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  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Some Lawmakers Don't Seem to Mind If James Hooker Dates His Students

    Much to our surprise, a committee of California lawmakers today rejected a proposed bill that would have made it a felony for creepy teachers like James Hooker to date their students -- even if they are 18. Given the negative attention the Hooker case has received, we thought for sure this bill, aut ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 14, 2012

    Tom Chambers: Magical Realist Photography at Modernbook

    Much to our surprise, a committee of California lawmakers today rejected a proposed bill that would have made it a felony for creepy teachers like James Hooker to date their students -- even if they are 18. Given the negative attention the Hooker case has received, we thought for sure this bill, aut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Assemblyman Wants to Ban Violent Fans from Sporting Events

    ​Here's something that will give sports spectators something to really cheer about. A SoCal assemblyman is essentially asking for a statewide restraining order on violent sports fans, barring them from events so that the rest of us can watch our teams play without worrying about getting killed. As ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Wait Until 2014: Marijuana Legalization All But Dead in California

    ​Union Pulls Plug on Medical Reform, Other Ballot Measures Starved For Cash; Legislature, Ammiano Last Hope for Reform NowNobody likes to celebrate with a loss, but for the medical marijuana movement, 2010 and the historic defeat of semi-legalization measure Proposition 19 already look like the go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    UC Davis Chancellor: Police Defied Orders by Pepper-Spraying Occupy Protesters

    UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi is apparently sorry -- really, really sorry -- for the pepper-spraying of peaceful Occupy student protesters that set off a public-relations catastrophe last week. In an interview with the Sacramento Bee yesterday, Katehi said she had ordered campus police to interac ... More >>

  • News

    July 6, 2011

    Fantasy Island: The Strange Tale of Alleged Fraudster Pearlasia Gamboa

    UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi is apparently sorry -- really, really sorry -- for the pepper-spraying of peaceful Occupy student protesters that set off a public-relations catastrophe last week. In an interview with the Sacramento Bee yesterday, Katehi said she had ordered campus police to interac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Jerry Brown's Budget Solution Is To Starve Senior Citizens, Excluding Himself

    Not On Our Dime​Most everyone would expect Governor Jerry Brown to take sharp measures to ensure that the state's books are balanced in the coming year.But cutting back on food for the elderly? That seems draconian. According to the Sacramento Bee, Brown wants to seriously trim grants for the low- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Police Beating Victims May Be Prosecuted a Fourth Time

    YSFPD's use-of-force trainer says this is the result of proper law enforcement technique​olo County prosecutors are weighing wether to opt for a fourth trial of two West Sacramento brothers after separate juries failed to convict them three prior times on charges of resisting arrest and fighting a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Does California Have a Future? No: California *Is* the Future.

    The face of things to come​That's the conclusion of an interesting piece of commentary published today in The New Republic. Penned by former Sacramento Bee editorial page editor Peter Schrag, the article argues that California -- the favorite punching bag of bad-government critics who assail its p ... 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 30, 2010

    Sacramento Metalheads Tesla's Studio Burns in Three-Alarm Blaze

    Ross HalfinTesla​Flames tore through a Sacramento apartment building last night, damaging a studio where the metal band Tesla recorded.Soundproofing in the recording studio, which was behind the apartment building, made it harder for crews to reach the attic, where the the three-alarm blaze had sp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Patronage Army General Willie Brown Stumps for Pension Reform

    I repent!​Willie Brown, who in 2001 deployed his friends, family, and hangers-on into what was commonly referred to as a "patronage army," is now helping the governor campaign against the classic patronage perk known as bloated pensions.At an event last week Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger billed as a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Legislators, Lawyers Winning Fight to Render Red Light Cameras Useless

    Bill would make it easier to get away with this​Red light-runners are winning a battle to render camera evidence less incriminating in court, the Sacramento Bee's Dan Walters reports.Sen. Joe Simitian, who represents Palo Alto and San Jose commuters under the watch of the dozens of cameras mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Sarah Palin's Reported Fee For California College Appearance: $93,000

    Is that a $93,000 wink? ​Sen Leland Yee, who has been in a running battle with California State Stanislaus over its refusal to disclose the fee for a Sarah Palin speaking engagement, is trumpeting a blog that does just that. According to the Palingates website, the former Alaska governor and Repub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Sacramento Bee: Harris Fibs on Conviction Rate

    ​Attorney General candidate and San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris' new TV ad boasting of high conviction rates "does not tell the whole story," the Sacramento Bee reports this morning.No kidding.SF Weekly's Peter Jamison reported May 5 on "an alarming decline in felony trial conviction ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson NOT Joining Arizona Boycott

    Kevin Johnson reveals he's always loathed AZ bigotryHere Gavin: Fake!Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson, a former point guard for the Phoenix Suns, announced Wednesday he'd join Gavin Newsom's boycott of Arizona. That turned out to be a political pump-fake: Johnson changed his mind hours later.In a mid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    City, County Officials Whisper 'Bankruptcy' to Solve Pension Woes

    Wheeee!McClatchy Newspapers Pension Investigation: More Local Government Accounts Looking As Red As Bankrupt Vallejo's; California's 80 Largest City and County Governments Face $28 Billion Shortfall.SF Weekly Follow: Failure is no obstacle to the pension good life: CalPers records show $197,421 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Blackwater: DiFi's Questionable H2O Moves Muddy Dems' Election Hopes

    Will Sen. Dianne Feinstein's shady water deal shoot down Dems' election chances? ​Take one part frozen orange juice concentrate, mix it with three parts water, and you have a delicious morning drink.Take one sleazy political juice deal, and mix it with rotten water policy, however, and California' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    McClatchy Newspapers Renew Misleading Anti-Hetch Hetchy Crusade

    Coming soon? Don't count on it. ​"Hetch Hetchy could go on ballot," declares a headline in today's Modesto Bee atop a story claiming the group Restore Hetch Hetchy is on the verge of putting a measure before San Francisco voters this November that, if successful, would lead to the destruction of O ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    How Much Will State Vacuum From San Francisco and Other Counties? Check the Database.

    ​Those of us who grew up in the Bay Area learned well from Humphrey and Charley -- borrowing without asking is a stupid thing to do! And yet, the Great State of California is borrowing roughly $2 billion from its cities and yanking another $1.7 billion from redevelopment agencies.What this means f ... More >>

  • News

    September 10, 2008

    Stiffed

    Amidst all the murders in San Francisco, some suspicious deaths are hidden in a secret burial ground of bureaucracy.

  • News

    July 2, 2008

    Stealth Bloggers

    Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  • News

    March 19, 2008

    Working-Class Struggle

    Three housekeepers and a day laborer take action against deadbeat employers who abuse immigrants

  • News

    December 19, 2007

    Demo Sale

    The party's leaders are putting their lack of ethics on display once again

  • News

    December 12, 2007

    Unhealthy Union

    Could there be a secret deal with Arnold on health care that will inflate union rolls?

  • News

    December 5, 2007

    Blogos-Free

    Since the paper is called the Examiner, shouldn't it take a closer look at what's going up on its Web site, and pay for it?

  • News

    August 30, 2006

    Rotting on the Dock of the Bay

    The easy choice between a destitute Port Authority and acres of rotting piers, or a beautified waterfront with some hotel rooms

  • News

    July 27, 2005

    Onward, Christian Lawyers

    Why lawsuits filed by anti-abortion activists may be a blessing in disguise for the California stem cell institute

  • News

    June 8, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, June 8, 2005

  • News

    April 13, 2005

    The 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Relations

    The envelope, please ... and the Pulitzer goes to -- Environmental Defense!

  • News

    September 22, 2004

    Big Dam Mess

    The Environmental Defense Fund embarks on a national campaign to shame San Francisco into restoring the other great Yosemite valley, Hetch Hetchy. But is shame really a good political strategy?

  • News

    June 9, 2004

    The New California Adventure

    Schwarzenegger budget policies are turning small cities and rural counties into post-apocalypse theme parks

  • News

    May 26, 2004

    Democracy in Suburbia

    The Economist asks: "Is California Back?" Contra Costa County wonders: "Were we gone?"

  • News

    October 29, 2003

    The Migden Chronicles

    One of the last standing Democrats writes the treatment for a flick in which a befuddled sci-fi hero helps California to a better future

  • News

    April 2, 2003

    alt.war

    Traditional media mislead the public about the war in Iraq as a media revolution makes traditional media increasingly irrelevant

  • News

    January 2, 2002

    Chump Changes

    Journalists are playing into the hands of George Bush when they unthinkingly insist that everything is different since Sept. 11

  • News

    November 21, 2001

    Crying Whale

    Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.

  • News

    April 25, 2001

    The Return of the Screw

    PG&E is doing to New England what greedy, polluting, out-of-state energy suppliers have done to PG&E and California

  • News

    June 21, 2000

    South to the Future

    Sam of Son Unabomber victims sue to profit from their attacker's crimes

  • News

    April 5, 2000

    Playing Monopoly

    Sam of Son Unabomber victims sue to profit from their attacker's crimes

  • News

    February 16, 2000

    Mecklin

    Get Me Rewrite

  • News

    August 12, 1998

    Is This Any Way to Run A Railroad?

    Union Pacific's tenacious fight to gut safety laws passed when a derailment sterilized 40 miles of the upper Sacramento River

  • News

    March 25, 1998

    What's the Harman a Big Checchi Account?

    Conflict of interest and the Democrats' wealthy wannabe governors

  • News

    March 18, 1998

    Dog Bites

    Conflict of interest and the Democrats' wealthy wannabe governors

  • Calendar

    April 2, 1997

    Unspun

    Conflict of interest and the Democrats' wealthy wannabe governors

  • Calendar

    November 13, 1996

    Unspun

    Conflict of interest and the Democrats' wealthy wannabe governors

  • Calendar

    October 9, 1996

    Unspun

    Conflict of interest and the Democrats' wealthy wannabe governors

  • News

    October 25, 1995

    Letters

    Conflict of interest and the Democrats' wealthy wannabe governors

  • News

    March 8, 1995

    Dog Bites

    Conflict of interest and the Democrats' wealthy wannabe governors

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