Michael Burns

Muni Tax Shelter Deal Could Lead to More S.F. Rail Carnage

Jim HerdDid promised millions froma shady tax shelter deal blur Muni's judgment?​A month before investigators began to sift through train wreckage to determine the cause of last week's Muni light rail crash, officials examining deadly transit accident in Washington D.C. discovered a defect th ... More >>

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Gridlock

Bill Lieberman, new planning director for the Municipal Transportation Agency, wades into the swamp of San Francisco transit politics

Share and Share Alike

A partial solution to S.F.'s parking wars? Turn over City Hall vehicles to the local CarShare program.

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, February 11, 2004

The Tax Man Cometh

The federal government looks to eliminate abusive tax shelters, and it may cost San Francisco tens of millions of dollars

Letters to the Editor

Week of August 20, 2003

Death, Maiming, Money, and Muni

The enormous costs -- human and financial -- of bad drivers and lax discipline at the San Francisco Municipal Railway

Letters to the Editor

Week of July 2, 2003

Former Pimp Laid Low

Muni union official suspended over racy book on whoremongering past; sexual harassment alleged

Muni's Mack Daddy

James Robinson used to be a pimp. Now he's a transit union bigwig. And he's got higher ambitions.

Unnatural Gas

"Environmentalists" make bad transit worse by insisting Muni buy alt-fuel buses

Letters to the Editor

Week of April 24, 2002

Runaway Train

Why is Muni in such a hurry to win approval for a blindingly complex, potentially risky, $1 billion plan to privatize the city's rail fleet?

Letters to the Editor

Ring Master; Salt in the Wound; S.F.: 237, N.Y.: 1

Visionary Thinking

The "X Plan," a draft of Muni's hopes for the future, offers a glimpse of transit utopia

Aparkalypse Now

Bedlam reigns as a great development boom besets the warehouse district south of downtown. Blood boiling, drivers late to work search in vain for parking. Are we doomed?

Dog Bites

Muni's source for customer service expertise: Nordstrom

Cothran