AltWeeklies Wire
Double Drain: Program Pays Cops Pensions While Still on the Forcenew
Under a city program called DROP, San Francisco cops receive salary and pension at same time, sometimes earning up to $400,000 a year. Should they?
SF Weekly |
Joe Eskenazi |
04-15-2011 |
Policy Issues
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
While Mayor Vows to Reduce Homeless Population, City Eyes Cutting Shelter Bedsnew
Gavin Newsom has earned a reputation as someone willing to make passionate statements about plans to fix up public housing, reform the civil service system, upgrade parks, or reduce homelessness, and then quickly turn away as if he'd never said anything at all.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
01-20-2010 |
Policy Issues
San Francisco's Flawed System for Counting the Homelessnew
San Francisco's biennial homeless count has long been used as an indicator of how well the city is dealing with homelessness, which would all be fine and good, if it weren't for one small and inconvenient fact for everyone involved: It is a meaningless charade.
SF Weekly |
Ashley Harrell |
02-04-2009 |
Policy Issues
Breaking the Cycle of Homelessnessnew
It's expensive and time-consuming, but a court can help cure the hard-core homeless problem in San Francisco.
SF Weekly |
Eliza Strickland |
08-08-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Flip That Housing Authoritynew
Local officials are resisting a federal takeover of the Housing Authority -- they should stop.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
05-02-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Don't Book 'Emnew
A new San Francisco library program tries to gently ease the homeless problem out the door.
SF Weekly |
Eliza Strickland |
12-28-2006 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Former Director of Indian Affairs Hawks New Casinonew
On his last day as director of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Kevin Gover -- against advice of those on his staff -- granted land rights to the Koi Nation. Now he's in the middle of the tribe's casino deal.
SF Weekly |
Ron Russell |
03-02-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
How the Nursing Home Industry Got a Guarantee of Huge Profitsnew
Pushing nursing home residents out into the heat for two hours for prefabricated "rallies" was the first step in a carefully orchestrated lobbying blitzkrieg. The result is a bill that changes the way nursing home payments in California are made -- and it could be a budget buster.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
08-27-2004 |
Policy Issues
