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Oaksterdam Marijuana and Hemp Museum Moving, Seeking Sponsors

For those corporations or philanthropists who always wanted to attach their names to the country's self-described most expansive and storied collection of marijuana-related artifacts, the time is now.Better yet: If you're a property owner with available commercial space in downtown Oakland, the Oaks ... More >>

Fire, Not Obama Crackdown, Shuts Mission Medical Marijuana Dispensary

Prior to the four-alarm fire next door, the coffee shop behind the nameless awning and signless storefront at 208 Valencia St. was notable not for what was behind the white door opposite the barista -- a pot club -- but for the dispensary's flaunting of federal law.Exactly how 208 Valencia Caregiver ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Prop 13: The Building-Sized Loopholes Corporations Exploit

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 >>

Obama's War on Weed: President Attacks Medical Marijuana

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 >>

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 >>

Rolling Paper: Looking at the Current State of Safe Access

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

Business Conductor

The city needs to stop subsidizing the S.F. Symphony and other snobby arts organizations that cater to the rich.

Fall Into the Cash

Let's hope the Fishers use it to clean up the messes they've created.

How to Make Student Loans Your Bitch- By Laser-Guided Awesome, The SF Weekly Utility Blog

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

SF Food Watch: CleanScores.com Boosts Health and Wealth

Unpaid in Full

How musician royalties are being pocketed by SoundExchange

Anchor Man?

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

Anthrax and Willie Nelson in the same week? How will fans of both decide?

Little Fish, Big Fish

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

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Gimme Shelters

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

Baby Talk

Friendly obfuscations, tipping obligations, and jerks who calls themselves "friend"

Kornbluth's Blues

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

Poet of the Fallen World

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

Real Life Resolutions

Field of Liens

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

Joe Louis Blues

Performances at Thick House

Silicon Valley Shakedown

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

Indecent Disclosure

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

Making Education Pay

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

Strike While the Iron Is Hot

Bike messengers organizing for April 15 walkout

Second Time Around

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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.

Mulch

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