Mary Pappenfus

Mary Pappenfuss is a California correspondent and investigative journalist for MintPress . Pappenfuss is a veteran journalist who has worked in New York, Paris, Ljubljana and (currently) San Francisco, covering an eclectic mix of stories from Nazi art theft and runway shows in France, to serial killers in New York and California, human rights violations in Serbia, and conflicts of interest in American medical research. She has written for Salon, the Huffington Post and People magazine, and has worked as an editor at the New York Daily News, Associated Press in San Francisco, Newser and Link TV. She recently published a book on fatal family violence: Killer Dads: The Twisted Drives that Compel Fathers to Murder Their Own Kids.

French Train Company Risks Losing US Contracts Over Holocaust History

American Holocaust survivors and politicians demand that a French train company confront its own deadly involvement in the Holocaust or risk losing lucrative contracts in the United States.

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French Holocaust survivor Ernest Hirsch was only nine years old the last time he heard from his mother. Though he lived to flee Europe and settle in Northern California, his parents were forced to board a train from Paris to the French internment camp in Rivesaltes in 1941. His mother, Lisa Kirchheimer, wrote to him to say they would be taken to a

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Micro-Housing: Tiny Steps To Better Living Or A Delusory Solution?

Some tout the miniature housing as revolutionary, but critics say it’s not a legitimate solution to ever-escalating rent and tumbling quality.

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作者 Mary Pappenfus

SAN FRANCISCO --- The first renters in San Francisco's cutting-edge new apartments will be able to see their entire home from the living room sofa, and will likely be able to reach out and touch a good portion of it by standing and stretching their arms. Thanks to a change in zoning law, the city is in the process of offering the smallest legal

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San Francisco Style Crime Reduction – “Stop And Offer Therapy”

The heart of the approach is to deal with victims before they become criminals, and to recognize the “mental health connection to public safety.”

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作者 Mary Pappenfus

SAN FRANCISCO ---What a difference a coast makes. On the East Coast, New York City has vigorously defended its controversial stop-and-frisk policy, a crime-reduction strategy that relies on arbitrary street-level police searches, mostly of minorities. Though Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio is expected to terminate the tactic, several other cities plan

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Drone Busters: Group Protests US Drone Program Through Altered Ads

The activist group aims to “correct” traditional marketing messages and replace them with a political twist.

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作者 Mary Pappenfus

We have met the enemy and it's on San Francisco bus shelters. In a series of altered ads that criticize the U.S. drone program, the secretive activist group California Corrections Department has launched its latest foray in the long-running protest movement attempting to raise public awareness of the drone program. The "subvertisements" are a riff

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