Articles Posted in the News Category

  • Committee sets tone for a bloody budget season

    Committee sets tone for a bloody budget season

    Heads down: A newly appointed Budget and Finance Committee convened yesterday to begin the unenviable task of reconciling a $251 million 2008/2009 budget shortfall. Photos by Luke Thomas By Nicholas Olczak March 6, 2008 The…

  • Bay Area News Briefs

    Bay Area News Briefs

    By Ananda Shorey March 6, 2008 Hans Reiser continues attacking Nina’s character Computer scientist Hans Reiser continued attacking the character of his missing wife Nina in his third day on the witness stand today, telling…

  • Cover-Up: Chevron lied to City about plansto switch to dirtier crude oil

    Cover-Up: Chevron lied to City about plans
    to switch to dirtier crude oil

    By Caitilin McAdoo March 6, 2008 Officials at the Chevron refinery in Richmond lied to the city about their plans to switch to refining dirtier, cheaper crude oil that could result in five to 50…

  • 55 Laguna Project makes progress

    55 Laguna Project makes progress

    An artist’s impression of the proposed 55 Laguna Project development. By Nicholas Olczak The Board of Supervisors approved an Environmental Impact Review of the 55 Laguna Project this week, moving plans for residential and community…

  • Hans Reiser said he had many reasonsto be upset at Nina

    Hans Reiser said he had many reasons
    to be upset at Nina

    By Jeff Shuttleworth March 6, 2007 Computer engineer and murder defendant Hans Reiser told jurors yesterday he had a long list of reasons to be upset at his estranged wife Nina, who was last seen…

  • SFMTA approves $21 million settlementfor 2003 fatal accident

    SFMTA approves $21 million settlement
    for 2003 fatal accident

    By Jesse Dungan March 6, 2008 The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors voted Tuesday to approve a $21 million settlement with family and friends of a 4-year-old girl killed in 2003 in…

  • Defense lawyer: Nina Reiser was “a gadabout”

    Defense lawyer: Nina Reiser was “a gadabout”

    By Jeff Shuttleworth March 5, 2008 The lawyer for computer engineer Hans Reiser said today that his estranged wife Nina “wasn’t a perfect mother” and instead was “a gadabout, to put it mildly.” FCJ EditorMore…