Peter Byrne

October 2018

Zombie Theories of Rent Control

Coming soon to an apartment building near you By Peter Byrne San Francisco is the epicenter of America’s rental housing crisis. There, the median monthly rent for a one-bedroom apartment is more than $3,600. (“Median” means that half of the one-beds...

Peter Byrne

March 2018

Who Got Paid in This Massive Russian Energy Deal?

What’s going on between Carter Page, broker fees, Rex Tillerson, government sanctions, and Russia’s Rosneft energy giant...

Peter Byrne

November 2017

Investigating U.S. Senator Kamala Harris’ Chief of Staff…

On January 3, Kamala Harris was sworn in as U.S. Senator from California by then-Vice President Joe Biden. The C-SPAN tape of the ceremony shows her chief of staff, Nathan Barankin, beaming in the background.

Peter Byrne

October 2017

The Kamala Contradiction

The late-August temperature hits 100 degrees in Oakland, California as U.S. Senator Kamala Devi Harris throws a town-hall meeting at Beebe Memorial Cathedral. The unair-conditioned church is sweltering, but hundreds of Kamala fans flow into pews...

Peter Byrne