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Matt Smith
S.F. Green Business Program rewards polluter
By Matt Smith
Published: November 18, 2009
Back in the days when Gavin Newsom aspired to become governor, his every move seemed tailored toward succeeding Arnold Schwarzenegger as California's...
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Matt Smith
Historic Preservation Commission stalls library renovations
By Matt Smith
Published: November 11, 2009
One year ago, a successful measure creating a new Historic Preservation Commission threatened to freeze San Francisco in time. Now, it's the preservationists who seem to have...
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Matt Smith
Once a joke, SFPD is actually solving murders these days
By Matt Smith
Published: November 4, 2009
On the night of Aug. 5, inspectors at San Francisco's homicide detail got a call about a Pontiac Aztek abandoned on Terry Francois Boulevard, a two-lane street that runs along...
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Matt Smith
Politics are crippling state-funded services to the disabled
By Matt Smith
Published: October 28, 2009
In July 1993, lifelong amateur sailor Herbert Meyer, then 62, was crewing on a Rhodes 50 sailboat berthed at Pier 39. "It was a nice July afternoon at about 4 p.m., and the...
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Matt Smith
Owner of the Warfield pushes billboard ballot measure
By Matt Smith
Published: October 21, 2009
Real estate investor David Addington, 42, walks down the part of Market Street that intersects San Francisco's Skid Row, motioning at run-down century-old buildings and...
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Matt Smith
National Rifle Association recruits San Franciscans to overturn gun-control laws
By Matt Smith
Published: October 14, 2009
It's an hour before dawn, and Espanola Jackson, a 76-year-old activist known for her leading role in antidevelopment battles, is awoken by a clunk coming from the kitchen of...
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Matt Smith
Murder or Suicide?
S.F. investigators explain why Hugues de la Plaza's stabbing death wasn't ruled a homicide.
By Matt Smith
Published: October 7, 2009
Hugues de la Plaza, a 36-year-old French sound engineer living in San Francisco, began the evening of June 1, 2007, in pursuit of what writers for Paris Match deemed his...
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Stimulus Wreckage
Despite having been accused of deceptive business practices by the attorney general, former students, and ex-employees, Corinthian Colleges are getting millions in federal stimulus dollars.
By Matt Smith
Published: September 30, 2009
Martine Leveque moved to the U.S. from Haiti in 1983 and eventually established a Hollywood career writing subtitles in Italian and French for English-language movies. When...
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Matt Smith
Obama's stimulus money will increase traffic, but not bridge safety
By Matt Smith
Published: September 16, 2009
For the thousands of drivers forging across the Bay Bridge at 6:30 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 8, was the day government got it right. Inspectors noticed a cracked strut amid a...
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Matt Smith
In environmental terms, Cash for Clunkers is a jalopy
By Matt Smith
Published: September 2, 2009
For Joe Shaghasi, general manager of San Francisco Ford Lincoln Mercury, the federal government's $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program that ended August 24 was economically and...
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Matt Smith
SFPD polygraph expert's controversial views
By Matt Smith
Published: August 19, 2009
Editor's Note: In the opening paragraph of this column, Matt Smith listed theoretical examples of "uncomfortable questions" that could elicit a physical response. Smith did not...
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Matt Smith
SFPD can't tell a lie: It still uses unreliable polygraph to screen recruits
Even though scientists have discredited the polygraph, the SFPD still relies on the flawed device to screen recruits.
By Matt Smith
Published: August 12, 2009
In May 1922, the then–highly competitive Bay Area newspaper industry was mesmerized by a case, and a device, that would influence crime lore for the next century. San...
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Matt Smith
SFPD possibly detained and released fugitive who later killed cop
By Matt Smith
Published: August 5, 2009
Early-to-mid-2006 saw a rupture in the suburban tranquillity that usually defines the kidney-shaped courtyard lawns, curving pathways, and portico-porch duplexes of Parkmerced,...
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Matt Smith
Advanta Corp.'s dubious investment offer in the Chronicle
By Matt Smith
Published: July 29, 2009
Readers skimming the business section of the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday, July 12, might have been surprised to see an extraordinary investment opportunity in a...
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The Outsider
George Gascon is S.F.'s first police chief in 30 years who wasn't homegrown — and he's promising big changes. Criminals and lazy cops, you have been warned.
By Matt Smith
Published: July 22, 2009
During the past seven years, incoming San Francisco police chief George Gascon has, in some respects, operated as an up-to-date version of the kind and composed, wise and wily...
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Matt Smith
Supervisors consider ballot measure to pull city ads from newspapers
By Matt Smith
Published: June 24, 2009
If you attend any meetings at San Francisco's City Hall, you're likely to find shutterbug Luke Thomas snapping shots for his Web site, Fog City Journal. His 10,000 monthly...
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Matt Smith
SFPD's shadow disciplinary system wastes taxpayer money
By Matt Smith
Published: June 17, 2009
Behind a vast, thick glass window flanked by locked doors, a dozen vacant-faced figures mill around so slowly that it seems as if the stolid boredom of life in this room has...
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Matt Smith
Graft and Gaming
City employees are bleeding the city to death. One way is legal and the other is not.
By Matt Smith
Published: June 10, 2009
It would be hard to imagine a more pathetic hero than Alexander Deanda, who used to manage the water-meter repair shop for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. The...
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Matt Smith
Marriage equality can be achieved by separating church and state
By Matt Smith
Published: June 3, 2009
During the period last year when same-sex couples could get married in California, the Reverend D. Mark Wilson married a lesbian couple from San Diego. All seemed fine until...
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Matt Smith
Ironically, bike hater Rob Anderson advances cause of cycling in S.F.
By Matt Smith
Published: May 27, 2009
A staffer thrusts open the glass doors of the San Francisco Public Library's Mission Bay branch, rushes toward the bike racks, and pleads with a commuter who works in a nearby...
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