AltWeeklies Wire
Bank of Indifferencenew
Wells Fargo issued an ATM card to a blind woman with no need for one, which was then stolen by her caretaker, who used it to rack up charges -- but guess who's left footing the bill?
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
05-01-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Technology Disassemblednew
New York Times columnist David Pogue defends himself, blames his bosses and steps deeper into the ethical morass of accepting gifts.
Tags: media
The Free Pressnew
When do gifts to journalists turn into a conflict of interest?
Doping Scandalnew
From a sports-business point of view, Dr. Prentice Steffen's outspoken anti-drug posture makes him a risk.
Tags: sports & fitness
Greening the Leftnew
Tycoons will pay to generate leftist ideas in voters' minds, but now they want to see results.
Pouring Money Down a Holenew
A new audit shows how a PGA tournament sucked millions of dollars from San Francisco parks.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
01-30-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Unintended Evictionsnew
An attempted solution to rental evictions may actually force more people out of rent-controlled apartments in an already tight San Francisco housing market.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
01-23-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: rent control, tenancies in common
Please, In Our Backyardnew
San Francisco needs increased housing density as a way to protect the poorest residents and get them out of the ghetto.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
01-18-2006 |
Commentary
Tilting at Political Windmillsnew
San Francisco attorney Paul Melbostad continues relentlessly trying to prove campaign finance violations involving Gap Inc. founder Don Fisher and political consigliere Jim Sutton.
Keep It Really Realnew
Former San Francisco mayor and payola kingpin Willie Brown co-hosts a new talk-radio show with lefty comedian Will Durst, Keeping It Real with Will and Willie, with endless oppportunities for comedic stupidity.
Pretty Rowdy in Pinknew
San Francisco leftist gadfly Medea Benjamin, and the anti-war women's group she co-founded called Code Pink, ironically has members of the passionate right seeing red in defense of their proclaimed enemy: Democrat Hillary Clinton.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
12-29-2005 |
Commentary
Free Love and Enterprise in San Francisconew
Peace and wow gets San Francisco an image to sell to tourists, but the threat of bogusness has always hung over the city's famed countercultures.
Legal Complications on Steroidsnew
If Lance Armstrong were found to have been on drugs, and his San Francisco handlers knew it, sponsors could demand their money back, and perhaps change sports in the United States forever.
Tobacco's Smoking Gunnew
A treasure trove of damning evidence against Big Tobacco has been unearthed at the University of California at San Francisco.
Let's Go to Printnew
Emily McVarish's exploration of negative space as it exists in real life is the theme of a multiyear project on the reason why San Francisco is so resistant to change.
