Subject: FEMA

• Fags, Brownies and Funnies: It's VVM ChainSmoking

  September 14, 2007

• Feds to Katrinians: Go Spork Yourselves

  July 24, 2008

• "Challenge Me to the Extent that You Believe I Should Be Challenged." - Gavin Newsom's Ironic Conclusion to the State of the City

  By Benjamin Wachs If you ever wondered who was going to be the Ed Wood of YouTube, San Francisco has an answer. Gavin Newsom added a new video to his YouTube channel yesterday - a one-and-a-half minute introduction to 311's new online service. The video itself is not worth commenting on...the production values are significantly better, but it's still just Gavin talking about 311. But the fact that he did it means that we haven't seen the last of Gavin Newsom: internet personality. We

  December 12, 2008

• Sweetwater Construction Update '09

  Thom and Becky Steere of Marin County's Sweetwater Saloon music venue have sent along an update about their ongoing construction hurdles. Like many people who've dreamed of building a new place or expanding a current structure have discovered, it's not the expected hassles but the unforeseen ones that generate the most gray hairs: in the Sweetwater case, things like new FEMA regulations and the cursed economic downturn have taken their toll alongside usual suspects like seismic upgrade expenses.

  January 20, 2009

• Masters of Disaster

  March 20, 1996

• The Call of Katrina

  Dirty Dozen Brass Band gives sonic insight into New Orleans' stormy history

  June 27, 2007

• A Legendary Outing

  January 3, 2007

• Mr. Lif

  July 19, 2006

• Toxic Acres

  The fill below Treasure Island is filled with dangerous toxins left by the Navy

  May 24, 2006

• I Am Woman

  Four plays redefine the word diva, for good and bad

  May 3, 2006

• Making the Rent

  December 21, 2005

• S.F. Hosing Authority

  City government promised Katrina victims a haven, then it gave some of them the shaft

  October 19, 2005

• FEMA -- a Four-Letter Word?

  The only quiz in the world that will tell you if you're an apologist for the Bush administration's Hurricane Katrina response

  September 21, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, October 6, 2004

  October 6, 2004

• Surprise!

  If you think S.F. is ready for a terrorist attack – even two years-plus after 9/11 – think again

  January 21, 2004

• Organ Failure

  An ambitious plan to relocate a historic pipe organ to the Embarcadero threatens nothing but sour notes

  December 26, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  Unanswered Questions; Let Your Comics Be Your Guide; The Homeless Problem;

  September 12, 2001

• Rubble With a Mortgage

  What could be worse than a devasting earthquake in the Bay Area? The day after, when we all realize that no one is covered by insurance.

  August 1, 2001

• Rage Against the Machine

  Tom Ammiano's mayoral bid: inside the campaign that has become a cause

  December 1, 1999

• Political Economy

  How a Willie Brown real estate venture snagged tens of millions of dollars in government subsidies and opened the way for Democratic heavyweight Angelo Tsakopoulo to make even more money

  August 25, 1999

• Dog Bites

  July 21, 1999

• SF Gov InAction: Toxic Babies Are Not an Option!

  Sometimes ... and I want to make it very clear that this is not drug-induced ... I don't think San Francisco is a real city at all. I think that maybe we're a Lego city, populated by Weebles. It makes as much sense as anything Sophie Maxwell's said lately. Why would I think this? Well, have you ever seen our parades? Gavin weebles and wobbles...In addition, I've noticed that Gavin Newsom weebles and wobbles but won't fall down, and that an earthquake will eventually reduce us to

  April 27, 2009