Larry Bush, editor of CitiReport, served as a Special Assistant to Mayor Art Agnos in City Hall from 1988-1992, was an aide in the California State Legislature from 1984 to 1988, worked as the regional Public Affairs Officer for the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development (and also served as Freedom of Information officer) and has been a columnist at the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Weekly. His reporting and commentary has appeared in The New Yorker (a profile of Willie Brown), the New York Times (on the AIDS/HIV epidemic), the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, and in papers across California and the United States. He has written for Playboy, Mother Jones, Inquiry, the Village Voice and the San Francisco Review of Book among many others. His reporting on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender politics and the community won awards from groups from New York City to Dallas, Texas where he was the keynote speaker for the first National Lesbian and Gay Leadership Conference in 1982. His profiles and interviews of former New York mayor Ed Koch, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, national conservative leader Terry Dolan, Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell, John Schlafly, son of anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly, received national attention.In 1992, he took over a subscription-based biweekly called CitiReport and, coupled with his columns in the San Francisco Examiner, wrote about ethics, government, politics and money. The results influenced the creation of the San Francisco Ethics Commission, the establishment of voluntary spending limits for San Francisco candidates, electronic filing of campaign reports, and conflict of interest reporting for City Hall aides. His publication of behind-the-scenes political maneuvers aimed at tilting City Hall strongly in the direction of the City’s downtown businesses resulted in a reversal for a proposed new City Charter.