Bernice Yeung

Can Health Care Treat Crime?
A growing national movement seeks to connect ex-offenders with health care services. Many people say it makes financial sense. Some say it can possibly reduce crime.
By Bernice Yeung | June 2010

Starting a Band? Get It In Writing
East Bay Ray knows firsthand the perils of failing to come to clear agreement upon the contractual details of the music business.
By Bernice Yeung | March 2010

Running a Business With 26 CEOs
At Arizmendi Oakland, there are no bosses, management hierarchies, or pay differentials. For Kamil Dawson, that is liberating, and sometimes challenging.
By Bernice Yeung | January 2010

Urban Planning 101
By Bernice Yeung | October 2008

All That Jazz in One Tiny Attic
By Bernice Yeung | February 1, 2007

Freeze! You’re Under Examination
Making sure people get health care when they leave prison saves taxpayer money and protects public health. It may even help them stay out of prison.
By Bernice Yeung | July 2009

Succor. Succor in the Court.
There’s a problem with problem-solving courts: Taxpayers don’t understand how well they work.
By Bernice Yeung | August 2008

Taser’s Delirium Defense
How lawyers used junk science to explain away stun-gun deaths.
By Bernice Yeung | March/April 2009

Constant Sorrow
It wasn’t Toto Constant’s human rights violations in Haiti that finally landed him in prison. It was mortgage fraud in Long Island.
By Bernice Yeung | May/June 2008

Some Lawyers Want to Keep Debt Collection Out of the Courts
By Bernice Yeung | April 2010

He’s a Model? Consider the Odds
By Bernice Yeung | December 2, 2007

The Jukebox Is From Juilliard
By Bernice Yeung | September 12, 2008

As Asian As They Wanna Be
Burnt out on chopsticks, gongs, and other musty ethnic clichés, the next generation of Asian American writers is giving biculturalism a confident new spin.
By Bernice Yeung | November 2010

So Open It Hurts
Tara Hunt and Chris Messina blogged and twittered about their romance to all of geekdom as if it were one of their utopian open-source projects. Sharing their breakup has been a lot harder.
By Bernice Yeung | August 2008

The Secret Life of the Avenues
That innocuous house or shop next door — why are the feds busting down its doors? Because small-time Asian brothels are proliferating in sleepy Bay Area neighborhoods like the Sunset, and what goes on inside can be an international crime.
By Bernice Yeung | April 2005

Through Two Mayors, Connected Island Developers Cultivated Profitable Deal
By Alison Hawkes and Bernice Yeung | July 2010

Innocence Arrested
Albert Johnson was exonerated for a crime he didn’t commit, but not before spending over a decade in prison. Why guiltless people get jailed — and how to stop it.
An SF Weekly special report by Bernice Yeung | October 29, 2003

Dancing With the Butoh Masters
From their odd sushi bar on a seedy corner of the Mission, world-famous dancers Hiroko and Koichi Tamano try to preserve a bizarre, mysterious art.
By Bernice Yeung | July 17, 2002

Opening Pandora's Box
Once-secret documents reveal the tobacco industry's battle to gut anti-smoking education in California. Former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and former Gov. Pete Wilson helped.
By Bernice Yeung | November 17, 1999

Weeping With the Enemy
Phyllis Rodriguez lost her son at the World Trade Center. And then she found the mother of Zacarias Moussaoui.
By Bernice Yeung | September 5, 2006

Yahoo! News Bay Area writers on Litquake, making history and the diversity of South Asian-American poetry
By Bernice Yeung | October 2010