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  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    George Gascón and Dennis Herrera Share Consultants. Is That a Problem?

    Trouble in motion...​We all know the query about who will watch the watchmen. But what about the watchmen's consultants? After Dennis Herrera's tubthumping that a full-blown investigation was required of alleged money-laundering after shuttle bus drivers claimed they were made to donate to Mayor E ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    New Bill Seeks to Curb Use of Environmental Review to Delay Worthy Projects

    Matt SmithThe bike lane injunction is in the rearview mirror, thankfully​Proposed Legislation by Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier aims to diminish the role of state environmental law in delaying local projects posing little threat to Mother Nature.And -- don't you know it -- Mary Miles, the attorney ... More >>

  • News

    May 26, 2010

    City Hall aide running for office owes city money

    Matt SmithThe bike lane injunction is in the rearview mirror, thankfully​Proposed Legislation by Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier aims to diminish the role of state environmental law in delaying local projects posing little threat to Mother Nature.And -- don't you know it -- Mary Miles, the attorney ... More >>

  • News

    May 5, 2010

    The environmental cost of keeping golf courses green

    Matt SmithThe bike lane injunction is in the rearview mirror, thankfully​Proposed Legislation by Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier aims to diminish the role of state environmental law in delaying local projects posing little threat to Mother Nature.And -- don't you know it -- Mary Miles, the attorney ... More >>

  • News

    July 1, 2009

    The Man Who Cried Dust

    Christopher Muhammad's fight with Lennar over toxic dust has resulted in a restraining order against him, an accusation that he's a shakedown artist, and grudging respect from his rivals.

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    Follow the Bouncing Bill: Alioto-Pier's New Aide Says Job Was Spur-of-the-Moment Offer

    FacebookNewly minted Alioto-Pier legislative aide Bill Barnes displays decor he no longer needsWhen former Chris Daly legislative aide Bill Barnes quit his post as Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's chief of staff last year, we asked him if the rumors were true -- was he going to work for Supervisor Michela A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2008

    Fiona Ma's Right-Hand Man Bill Barnes Quits, Heads Back to S.F.

    Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's chief of staff, Bill Barnes, surprised his fellow San Francisco politicos earlier this month by abruptly handing in his resignation. Barnes didn't give the standard line of wanting to spend more time with his wife and children -- he doesn't have any. Instead, he told SF Week ... More >>

  • News

    August 29, 2007

    The Daly Show

    Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed

  • News

    January 18, 2006

    Let It Bleed

    Prosecutors' reluctance to charge murder suspects in S.F. leaves alleged killers on the street, flush with bravado

  • News

    September 14, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, September 14, 2005

  • News

    August 31, 2005

    The Daly Deal

    How the sordid extraction of $50 million from Rincon Hill developers helps Chris Daly, city bureaucrats, and Gavin Newsom -- and hurts everyone else in San Francisco

  • News

    October 20, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, October 20, 2004

  • News

    October 6, 2004

    Sup-Ee-Oh!TM

    Duel for the soul of democracy

  • Culture

    June 18, 2003

    Paradise Lost

    The last leg of a traveling exhibition on California's vanishing resources

  • News

    July 25, 2001

    Out With the New, In With the Old

    The fear of change has been an ongoing parable of San Francisco. The city needs a new parable.

  • Music

    June 20, 2001

    Pop Philosophy

    No parking on the dance floor -- unless you like soft rock

  • News

    January 24, 1996

    In the Land of Tennessee

    Tennessee Williams authorized biographer Lyle Leverich on his book and his subject

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