victim from the demise of the Independent Press Association, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that once was a guardian... More >>

• Battleship Down

  published January 10, 2007

  The USS Iowa, the last great battleship from World War II to be mothballed by the Navy, holds a special place in military lore. It... More >>

• Grave Anatomy

  published January 10, 2007

  Sometimes an awful story just keeps getting worse. To wit: The University of California San Francisco Medical Center has settled a lawsuit brought... More >>