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Economic Policy

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    A Moderate Move: S.F. Supervisors Try to Lure Twitter with Tax Breaks

    Moderately progressive​Yesterday was the first real showing of how the political pendulum on the Board of Supervisors has swung the other way -- toward the moderates. Supervisor Jane Kim rolled out business-friendly legislation, which sparked criticism from progressives; even former Supervisor Chr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    The Examiner's Hilarious Political Endorsements

    ​God help me, but it's true: I love America's Funniest Home Videos. Thanks to YouTube, you can find more than enough old episodes. You turn the sound off -- be gone, Bob Saget! -- and bliss. It's so predictable, yet so hilarious. Men working on roofs are gonna fall. Skateboarders will not land whe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Barbara Boxer Aide Marcus Stanley Busted for Pot

    ​Marcus Stanley, a senior economic adviser to Sen. Barbara Boxer, was busted for alleged marijuana possession as he walked into the Hart Senate Office Building in the nation's capital yesterday. He was, remarkably quickly, an ex-senior economic adviser. "Marcus Stanley is no longer with this offic ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 5, 2010

    Throw Your Veggies

    ​Marcus Stanley, a senior economic adviser to Sen. Barbara Boxer, was busted for alleged marijuana possession as he walked into the Hart Senate Office Building in the nation's capital yesterday. He was, remarkably quickly, an ex-senior economic adviser. "Marcus Stanley is no longer with this offic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Board Members Predict Even Feds' Threats Can't Derail Oakland Airport Connector

    ​What will it take to derail BART's half-billion dillar planned extension to Oakland Airport? How about the price quadrupling while the anticipated ridership dropped by two-thirds? Nope. How about the predicted commute time actually being slower than the existing shuttle system? Nope. Well, how ab ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 13, 2010

    Appropriate Behavior

    ​What will it take to derail BART's half-billion dillar planned extension to Oakland Airport? How about the price quadrupling while the anticipated ridership dropped by two-thirds? Nope. How about the predicted commute time actually being slower than the existing shuttle system? Nope. Well, how ab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Department of Can't Say We Didn't Warn Ya: Dicey Investment Offer Advertised in Chronicle Goes Bad

    ​On Friday, July 17 The Snitch warned readers that an advertisement published in the previous Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle seemed intended to lure mom-and-pop investors into possible financial disaster.News headlines Monday suggest our warning was valid. Advanta Corp., a bank holding company s ... More >>

  • News

    July 29, 2009

    Advanta Corp.'s dubious investment offer in the Chronicle

    ​On Friday, July 17 The Snitch warned readers that an advertisement published in the previous Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle seemed intended to lure mom-and-pop investors into possible financial disaster.News headlines Monday suggest our warning was valid. Advanta Corp., a bank holding company s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Oof! Is Embarrassing Typo On Gavin Newsom's Campaign Web Site an E-Freudian Slip?

    You sure you want to claim credit for that Web site, sir? ​So, we were perusing Gavin Newsom's Gubernatorial Web site the other day, to see what issues he'd be pushing if he were mayor of San Francisco. The part where the copy claims that Newsom used his experience running a burgeoning wine empire ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    Chronic City: The 'Oaksterdam Model' For Legal Pot In California

    Oaksterdam UniversityWith Oakland broke and growing broker (like many other American cities), calls for the city to get into the growing and selling of medical marijuana are being taken more seriously.The idea seems a lot less crazy when you take a look at the potential revenue to be generated, espe ... More >>

  • Music

    April 8, 2009

    How the crash will reshape the music industry

    Oaksterdam UniversityWith Oakland broke and growing broker (like many other American cities), calls for the city to get into the growing and selling of medical marijuana are being taken more seriously.The idea seems a lot less crazy when you take a look at the potential revenue to be generated, espe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009

    Billionaire Oilman's Traveling Green Energy Road Show Hits S.F.

    Daniel KramerT. Boone PickensAs Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens hits San Francisco tonight in his ongoing tour promoting a curtailing of foreign oil imports and a bolstering of domestic clean energy (in which he is invested to the gills), a long, strange article about Pickens' long, strange trip h ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2009

    Let It All Out

    Daniel KramerT. Boone PickensAs Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens hits San Francisco tonight in his ongoing tour promoting a curtailing of foreign oil imports and a bolstering of domestic clean energy (in which he is invested to the gills), a long, strange article about Pickens' long, strange trip h ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 11, 2009

    Hand to Mouth

    Daniel KramerT. Boone PickensAs Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens hits San Francisco tonight in his ongoing tour promoting a curtailing of foreign oil imports and a bolstering of domestic clean energy (in which he is invested to the gills), a long, strange article about Pickens' long, strange trip h ... More >>

  • News

    March 4, 2009

    Bonfire of the Profanities

    An investigator who exposed dishonest savings and loan regulators in the '80s re-encounters an old rival in the latest banking crisis.

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    Gavin Newsom Finds His Way to San Jose -- And So Did SF Weekly

    As part of his quest to become governor, Mayor Gavin Newsom held his latest "town hall" last night in San Jose. The question-and-lecture session attracted about 200 locals and a dozen protesters who trekked down from San Francisco. San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed joked he'd invited the demonstrators to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    SF Gov InAction: Supes Stand by Each Other After Little John Avalos Has His Bar Mitzvah

    This is the week the new Board of Supervisors goes from JV to Varsity. I know it felt like they'd hit the big time before, what with hundreds of people crowding the hearing rooms to yell at them about stuff they hadn't done -- but that's just the crowd getting fired up by San Francisco's airheade ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2009

    We Are All Draft Animals

    This is the week the new Board of Supervisors goes from JV to Varsity. I know it felt like they'd hit the big time before, what with hundreds of people crowding the hearing rooms to yell at them about stuff they hadn't done -- but that's just the crowd getting fired up by San Francisco's airheade ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    Breaking News: S.F. Seeks $1.1 Billion Cash Stimulus for Airport, Lennar -- Nothing for Decrepit Public Housing

    Mayor Gavin Newsom has identified projects requiring more than than $1 billion in funds from the projected federal stimulus package, citing worthy money pits such as downtown transit; upgrading the city's water system; airport upgrades; and building sidewalks and sewage ditches at the former Hunters ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    "......." - Gavin Newsom's State of the City Remarks About the Deficit

    By Benjamin Wachs Yesterday, Gavin finally proposed something vaguely plan-like to try and deal with the city's looming deficit - but in last week's State of the Citysode on the Economy, Gavin couldn't even bring himself to use the word "deficit," let alone say how big it was. In fact, according ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2008

    Americans Spend Anticipated $800 Bush Rebate on Flat-Screen TVs, iPhones Over Weekend

    By Benjamin Wachs Yesterday, Gavin finally proposed something vaguely plan-like to try and deal with the city's looming deficit - but in last week's State of the Citysode on the Economy, Gavin couldn't even bring himself to use the word "deficit," let alone say how big it was. In fact, according ... More >>

  • News

    May 18, 2005

    Student of Concern

    Will we be more secure -- or just less competitive -- if the government forces hundreds of thousands of international science students to get export licenses simply to look through a microscope?

  • News

    August 25, 2004

    Gutted

    How the nursing home industry, organized labor, John Burton, and Arnold Schwarzenegger are cooperating to guarantee giant health care corporations huge profits -- using billions of your dollars

  • Music

    October 8, 2003

    Sonic Dissidents

    Stop Bush! Stop the Republicans! Slackers unite: It's time, once again, to "Rock the Vote."

  • News

    June 18, 2003

    The World According to Bechtel

    There are well-connected companies. Then there's Bechtel.

  • News

    August 21, 2002

    Business as Usual

    The problem today isn't shoddy corporate ethics -- capitalism was built on corruption. The problem is America's bias against government regulation.

  • News

    September 20, 1995

    Dog Bites

    The problem today isn't shoddy corporate ethics -- capitalism was built on corruption. The problem is America's bias against government regulation.

  • News

    May 3, 1995

    Dollars Without Sense

    For 25 years, Harvey Ross has rooted out the waste and lies of politicians and bureaucrats. But some say he's too lost in the line items to see the big picture

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