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Tax Day Is Here, Go Get All Your Free Crap While Hating on the 1 Percent

We can't really blame you for spending the weekend hiking or drinking in the sun instead of indoors crunching numbers for your taxes -- that's what accountants are for, right? But sadly, your fun in the sun has come to an end, and so has your time to procrastinate paying the government. Fortunatel ... More >>

Checkmate: Who's Letting Debt Collectors Terrorize Consumers

Few Homeowners Have Requested Independent Foreclosure Reviews

By now, it's old news that many people lost or nearly lost their home because of banks' errors during the foreclosure crisis. A 2010 ProPublica analysis, for example, found that around a quarter of loan modification rejections occurred because the mortgage service provider couldn't find certain docu ... More >>

Occupy Now Has Trading Cards

Since they can't camp out anymore, Occupy has come up with an old-school way to keep up the fight against the 1 percent. The group has created their very own trading cards, chewing gum not included. It's just what you would expect on an Occupy trading card: names, stats, and misdeeds of people the m ... More >>

John Dennis, Libertarian Republican, Makes Night of The Living Pelosi Film

John Dennis, the Republican vying for Rep. Nancy Pelosi's House seat, grew up in a housing project in Jersey City, New Jersey. The son of a longshoreman and city hall clerk, he remembers those days vividly, remembers how the building deteriorated over the course of his childhood. The broken elevator ... More >>

Occupy Camp Cleared Out, Multiple Protesters Arrested

That makeshift Occupy camp that had become a fixture in downtown San Francisco is no more. According to press reports, some 70 police officers raided the small camp late last night, arresting 20 or so protesters. The drama started about 11:35 p.m., when police surrounded the campsite on Market Stree ... More >>

Peek Inside The Bently Reserve at Plate By Plate

Plate By Plate: San Francisco 2012 Where: The Bently Reserve, 301 Battery (at Sacramento), 294-2226 When: Sat., Sept. 22, 6:30-10:30 p.m. Cost: $130-210 (purchase in advance via Eventbrite) The rundown: Basque, French, and American cuisine should be certain highlights of this year's benefit for Pr ... More >>

Blame Uncertainty for Rising Unemployment, Study Says

"Uncertainty!" Scottinsh dramatist David Mallet wrote "Fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee." The human soul and the economy have that in common. By now, it's been ingrained in our consciousness by news stories and stump speeches: Uncertainty is holdin ... More >>

America's Petro-Terrorists: How Speculators Drove Up Oil Prices

Occupy SF Protester Accused of Stabbing Fellow Occupier

​San Francisco police have arrested a 22-year-old man on suspicion of stabbing an Occupy protester earlier this week after the two got into a fight over a camera. Police said they took the suspect -- who has only been identified as a Texas resident -- into custody on Thursday on the 100 block of M ... More >>

Occupy SF to Reoccupy Justin Herman Plaza

Lauren Smiley Round 2 ​Update (2:10 p.m.) Protesting makes you hungry, which is why Occupiers have taken their cause back to the Federal Reserve building where there's rumors of pizza on its way. After they regain their energy, the group is planning to reoccupy Just Herman Plaza later this evening ... More >>

Occupy SF Protesters Storm Justin Herman Plaza, Refuse to Leave

Lauren Smiley​Update (7:10 p.m.) Eighteen motorcycle cops have pulled up near the plaza while two more rows of cops in riot gear have lined up around protesters. A group of 40 protesters are in a circle, refusing to leave the plaza, noting that it is a public facility.Update (6:45 p.m.) Two people ... More >>

Occupy SF: Should Protesters Stay or Should They Go? (Video)

​Noon came and went without action at Justin Herman Plaza today, the deadline by which the city wanted the Occupy SF tents to move to a new site near 16th and Mission streets -- and still there was no consensus among campers about whether the group should move or not. (The guy above certainly wasn ... More >>

Women at Occupy SF: They Are Few But Mighty

Occupy Oakland: Police Clear Last Remaining Camp

Erin SherbertOccupy what now?​For the first time in six weeks, Occupy Oakland is no longer occupying any part of the city -- at least for now. Just after midnight Monday, police stormed Snow Park, breaking down Occupy Oakland's last remaining camp. According to news outlets, police showed up order ... More >>

Occupy SF Prepares for Police Raid Tonight

Kate CongerIs San Francisco next?​Update (5:45 p.m.): Department of Health officials led reporters through the encampment this evening as they inspected the area for violations. SF Weekly's Lauren Smiley says that Barbara Garcia, the director of the city's Health  Department, claims the toile ... More >>

Police Raid Occupy SF

Erin Sherbert​Add San Francisco to the growing list of Occupy camps being gutted by police. Early this morning, San Francisco police raided part of the Occupy SF camp, removing tents along Market Street and arresting squatters. Media outlets are reporting that police moved in at about 1:30 a.m., a ... More >>

OccupySF Blocks Wells Fargo HQ; 11 Taken Away in Handcuffs

​OccupySF protesters did more than yoga this morning. The group marched down Market Street this morning and reportedly blocked the doors of the Wells Fargo Headquarters, slowing traffic through the Financial District and forcing employees to use the side doors. According to news reports, the group ... More >>

Miracle Faker: Rick Perry's Texas Teaches America the Wrong Lessons

Lindsay Lohan Shills for Pump-and-Dump Stocks on Twitter

​To get an idea of just how classy those "sponsored" celebrity tweets can be, take a look at what Lindsay Lohan tweeted last night. "Have you guys seen food and gas prices lately?" she asked. Yes, we have, Lindsay. Have you? Then her tweet took a weird turn, into economic analysis: "U.S. $ will so ... More >>

New Bill Would Stop Federal Enforcement of Marijuana

Not feeling it​Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) defines the word "maverick." His stance on hemp farming and his position against the Federal Reserve earned the 2012 presidential hopeful the moniker long before the Republican establishment hijacked the label in 2008. The hero of political independent ... More >>

Here Are San Francisco's Biggest Tax Debtors

Tax delinquency: an American tradition​Nobody likes paying taxes. Granted, not all of us are "angry" enough about them to don a tricorne hat and start ranting about the Nafta Superhighway and the Federal Reserve. But the chunk of money Uncle Sam takes out of your paycheck every two weeks -- not to ... More >>

S.F. Fraudsters Fueled 2008 Financial Collapse

If only feds had listened back in 2006.​America's financial crisis had roots in fraudulent schemes to rope immigrants and other disadvantaged borrowers into loans they could never repay. And federal regulators knew of this problem as early as 2006, when abusive lending practices were the subject o ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

The Real Message of Jared Loughner

Jared Loughner​There's been a lot of ink devoted to analyzing Jared Loughner's motivations in the shooting rampage that left U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) seriously wounded and six others, including a 9-year-old girl, dead. Much of the press attention has focused on the question of whether ... More >>

Election Results Show Tea Party Fails to Gain Traction in Western States

Is that Harry Reid in the middle?​Some of you might have found it particularly hard to greet the Red Dawn of Nov. 3. We admit that it's difficult to face the idea of Tea Party-propelled candidates marching off to Washington with plans to combat imagined New World Order conspiracies within the vaul ... More >>

"Wall Street 2": Oliver Stone lets the bad guys off easy

It's Hemp Week! And San Francisco Says 'Meh.'

Courtesy Adam Eidinger/Hemp History WeekLyster H. Dewey, a botanist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, measures a four-meter high hemp plant in 1929. He planted a grove on the current site of the Pentagon. ​ Cannabis users stole hemp farmers' fire It's easy to be overburdened with activis ... More >>

Against all odds, a radical S.F. Republican takes on Nancy Pelosi

No Justice

Despite Obama's promises of change, corporate crooks are still going unpunished for their roles in the financial collapse.

Video: Nader Blasts Obama at SF State

Bay Area Jobs Outlook - Winners, Losers, and Boomers

Golden Gate Skateparks and Venezuelan Wage-Fixing — It's SFGovernmentInAction!!!

SF Supes Propose Less Coke-Snorting, Higher Rents to Pay for Parks: It's SFGovernmentInAction!

The Noble Crusades

Behind the civil rights clash

Halloween

Scare Tactics

Where and when to have a hopping Halloween

Reading the Fed

How long a recession, if the Federal Reserve adopts "Positively Outrageous Service" as an official slogan?

South to the Future

New Way to Ease New Economy's Inflation Threat: Release Nonviolent Inmates

Telling Fortunes

A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance

Capitalizing on Y2K

Computers won't know what to do when 1999 becomes 2000; but lawyers and other profit-seekers will

The Great Bank Thievery

The city and state say the Bank of America stole hundreds of millions -- even billions -- of dollars from the government. But didn't San Francisco finance officials know what was going on? And shouldn't B of A executives be under criminal investigation?

Night+Day

Slap Shots

$hort Circuit

The downside of electronic fund transfers