By Ann Rostow– Real News– I like to think that I’m not one of those people who surrounds themselves with just the news they want to hear, and only those…
By Assemblymember Phil Ting– Homelessness has reached crisis levels in our state. The latest federal numbers show California’s homeless population has surged to 134,278. Closer to home, San Francisco’s count…
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– As Oakland’s city-wide elected Councilmember, I seek to serve and protect the needs of all the people of Oakland. This includes the importance of…
By John Lewis– On my first day of law school 35 years ago, each member of my small group section of twenty students was asked as part of an ice-breaker…
By Kaci Fairchild, PhD, ABPP– Physical inactivity is a global public health crisis that accounts for nearly 3.2 million deaths annually, or 49,837 deaths each day. To put that in…
By Lyndsey Schlax– (Editor’s Note: Teacher Lyndsey Schlax of the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts launched the nation’s first on-site high school LGBT course in 2015. She…
By Cinder Ernst– I was answering an inquiry about what exercises trainers never do and realized that most trainers no longer have their clients do abdominal crunches. I decided quite…
By Tom Moon, MFT– My husband and I marked my 70th birthday in February with ten days of non-stop partying in New Orleans. I mention this because I know all…
By Andrea Shorter– As much as I love my home here in San Francisco, at heart I will always be a Hoosier from Indiana. As a Hoosier, I love that…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– It was love at first sight for the two young men, students at Harvard just before the Civil War. Tom, “a lovely boy,” was strikingly beautiful—his…
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