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The Making of the Mayor 1995

In which Jack Davis repents, Clint Reilly froths, Roberta Achtenberg has a vision, Angela Alioto has an attitude, and the voters are the pigeons

Paper Trails

In which Jack Davis repents, Clint Reilly froths, Roberta Achtenberg has a vision, Angela Alioto has an attitude, and the voters are the pigeons

How to Lie, Cheat, and Steal Your Way to Influence at City Hall -- Legally

In which Jack Davis repents, Clint Reilly froths, Roberta Achtenberg has a vision, Angela Alioto has an attitude, and the voters are the pigeons

Paper Trails

In which Jack Davis repents, Clint Reilly froths, Roberta Achtenberg has a vision, Angela Alioto has an attitude, and the voters are the pigeons

Paper Trails

In which Jack Davis repents, Clint Reilly froths, Roberta Achtenberg has a vision, Angela Alioto has an attitude, and the voters are the pigeons

Paper Trails

In which Jack Davis repents, Clint Reilly froths, Roberta Achtenberg has a vision, Angela Alioto has an attitude, and the voters are the pigeons

Dog Bite

In which Jack Davis repents, Clint Reilly froths, Roberta Achtenberg has a vision, Angela Alioto has an attitude, and the voters are the pigeons

Letters

In which Jack Davis repents, Clint Reilly froths, Roberta Achtenberg has a vision, Angela Alioto has an attitude, and the voters are the pigeons

Masters of Disaster

The San Francisco Office of Emergency Services unveils its new post-apocalypse playbook

Dog Bites

The San Francisco Office of Emergency Services unveils its new post-apocalypse playbook

Slush Daddy

The San Francisco Office of Emergency Services unveils its new post-apocalypse playbook

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.

The High Life

Breathing in sleaziness at the rarefied and urbane levels of San Francisco political life

Making Nice

City and state elections officials finally strike a harmonious note in their erratic efforts to roll out IRV

Toothless Wonder

Why S.F.'s police watchdog agency has never been effective - and why Prop. H won't change that

Lee Way

The public career path of Andrew Lee explains a lot about what's wrong with Willie Brown's style of politics and governance

The Past and Future Fraud

Yes, punch-card voting machines are error-prone. The touch-screen systems planned to replace them may be just as bad.

Blowing It

How San Francisco elections officials dropped the ball on instant runoff voting

Worst of the Lot

Bay Area nursing home regulation lags behind state

Letters

Bay Area nursing home regulation lags behind state

Rays of Hope

Political winds may blow in long overdue nursing care reform

Cothran

Political winds may blow in long overdue nursing care reform

Cothran

Political winds may blow in long overdue nursing care reform

Downtown's Fairy Godmother

Doris Ward, San Francisco's assessor, is tossing around commercial tax breaks as if they were fairy dust. It's costing the city at least $100 million a year.

Block Party

Rose Tsai, Julie Lee, and the Neighbors' Association are set to tuck into a heaping helping of Willie Brown's majority

Times Two

In the UCSF-Stanford merger, the busiest health care workers are the doctors of spin

Chalk Fight

Teachers' union grand dame Joan Marie Shelley is forced into the campaign of her career by a formerly loyal lieutenant

The Grid

Teachers' union grand dame Joan Marie Shelley is forced into the campaign of her career by a formerly loyal lieutenant

Temperature Rising

The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

The Grid

The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

Mulch

The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

The Grid

The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

Mulch

The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

State and National Candidates

The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

What's Your Preference?

S.F. voters may really get a choice

Slap Shots

S.F. voters may really get a choice

Judging Matthew Rothschild

Why is the Democratic Party elite backing an underqualified party operative for the local judiciary?

Blowing Smoke, Breathing Fire (Part I)

The Fang family rides tabloid journalism and hardball politics to the winner's circle

Paper Trails

The Fang family rides tabloid journalism and hardball politics to the winner's circle

The Last Tycoon (Part II)

Walter Shorenstein's skyscrapers shaped San Francisco. His cash configured City Hall. Publicly, he's pristine. But there's more than meets the eye to the man behind the megaliths.

Paper Trails

Walter Shorenstein's skyscrapers shaped San Francisco. His cash configured City Hall. Publicly, he's pristine. But there's more than meets the eye to the man behind the megaliths.

Dollars Without Sense

For 25 years, Harvey Ross has rooted out the waste and lies of politicians and bureaucrats. But some say he's too lost in the line items to see the big picture

The Dark Prince of City Hall

First Larry Bush was a politician. Then he was a journalist. Then he was a politician. So now as editor and publisher of CitiReport, a hard-hitting journal with a private agenda, what the hell is he?

S.F. Babylon: A Decade of Hypocrisy, Scandal, and Weirdness Pt. 2

Over the past decade, we have often felt as though we might be living in an adult playground run by a feisty bunch of hypocrites, philanderers, and drunk-dialers. This, we have to admit, makes San Francisco a pretty exciting city in which to gather the news. Narrowing down the top 10 (okay, it's rea ... More >>

Free Muni: The Stupid Idea That Just Keeps Giving

Jim HerdWho's going to pay for this? ​It seems the activist group POWER has done us all a favor. In holding a demonstration demanding Muni be made free, fiscal reality be damned, they've permanently answered the question, "should I pay attention to anything POWER ever does?" By all means, Muni's f ... More >>

Ross Mirkarimi: The Backstory on Being a "Tyrant"

Ross Mirkarimi's former colleagues won't weigh in on his guilt or innocence. But they understand the "tyrant" label. ​Until this point, this paper -- and, we assume, others -- did not publish stories about Ross Mirkarimi's well-known temper and lengthy history of loudly berating City Hall staffers ... More >>