JOE DWORETZKY
We shall not cease from exploration.
JOE DWORETZKY
We shall not cease from exploration.
Joe’s cartoons, short stories and creative non-fiction have been published in dozens of print and online journals. His journalism has appeared in many news publications including the L.A. Times, SF Weekly, Bay City News, the Stanford Daily, and Local News Matters.
[Joe] makes incisive, thought-provoking comments about what we value, as individuals and as a culture, when it comes to family, work, competition, education, and entertainment. His lively, slightly snarky prose is also a perfect fit with the material…
From Kirkus Review’s review of Joe’s novel Nine Digits.
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Author Archives: Joe Dworetzky, Bay City News
Joe Dworetzky is a second career journalist. He practiced law in Philadelphia for more than 35 years, representing private and governmental clients in commercial litigation and insolvency proceedings. Joe served as City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia under Mayor Ed Rendell and from 2009 to 2013 was one of five members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission with responsibility for managing the city’s 250 public schools. He moved to San Francisco in 2011 and began writing fiction and pursuing a lifelong interest in editorial cartooning. Joe earned a Master’s in Journalism from Stanford University in 2020. He covers Legal Affairs and writes long form Investigative stories. His occasional cartooning can be seen in Bay Area Sketchbook. Joe encourages readers to email him story ideas and leads at joe.dworetzky@baycitynews.com.
San Francisco dealt setback in effort to clear encampments; court leaves injunction intact
A panel of federal appellate judges Tuesday left in place a lower court order that bars San Francisco from using the city’s laws against sleeping on the streets to prosecute people who are involuntarily homeless. The short 93-word order resolves, at least for the time being, the city’s motion to modify the lower court injunction […]
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