A former reporter at the Monterey County Herald has sued the Northern California newspaper and its parent company, MediaNews Group, alleging that he was underpaid and then fired because of his race.
MediaNews, headed by press mogul Dean Singleton (pictured), is also a major presence in the Bay Area media market, and owns newspapers including the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Oakland Tribune, and Marin Independent Journal.
Andre Briscoe, a black man who worked at the Herald from Au
Public Defender Jeff Adachi has no qualms about refusing to adhere to Gavin Newsom's demands he cut his budgetIn recent weeks, SF Weekly (and others) have covered the increasingly nasty public exchanges between Public Defender Jeff Adachi and the Board of Supervisors and Mayor's Office. In a nutshell, the Mayor's Office has asked all city departments to lop 25 percent off their yearly budgets. Only Adachi has said that he will not -- and cannot. In fact, as the Chronicle reported yesterday, the
It doesn't take a Ph.D to interpret the deeper meanings of this mural recently created by SFAI studentsA last-minute announcement went out this morning that students at the San Francisco Art Institute are mad as hell -- and they're not going to take it anymore. Spurred by the February announcement that nine tenured faculty members -- one quarter of the school's total -- were to be laid off due to a state of "financial exigency" -- and following a month of letter-writing, online petitions, and pr
The University of California system is embroiled in a scandal over perks and compensation for some of its highest-paid employees. Are they worth it? Find out where you stand!
What's really wrong with Muni? For starters, one third of its employees don't show up to work, causing systemwide delays and costing the agency more that $20 million a year in overtime.
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Do you like sleeping, eating, shopping, reading, TV watching, Internet surfing, large amounts of overtime pay, and small amounts of actual work? You may have a future as a dispatcher for the San Francisco Fire Department.
The Transport Workers Union contract with Muni is up for renewal, and TWU boss Larry Martin says that anybody who wants to roll back the union's cush work rules, lucrative salary structure, and handsome trust fund is a "racist" and can go to hell. Meet t
The union representing the lawyers staffing the offices of San Francisco's City Attorney, District Attorney, Public Defender, and others yesterday announced its membership has voted by a two-to-one margin to approve a wage concession in which attorneys forfeit two percent of their yearly salaries.Jerry Coleman, a 30-year attorney in the DA's office and a member of the Municipal Attorney's Association union executive board, told SF Weekly the deal calls for city lawyers to be paid for 78.5 hours
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