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Internal Revenue Service

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    California Congressmen Push Spending Cuts on Federal Marijuana Enforcement

    Budget hawks incensed over San Francisco's supposedly profligate spending ought to spend a few minutes at Congress, observing the dollar requests submitted by federal departments.Take the $28.2 billion, 111,998-employee federal Department of Justice, for example. The country's 12,000 employees in Un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Richard Lee, Oaksterdam Founder, Calls it Quits After Federal Raid

    Less than a week after federal agents raided Oaksterdam University, seizing many of its assets, including plants, bank accounts, records and computers, its founder, Richard Lee, has decided it's time to go. Lee, the most visible pot legalization advocate in the state, told the Los Angeles Times that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Oaksterdam University Pledges to Re-open After Federal Raid on Marijuana Leader

    What many saw as the inevitable hit Oaksterdam founder Richard Lee on Monday, when federal agents came knocking at the home and businesses of the man who has become the marijuana movement's de-facto figurehead.After Lee revived a moribund part of downtown Oakland with a school dedicated to the pot t ... More >>

  • News

    January 4, 2012

    Prop 13: The Building-Sized Loopholes Corporations Exploit

    What many saw as the inevitable hit Oaksterdam founder Richard Lee on Monday, when federal agents came knocking at the home and businesses of the man who has become the marijuana movement's de-facto figurehead.After Lee revived a moribund part of downtown Oakland with a school dedicated to the pot t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Feds Subpoenaed San Francisco for Medical Marijuana Records

    THCfinder.comBusting you -- with public records.​Fifth SF Dispensary Likely To CloseIt wasn't Tommy gun-toting agents who finally put Prohibition-era bad boy Al Capone behind bars on Alcatraz: it was paper-pushers from the Internal Revenue Service who busted the syphilitic mobster on tax fraud.In ... More >>

  • News

    October 26, 2011

    Obama's War on Weed: President Attacks Medical Marijuana

    THCfinder.comBusting you -- with public records.​Fifth SF Dispensary Likely To CloseIt wasn't Tommy gun-toting agents who finally put Prohibition-era bad boy Al Capone behind bars on Alcatraz: it was paper-pushers from the Internal Revenue Service who busted the syphilitic mobster on tax fraud.In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Taqueria El Balazo Owners Face Prison Time After Immigration Guilty Plea

    menuism.comCan we see your papers, please?​The owners of Taqueria El Balazo pleaded guilty last week in federal court to immigration and tax violations, and face up to 20 years in prison. Marino Sandoval, 58, and his wife Nicole Sandoval, 50, were charged last year with harboring and employin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Majority of San Francisco's Illegal Immigrants Live in the Mission District

    Missionites: up to 15 percent of your neighbors are undocumented.​San Francisco's highest concentration of illegal immigrants lives in the city's Mission District -- a zip code of day laborers, black-market hot dog vendors, and fake document peddlers.The Public Policy Institute of California relea ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 20, 2011

    Rolling Paper: Looking at the Current State of Safe Access

    Missionites: up to 15 percent of your neighbors are undocumented.​San Francisco's highest concentration of illegal immigrants lives in the city's Mission District -- a zip code of day laborers, black-market hot dog vendors, and fake document peddlers.The Public Policy Institute of California relea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Lance Armstrong Doping Investigation: Leak Shows 60 Minutes Expose Was Right

    Matt SmithIt's hard to stop a leak.​Attorneys for Lance Armstrong pivoted from demanding an apology for purported inaccuracies in a recent 60 Minutes doping exposé to lambasting the "leakers" who proved that the report was true. Last month, Armstrong hired a San Francisco law firm famed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    KUSF to Get Harold Camping's FCC License Post Rapture

    Post rapture, KUSF-in-Exile will be heard in ex-Family Radio Inc. srongholds such as Europe, Asia, Russia, South America and Sub-Saharan Africa​Here is one group that will truly benefit from not being raptured. Former KUSF DJs, who lost their terrestrial radio station when the University of San F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    Civic Center Becomes Kids' Bowling Alley for The Day

    Matt SmithNow if only public bowling were available inside City Hall.​Jumpstart, a nonprofit that places college student instructors in lower-income preschools, took over San Francisco's Civic Center Thursday, setting up outdoor bowling and other games and giving nursery school children their firs ... More >>

  • News

    February 9, 2011

    S.F's Chinese New Year Parade Has Become a Hotbed of Controversy

    Matt SmithNow if only public bowling were available inside City Hall.​Jumpstart, a nonprofit that places college student instructors in lower-income preschools, took over San Francisco's Civic Center Thursday, setting up outdoor bowling and other games and giving nursery school children their firs ... More >>

  • Music

    September 15, 2010

    Dom: Show Preview

    Matt SmithNow if only public bowling were available inside City Hall.​Jumpstart, a nonprofit that places college student instructors in lower-income preschools, took over San Francisco's Civic Center Thursday, setting up outdoor bowling and other games and giving nursery school children their firs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Ron Dellums Breaks Promise to Take Pay Cut

    Even Democratic Socialists like money. ​How's this for great leadership: In June, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums publicly promised to take a 10 percent pay cut, then privately kept collecting his full pay. His excuse: It was just a really inconvenient time to make less money. According to news reports, ... More >>

  • News

    April 14, 2010

    The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

    Even Democratic Socialists like money. ​How's this for great leadership: In June, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums publicly promised to take a 10 percent pay cut, then privately kept collecting his full pay. His excuse: It was just a really inconvenient time to make less money. According to news reports, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    Chronic City: Aptly Named 'Joint Resolution' Succeeds; California Senate Urges Change in Federal Medical Marijuana Rules

    ​By a 23-15 vote, the California State Senate yesterday approved a "joint resolution" urging the federal government to stop Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) raids on medical marijuana patients and providers. The Sen. Mark Leno-authored resolution additionally calls for the nation to "create a compreh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    All Bingo Hall Wants for X-mas: P-E-R-M-I-T-S

    By Lauren Smiley   So much for $20 tucked in a greeting card from Grandma. Army Street Bingo is hoping Santa (well, at least a jolly Superior Court judge) will deliver a surprise worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. As in our story this week, the police have denied bingo permits to ... More >>

  • News

    January 9, 2008

    Attention SF Giants, DiFi - Matt Smith's New Year's Resolutions Others Ought to Follow

    DiFi's husband and the Giants' owner should resolve to do better in the coming year

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2007

    SF Food Watch: CleanScores.com Boosts Health and Wealth

    DiFi's husband and the Giants' owner should resolve to do better in the coming year

  • News

    June 27, 2007

    Unpaid in Full

    How musician royalties are being pocketed by SoundExchange

  • Film

    November 8, 2006

    Anchor Man?

    Playing against type, Will Ferrell can't quite ground this artificially whimsical romantic comedy

  • Film

    April 13, 2005

    Ball Busters

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

  • News

    August 4, 2004

    Countdown to Burlingame

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

  • News

    March 17, 2004

    Little Fish, Big Fish

    Memo to Ashcroft: Why aren't you pursuing Barry Bonds the way you did Martha Stewart?

  • Calendar

    October 1, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Memo to Ashcroft: Why aren't you pursuing Barry Bonds the way you did Martha Stewart?

  • News

    August 13, 2003

    Gimme Shelters

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

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2003

    Kornbluth's Blues

    What could the IRS possibly have to do with affairs of the heart?

  • News

    February 19, 2003

    Poet of the Fallen World

    How an S.F. theater troupe helped turn a reclusive novelist into a full-fledged playwright

  • Holiday

    January 22, 2003

    Real Life Resolutions

    How an S.F. theater troupe helped turn a reclusive novelist into a full-fledged playwright

  • News

    October 30, 2002

    Field of Liens

    Before you succumb to nostalgia about a simpler, humbler baseball time, heed the lesson of Vacaville

  • Culture

    November 22, 2000

    Joe Louis Blues

    Performances at Thick House

  • News

    January 12, 2000

    Silicon Valley Shakedown

    A con man feeds on fear and paranoia in the software business

  • News

    November 17, 1999

    Indecent Disclosure

    Willie Brown plays hide-and-seek with his tax returns

  • News

    September 22, 1999

    Making Education Pay

    For consultants, the S.F. school district ATM is wide open

  • News

    March 24, 1999

    Strike While the Iron Is Hot

    Bike messengers organizing for April 15 walkout

  • Film

    February 17, 1999

    Second Time Around

    Bike messengers organizing for April 15 walkout

  • Music

    September 2, 1998

    Reviews

    Bike messengers organizing for April 15 walkout

  • Calendar

    August 5, 1998

    Night + Day

    Bike messengers organizing for April 15 walkout

  • Music

    April 29, 1998

    Riff Raff

    Bike messengers organizing for April 15 walkout

  • Music

    March 18, 1998

    The House of Tudor

    Bike messengers organizing for April 15 walkout

  • News

    January 21, 1998

    Sutter's Giant Sucking Sound

    Sutter Health, which owns one of California's largest hospital empires, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity. Critics wonder why Sutter dispenses so little charity, and vacuums so much profit, from the hospitals it acquires.

  • News

    April 2, 1997

    Bankers Book Bucks

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

  • News

    February 26, 1997

    Mulch

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

  • Music

    February 19, 1997

    Riff Raff

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

  • Calendar

    December 18, 1996

    Unspun

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

  • Music

    June 19, 1996

    Recordings

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

  • Calendar

    March 13, 1996

    Slap Shots

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

  • Calendar

    May 31, 1995

    Paper Trails

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

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