By Louise “Lou” Fischer– I first met Emanuel “Manny” Yekutiel” in December of 2017, when the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club was nominating new Board members for the upcoming…
By Ann Rostow– Look Away I felt like one of the proverbial “good Germans” last night when I insisted that we turn off an MSNBC special on hate violence in…
Mayor Breed Proposes New SAFE Navigation Center in the Bayview Mayor London Breed, along with Supervisor Shamann Walton, on July 29 proposed building a new SAFE (Shelter and Access for Everyone) Navigation…
By Andrea Shorter– As the still-too-early-to-tell Democratic presidential primary race heats up into a slug fest going into the third set of debates (September 12 and 13 in Houston), and…
On August 5, former president Barack Obama posted the following via social media: Michelle and I grieve with all the families in El Paso and Dayton who endured these latest…
By John Henning– Since joining the board of the Golden Gate Business Association (GGBA) three years ago, I have never been more excited about the direction and leadership of the…
By Magdalena Rodriguez– Gina Grahame, the Founder and CEO of the Grahame Institute of Strategic Communication, was recently elected President of the Golden Gate Business Association (GGBA). When Grahame takes…
By Assemblymember Phil Ting– When you put a plastic bottle in your recycling bin, you assume that it gets recycled into a new bottle or other plastic product. Unfortunately, many…
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– This is now the hottest summer on record. In recent weeks, we have seen triple digit temperatures in Europe. The Arctic is on…
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