AltWeeklies Wire
Status Update: Firednew
A schoolteacher loses his job for pushing boundaries, both online and in real life.
Terminal Peoplenew
The closure of the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco was a chance to help some of the city’s most hardcore homeless. But many didn’t want help, and others couldn’t be helped.
SF Weekly |
Lauren Smiley |
09-22-2010 |
Policy Issues
Tags: Homeless, Transbay Terminal
Undocumented Immigrants Barred from Visiting Loved Ones in Prisonnew
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently floated the idea of building prisons in Mexico to house the 18,000 California inmates who are in the country illegally. We have to wonder: Could a jailbird's mom visit him in Tijuana? Because if she's undocumented, she can't do that here.
SF Weekly |
Lauren Smiley |
02-17-2010 |
Immigration
How Are Schools Handling Truancy? Ask the Kids Smoking Pot Near Campusnew
In the late morning of the first day of the new semester at John O'Connell High School of Technology, two boys stage their finely choreographed escape. While the security guard's back is turned, they scamper out the front door onto the sidewalk.
For Paroled Sex Offenders in San Francisco, Only One Choice: Life on the Streetsnew
In 2006, voters passed Jessica's Law, a ballot measure promising to better track people who'd committed sex crimes. Such people would be banned from living 2,000 feet from a park or school. In densely populated San Francisco, that basically means they can't live anywhere at all.
SF Weekly |
Lauren Smiley |
12-30-2009 |
Crime & Justice
How San Francisco's Sanctuary Sellout Hurts Undocumented Teensnew
Before: The city coddled undocumented teen criminals. After: The city punishes undocumented teens who commit crimes (and some who don't, too).
SF Weekly |
Lauren Smiley |
11-18-2009 |
Immigration
Meet Theresa Sparks, San Fran's Transgender Trailblazernew
In 2004, she became the city's first transgender police commissioner, and is now among the country's first openly transgender department heads. But Sparks is pondering a move that would be the biggest of all: becoming San Francisco's first openly transgender city supervisor.
The YouTube-ification of Public-Access TV in San Francisco is About to Beginnew
California has joined some 20 states in largely letting cable companies off the hook for funding public-access TV. Dozens of cities have lost their stations altogether, and in San Francisco, the operating budget has been hacked to a fifth of its former level. And the old cast of kooky cable programmers doesn't like it one bit.
Christopher Muhammad, the Man Who Cried Dustnew
Muhammad's fight with Lennar over toxic dust has resulted in a restraining order against him, an accusation that he's a shakedown artist, and grudging respect from his rivals.
SF Weekly |
Lauren Smiley |
07-02-2009 |
Environment
Emily the Strange Creators Assert Their Character's Lack of Originality in Courtnew
The creators of Emily the Strange — the international goth icon who proclaims that there's nothing more boring to her than copying everyone else — are on a mission to prove she is, indeed, just like every other goth girl in history in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
SF Weekly |
Lauren Smiley |
05-27-2009 |
Business & Labor
Haggag Mohsin's Trial by Firenew
A jury considers whether a San Francisco store clerk acted in cold blood or in self-defense when he shot a woman he accused of shoplifting.
SF Weekly |
Lauren Smiley |
05-27-2009 |
Crime & Justice
JROTC Is Under Fire in S.F. Schoolsnew
It has been a quintessential only-in-San Francisco battle -- the military ambassadors playing the rogues, and the lefty progressives as the establishment -- and one that will not die.
Faux-Star Reviews!new
A negative review on Yelp is bad for business. That's why some merchants feel they must keep Yelpers happy at any cost.
SF Weekly |
Lauren Smiley |
03-13-2009 |
Business & Labor
Bridge Tolls Will Add Stress to Bay Area's Casual Carpoolnew
Casual carpoolers are about to face a major culture shock. The Bay Area Toll Authority announced last week that it is mulling whether to impose a $2 to $3 toll on carpoolers to help balance its budget. Some fear the fee threatens the future of this morning incarnation of the Bay Area's do-it-yourself ingenuity.
SF Weekly |
Lauren Smiley |
03-04-2009 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation, Bay Area
Exporting The Dead in San Francisconew
With 36 percent of the city's residents born outside the United States, a significant portion of the city sees funeral homes as a mere way station before shipping the deceased to graves in their homelands.
SF Weekly |
Lauren Smiley |
01-21-2009 |
Immigration
