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    November 28, 2011

    Secret Court Transcript Reveals Concerns About 'Deliberate Attempt' to Mislead Crime Lab Auditors

    ​Judge: "It's always the coverup that makes the things worse than the problem to begin with"The San Francisco Police Department and District Attorney's Office are both implicated in allegations that a deliberate effort was made to conceal defects at the city's troubled forensics lab from state in ... More >>

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    November 15, 2011

    Three San Francisco Kids to Swim from Alcatraz

    jay galvin via Flickr Pretty .... cold today!​Three girls -- the oldest of which is barely a teenager -- are adding an impressive boost to their resumes this morning: They're jumping into the frigid November waters to swim roughly 1.25 miles from Alcatraz to the San Francisco shore -- a feat most ... More >>

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    October 5, 2011

    Harold Miller Still Wants Your Vote!

    ​Loyal readers of this page -- and, perhaps, no one else -- are familiar with eccentric mayoral candidate Harold Miller. His position statements include impressing Jerry Rice into coaching an expansion football team at Candlestick Park; setting up an 800 number so streetcorner beggars can be impre ... More >>

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    September 14, 2011

    Offline: Teacher Booted for Alleged Pervy Contact with Girl Students in Class and Online

    ​Loyal readers of this page -- and, perhaps, no one else -- are familiar with eccentric mayoral candidate Harold Miller. His position statements include impressing Jerry Rice into coaching an expansion football team at Candlestick Park; setting up an 800 number so streetcorner beggars can be impre ... More >>

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    August 24, 2011

    Crime Lab Confidential: DA and SFPD Withheld Damaging Memo About DNA Lab Failings

    ​Loyal readers of this page -- and, perhaps, no one else -- are familiar with eccentric mayoral candidate Harold Miller. His position statements include impressing Jerry Rice into coaching an expansion football team at Candlestick Park; setting up an 800 number so streetcorner beggars can be impre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Bryan Stow, Beaten Giants Fan, to Arrive at S.F. General Hospital Today

    Dr. Geoff Manley, the neurosurgeon taking over the care of Bryan Stow today.​Bryan Stow, the Giants fan suffering brain damage after being beaten by Dodgers fans, will be delivered to a hospital on the Giants' home turf today. Stow is set to arrive at San Francisco General Hospital by 5 p.m., a ho ... More >>

  • News

    January 12, 2011

    Bait Car Pays SFPD to Entice Drivers to Steal Cars

    Dr. Geoff Manley, the neurosurgeon taking over the care of Bryan Stow today.​Bryan Stow, the Giants fan suffering brain damage after being beaten by Dodgers fans, will be delivered to a hospital on the Giants' home turf today. Stow is set to arrive at San Francisco General Hospital by 5 p.m., a ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Prosecutor: Crime Lab Produced 'Misleading' Report Implicating Murder Suspects

    Rockne Harmon​District Attorney Releases Critique of DNA Evidence in 2007 HomicideA highly regarded prosecutor and DNA expert who was employed for three years at the San Francisco District Attorney's office authored a critique of work at the San Francisco Police Department crime lab earlier this y ... 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 >>

  • News

    November 3, 2010

    Wounded Pride

    Despite its reputation, gay-friendly San Francisco is still a tough place for teens to come out.

  • News

    October 27, 2010

    The Identity Card

    Voting by race has made the city's political representation more Asian. It could be what puts 33-year-old Jane Kim on the board of supervisors.

  • News

    July 28, 2010

    Standing Up with the Aboriginal Blackmen United

    The rabble-rousers of the ABU have helped to achieve local hiring goals.

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    'I Love New York 2' Reality TV Contestant On Trial For Murder in San Francisco

    Character, Ralph Waldo Emerson observed, publishes itself evermore. So should America's reality TV fans have known, when Jamal Trulove started trouble and got booted from the first episode of I Love New York 2 in 2007, that he would wind up on trial for murder in San Francisco?'Milliown' is now tuss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    SF Gov InAction: Everybody's Doing the Eric Mar Dance of Futility

      Monday, Jan. 11   10:30 a.m. - City Operations and Neighborhood Services committee   There is so little going on at this meeting that physicists have yet to quantify an amount this small.  1 p.m. - Land use & Economic Development Committee When local small business ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    The Meter Is Running: Municipal Transportation Agency Outlines Plan to Extend Parking Meter Hours -- Which Could Raise $9M for City

    ​Earlier today, the Municipal Transportation Agency unveiled the results of a study regarding its tentative plan to extend parking meter hours to weekday evenings and on Sunday. There's no shortage of details -- reporters were even handed a city map with "pink" and "teal" parking zones -- but whet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    SF Gov InAction: Can We All Please Stop Being Surprised By Incompetence at City Hall?

    Last week's revelation that the city's 311 call center charges MUNI almost $2 every time someone asks them to look up a bus schedule was like blogger crack. Not a single San Francisco political blogger had sex last week because they were all too busy telling their partners about it. Why? Well . ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    SF Gov InAction: Supes Stand by Each Other After Little John Avalos Has His Bar Mitzvah

    This is the week the new Board of Supervisors goes from JV to Varsity. I know it felt like they'd hit the big time before, what with hundreds of people crowding the hearing rooms to yell at them about stuff they hadn't done -- but that's just the crowd getting fired up by San Francisco's airheade ... More >>

  • News

    July 9, 2008

    The Principal Matter

    Teachers said Principal Gil Cho was dictatorial. Students said he manhandled them. The school district said he was doing a good job.

  • News

    January 30, 2008

    Dan White's Motive More About Betrayal Than Homophobia

    Teachers said Principal Gil Cho was dictatorial. Students said he manhandled them. The school district said he was doing a good job.

  • News

    October 3, 2007

    Maimed Brothers Flee San Francisco Violence

    Teachers said Principal Gil Cho was dictatorial. Students said he manhandled them. The school district said he was doing a good job.

  • News

    March 21, 2007

    Walking the Line

    The SFPD says Daniel Dennard is a gangster, thief, and killer. There’s just one problem: They can’t prove anything.

  • News

    January 11, 2006

    Please, In Our Backyard

    We need increased housing density in San Francisco as a way to protect our poorest residents and get them out of the ghetto

  • News

    December 10, 2003

    Subwaylaid

    Why the new mayor should spend his political honeymoon taking the doggle out of a boondoggle known as the Central Subway

  • News

    October 22, 2003

    Dumping Sophie

    On the heels of Gov. Davis' recall, angry constituents are trying to oust Supervisor Sophie Maxwell

  • News

    December 12, 2001

    A Moving Experience

    Delays and mismanagement endangered a $20 million federal reconstruction grant for North Beach Place. So the Housing Authority tried to speed the project up -- by tricking longtime, elderly residents into leaving.

  • News

    November 15, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters from November 15, 2000

  • News

    November 1, 2000

    Down on Brown

    Many blacks in Bayview/Hunters Point say they feel ignored by the mayor. In this election, they are returning the favor.

  • News

    October 25, 2000

    The Affordable Housing Disaster

    How a cozy alliance of government bureaucrats and nonprofit developers spends tens of millions of dollars building almost no housing for the poor

  • News

    August 30, 2000

    The Revolution is Canceled

    How the grand plan for district elections could backfire

  • News

    September 2, 1998

    Dog Bites

    How the grand plan for district elections could backfire

  • Calendar

    July 22, 1998

    Night + Day

    How the grand plan for district elections could backfire

  • News

    March 25, 1998

    Block Party

    Rose Tsai, Julie Lee, and the Neighbors' Association are set to tuck into a heaping helping of Willie Brown's majority

  • Calendar

    October 29, 1997

    Night+Day

    Rose Tsai, Julie Lee, and the Neighbors' Association are set to tuck into a heaping helping of Willie Brown's majority

  • News

    July 23, 1997

    Coltrane Ascending on Divis

    The house of worship that "St. John" built marks the 30th anniversary of the jazz musician's death

  • Calendar

    July 19, 1995

    Smile Life Is Good

    The house of worship that "St. John" built marks the 30th anniversary of the jazz musician's death

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