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The Mystery Supervisor

District 2 Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier
Photo(s) by Luke Thomas

By Daniela Kirshenbaum, Fog City Journal I-Team

November 17, 2006

Michela Alioto-Pier has it all: looks, money, fame, and a wonderful family. Unfortunately, it is too easy to forget that she is a city supervisor, too. And it's too easy for her to forget to be one.

Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier has some interesting qualities for a San Francisco supervisor. Not one for the usual rumpled suits and midnight oil, she has a glamorous sort of Palm-Beach-at-night style. She favors slim black outfits topped with designer-sunglasses-as-a-hat. She also spends a good deal of time at her home in St. Helena.

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Josh Wolf loses another legal round, remains jailed

Josh Wolf
Photo(s) by Luke Thomas

By Julia Cheever, Bay City News Service

November 17, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A jailed journalist lost another round Thursday in his challenge to a contempt-of-court finding that has kept him in a federal prison in Dublin for nearly three months for refusing to give a videotape to a grand jury.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco turned down freelance videojournalist Josh Wolf's request for review of his case by an expanded 15-judge panel.

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Friedman praised by Schwarzenegger,
Hennessy, pot legalization group

Milton Friedman
Photo courtesy UMass Dartmouth

By Jason Bennert, Bay City News Service

November 16, 2006

STANFORD (BCN) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Stanford University President John Hennessy this afternoon praised Nobel laureate Milton Friedman as one of the most influential economists of the 20th century.

Friedman, 94, died today in San Francisco. He had been a senior research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution since 1977, the year after he won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, commonly known as the Nobel Prize in Economics.

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Federal authorities investigate dead SFPD officer Ramirez' past

By Brent Begin, Bay City News Service

November 16, 2006

Federal authorities confirmed today an investigation into the actions of a San Francisco police officer who died of an apparent suicide in a Cambodian jail cell.

The death of Officer Donald Ramirez, 50, has some in and around the Police Department calling for a renewed investigation into whether he was traveling for years to Southeast Asia for sexual tourism -- a name given to the crime of traveling overseas to solicit children for sex.

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