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Barred from Freedom: How Pretrial Detention Ruins Lives

Super Bowl L: Mayor Lee Makes Dubious Claims of Economic Boost

Marijuana Elimination Program Is Smaller but Still Helicoptering in Pot Country

The Campaign Against Marijuana Planting is dead.Long live the Cannabis Eradication Reclamation Team.Last year, rumors that the drug war -- or at least California's role it in -- was over, when Gov. Jerry Brown eliminated state funding for the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting. CAMP, as it was know ... More >>

Ron Paul Counts Bay Area Tech Companies Among Top Donors

This week Republican presidential cult favorite Ron Paul will campaign through California, with stops at well-known party school Chico State, as well as UCLA, and Berkeley. While the venues reflect Paul's solid and passionate base among college kids, a closer look at Paul's donor list shows that the ... More >>

Prop 13: The Building-Sized Loopholes Corporations Exploit

Scientology Policy Keeps Lori Hodgson, San Jose Mom, from Visiting Son in Hospital

Lori Hodgson, ex-Scientologist, with her kids before they "disconnected" from her.​Our sister paper, the Village Voice, posted a disturbing piece today from the frontline of a Scientology scandal. Lori Hodgson, a South Bay mother who recently defected from the Church of Scientology, has been livin ... More >>

Feliciano Valencia-Santiago Confesses to Murdering Woman Found in Garbage Bag

Confesses​Feliciano Valencia-Santiago, the man accused of murdering a San Jose woman and dumping her body in a garbage bag, has reportedly confessed to the heinous crime. According to media outlets, police say that during an interrogation, Valencia-Santiago admitted that he killed Maria Esther Oro ... More >>

49ers President Jed York Likes Mayor Ed Lee, But Is It Enough to Keep The Team in S.F.?

Some love to hate him​The stylistic differences between former Mayor Gavin Newsom and the current Mayor Ed Lee are too many to list here. Yet the one distinct deviation certainly worth noting is their relationship with 49ers president Jed York.Lee reportedly met with the 49ers president yesterday ... More >>

So You *Can* Opt Out of Secure Communities Fingerprinting Program. Will S.F. Be Allowed?

​Local officials are awaiting a response to San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey's letter yesterday, which once again asked federal immigration officials to allow San Francisco to opt out of the fingerprint ID program that targets illegal immigrants booked into jail. The request comes afte ... More >>

Man Sues For Right to Carry Gun Near Cole Valley's Grattan School

Matt SmithDon't mind me, kiddies...​After San Francisco school officials refused to allow local programmer Kevin Hall to carry a sidearm near Grattan School in Cole Valley, he sued in federal court Thursday demanding respect for what he calls his Second Amendment rights."I want to open carry in Sa ... More >>

Elite College Hoaxer Showdown: Stanford Vs. Harvard

​News this week of Adam Wheeler, the 23-year-old who lied his way into Harvard and almost into Yale, brought back fond memories of Azia Kim, the dorm-squatter who was discovered posing as a Stanford student two years ago. We have to ask: Who's the better college hoaxer? TV movie-ready back st ... More >>

Transit Experts: Caltrain's Future Grim

Going, going, gone?​On April Fools' Day, the CEO of Caltrain made an announcement we wish was just a joke: The agency is beyond broke, and will move to cut half its service. And that's only if it's lucky enough to survive at all. That was the bad news. Here's the worse news: According to transit e ... More >>

Lego Master Hopes Pilfered S.F. Landmarks Haven't Been Stripped for Parts

Courtesy Benz FamilyWill Mark Benz' Lego Ghirardelli Square end up in pieces on the Internet or at a flea market? ​Last week we reported on Fremont mechanical engineer and Lego savant Mark Benz, who had a number of giant, San Francisco Lego landmarks filched from the back of the family truck. Desp ... More >>

Are You Ready For Some Football? The Team Is Named 'The California Redwoods.' Still Ready?

Joe EskenaziUFL Commissioner Michael Huyghue smiles while California Redwoods owner Paul Pelosi shows off what is either a large Jolly Rancher candy or his team's road uniform​A superstitious person would have picked up bad, teal and lime green vibes at the just-concluded AT&T Park press confe ... More >>

Baggage

The city's politicos made the enviros happy by banning plastic bags, but left us with more pollution and cost

Ron Paul supporters mistakenly 'hijack' unsanctioned Republican event

Stern Reprimand

SEIU members in Northern California challenge the national boss over his collaboration with employers

The Little Tribe That Could

As descendants of San Francisco’s aboriginal people, the Muwekma Ohlone Indian tribe seldom gets much respect. But that could be about to change.

Galleries

Galleries and Museums

254th-and-Long

Only one other player was chosen lower in the draft than Vickiel Vaughn. But the 49ers rookie still believes he can reach his NFL dream.

Offensive Line

Numbers guy and Stanford MBA Paraag Marathe has become a scapegoat for the 49ers' failure, but he's really the future of the NFL

Holiday Happenings

Repertory Theaters

Not Don Yet

Under new basketball coach Jessie Evans, USF quickly exits the NIT. But it looks like there's more -- and better -- to come.

Band Directory

Infiltrator: I was an Abortion Protestor!

Outside a Planned Parenthood clinic with Unborn Jesus and the Grim Reaper

A Portrait of Hope

On the eve of the A's big loss, we learn why the Oakland team is to baseball as indie rock is to mainstream music

Moving Units

The story of Dealership's third album is as action-packed as the band's music

Partners in Slime

The California service employees' union and the nursing home industry join forces to increase corporate profit, grow union membership, and sell out abused nursing home patients

Finger-Clicking Good

Why you have to see Bobby Badfingers finger-snap the drum solo to "Wipe Out"

Case Study: Christopher Taylor

Taylor's lawyer was suspended from practicing during the robbery trial.

Innocence Arrested

Albert Johnson was exonerated for a crime he didn't commit, but not before spending over a decade in prison. Why guiltless people get jailed -- and how to stop it.

Rolling in War Bucks

How the state public employees' retirement system and the politically connected Carlyle Group profit from defense

Ecstasy Is an Art Car

Philo Northrup and his wacky automotive tribe take a road trip to places in California you can't even imagine

The Rush of Victory

Under coach George Rush, City College regularly wins national football titles. But is community college really the place for big-time sports?

Intended Consequences

Our supervisors tilt at a lot of silly windmills. But the city's recognition of Mexican consular IDs may help change national immigration policy for the better.

Libel, or Liable to Make You Laugh?

Are the people who posted some 13,000 Internet messages about subsidiaries of Varian Medical Systems funny First Amendment heroes or "despicable," obsessional liars?

Caught in the Storm

A Peace Corps volunteer describes his sudden evacuation from Uzbekistan as U.S. troops arrived for an assault on Afghanistan

Genes Without Frontiers

The so-called gene chip could revolutionize the way we treat cancer patients. That is, if biotech firms don't keep it out of doctors' hands.

Benign Neglect

There's a pot of money available to investigate real estate fraud, but Terence Hallinan isn't using it

The Doctor, the Transsexual, the Bed-Shooting and the Lawsuit

The stormy relationship between a transitioning transsexual and a well-known sex counselor raises questions about the growing field of sexology

SFW Letters

The Merger's Tangled Web

Unspun

The Grid

Drugs, Politics, and Money

The medical-marijuana movement is riled by the generosity of a pro-legislation PAC

Fazio's Cablevision

How Bill Fazio went from unknown to contender

City Slackers

A guide toSan Francisco political corruption -past, present, and future