Gray Davis

Eddy Zheng's Deportation Case Will Not Die

In the final battle. ​In 2005, the East Bay Express published a story called "The Last Stand of Eddy Zheng."  Well, it's been six years and Zheng is still standing -- in more or less the same spot. But now the man who was paroled only to face deportation is seeing his saga enter its final rou ... More >>

No Way Out

Inmate Lonnie Morris is a role model, antiviolence program leader, and darling of the media. But will the parole board see past his crime?

Sealed With a Dis

A powerful Bay Area trial lawyer with political connections tries to keep details of his messy divorce from going public

Fall Gal

A money-laundering scandal may have helped bring down former Secretary of State Kevin Shelley. But indicted political maven Julie Lee stands to pay the ultimate price.

Powerful Advice

Leaders should ignore the temptation to over-regulate energy policy and let competition reign

Moonstruck

The Rev. Moon has opened an unexpected front in his struggle to win a broader audience for his messianic pretensions: African-American churches and their preachers

The Deal With Treasure Island

Tony Hall's firing casts the spotlight on a real estate mega-deal that slogs along under a veil of secrecy

Muscle & Fitness for Office

Did a multimillion-dollar deal with bodybuilding magazines sour you on the Schwarzenegger? Take quiz, find out.

Simply Divine

A surfer-dude Purgatorio, reimagined in S.F., does Dante proud

Scoundrel Time

Alex Gibney expertly captures the lies and fall of Enron

Requiem for a Pension Fund?

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger launches an attack on CalPERS. The giant pension fund's Democratic allies aren't taking it lying down

Share and Share Alike

A partial solution to S.F.'s parking wars? Turn over City Hall vehicles to the local CarShare program.

A Pair of Aces

Either Newsom or Gonzalez will make a good mayor, but Gonzalez has the creative edge

Reps Etc.

Dumping Sophie

On the heels of Gov. Davis' recall, angry constituents are trying to oust Supervisor Sophie Maxwell

Recalling Reagan

In trying to remove Gov. Ronald Reagan from office, liberal activists spawned the Davis recall and a host of other political ills

Reps Etc.

The World According to Bechtel

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

Municipalizing Bruce

Since Bruce Brugmann is so enamored of public ownership, maybe voters should take control of the Bay Guardian

Palookaville

In S.F.'s political fight game, all the contestants are ignoring a national biotech debate that could put the local economy down for the count

Unbusy Signal

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

Throwing Away the Key

Why Gov. Davis' just-say-no parole policy is wrong, Exhibit No. 1: Eddy Zheng has earned a college degree in prison, sings in a church choir, works with at-risk youth, has the support of clergymen, college professors, his prison counselor, and the

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

Hail to the Ex-Chief

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

The Last of the Burtons?

They have dominated state and local politics for 50 years. Now, for the first time, the future of their "family business" is in doubt.

The Last Hope

A new law gives one more chance at freedom to abused women sent to prison for killing their batterers

Law and Borders

Prosecutors, judges, governors, a sex offender, and a woman with a penchant for poor judgement entangle California and Texas in an epic child custody war with two sure losers -- aged 7 and 9.

Reel War

The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles.

Et Tu, Mom?

A new theme is already beginning to take shape this young campaign season: politicians betraying their heirs

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

Too Young to Die

They are the "AIDS babies." Born before doctors learned how to prevent HIV transmission to newborns, hundreds of California kids are growing up under the burden of a deadly disease.

School of Hard Knocks

State laws regulating vocational schools have been gutted. Disadvantaged students are paying the price.

Mecklin

Get Me Rewrite

Show Them the Money

Late reports prompt state to hold S.F. school district head's pay

Worst of the Lot

Bay Area nursing home regulation lags behind state

Cothran

Booty Call

Wherein a handful of politicos, a party that's trying not to be a laughingstock, and the singer in a '70s disco cover band unite to rewrite San Francisco politics or try to, anyway

Letters

Rays of Hope

Political winds may blow in long overdue nursing care reform

Cothran

Cothran

Dead Man Not Praying

The state wants to deny religious counsel immediately before executions. But why?

Dog Bites

Checchi's Checkered Record

Megamillionaire Al Checchi thinks he piloted Northwest Airlines so well that you should elect him governor. Actually, he sucked in public subsidies, strong-armed unions, reneged on promises -- and still almost flew the firm into the ground.

Unspun

The Merger's Tangled Web

Pinstriped Medicine

How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care