Subject: General Contractors

• Safety Zone

  December 20, 1995

• Building Overtime

  Off-duty police officers making time and a half are swarming over construction sites, handing out tickets. Only in S.F.

  October 8, 2008

• The Bayview Battler

  More than ready to take on politicians and redevelopers, Willie Ratcliff is in the most important fight of his life.

  July 5, 2006

• Bridge Out

  A look at the comically delayed Fourth Street drawbridge project, and how the city's Byzantine contracting system costs millions

  June 22, 2005

• It's a Bechtel World

  Think that a $680 million Iraq contract is a big deal? You don't know Bechtel.

  June 18, 2003

• The Fix Is In

  At least that's what Janet Campbell claimed about construction bids at UCSF, where she soon found herself out of a job

  February 26, 2003

• Firehouse Blues

  November 7, 2001

• Family Fortunes

  Contractors accuse the Examiner's owners of not paying their bills

  September 26, 2001

• Dirty Pool

  August 8, 2001

• Matt Smith

  Parking Problem

  June 21, 2000

• San Francisco International Airpork

  How the SFO construction program went $1 billion over budget. Yes, billion. With a B.

  March 22, 2000

• Tragic Ending

  February 2, 2000

• Minority Report

  December 20, 1995

• Dog Bites

  May 10, 1995

• Union Official: Contractor Facing Scores of Fraud Charges in E. Bay 'Pulled Same Scam' in San Francisco -- and Then-Mayor Willie Brown Was Warned About This

  Don FeriaA woman is led away by police during a May raid on NBC General Contractors' Oakland offices​On Wednesday, we wrote about the beleaguered NBC General Contractors, a company facing 40 felony counts in Alameda County for allegedly ripping off its vulnerable, Chinese immigrant workers and the state of California in a massive fraud scheme. An excellent cover story in the East Bay Express documented how owner Monica Ung purportedly forced her underpaid workers into six-day weeks of 12-hour

  August 28, 2009