Nov 20, 2008
In January the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance went into affect. Now, all for-profit employers with more than 20 workers have to offer health insurance to their employees or pay a fee to the city.
This ordinance hit many city restaurants especially hard, since most hadn’t offered health insurance before. I spoke to customers, waitresses and managers to see how the ordinance has changed things.
Nov 6, 2008
If you’re going to talk about shots, you might as well fire a couple. Vianna Davila and I created this two-part story for a show about “shots:. It explores our longtime fear of guns and why we decided to try shooting for the first time.
Oct 23, 2008
San Franciscans voted on a series of ballot initiatives this year, including on whether rename the award-winning Oceanside Sewage treatment Plant to the George W. Bush Memorial Plant. I sat down with the head of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco to talk about his proposition and government waste.
Oct 15, 2008
In many places, the mere mention of sex conjures images of things that are taboo. In San Francisco, where sexual freedom has been a long-standing tradition, even the most sexually-free have taboos. Lisa Pickoff-White visited the Folsom Street Fair to learn where the liberated draw their lines.