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Fallout
How nuclear researchers handled -- and grossly mishandled -- the Cold War's most dangerous radioactive substances at a top-secret lab inside the Hunters Point Shipyard. The same shipyard the city wants to remake as San Francisco's newest neighborhood.
May 02, 2001
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The international soap opera that surrounds the crumbling San Francisco landmark that was center stage for the incomparable "King of Torts," Melvin Belli
April 12, 2000
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One afternoon in late September, Mayor Willie Brown broke into his out-of-town schedule to conduct a conference call with a group of citizens from southeast San Francisco. For some weeks, the group -- which includes residents, environmental activists, and artists…
by Lisa Davis
November 19, 2003
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, National Football Conference, National Football League, NFC West Division, San Francisco 49ers
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Recall fever has hit southeastern San Francisco, where some constituents of Supervisor Sophie Maxwell are collecting signatures for her ouster. The District 10 Alliance, a newly formed group of citizens from Bayview and Potrero Hill, charges that Maxwell has ignored…
by Lisa Davis
October 22, 2003
Tags: Bay View, Columns, Sophie Maxwell, Potrero Hill, Enola Maxwell, Lynne Brown
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Sculptors who are members of the Point, an artist community at the former Hunters Point Shipyard, have been notified that the building where they've been working -- in some cases for years -- is contaminated with radioactive materials, and they'll…
by Lisa Davis
October 1, 2003
Tags: Bay View, Columns, Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, Hunters Point (New York), San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, U.S. Armed Forces
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Size matters to Chris Lopez, managing editor of the Contra Costa Times newspaper and a champion of news in brief. Earlier this month, Lopez instituted a policy of paying his reporters a $50 bonus for front-page stories, hard news or…
by Lisa Davis
August 27, 2003
Tags: Dog Bites, Columns, Chris Lopez, John McManus, The New York Times Company, Stanford
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Keith Tisdell and his fiancee, Shaaron Green-Peace, have lived in a motor home parked outside their town house for the past year. Their parking-lot home sits atop a hill that looks out across San Francisco Bay. The view is breathtaking,…
by Lisa Davis
August 27, 2003
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, Keith Tisdell, Hunters Point (New York), Essie Webb, Laura Helm
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Within hours of the United States military's invasion of Iraq, San Franciscans of a certain political bent went on the offensive against one of the city's home-grown businesses: the Bechtel Group Inc. The public heat only intensified with news that…
by Lisa Davis
June 18, 2003
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, George Shultz, Bechtel Corporation, Iraq, Riley Bechtel
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The Bohemian Club - Bohemian Grove San Francisco's exclusive men's club hosts an annual encampment in Sonoma County where the most powerful men in America gather to socialize. Riley, Gary, and Stephen Bechtel are all members, as is Riley's brother-in-law…
by Lisa Davis
June 18, 2003
Tags: Sidebar, Sidebar, Riley Bechtel, Stephen Davison Bechtel Jr., Bechtel Corporation, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
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History books will no doubt characterize last week's mayhem in San Francisco in much the same way used to describe anti-war demonstrations during the Vietnam War: Protesters clashed with police in the streets in San Francisco .... And, of course,…
by Lisa Davis
March 26, 2003
Tags: Bay View, Columns, Drew Cohen, Bob Mammone, San Francisco, Saddam Hussein
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Russian immigrants Igor Kogan and Mikhail Moiseev were in the same business, both dealing in high-end merchandise. Both lived in San Francisco, but preferred to commute outside the city to work, as did many of their associates. In fact, the…
by Lisa Davis
February 12, 2003
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories, Igor Kogan, Mikhail Moiseev, San Francisco, Diana Ilyagueva
