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Date:
06/10/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » lgbtView article as originally published This is the third part of a three part series (parts one and two here) funded with the help of Spot.us.A POLICE FORCE THAT MATCHES ITS COMMUNITYThe SFPD's improved relationship with LGBTs is no accident. It's thanks largely to the work of organizations like the SF Police Officers Pride Alliance , a five-year-old organization that's grown to be the city's second largest police employee group.The Pride Alliance advocates on behalf... [Read more...]
Date:
06/09/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » lgbtView article as originally published This is part two (see part one here) in a three part series funded with the help of Spot.us. INVISIBLE VICTIMSTracking hook-up violence is particularly challenging due to a reluctance on the part of victims to come forward. Everyone seems to have a story about victims declining to file a report. "Not wanting to report is very odd to me," said Castro Community on Patrol Chair Greg Carey. "In one... [Read more...]
Date:
06/08/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » lgbtView article as originally published Part one in a three part series funded with the help of Spot.us.On May 18th at 5:41am, someone robbed a store at the corner of 18th and Castro. A week earlier, at 18th and Sanchez, there was a strong arm robbery on the street at 2:30am. And at 1:45am on May 9, there was a mugging involving bodily force at Market and Sanchez.That's an average rate of crime in the... [Read more...]
Date:
06/07/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published The results are in! In collaboration with Spot.us, we surveyed 135 prominent local politicians and political organizations to find out how they want to you vote, and the consensus on the ballot propositions is: yes, no, yes, no, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. (Don't remember what the props are? Here's your official voter's info pamphlet.) But that doesn't mean, obviously, that you SHOULD vote that way. Instead,... [Read more...]
Date:
05/18/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Boy oh boy, the Bay Citizen sure has put online writers in an interesting position. Here's the abbreviated version: BC is a non-profit news startup, flush with a $5 million investment from fiscal celebrity Warren Hellman. They're launching a Bay-Area-wide news site on May 26th, and they need content. So they held a meeting last Friday where they told the roughly 40 assembled independent writers that any time those writers... [Read more...]
Date:
01/19/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published Nobody likes losing their job -- especially Muni drivers, who have it pretty sweet. But times are tough, thanks largely to local and state leaders who raid transit whenever their pet projects need more cash. At the beginning of the month, the Appeal predicted that service cuts and fare hikes are not far off; and sure enough, Muni's new budget has us paying more for less service as soon... [Read more...]
Date:
01/04/2010Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Numerous bus lines face further cutbacks and possible elimination later this year, according to the SF Appeal's analysis of data recently supplied by Muni as part of its Transit Effectiveness Project. Lines most at-risk include the 24-Divisadero, the 28-19th Ave, the 28L-19th Ave Limited, and the 23-Monterey. Muni's always been strapped for funds, but in the past decade they've faced unprecedented budget shortfalls and rapidly escalating fare inflation. Fares... [Read more...]
Date:
12/04/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » lgbtView article as originally published There are plenty of worse ways to spend a Thursday evening than in the company of an open bar, nerds, and a brisket; and that's where we found ourselves last night, at the showroom of K&D Furniture near the baseball park. "Geek Chic" was pitched as a tech/fashion-themed party, and that's what they got: everyone was a little bit nerd, a little bit chic, and not unlike pretty much... [Read more...]
Date:
10/30/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Voting! Just like knocking on wood, rubbing a lucky penny, or wearing pants, it's one of those superstitious acts that somehow makes us feel safer despite the lack of any discernible benefit. Voting isn't easy, of course; because only jerks care about political news, most of us have no idea what's on the ballot or how we should vote. Making decisions is hard -- and that's why endorsements and... [Read more...]
Date:
07/24/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Clean is the new filthy! This Sunday, menaced by the Newsom administration's war on fun, Up Your Alley has had to clean up their act a bit, lest they suffer the same cruel punishment as Halloween. So, new rule: NO LEWD BEHAVIOR. That means exposed sexing is a definite no-no; expulsion of bodily fluids is verboten; and nudity is, at best, iffy. But just because you can't have sex in... [Read more...]
Date:
06/25/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published NextBus Information Systems responds to this piece here. Kind of. When Steven Peterson created Routesy, an iPhone app that lets riders see Muni arrival times, the last thing he expected was to hear was that Muni's real-time arrival times were actually the property of a private company located in the East Bay. But that's exactly what happened, when Alex Orloff, COO of a company calling itself NextBus Information Systems,... [Read more...]
Date:
05/18/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » miscView article as originally published Because Nate Silver won't respond to the saucy love letters we keep sending him, we've had to resort to this to get his attention: a statistical analysis of endorsements for Tuesday's election. (BTW: There's an election on Tuesday.) We combed through every major endorsement we could find -- about seventy -- and charted out who was saying yes and who was saying no. We counted newspapers like the LA Times... [Read more...]
Date:
05/01/2009Category:
· Writing » Op-Ed » Gays
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » lgbtView article as originally published It seems like every day, there's a new online database of people who are publicly opposed to gays -- but each time it happens, the list is shorter and shorter. The latest one is in Arkansas, and it lists the folks who signed a petition to keep foster kids in orphanages rather than placing them with gay parents. (The petition was eventually voted into law, and is now being... [Read more...]
Date:
04/28/2009Category:
· Writing » News Coverage » The San Francisco Appeal
· Writing » Topic » scienceView article as originally published 23andMe presents data in a user-friendly format. Someday, doctors may be able to drill deeper into the information to provide patients with more informed treatment. In the not-too-distant future, doctors won't just measure your height and weight -- they'll also peer into the little cellular hard drives that make you who you are. Genotypes are the next big thing in personal health care, and if we may sound like... [Read more...]
