Hooked on Speed

Driven by ego and anger, kids are turning some city neighborhoods into racetracks — with deadly results

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Valleyboy.scam

Kevin Yaeger struck it rich and partied with the prettiest boys in Silicon Valley — until his lies caught up with him

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The Case for Ending Rent Control

In the political pantheon of left-leaning San Francisco, Joan Holden is an icon of radical respectability. Since 1968, Holden has written 30 anti-capitalist plays…

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Current Events

How development pressure and environmental law may force radical change along the seemingly idyllic but deeply troubled Russian River

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Pants on Fire

How the San Francisco Fire Department turned a manageable house fire into a lethal disaster — and then tried to cover up its firefighting…

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Girl Problems

The juvenile justice system is ignoring delinquent girls — and creating a social time bomb

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Double Injustice

A con man squeezed $26 million out of 140 victims. Then a U.S. bankruptcy trustee squeezed them again.

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Mission Implacable

Peter Glikshtern used a tire iron on four interlopers in his Mission District bar. Then he beat their lawyer's attempt to make the fight…

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