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  1. Sucka Free City

    The 24 Real Reasons Matt Gonzalez Chose to Run with Ralph Nader
    By Benjamin Wachs
    Published: March 12, 2008

    1. He wants to get out of politics. 2. His experience being vastly outspent and losing will prove invaluable. 3. He needs a bigger Wikipedia entry. 4. Lesson learned: When you see Nader...

  2. Sucka Free City

    First Offender Prostitution Program Punishes Victimless Crime
    By Benjamin Wachs
    Published: March 5, 2008

    San Francisco's First Offender Prostitution Program (FOPP) has been copied in more than a dozen municipalities nationwide. But Supervisor Jake McGoldrick says we may need to make sure our own...

  3. Sucka Free City

    San Francisco's Slave-Disclosure Ordinance Reveals Little
    By Benjamin Wachs
    Published: February 27, 2008

    San Franciscans laud themselves for being enlightened so often that it's sometimes hard to tell if we're really enlightened or just congratulating ourselves. Last week the Board of Supervisors...

  4. Sucka Free City

    Cop Shortage Makes Newsom's Police Promise Look Unlikely
    By Benjamin Wachs
    Published: January 30, 2008

    Gavin Newsom has promised to hire 250 new police officers this year. Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums says he'll add at least 70. Richmond is trying to hire 45 more officers. Governor Arnold...

  5. Sucka Free City

    Ward Bushee to Bring More McNews to Chronicle
    By Benjamin Wachs
    Published: January 30, 2008

    Ward Bushee, the Chronicle 's new editor-in-chief, put in 21 years as an editor at Gannett — the nation's largest, most profitable, suckiest newspaper chain. You may know it as the company...

  6. Sucka Free City

    SF artist Barry McGee's work stolen again
    By Benjamin Wachs
    Published: January 9, 2008

    If anyone sees a bunch of large ceramic panels representing the spirit of the Outer Sunset, please notify Muni spokesman Alan Siegel. He'd really like them back. The panels, commissioned by...

  7. Sucka Free City

    Double Payer
    SF is out of the health-care business if the governor's new plan goes through.
    By Benjamin Wachs
    Published: December 26, 2007

    Just days before state Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a deal moving California closer to universal health care, the city of San Francisco said it...

  8. Sucka Free City

    15 Ways Gavin Could Have Lost the Election
    By Benjamin Wachs
    Published: December 5, 2007

    15. Actually enforced drug laws 14. Guest-hosted for Rush Limbaugh 13. Pardoned Ed Jew 12. Dissed Liza Minnelli and/or Melissa Etheridge 11. Kicked the homeless out of Golden...

  9. Sucka Free City

    Better Than N.Y.!
    By Benjamin Wachs
    Published: December 5, 2007

    Rudy Giuliani's new campaign ad calls New York "America's most liberal city" — which means he's definitely lost the San Francisco vote. Come on, man — what's your standard? Pot clubs...

  10. Sucka Free City

    San Francisco Mayoral Candidates Get Arrested
    By Benjamin Wachs
    Published: October 31, 2007

    "Thank you for not arresting me ... yet," mayoral candidate Grasshopper Alec Kaplan told the S.F. Board of Supervisors. He spoke from experience: The homeless cab driver had been arrested twice...

  11. Sucka Free City

    Golden Gate for Sale
    The people overseeing the San Francisco landmark consider selling ad space on the bridge
    By Benjamin Wachs
    Published: September 19, 2007

    The Golden Gate Bridge: It's San Francisco's most famous icon. Next week the public agency that oversees the bridge may decide whether to allow corporate advertising at its visitor center —...

  12. News

    The Muni Paradox
    A new ballot measure could change this absurd concept: less management for more money
    By Benjamin Wachs
    Published: August 29, 2007

    If the devil is in the details, Satan's a frustrated Muni rider. A review of a huge amount of transit data comparing San Francisco and other cities suggests that our public transportation...

  13. Sucka Free City

    Citizen Bronstein
    Why does the Chronicle's editor want to emulate the pioneer of yellow journalism?
    By Benjamin Wachs
    Published: August 15, 2007

    Say what you will about San Francisco's daily newspaper of broken record, it never actually started a war with another country. William Randolph Hearst did. Hearst is also known as one of the...

  14. Sucka Free City

    Off the Books
    Outdated laws are still on the books in San Francisco
    By Benjamin Wachs
    Published: August 1, 2007

    If you have a peddler's permit from the Municipal Transportation Agency in certain areas of the city, you have until 1989 to surrender it to the chief of police. Yes, you read that right —...

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