This week the San Francisco Bay Guardian celebrates 40 years of living up to its name and its motto: "IT IS A NEWSPAPER'S DUTY TO PRINT THE NEWS AND RAISE HELL." Founding Editor and Publisher Bruce B. Brugmann recounts four decades of duking it out with JOA-armed "SuperChron" and other competitors in "the Bermuda Triangle of publishing." Executive Editor Tim Redmond looks back at the quarter-century since the day a roommate showed him a Guardian ad seeking freelancers with "story ideas." Redmond recalls: "I sat down in the crummy flat we shared on Hayes Street and cranked out a list of outrages."

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