Subject: Tax Law

• Train Wreck

  Major public transit agencies around the country — including San Francisco's — may pay billions for risky deals with bankers.

  November 5, 2008

• Double Bogey

  Muni's bogus tax shelter and theGuardian's bogus lawsuit.

  September 3, 2008

• Blindness of Strangers

  August 4, 2004

• Follow the Money

  July 14, 2004

• Letters to the Editor

  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

  January 21, 2004

• Gimme Shelters

  After mortgaging our future in an orgy of budget-related borrowing, the Legislature hatches new orgiastic plans: sleazy tax shelters

  August 13, 2003

• Accounted For

  July 9, 2003

• The Ghost of Scandals Past

  Previous "creative financing" debacles should haunt city officials who've approved a risky $1 billion lease of Muni streetcars

  April 17, 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?

  April 10, 2002

• South to the Future

  Fox to Air Presidential Pageant 2000

  May 31, 2000

• Downtown's Fairy Godmother

  Doris Ward, San Francisco's assessor, is tossing around commercial tax breaks as if they were fairy dust. It's costing the city at least $100 million a year.

  May 6, 1998

• Falling Through The Gap

  January 8, 1997

• 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 that could eventually lead to problems with San Francisco trains. According to Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and other outlets, Washington transit officials failed to replace worn-out rail cars be

  July 28, 2009