There are thousands of smart people in this country poring over the financial facts, straining to accurately predict business trends. Nowhere is that future murkier than in California’s nascent marijuana business, fully legal now in…
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A good friend came to visit me from Connecticut back when I was still working in San Francisco. She told me the one thing she wanted to be sure to visit was Coit Tower. Her…
Criminal trials for the most part follow a well-established trajectory. First there’s the arrest, then the arraignment, then the detention arrangements, then the pre-trial motions, then jury selection, then the trial itself, and then, finally,…
It’s that time of year again. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is busy tabulating the nation’s official homeless count following January’s nationwide one-day point-in-time count, a task it has undertaken since 1987.…
A ragged 10-year-old boy is picking barefoot through an ocean of trash, patiently searching for anything of value that his family can turn into food or shelter. He steps on what turns out to be…
Jeb Bush was in town lecturing last week. Remember him during the Republican presidential debates? The guy on the left with the hip rimless glasses and the perpetually stunned look on his face? At first…
The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Investigative Services Office reports that, save for one final ongoing review by two county homicide detectives, the final cause-of-death report for pot grower Leo Hartz, owner and manager of Shine On…