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  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Homeless Sex Offenders in San Francisco Move Indoors

    Sex offenders are moving inside.While all homeless sex offenders in San Francisco will have to report to round-up centers on Halloween, there will likely be fewer transients who need to check in this year.​In the last six months, San Francisco's public defender has quietly won temporary stays on J ... More >>

  • News

    August 24, 2011

    Remembering Don Casper, a City Official Who Saved Taxpayers Billions

    Sex offenders are moving inside.While all homeless sex offenders in San Francisco will have to report to round-up centers on Halloween, there will likely be fewer transients who need to check in this year.​In the last six months, San Francisco's public defender has quietly won temporary stays on J ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Jerry Brown Rehires Official Who Protested State Building Privatization

    That was a close call.​After he was quoted in The Snitch protesting a proposed sale of 24 government office buildings to private investors, Arnold Schwarzenegger fired Donald Casper from his job as a state buildings commissioner.Now that Governor Jerry Brown has scotched the Governator's mone ... More >>

  • News

    June 15, 2011

    A Movement Defaced: Queer Street Art Fights for Legitimacy

    That was a close call.​After he was quoted in The Snitch protesting a proposed sale of 24 government office buildings to private investors, Arnold Schwarzenegger fired Donald Casper from his job as a state buildings commissioner.Now that Governor Jerry Brown has scotched the Governator's mone ... More >>

  • News

    January 5, 2011

    Jerry Brown Should Get Rid of Schwarzenegger's Debt Deals

    That was a close call.​After he was quoted in The Snitch protesting a proposed sale of 24 government office buildings to private investors, Arnold Schwarzenegger fired Donald Casper from his job as a state buildings commissioner.Now that Governor Jerry Brown has scotched the Governator's mone ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2010

    A Secrecy Fetish

    District Attorney Kamala Harris is going too far in protecting Catholic pedophiles.

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    S.F. Man Fails To Register As Sex Offender -- Because He's Dead

    ​According to the state's sex offender registry, Nicholas Chaykovsky has been in violation of registration requirements since Sunday. He has a decent excuse. He's dead.   Chaykovsky died at age 61 last month after suffering a heart attack. And though the San Francisco Police Department s ... More >>

  • News

    October 14, 2009

    National Rifle Association recruits San Franciscans to overturn gun-control laws

    ​According to the state's sex offender registry, Nicholas Chaykovsky has been in violation of registration requirements since Sunday. He has a decent excuse. He's dead.   Chaykovsky died at age 61 last month after suffering a heart attack. And though the San Francisco Police Department s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    Chronic City: Medical Marijuana Group Gets $139,000 In Attorneys Fees From Garden Grove; City Spent $250K In Legal Battle over $200 Worth of Pot

    wikimedia.orgLeggo my indo.Will grass get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no grass? National medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) may not have to find out, as it just received $139,000 for attorney fees by the City of Garden G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    'A Pale Victory': S.F. Woman's '08 Marriage Still Legal -- But She Finds it Hard to Rejoice

    Moya WatsonWatson (on the right) and her wife, Leanne Waldal, are one of the 18,000 same-sex couples who remain legally married after today's court decision.San Francisco resident Moya Watson wasn't surprised when she heard the news about Prop. 8 while standing on the steps of the California Supreme ... More >>

  • Film

    July 16, 2008

    Opposites Attract

    Portrait of the artist as a young man (and his lover as an old one) in Chris & Don.

  • News

    August 15, 2007

    Barred for Life

    Desperate prison lifers turn to Charles Carbone when trying to navigate the unfair process of parole denials

  • News

    January 3, 2007

    Image Problem

    Why have SFPD Chief Heather Fong and Mayor Gavin Newsom pursued an overblown pseudo-scandal when there’s so much else on the department’s plate?

  • News

    November 15, 2006

    Echoes of the Revolution

    The struggle between Bay Area law enforcement and the Black Panthers is still going on after 35 years

  • News

    November 9, 2005

    Baring Equality

    The cases of a young defendant and a repeat offender attorney show power and privilege tip the scales

  • News

    October 5, 2005

    Sign of the Cult-Buster

    Anti-cult crusader Ford Greene and the town of San Anselmo are staging a nasty public fight over Greene's strident anti-Bush political signs. But is that an old religious enemy we see behind the curtain?

  • Film

    April 20, 2005

    Film Capsule Reviews

    Anti-cult crusader Ford Greene and the town of San Anselmo are staging a nasty public fight over Greene's strident anti-Bush political signs. But is that an old religious enemy we see behind the curtain?

  • News

    June 16, 2004

    Street Shuffle

    Gavin Newsom's push to move the "chronic" homeless into supportive housing has made him the darling of the Bush administration's homelessness czar. But is there enough money to make it work?

  • News

    May 26, 2004

    Democracy in Suburbia

    The Economist asks: "Is California Back?" Contra Costa County wonders: "Were we gone?"

  • News

    June 25, 2003

    Nailed?

    Lawyers for hundreds of sex-abuse victims have California's Catholic dioceses in a dire financial bind. Can church leaders finagle an escape, or are they ...

  • News

    January 17, 2001

    As a Matter of Fat

    The city's new weight discrimination law is badly reasoned, legally defective, costly, and bad for public health

  • News

    August 23, 2000

    Killer, Junkie, Liar, Thief...

    ... so why not lawyer? How our political elite tried and failed to get a law license for sister-killing Eben Gossage.

  • News

    April 12, 2000

    Battle Belli

    The international soap opera that surrounds the crumbling San Francisco landmark that was center stage for the incomparable "King of Torts," Melvin Belli

  • News

    February 3, 1999

    Dead Man Not Praying

    The state wants to deny religious counsel immediately before executions. But why?

  • News

    June 3, 1998

    Perverted Justice?

    Or is a new law that puts sexual predators in long-term psychiatric lock-up really -- and finally -- justice for perverts?

  • Calendar

    February 5, 1997

    The Grid

    Or is a new law that puts sexual predators in long-term psychiatric lock-up really -- and finally -- justice for perverts?

  • News

    October 23, 1996

    Where Crime Pays

    Is the DA's Office bungling the biggest pollution case in Bay Area history?

  • News

    May 1, 1996

    In Sickness and in Wealth

    It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

  • News

    April 3, 1996

    The Fire Next Time

    As a civil rights advocate, Bob Demmons called in the federal government to end racism in the Fire Department. Now that he's chief, he has to remove federal control and prove that firefighters can manage race relations on their own.

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