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Subject: Shipbuilding and Maintenance

  • H to the Izzo

    May 10, 2006
  • Women on the Water

    Take a cruise with a real Rosie

    July 13, 2005
  • Rail Out of Town

    Right now, the museum consists mainly of dozens of dusty old train hulls scattered across a splay of disused tracks

    January 12, 2005
  • Arrested Development

    Mayor Brown is pushing for quick approval of a Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment plan that gives a lot to homebuilding giant Lennar, and not nearly enough to the city or the shipyard's neighbors

    November 19, 2003
  • Letters to the Editor

    October 15, 2003
  • Glowing Review

    The Navy says radiation levels are within federal safety guidelines, but are higher than what is legally acceptable for the property to be transferred

    October 1, 2003
  • Diseaseville

    Asthma, cancer, and other illnesses occur at higher-than-average rates in Hunters Point. Many residents blame the nearby Navy shipyard, one of the most contaminated ex-military bases in the nation.

    August 27, 2003
  • Mob Rule

    Flash mobs: serious social movement or quirky entertainment (or both)?

    July 30, 2003
  • Hot Story

    Navy admits burning 600,000 gallons of radioactive fuel at S.F. shipyard

    May 21, 2003
  • Hot News

    "The first [Historical Radiation Assessment] was rushed .... We should have ... done a better, more thorough job."

    March 19, 2003
  • Burning Mad

    July 31, 2002
  • Fallout: The Past Is Present

    The Nuclear Witnesses

    July 31, 2002
  • Cold Fête

    February 13, 2002
  • Land Ho

    A new deal with the Navy means S.F. supervisors can finally consider accepting part of Hunters Point Shipyard

    February 6, 2002
  • Slow Sailing

    With prodding from Congress, plans to transfer Hunters Point Shipyard land to San Francisco are inching along

    January 16, 2002
  • Massing Gas

    San Francisco asks the Navy to investigate potentially dangerous methane concentrations at Hunters Point Shipyard

    January 2, 2002
  • Dragon Bites

    A Beautiful Day to Be Irradiated; We Have Plenty of Lines Open; Annals of Blowback; Press Release of the Week

    June 13, 2001
  • Pointed Queries

    Three California members of Congress are demanding information from the Navy about radioactive materials at Hunters Point Shipyard

    May 23, 2001
  • Shame and Courage

    The Navy's unconscionable nuclear recklessness and dissembling at Hunters Point should draw the attention of Congress

    May 9, 2001
  • Chlorine, Benzene, Vinyl Chloride, Trichloroethylene, Beryllium, Nickel, PCBs ...

    Even if radioactivity were ignored, Hunters Point Shipyard would be one of the planet's most polluted properties

    May 2, 2001
  • The Path of Inquiry

    How research for this story was conducted

    May 2, 2001
  • The Documentation

    Databases of the original materials used in writing this story

    May 2, 2001
  • Best Homemade Gourmet Lunch in Hunters Point

    The Outback Cafe

    May 17, 2000
  • Night Crawler

    May 12, 1999
  • No Fishin'

    The Coast Guard busts skippers for angling next to Hunters Point

    July 29, 1998
  • Dirty Dealings at the Dock

    San Francisco is planning to take title to the decommissioned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard before the military completes an environmental cleanup. The move could cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars -- or more.

    February 25, 1998
  • Waste Case History

    October 23, 1996
  • Hey, Sailor!

    The untold story of the selling of the USS Missouri

    May 3, 1995
  • The Rosies of Richmond make riveting subject matter in This World in a Woman's Hands

    September 30, 2009
  • EPA Spanks Lennar With Fines For Dust (But In Arizona, Not Hunters Point)

    Oops, they did it again. Lennar, the company that drew activist hellfire for failing to control dust in Bayview during the early stages of its construction at the Hunters Point Shipyard, is now facing fines for similar dust violations in Arizona. The company will have to pay the Environmental Protection Agency a $182,519 settlement for not removing particulate matter from vehicles and not immediately cleaning up dust tracked 50 feet beyond the residential construction sites in Maricopa County,

    October 29, 2009