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  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    City Has $2.6 Million Stimulus Surplus Burning Hole in its Pocket

    Program's implosion leaves San Francisco with millions to spend and nothing to buy.That was fast...​As City Hall struggles to close a $483 million budget gap, bureaucrats a block away at the San Francisco Department of the Environment are faced with the opposite quandary: They must figure out how ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2010

    Quite a Feet

    Program's implosion leaves San Francisco with millions to spend and nothing to buy.That was fast...​As City Hall struggles to close a $483 million budget gap, bureaucrats a block away at the San Francisco Department of the Environment are faced with the opposite quandary: They must figure out how ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2010

    Where Does Your School Rank in Cranking Out Peace Corps Volunteers?

    ​Nathan "Hale" Sargent doesn't want to say a bad economy is good for the Peace Corps. That'd be simplistic. That'd be insensitive. A bad economy is bad for everyone. That being said -- applications in 2009 were up 18 percent over the year before. So there's that. "We're not Plan B," says Sargent, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Local Artists: We Want To Give You Money w/ Masterminds

    ​Screw the bad economy. We want to do our part to help local artists when we can, as part of the annual SF Weekly Masterminds grants program. As you can see from last year's finalists, Masterminds gives up to $2,500 to creative people in the visual arts, fashion/design, performing arts, and film/v ... More >>

  • News

    October 28, 2009

    No Justice

    Despite Obama's promises of change, corporate crooks are still going unpunished for their roles in the financial collapse.

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2009

    Oil and Water

    Despite Obama's promises of change, corporate crooks are still going unpunished for their roles in the financial collapse.

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2008

    "Speaking of Responsibility, We've Taken It;" "Everything the 49ers Have Asked Us to Do, We've Done," - the Wit and Wisdom of Gavin Newsom on the economy

    By Benjamin Wachs What's that, you say? Didn't Gavin already give a Newsom-isode on the economy? Well, yes, but that was the "Economic Climate." This is the Newsom-isode on "Economic Development." What's the difference? Well, one kind of tells you what Gavin plans to do, and the other kind o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    Yuletide Good Will Spells Ruin For SF Law Firms

    By Matt SmithAn apparent upwelling of holiday good cheer has destroyed two of San Francisco's oldest law firms, which had thrived during much of the past century by exploiting greed, jealousy, fear, malice and other non-holiday sentiments. Thelen LLP, begun in 1924 and until recently one of America' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2008

    Video: Nader Blasts Obama at SF State

    By Matt SmithAn apparent upwelling of holiday good cheer has destroyed two of San Francisco's oldest law firms, which had thrived during much of the past century by exploiting greed, jealousy, fear, malice and other non-holiday sentiments. Thelen LLP, begun in 1924 and until recently one of America' ... More >>

  • News

    September 10, 2008

    Law Requires Lobbyists to Disclose Little

    By Matt SmithAn apparent upwelling of holiday good cheer has destroyed two of San Francisco's oldest law firms, which had thrived during much of the past century by exploiting greed, jealousy, fear, malice and other non-holiday sentiments. Thelen LLP, begun in 1924 and until recently one of America' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2008

    SF Gov inAction: Everything is Absolutely Fine

    By Matt SmithAn apparent upwelling of holiday good cheer has destroyed two of San Francisco's oldest law firms, which had thrived during much of the past century by exploiting greed, jealousy, fear, malice and other non-holiday sentiments. Thelen LLP, begun in 1924 and until recently one of America' ... More >>

  • News

    February 6, 2008

    West Coast Dockworkers Dispute Could Paralyze U.S. Economy

    By Matt SmithAn apparent upwelling of holiday good cheer has destroyed two of San Francisco's oldest law firms, which had thrived during much of the past century by exploiting greed, jealousy, fear, malice and other non-holiday sentiments. Thelen LLP, begun in 1924 and until recently one of America' ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 5, 2007

    Manga Mania

    By Matt SmithAn apparent upwelling of holiday good cheer has destroyed two of San Francisco's oldest law firms, which had thrived during much of the past century by exploiting greed, jealousy, fear, malice and other non-holiday sentiments. Thelen LLP, begun in 1924 and until recently one of America' ... More >>

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    August 8, 2001

    Reading the Fed

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    May 23, 2001
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    February 23, 2000

    South to the Future

    New Way to Ease New Economy's Inflation Threat: Release Nonviolent Inmates

  • Calendar

    October 23, 1996

    The Grid

    New Way to Ease New Economy's Inflation Threat: Release Nonviolent Inmates

  • News

    April 3, 1996

    $hort Circuit

    The downside of electronic fund transfers

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