Subject: Matt Dorsey

• Ed Jew Submits Records On Where He Lives

  June 7, 2007

• SFPUC On the Take, Alleged Bribe-Taker Says

  San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission has long had a "gift policy" in which employees were allowed to accept lavish trips and other presents from suppliers doing business with the city -- or at least that's the claim of a retired city water-meter repairman accused of accepting $13,348 from a vendor who last week was sentenced to prison for bribing city officials.The PUC "was fully aware of, and allowed gifts from parts suppliers and others to be given to employees, including expensive gif

  June 1, 2009

• California Cities and Same-Sex Couples Join SF's Prop. 8 Challenge

  By Lauren SmileyThe San Francisco city attorney filed an amended petition (note: PDF file) challenging the constitutionality of Prop. 8 in the state Supreme Court Wednesday, adding seven same-sex married couples and 11 more cities and counties as parties. The amended filing also argues that Prop. 8 (if the high court would uphold it as constitutional) wouldn't affect the marriage status of couples who tied the knot before it passed. The petition added the counties of Alameda, Marin, San Mateo,

  December 11, 2008

• Mayor, Supes Flout the Law -- But That's Okay. Ethics Commission Won't Enforce It.

  If none of the elected officials who voted a law into existence can be bothered to follow it, and the government commission charged with implementing it opts to not enforce it (even after the law is approved by voters) -- well, what does that say? It says it's just another working day here in San Francisco.In 2006, the Ethics Commission's staff devised an ordinance calling for elected officials who vote upon city contracts of $50,000 or greater to report this within five days to the commission;

  March 23, 2009

• Bobby Badfingers' snappy jailhouse comeback

  April 8, 2009

• It's the Law ... Sort Of

  Mayor, Supes won't follow law they approved. Ethics Commission won't enforce it.

  March 25, 2009

• Checkin' It Out

  Former building commish took money from woman with business before the commission.

  October 22, 2008

• Shaky bond insurers cost taxpayers money

  August 13, 2008

• Dark Side of Sunshine

  The city correspondence with one determined citizen is now more than 2,300 pages--even longer than War and Peace.

  March 28, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  Wednesday, September 5, 2006

  September 6, 2006

• Badlands Confidential

  Is there a race problem at a Castro gay bar -- or a propriety problem in a city supervisor's office?

  June 29, 2005

• The Fix Is In

  At least that's what Janet Campbell claimed about construction bids at UCSF, where she soon found herself out of a job

  February 26, 2003

• Why Must Bike Activists Continue to Roll Over the English Language?

  Dennis Herrera -- and his fun but ungrammatical T-shirtLook, we're tickled by Dennis Herrera's photo of himself showing up to work on a bicycle today -- he looks like he's getting ready to wave a kid around third base while coaching his son's Little League team, and we like that casual look in a city attorney. We're also amazed at how fast the camera-ready potential mayoral candidate's cycling photo was up and ready on his city Web page -- that's speed and efficiency you don't need to blow throu

  May 14, 2009

• Just One Problem With Supes' Approved Plan To Defund $510K From Opera, Ballet, Theater -- It Wasn't Legal

  While the supes voted to strip $510,000 from the opera, ballet and ACT, the person whose job it is to actually make such decisions says this won't happen On San Francisco's fiscally sinking ship, a majority of our supervisors voted Tuesday to toss the record player overboard via half a million dollars in cuts to the city's opera, ballet and American Conservatory Theater. But while men frantically hurling items off a failing sea vessel aren't bound by a city charter, San Francisco's Board of

  July 24, 2009

• What a Predicament: City Attorney Defends Crappy S.F. Law Against Ultimate Corporate Force of Evil

  I am the law!​ Like a duel to the death with the prize to the victor being death, it seems there are no winners in this morning's legal showdown between San Francisco and Philip Morris at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Well, the winner may be "your lungs," but, at best, the loser would be "your common sense." Allow us to elaborate. In 2008, San Francisco passed a law that forbade pharmacies such as Walgreens from selling cigarettes -- as they were in the "health-promoting business" -- thoug

  August 12, 2009

• Turns Out City *Was* Officially Lobbying at State Level for More Government Secrecy -- Yes, Again

  Smile! ​Yesterday we reported that San Francisco was listed as a "supporter" of an Assembly bill that would, among other things, curtail public access to government data. At the time, we weren't sure exactly what being a "supporter" entailed, but now we are. Paid city lobbyist Steven Wallauch penned a letter on behalf of San Francisco to bill author Assemblyman Mike Eng (D-Monterey Park). This means that, once again, San Francisco has officially lobbied in Sacramento for a bill that would cre

  September 1, 2009

• Why Did The City Feel the Need to Tack 20 Cents Onto a Settlement Worth Nearly $91K? Here's an Answer.

  ​Back on Monday, my colleague Benjamin Wachs pondered why the city felt the need to toss two extra dimes onto the pile for a proposed settlement of $90,670.20 for former Park and Rec Department Spokeswoman Rose Marie Dennis. We ran a short article yesterday about this -- but most of the folks we reached were very tight-lipped about an unapproved settlement regarding one of the city's most embarrassing recent scandals that doesn't involve the word "Rippey-Tourk." Still, we're wondering why anyo

  September 16, 2009

• Candlestick Park Trample Victim Lawsuit Isn't First Involving S.F. Police Horse -- But It's the First In a Long Time

  ​We've written a little bit about Eugene Caldwell, the 78-year-old 49ers fan killed by a runaway police horse last year at Candlestick Park. According to court records, Caldwell's widow and grown children filed suit against a bevy of defendants on April 17; yesterday the Examiner ran a story in which they revealed they're angling for a payout in the millions.The notion of a spooked horse running wild through the streets of San Francisco would have seemed antiquated even the better part of a ce

  October 6, 2009

• Oh, Snap: City Attorney Demands Proof of Cocoa Krispies' Immunity-Boosting Claim

  Get a flu shot, kids​Kellogg's just can't get a break. First, one pissed-off cereal consumer realizes that Froot Loops cereal contains no actual fruit and decides to sue for false advertising. Now Kellogg's is dealing with more false advertising claims, this time from San Francisco City Attorney, Dennis Herrera, who just announced that he has written a letter to the CEO of the cereal company demanding evidence that Cocoa Krispies really "helps support your child's immunity" as it purports to d

  October 27, 2009

• State Not Ready to Shut Down Mirant Power Plant Just Yet

  ​City clean power activists and politicos were split in their reactions to the outcome of a state power regulatory body meeting today in Folsom, as San Francisco's plans to shutter the Mirant power plant "irrevocably" by 2010 took something of a hit. While Cal-ISO -- the state body that determines how much power generation municipalities require -- seemed amenable to shutting down the plant's Unit 3 smokestack when the highly touted transbay power cable comes online early next year, it was not

  October 29, 2009