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State Supreme Court, Legislature Want to Give Juveniles Serving Life Sentences a Shot at Parole

On June 6, 2007, Rodrigo Caballero, a 16-year-old member of the Vario Lancas gang in Los Angeles, jumped out of a green Toyota and opened fire on three Val Verde gang rivals walking down the street. He missed two of his targets, but the third caught a non-fatal gunshot wound near the shoulder blade. ... More >>

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Patterns of Abuse

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Farewell Alex, We Hardly Knew Ye

Hitchcock on Holiday

Naomi Then and Now

Pouring Money Down a Hole

We tried to warn you. A new audit shows how a PGA tournament sucked millions of dollars from city parks.

Swindled Art

The Reel Truth

Hollywood claims the sky is falling. To which we say, Puh-lease.

Backhanded Slapstick

Jim Carrey's brand of fun warms a reheated Dick and Jane

Truth Syrup

An intriguing cover-up tale melts into a melodramatic mess

Say-It-Ain't-So Joe

Why does Joe Morgan -- the best second baseman in history and a prominent TV broadcaster -- hate Moneyball? And Billy Beane and his Oakland A's? And you, too, if you think the statistical revolution that's overwhelmed Major League Baseball has any

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Scoundrel Time

Alex Gibney expertly captures the lies and fall of Enron

Reps Etc.

The Voysey Inheritance

A 1905 play presciently engaged with the ethics of transgression and repayment

The Parmalat Syndrome

How U.S. financial firms -- including Bank of America -- allegedly abetted a multibillion-dollar fraud, and how U.S. regulators are letting them get away with it

I Hate It

This Spike Lee joint is a cockeyed, self-righteous, and graceless diatribe

Gimme Shelters

After mortgaging our future in an orgy of budget-related borrowing, the Legislature hatches new orgiastic plans: sleazy tax shelters

Good Coin

ACT brings new life to a well-trodden script

Face Full of Memories

San Francisco now has two -- count 'em, two -- adult dodgeball leagues

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.

Speak To Me

Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam brings hip hop home

Unbusy Signal

How long does it take Pac Bell to install a phone? Let us count the days.

Blowing Smoke

WARNING: Gov. Davis' plan to use tobacco lawsuit money to fill a budget gap is dangerous to our financial health

Sleeping With the Auditor

Why San Francisco and its outside accountants are a little too close for comfort -- and how it could threaten the city's financial integrity

Lines of the Times

Shaw's 70-year-old Apple Cart still has plenty to say about modern-day democracy, globalization, and corporate scams

Mirant's Morass

The plan to build a massive new power plant in San Francisco -- once thought inevitable -- hits a few snags

The Ghost of Scandals Past

Previous "creative financing" debacles should haunt city officials who've approved a risky $1 billion lease of Muni streetcars

Runaway Train

Why is Muni in such a hurry to win approval for a blindingly complex, potentially risky, $1 billion plan to privatize the city's rail fleet?

Now That's Amore

In S.F., spring is the season for romance. And pig coitus. And mouse erections. And ...

Attack of the Self-Serving Pol!

A deft film in which a southland legislator and lazy journalists rewrite history, blame Enron for the energy crisis, and leave Sacramento corruption untouched

First, the Good News

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Hail to the Ex-Chief

Clinton gets the rock star treatment at UC Berkeley; Chron Covers Enron-Size Bust

Letters to the Editor

Week of January 16, 2002

The Perfect Crime

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The Return of the Screw

PG&E is doing to New England what greedy, polluting, out-of-state energy suppliers have done to PG&E and California

Dim Bulbs

Greedy out-of-state profiteers make easy targets, but the real villains of California's energy debacle are the ones under the state capitol dome.

Don't Let Them Turn Out the Lights

It's time for consumers to take back California

Imbalance of Power

Competitors say delay in electric deregulation helps PG&E, other utility monopolies

PG&E Is All Charged Up

The S.F.-based utility embarks on a nationwide buying spree