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War of Values
Between 2005 and 2008, an epic battle raged in San Francisco over who can afford to live here. My 8000-word investigative piece described how the city’s dominant landlords, the Lembi family of CitiApartments fame, bought up every building they could get their hands on, from the Tenderloin’s rattiest dumps to Nob Hill’s ritziest penthouses, with an audacious plan to drive up everyone’s rent. And their money came from the same financial geniuses who brought the world economy to its knees. The story was a finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors Public Affairs award. Published in San Francisco magazine in December 2009.
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Wendy Rogers, who ran for State Senate in Arizona 11/10
The New Face of Politics
The U.S. lags behind the world when electing women to office. Is that about to change?
A story in the AARP magazine that encouraged women to consider running for office as a capstone to their careers. It was shocking to discover that the United States ranks 73rd in the 186 democracies when it comes to women’s participation in elected office, worse than Turkmenistan and slightly better than the tiny republic of San Marino.
Wendy Rogers was one of four women I featured in the article, which was published in AARP September/October issue.
Gov. Brown and Anne Gust Brown on election night
MRS. GOVERNOR TO THE RESCUE
First she saved Jerry Brown from growing old alone. Then she used her insider knowledge to outfox Meg Whitman. Now Anne Gust Brown’s job is to help bring California back from the brink. My profile of her showed how her inside knowledge of Brown’s opponent, gained when they both worked at Gap, Inc, Anne as COO and Meg on the board of directors, helped Brown devise a precise and disciplined strategy to defeat his considerably better-funded opponent. This was published in time for Brown’s inaugural January 2011.
