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Matt Smith
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San Francisco Bay Area’s Fight Against Fentanyl Is Failing, New Overdose Numbers Reveal
Twitter’s New CEO Dreams of Building an Ad-Seller’s Paradise
By Matt Smith
May 15, 2023 • 3:30pmFirst Republic Bank Will Be Seized by Regulators, Reports Say
He Spent 20 Years Trying To Build Up Treasure Island. Now Darius Anderson’s Stake May Be Worth Nothing
By Matt Smith
Apr. 21, 2023 • 5:30amWhat Is MobileCoin, the Company Where Slain Tech Exec Bob Lee Worked?
One Risk Silicon Valley Bank Avoided? U.S. Sanctions on Russia
Latest Debt Downgrade Worsens First Republic Bank’s Already-Fragile State
By Matt Smith
Mar. 19, 2023 • 4:15pmNewsom Urges Voters To Approve Billions for Homelessness, Mental Illness
By Matt Smith
Mar. 19, 2023 • 1:21pmThey Were Accused of Sexual Misconduct. SF Schools Let Them Quietly Resign
San Francisco Is Counting on This Organization to Save Its Streets—But Is Its Approach Legit?
By Matt Smith
Feb. 07, 2023 • 5:45amThe Confounding Life of the Woman Seeking To Heal San Francisco’s Wounds
By Matt Smith
Feb. 06, 2023 • 5:00amSan Jose Police Officer Injured in Shootout
By Matt Smith
Feb. 04, 2023 • 10:30amOligarchs, Rubber Rooms and Secret Moonlighters: The Standard’s Top Investigations of 2022
Key Takeaways on the High Cost of Bad Cops in SF
Oakland’s Part in Police Scandal Made National News. Why Did SF Escape Scrutiny?
Chief: Paying Cops Six-Figure Salaries for Clerical Work Isn’t a Waste
SF Spends Millions To Keep Cops on Desk Duty. Here Are Their Stories
How an ‘Oligarch Industrial Complex’ Thrives in the Bay Area
Leaders Cheer San Francisco’s Latest Anti-Racism U-Turn
Inside the Windowless Room Where SF Stashes Troubled Cops: ‘It’s Toxic’
Teen Says SF Cop Used Drugs, Had Sex With Her. He Got a $240K Salary Anyway
This Rocker Went From Whistleblower to Addict—to Fame
By Matt Smith
Nov. 28, 2022 • 5:00amHow a Mega-Rich Oligarch Linked to Putin Derailed a Bay Area Homeless Shelter
Parks Chief to Cal Academy: ‘Regrettable Lack of Leadership’ on Climate Efforts
By Matt Smith
Nov. 05, 2022 • 7:00amInside SF’s Laguna Honda: The Potential Closure of the Nation’s Largest Public Nursing Home
Plodding Pace of Reforms Remains a Threat to Laguna Honda Patients
The Double Play, a Venerable Mission Watering Hole, Destroyed by Fire
By Matt Smith
Sep. 24, 2022 • 12:41pmTangled Web: How All 3 Nonprofits That Paid DA Brooke Jenkins Have Links to the Chesa Boudin Recall
‘They Must Be Stealing’: Equipment Goes Missing as SF Public Utilities Employees Moonlight on City Time, Workers Say
By Matt Smith
Aug. 18, 2022 • 6:30amAs the Drug Overdose Crisis Rages, City Fails to Collect Data Needed to Fight It
SF Renter Evictions Have Plummeted Amid the Pandemic
By Matt Smith
Jun. 18, 2022 • 11:18amThe Last Alms House: Laguna Honda Faces Daunting Overhaul to Satisfy Federal Regulators
By Matt Smith
May 20, 2022 • 6:43amLaguna Honda Hospital Patients Hit with Mass Eviction Notices as City Fights to Avert Closure
By Matt Smith
May 16, 2022 • 11:58amCelebrated Plan to Close SF’s Juvenile Hall in Tatters as City Moves to Build New Facility
By Matt Smith
May 05, 2022 • 9:56amOverdose Deaths at SF’s City-Funded Facilities Totaled 246 Over Two Years
By Matt Smith
Apr. 20, 2022 • 8:35amCity Contractor Urban Alchemy Denies it Provides Security Services, Despite Evidence to the Contrary
By Matt Smith
Apr. 12, 2022 • 8:57pmJudge Resurrects Lawsuit Alleging Mayor Breed Links to Nuru Corruption Scandal
By Matt Smith
Apr. 04, 2022 • 4:01pmCentral Subway Likely To Be Delayed Yet Again, Federal Monitor Says
By Matt Smith
Mar. 28, 2022 • 8:12pmSearch for Russian Oligarch Wealth Hits a Wall in SF, Thanks to City’s Disregard for Public Records Laws
By Matt Smith
Mar. 21, 2022 • 4:00pmFormer Supervisor Jane Kim Targeted in Ethics Complaint Over Stevenson Street Housing Project
By Matt Smith
Mar. 18, 2022 • 6:30amLet the Good Times Roll: SF Nightlife Hopeful as Bars and Venues Fill Again
By Matt Smith
Mar. 14, 2022 • 12:30amConcerns Grow Over Urban Alchemy Expanding Security Work in Tenderloin
Shooting of Tenderloin ‘Ambassador’ Raises Questions about Security Practices at Fast-Growing Urban Alchemy
Opinion: Bruce Pettit, Unsung Hero of the Gay Marriage Revolution
By Matt Smith
Feb. 05, 2022 • 6:30amAt Hunters Point, Former Mayor Willie Brown Cashes in Even as Massive Development Project Remains Stalled
By Matt Smith
Jan. 21, 2022 • 11:06am
