Articles Posted in the News Category

  • Bay Area News Briefs

    Bay Area News Briefs

    By Ananda Shorey April 17, 2008 Friend confesses on tape to shooting Willis-Starbuck Christopher Hollis confessed in a videotaped statement played in court today to firing the shot that killed his close friend Meleia Willis-Starbuck,…

  • Overheard in Fog City

    Overheard in Fog City

    By Luke Thomas April 17, 2008 h. brown turns 64 h. “Court Jester” brown. San Francisco’s Court Jester h. brown today turned the ripe young age of 64. The prolific, colorful, and sometimes insufferable self-proclaimed…

  • Judge invalidates study finding no harm to salmon

    Judge invalidates study finding no harm to salmon

    By Julia Cheever April 17, 2008 A federal judge in Fresno Wednesday invalidated a biological study that concluded a plan to pump more water out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta wouldn’t hurt Chinook salmon…

  • Defense lawyer says Hans Reiser didn’t kill Nina

    Defense lawyer says Hans Reiser didn’t kill Nina

    By Jeff Shuttleworth April 17, 2008 Hans Reiser’s defense attorney compared the computer engineer to a duckbill platypus Wednesday and said Reiser is obnoxious and self-centered but insisted that he didn’t kill his estranged wife…

  • Newsom joins officialsat emergency operations center opening

    Newsom joins officials
    at emergency operations center opening

    By Jesse Dungan April 17, 2008 San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom joined public safety officials Wednesday to mark the opening of the city’s newly remodeled Emergency Operations Center. The first floor of the facility, located…

  • No on Prop 98

    No on Prop 98

    By Tommi Avicolli Mecca April 17, 2008 By now you know that Prop 98 is on the ballot on June 3. It will wipe out all rent control in California. It will probably destroy all…

  • Newsom set-aside resolution headed for showdown

    Newsom set-aside resolution headed for showdown

    Promo photo courtesy www.theshowdownmovie.com By Luke Thomas April 16, 2008 A resolution introduced by Mayor Gavin Newsom yesterday is headed for a political showdown, Fog City Journal has learned. Luke ThomasLuke Thomas is a former…