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Steve Cooley

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Users Don't Need to be Marijuana Farmers, Court Says

    It doesn't take much to join a collective or cooperative in California, be it a grocery store or a medical cannabis dispensary. In the former, perhaps all you need is a small fee; in the latter, a doctor's recommendation and the scrill required to purchase some medical bud.It certainly doesn't requi ... More >>

  • News

    February 1, 2012

    Prison Break: Realignment Inmates Enter Rehabilitation in S.F.

    It doesn't take much to join a collective or cooperative in California, be it a grocery store or a medical cannabis dispensary. In the former, perhaps all you need is a small fee; in the latter, a doctor's recommendation and the scrill required to purchase some medical bud.It certainly doesn't requi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    Will Kamala Harris Burn the Medical Marijuana Advocates Who Campaigned for Her?

    One and the same ... when it comes to pot​While marijuana legalization dominated the news, unity was in short supply last fall during the election season among medical cannabis patients and advocates.It may be hard for nonsmokers to grasp, but Proposition 19 splintered the medical cannabis communi ... More >>

  • News

    April 6, 2011

    Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana

    One and the same ... when it comes to pot​While marijuana legalization dominated the news, unity was in short supply last fall during the election season among medical cannabis patients and advocates.It may be hard for nonsmokers to grasp, but Proposition 19 splintered the medical cannabis communi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Ammiano's Cannabis Bill a 'Rumor' -- For Now

    Buzz kill​You know the old saying: Where there's Tom Ammiano, there's cannabis. California's most cannabis-friendly assemblyman is being connected with an "omnibus cannabis bill" meant to reform, regulate, and clarify the many gray areas in California's medical marijuana laws. Aside from that, som ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    A Timeline of Problems at the SFPD DNA Lab

    ​Through reporting over the past month, SF Weekly has uncovered multiple instances of scientifically and ethically questionable conduct by DNA analysts at the San Francisco Police Department Crime Laboratory. Our findings focus on two lapses in particular: the destruction of records of a potential ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    Kamala Harris Declares Victory -- In Los Angeles

    Perhaps Kamala Harris made her 'major announcement' in L.A. because of the George Lopez factor...​As expected, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris declared victory in her race for Attorney General this morning in her "major announcement" this morning in Los Angeles. "I stand before you t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Kamala Harris Wins Attorney General Race as Steve Cooley Concedes

    Tyra Banks' AG of choice, Kamala Harris, is the big winner​Say what you will about Steve Cooley, but the man can do math. The Republican candidate for attorney general would have had to beat Kamala Harris by insane margins among uncounted ballots in Harris-leaning counties. Not going to happen -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    AG's Race Gets Nasty as Harris, Cooley Spar Over L.A. Vote Counting

    Kamala Harris​It's always comforting when the race to become the state's top law-enforcement official devolves into Jerry Springer-esque paroxysms of finger-pointing and cheap campaign tactics. But that's what appears to be happening in the final stretch of the California attorney general's race, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Elections Overtime: The Races That Haven't Finished

    ...And we're counting​Funny thing about Instant-Runoff Voting: The results often aren't so instant. A number of elections around the state are still undetermined. What does the future hold? Gnashing of teeth, threats of litigation, and, of course, counting, counting, and recounting. In an Instant- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Kamala Harris: Take a Maalox

    The cure for political heartache? ​To those tormented by the stunningly close Attorney General's race between Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris, San Francisco's district attorney offers a bit of medical advice: "Take a Maalox." Harris made her impromptu pitch for a particular brand of heartburn medic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Gavin Newsom Cruises to Victory. Kamala Harris Tossup. Political Bedlam to Ensue in S.F.

    Richard Haick The Giants are coming home, and Gavin is leaving it​Mayor Gavin Newsom yesterday succeeded in his long quest to get out of San Francisco politics, handily winning his race for lieutenant governor -- and leaving an unknown and yet-to-be-determined successor to humiliate the mayor of A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Local Pols Angle for New Jobs as Harris, Newsom Vacate Seats

    No: I get to be on the government oversight committee.​Notwithstanding 9.6 percent national unemployment, if you happen to be a politician in San Francisco, Nov. 03 is a great day to be in the market for a new job."It's what everybody's talking about," said Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, in reference ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Attorney General Race Too Close to Call; Results Could Be Weeks Away

    Kamala Harris​Californians can expect to hurry up and wait for final results in the undisputed nail-biter statewide election of 2010, the attorney general's race between San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris and Los Angeles D.A. Steve Cooley.With all voting precincts reporting, Harris hold ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2010

    Attention, Guardianistas: Here are your endorsements.

    Kamala Harris​Californians can expect to hurry up and wait for final results in the undisputed nail-biter statewide election of 2010, the attorney general's race between San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris and Los Angeles D.A. Steve Cooley.With all voting precincts reporting, Harris hold ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    GOP to Hammer Harris on Death Penalty with $1 million in TV Ads as Election Nears

    Close observers of the 2010 California Attorney General's race probably saw this one coming. With less than two weeks remaining until election day on Nov. 2, Republican activists are going to spend about $1 million blanketing the airwaves with commercials attacking San Francisco District Attorney Ka ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Did AG Candidate Steve Cooley Let Bell Police Chief Off the Hook?

    Peace Officers Association of L.A. CountySteve Cooley, left, handed disgraced Bell Police Chief Randy Adams an award in 2008. Did he do so again by not prosecuting him?​Will the bell toll for Randy Adams? A group of incensed SoCal cops are sure hoping so. Our sister publication, LA Weekly is repor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    City Attorney Dennis Herrera to S.F. Employees: No Campaigning on City Time

    Whatever you do, don't say "I gave at the office..."​Dennis Herrera, who not long ago announced plans to move his operations down the hall from the city attorney's office to that of San Francisco mayor, has issued a warning to city workers feeling particularly enthusiastic about his or anyone else ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    George Lopez Hosting Kamala Harris Cocktail Soiree -- You Can Still Make It!

    We laughed. We cried...​For Attorney General candidate Kamala Harris, it's either up, up, up, or down, down, down. She spent much of this summer suffering the slings and arrows of her spectacular mishandling of the city's crime lab drug scandal. After attempting to nail Republican rival Steve Cool ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    District Attorney Kamala Harris Makes Oprah's 2010 'O Power List'

    Big guns are backing Kamala Harris​District Attorney Kamala Harris is nothing if not resilient in her campaign to be elected California's next attorney general. Just when she's getting slammed in the press for hypocritically holding on to a convicted felon's campaign donations, Harris' campaign re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    Kamala Harris Kept Felon's Donation While Insisting Opponent Return Tainted Funds

    Don't worry Kamala. Tyra still loves you. ​While attorney general candidate Kamala Harris spent the past three weeks denouncing her opponent Steve Cooley for accepting tainted campaign donations, it turns out her campaign kitty contained $1,250 from ex-Democratic moneyman Norman Hsu -- now serving ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Steve Cooley's Potential Finance Scandal Ignites Kamala Harris Press Storm

    Steve Cooley is accused of taking funny money from not-so-funny people​San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has wasted no time jumping on a report by our sister paper, LA Weekly, accusing her opponent in the state Attorney General's race of hypocrisy. The article, which ran yesterday, not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Chelsea's Law Threatens To Force San Francisco Sex Offenders Into Homelessness For Life

    Living like this for 10 years?​Republican Attorney General Candidate Steve Cooley is drawing heat from Kamala Harris' attorney general campaign for remarking that "You know what gets an initiative passed in California? Name it after a female ... Jessica's Law, stuff like that." Call that a sexist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Union Boss: 'No Way' Kamala Harris Gets Cops' Endorsement for Attorney General

    Tyra Banks is supporting Kamala Harris. The city's cops are not. ​California Watch has a good story up today on the role the state's influential police unions will play in deciding the attorney general's race between Kamala Harris and Steve Cooley. As reporter Timothy Sandoval notes, San Francisco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Kamala Harris Attack Ad: Steve Cooley a Sexist Coddler of Child Molesters

    D.A. Kamala Harris​San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris today released an online ad targeting her Republican opponent in the race for state attorney general. The ad (view after the jump) assails Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, in so many words, as a sexist coddler of child mol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Big Day in Court for Candidate Harris

    This is what a sexy prosecutor candidate looks like​With her solid victory in last night's Democratic primary for the vaunted post of attorney general, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris proved that she can deflect accusations of being soft of crime. At least when they come from other D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Election 2010 Results: Demon Sheep, Gavin Newsom, Open Primaries Triumph

    Meg Whitman never liked voting, but plenty of Californians voted for her​Results are starting to roll in from today's voting on ballot initiatives and primaries for statewide office. Wanna know the latest, greatest bad decisions California's electorate has chosen to impose upon itself? SF Weekly h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    Demon Sheep Makes Encore In Another Absurd Republican Campaign Ad

    And this time, the demon sheep breathes fire. There's also circus music involved in this asinine ad launched today by the Tom Harman for Attorney General 2010 campaign entitled,  "Steve Cooley is a Loser." Clearly, Harman's a real class act.The context, for those who don't feel like wasting t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Hit Pieces: Demon Sheep, Candidate Inc., Gavin Newsom & Bill O'Reilly Smitten

    Quick political bytes from the week that went down easy. Carly Fiorina's bizarre attack ad against her Republican primary opponent for senate, Tom Campbell: An evil furry dressed like a sheep who wants to raise your taxes. This video has gone totally viral. People are e-mailing it around and t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    Speier Not Running for AG, Horde of Upwardly Mobile Pols Staying Put

    Rep. Jackie Speier, seen here with Stephen Colbert, will continue her ride in Washington, D.C. ​Rep. Jackie Speier's newly minted spokesman Nathan Ballard just informed the world that his boss will not be leaving Congress to run for state Attorney General. Congressional seats rarely open -- especi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Chronic City: L.A. District Attorney Says City Councils Have 'No Authority' Over Medical Pot

    Los Angeles County District Attorney's OfficeD.A. Steve Cooley (left) and City Attorney Carmen Trutanich: They'll keep busting dispensaries no matter what the City Council says!​It was a petulant fit of pique, certainly entertaining, and potentially hilarious -- if safe access for so many medical ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    Chronic City: L.A.'s Marijuana Dispensary Ban Could Cost City Millions

    Los Angeles' proposed medical marijuana ordinance -- which would ban the sale of pot at dispensaries -- could cost the city $36 million to $74 million in lost sales tax, according to a marijuana advocacy group.Photo by lavocado, Wikimedia CommonsOpen for business on L.A.'s Ventura Boulevard... but f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Chronic City: 77 Percent Of L.A. Residents Favor Dispensaries; Majority of West Coasters Want To Legalize Pot

    Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley may have believed he was safely playing to the grandstands when he promised to shut down all of L.A.'s estimated 800 to 1,000 medical marijuana dispensaries, magnanimously declaring that "approximately zero" of the dispensaries were operating legally ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Chronic City: Feds Lighten Up On Medical Marijuana Just As L.A. Tightens The Screws

    Photo by Rotbuche, Wikimedia CommonsLet my people grow.​In a stunning bit of role reversal, law enforcement officials in dispensary-heavy Los Angeles County are gearing up for a massive mobilization against hundreds of pot shops even while the Obama administration backs away from the federal gover ... More >>

  • News

    January 19, 2005

    Zipped Up

    S.F. Archbishop William Levada doesn't want the public to know about decades of alleged sexual misconduct by his clerics. But why are district attorneys in San Mateo, Marin, and San Francisco helping him keep secrets?

  • News

    June 25, 2003

    Prosecutors' Patience Wears Thin With Levada, Mahony

    S.F. Archbishop William Levada doesn't want the public to know about decades of alleged sexual misconduct by his clerics. But why are district attorneys in San Mateo, Marin, and San Francisco helping him keep secrets?

  • News

    June 25, 2003

    Nailed?

    Lawyers for hundreds of sex-abuse victims have California's Catholic dioceses in a dire financial bind. Can church leaders finagle an escape, or are they ...

  • News

    September 19, 2001

    The Dilemma of Sara Jane Olson

    With an October trial in the offing, prosecutors had every intention of proving that Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson was a domestic terrorist who helped plant bombs under police cars 26 years ago.

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