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    Cardinal Opportunity
    A visit with Honduran Cardinal Rodriguez, who is often mentioned as a contender to become the next pope. For good reason.
    By John Mecklin
    Published: April 6, 2005

    During a visit to Houston last spring, I sat down to a full Central American breakfast -- eggs, several meats, refried beans sprinkled with white cheese, an assortment of breads, a large bowl of...

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    Reason to Question
    Is the Bay Guardian's lawsuit against SF Weekly connected to Bruce B. Brugmann's unfortunate business judgments?
    By John Mecklin
    Published: February 2, 2005

    It was October, I was in New York City on business, and I was trying to respond to phone messages asking for comment about a lawsuit that the San Francisco Bay Guardian had filed here in San...

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    Of Asterisks and Small Pols
    When the city government tries to play satire police with the press, everyone with a sense of humor -- and a belief in the Constitution -- should be concerned
    By John Mecklin
    Published: October 27, 2004

    satire trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly irony the use of words to express something other than and esp. the opposite of the literal meaning...

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    Making Kerry Kerry On
    What will it take to make John Kerry mad enough to speak the plain truths that will win the election?
    By John Mecklin
    Published: September 15, 2004

    For the third time in four days, I found myself making the same complaint. "Why can't he just explain what happened?" I fumed at my captive audience of one. "'The president took a bunch of your...

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    Au Revoir , Silke Tudor
    A brilliant columnist, cultural lodestar, and real friend leaves S.F. for NYC; we look back, trying to smile through our tears
    By John Mecklin
    Published: August 18, 2004

    If I had never known Silke Tudor, I would never have had a member of the Porn Clown Posse sit on my lap. I wouldn't know the details of falcon hunting. I wouldn't have gotten to write headlines...

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    A Pair of Aces
    Either Newsom or Gonzalez will make a good mayor, but Gonzalez has the creative edge
    By John Mecklin
    Published: December 3, 2003

    Now that he's supported by Al Gore and Angela Alioto, Gavin Newsom is a shoo-in to be elected mayor of San Francisco. I just wanted to get that sordid joke, and a Santa Clausian ho-cubed, off...

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    Rolling in War Bucks
    How the state public employees' retirement system and the politically connected Carlyle Group profit from defense
    By John Mecklin
    Published: October 22, 2003

    Q: The President was in Santa Clara last week and he appeared at United Defense, a major defense contractor controlled by the Carlyle Group. The President's father is a paid advisor to the Carlyle...

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    A Glimmer of Hope
    In the city of sleaze, someone's finally doing something about SFO's shady little side business
    By John Mecklin
    Published: July 16, 2003

    For a good long time now, the defining features of San Francisco's political culture have been a public focus on progressive symbolism and an underlying reality of sleaze and impunity. City...

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    So I Wrote a Snide Column
    On big teeth, demographic pandering, and the Commonwealth Club
    By John Mecklin
    Published: June 4, 2003

    Over the past six years, I have used this space to address a variety of important problems in public policy and civic culture. Usually, I focus on political figures and governmental officials when...

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    The Spirit of San Francisco
    Wounded by the dot-com implosion, a copywriter becomes a screenwriter
    By John Mecklin
    Published: April 9, 2003

    I met Clark Brigham after my wife, Nina, had become friends with his wife, Nicola, because they had borne children at about the same time, which was the beginning of 1998. Actually, the wives met...

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    Class Action
    A peek at the future of higher political education
    By John Mecklin
    Published: February 5, 2003

    Given his history of selfless public service, Mayor Willie Brown's announcement that he is working to create an eponymous public policy center at the University of California, Berkeley shouldn't...

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    Thinking Small
    As Bush heads to war, the Chron bashes city bureaucrats for not putting up parking meters fast enough
    By John Mecklin
    Published: January 15, 2003

    Over the past few months, U.S. troops, planes, and warships marched, soared, and sailed toward seemingly inevitable war. President Bush proposed hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts. The...

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    Street Justice
    Marching for peace -- and voting for change -- means matching the solution to the problem
    By John Mecklin
    Published: October 30, 2002

    Though I arrived an hour or so after the perorations began, Saturday's anti-war demonstration was still impressive in scope: The vast square of Civic Center bloomed from Federal Period...

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    Rude Awakening
    Major news organizations need to snap out of 9/11 emotionalism and ask impolite financial questions about Saudi elites and President Bush
    By John Mecklin
    Published: September 18, 2002

    Periodically, I get a phone call from some journalist or other, wanting to know what I know, from a prior journalistic lifetime, about George W. Bush's possible financial connections to this or...

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    Papered Over
    The Chronicle turns its back on the people of Bayview-Hunters Point
    By John Mecklin
    Published: August 21, 2002

    I am probably dating myself, but I remember a running gag in the early days of Spy magazine that revolved around a mathematical equation. The equation was long, with a great many fractions...

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    Whore vs. Bore
    Californians have refused public campaign financing, and we've gotten what we deserve: a governor's race between a fund-raising slut and a clueless rich guy
    By John Mecklin
    Published: May 8, 2002

    In France last week, according to the Wall Street Journal , left-of-center voters stocked up on clothespins and gloves to place on their noses and hands as a way of signaling displeasure while...

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    It's the Journalism, Bruce
    Why Bruce Brugmann and his Bay Guardian are (by their own admission) failing
    By John Mecklin
    Published: March 13, 2002

    There was a time not very long ago when San Francisco Bay Guardian Publisher Bruce Brugmann thought he was winning the war of the San Francisco weeklies, and back then, he was in a predatory...

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    It's the Journalism, Bruce
    Why Bruce Brugmann and his Bay Guardian are (by their own admission) failing
    By John Mecklin
    Published: March 6, 2002

    There was a time not very long ago when San Francisco Bay Guardian Publisher Bruce Brugmann thought he was winning the war of the San Francisco weeklies, and, back then, he was in a predatory...

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    Eye on the Prize
    SF Weekly writer Lisa Davis wins a Polk Award for exposing the history of nuclear waste at Hunters Point Shipyard
    By John Mecklin
    Published: February 20, 2002

    It is an understatement, even a cliché, to suggest that journalism is a profession prone to self-congratulation. Indeed, journalists give themselves awards arranged along almost every...

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    Acid Reign
    From the Bush administration's assault on the Constitution to San Francisco's election fiascoes, core American values are being corroded
    By John Mecklin
    Published: December 5, 2001

    If I saw a Grinch lolling about the office this holiday season, I'd have him shot for being upbeat. The state of the union is as bad as it's been since the afternoon of January 20, 1969. No, things...

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