AltWeeklies Wire
Working-Class Strugglenew
Three housekeepers and a day laborer take action against deadbeat employers who abuse immigrants.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
03-19-2008 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Gonzalez/Nader Hysterianew
Democrats' anger against Nader, and, by extension, Gonzalez, is misplaced in 2008 -- the likelihood that they could undermine the Democrats is doubtful. What's more, Gonzalez's futile-seeming move has a real upside. He says he'd like to use his new platform to prevent independent candidates from ever again undermining Democratic chances at victory.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
03-05-2008 |
Commentary
California Union Leader Blasts SEIU Boss Andy Sternnew
According to Sal Rosselli, Stern's expansion of the union has cost workers the ability to complain or fight to improve conditions.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
02-21-2008 |
Business & Labor
An Epidemic of Violence Against SF Day Laborersnew
While criminals are bludgeoning and shooting workers who line up to hail building contractors who might give them work, neither the police nor any other government agency or nonprofit seems motivated to see the crimes reported, and the assailants tracked down and jailed.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
01-23-2008 |
Immigration
Demo Salenew
California Democrats are in real peril in the face of serious campaigns to end the party's gerrymandering privileges and redistribute the state's electoral college votes to benefit Republicans. Yet the state's two most powerful Democrats, Fabian Nunez and Don Perata, seem every month to make new headlines sneering at charges of party corruption.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
12-20-2007 |
Commentary
Unhealthy Unionnew
Could there be a secret deal with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on health care that will inflate union rolls?
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
12-12-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Is the Examiner Stealing Web Content?new
Most of the "Around San Francisco" columns disappeared from the paper's site after I asked the author by phone about what appeared to be work from other news sources, pasted verbatim and without attribution, into her column.
Tags: media
Human Life Speculators Bet on Elder Deathsnew
In an unusual come-on directed toward elderly people in California, Idaho, and perhaps other U.S. states, seniors are offered $1,000 if they'll sign notarized contracts in which they commit to handing over detailed personal medical and financial information.
Tags: Health & Science
Fighting Global Warming With High-Risesnew
Mayor Gavin Newsom could become an environmental star by raising, and broadening, San Francisco's skyline more aggressively than anything we've seen before.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
11-08-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
San Francisco's Vice Hotelnew
One of the largest city-funded Care Not Cash hotels was allegedly run as a home for extortion, drug dealing, and other vices.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
10-10-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Russian Sergey Brin and Googlenew
A KGB-style propaganda and spying machine?
Tags: Google, computers & technology
Wal-Mart 'R' Usnew
Does "sustainability" mean meddling in workers' personal lives? San Francisco's Act Now Productions seems to think so.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
09-20-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The End of San Fran's Progressnew
Art Agnos, one of the city's last remaining progressive hopes to confront incumbent Gavin Newsom in November's mayoral election, has determined San Francisco's become so twee a place that it's not worth his time and energy.
New College of Weirdnessnew
The stories coming out of the school point to a common San Francisco malady -- leaders expect everyone to drink the Kool-Aid.
Tags: Education
