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Apple Saves Billions by Creatively Exploiting Loopholes of International Tax System

Think different, Apple tells the world. The Cupertino company, whose creations have defined our technological age, apparently applies the same innovative thinking to its tax evasion strategies. Stuffing revenue in some low-tax, high-privacy bank in the Caribbean? 'Bout as forward-thinking as a Bla ... More >>

Bethel AME, S.F.'s Oldest Black Church, Won't Appoint Controversial Pastor John J. Hunter

The Rev. John J. Hunter arrived in San Francisco on Nov. 3; Bishop T. Larry Kirkland, of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, had appointed him to lead Bethel AME -- the city's oldest black church. After Hunter arrived at SFO, the Los Angeles Times reported, a driver took him downtown, where he ... More >>

Medical Marijuana: Feds Show Little Interest in San Jose, Where Dispensaries Are Illegal

Aside from strikes at the medical marijuana industry's most vocal, visible, and influential leaders, little rhyme or reason has accompanied the federal Justice Department's crackdown on California cannabis.U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag offered no comment or explanation as her office shut down roughly o ... More >>

The Vanguard Foundation's Great Con

Marijuana Raid Gives Pot Activists Even More Reason to Hate on The Feds

Pot smokers across the Bay Area were outraged when they caught wind that the feds were raiding Oaksterdam University, the well-respected cannabis training facility in downtown Oakland. The feds, which included DEA agent and IRS officials, remained tight-lipped about what the hell they were doing the ... More >>

Oakland Invites New Marijuana Dispensaries to Risk Federal Prosecution

Don't Fed on Me​At times lost in the recent hubbub surrounding California's medical marijuana industry -- and the possible lack thereof in the near future -- was the city of Oakland's plans to double the amount of dispensaries allowed in the East Bay capital of cannabis.Long known as the region's ... More >>

Feds Now Fight War on Medical Marijuana with Passive Aggressive Strategies

​Hard to believe it's been only two years since Attorney General Eric Holder shocked -- and relieved -- California's medical marijuana users when he said the federal government had no interest in prosecuting state-legal cannabis activities. The Bush Era was over -- no more doors kicked in by Kevla ... More >>

Oaksterdam's Richard Lee: Marijuana Legalization Is "Dead" in California -- For Now

Richard Lee says it's all over -- for now​Last year's Proposition 19 was quite a wild ride, but marijuana legalization in California is over.  That's according to Richard Lee, the Oaksterdam University founder and chief sponsor of Prop. 19, which won its place on Californians' November 2010 b ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Case Takes BALCO Investigator Jeff Novitzky To France

Look what you've done!! I'm melting, melting. ​Jeff Novitzky, the USDA investigator famed for pursuing Barry Bonds in the BALCO steroids case, was in Lyon, France this week chasing evidence that cycling star Lance Armstrong doped in violation of multimillion dollar sponsorship agreements with the ... More >>

Paul Shin Devine, Apple Manager, Arrested For Allegedly Leaking Company Secrets

Paul Shin Devine is, allegedly, one bad apple​Talk about a rotten apple. Paul Shin Devine, a mid-level manager at Apple, was arrested on Friday on charges he pocketed more than $1 million in kickbacks from multiple Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod parts in exchange for spilling company secrets. ... More >>

Welcome to Mi Pueblito, Washington

The small-town, family-farm lifestyle that we love to celebrate is being preserved — thanks to Mexican immigrants.

Guardian Editors Would Benefit from Prop. 13 Legislation They Endorsed

It's always nice to get in the game early and pull up the ladder after you...​On Nov. 3, 2003 the Wall Street Journal published a letter from Warren Buffett in which the Nebraska billionaire explained his negative view of California's Proposition 13, the 1978 law that limits property tax assessmen ... More >>

Distressed Properties

The state's quick budget fix of selling off public buildings is a horrible idea.

Chronic City: Poll Reveals San Diegans Want To Regulate Marijuana Dispensaries, Not Eliminate Them

Photo: Coaster420, Wikimedia CommonsMedical marijuana: Legal as long as you don't actually buy it anywhere?​It's a classic case of disconnect between public policy and public opinion. As District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis continues with her medical marijuana dispensary crackdown in San Diego, a ... More >>

Attorney for Bonds' Trainer Sums Up Ahab-Like Prosecution of Slugger as Testosterone-Fueled 'Game of Chicken'

Paula Canny, seen here with client Greg Anderson, says the Barry Bonds case has become 'a guys' contest'When Paula Canny, the friend of and attorney for Barry Bonds' embattled former trainer Greg Anderson, is asked why the government has gone to such lengths to prosecute the former San Francisco Gia ... More >>

Willie Nelson: The Herbal Hillbilly Sinatra

It's a Miserable Life

Will Smith encores his Pursuit of Happyness.

The Day The Music [Subsidy] Died -- Peskin to Take Symphony Off Dole

By Matt Smith SF Weekly wasn't the only one annoyed to discover that SF Symphony Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas pulls down in the ballpark of $3 million annually from symphonies that happen to be publicly-funded charities. San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin was so outraged ... More >>

Train Wreck

Major public transit agencies around the country — including San Francisco's — may pay billions for risky deals with bankers.

New College Out of Money: Teachers Unpaid, Not Teaching

The Vice Hotel

One of the largest city-funded Care Not Cash hotels was allegedly run as a home for extortion, drug dealing, and other vices

Ron Paul's UFO Sighter Friends

Baby you can drive my TAXI

Taxi Commission officials say hundreds of medallion holders aren’t driving cabs, and that’s against the law

Let the Gaming Begin

Has a labor boss in trouble with the feds joined a high-powered Democratic lobbyist to merge Konocti Harbor Resort with Indian gambling?

Coming soon: The New Roxie

What happens when an artsy film guy who has gone way into debt hooks up with a school that doesn't know how to run a nonprofit theater? We hope it has a happy ending.

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, December 7, 2005

The 40-Year-Old Solo Artists

Bob Mould and Paul Weller each have new records that prove they're as vital as ever -- without their old bands

Tour de Farce

Lance Armstrong, Thom Weisel, and questions about anti-doping efforts in American cycling

Ball Busters

The battle over Bonds' record-setting homer looks quaint four seasons later

Off Topic

There isn't much going on in Campbell Scott's latest project

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theatre

Countdown to Burlingame

A guide to television coverage of the enhanced drama and athleticism of the 2004 Alternolympics

Dirty Money

President Bush says he's serious about cracking down on money laundering by terrorists. San Francisco's experience suggests otherwise.

Dog Bites

Overpriced Sports Star Joins Local Team; Light Reading; A Match Made in Heaven; A Suggestion for Rearranging the Deck Chairs at Salon.com

Inside the Big Floop

Threatening Mount Zion means curtains for the clowns who have mismanaged the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger

Letters

Still Giving It Up

Delbert McClinton has something better than a record deal a sound all his own

Take This Tradition and Shove It

Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

Riff Raff

The House of Tudor

Riff Raff

Bankers Book Bucks

At Northern Trust's version of cafe society, participants trawl for business while trading literary metaphors

Who's Watching the Zoo?

As the $48 million June ballot measure looms, so do questions about the financial assumptions behind it

Unspun

Ghetto Blasting

A cop's doodle travels to Washington, D.C., and returns as a warm-and-fuzzy crackdown on S.F.'s projects

The Book of Lists

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

The Jolt Patrol

QuakeProof profits from the coming apocalypse

Paper Trails

The Tale of an Asp