By Dr. Bill Lipsky– The passing years have preserved the privacy and buried the secrets that the women and men of earlier generations needed to keep in life, but in…
By Michele Karlsberg– Michele Karlsberg: A vivid, no holds barred page turner, Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss is a memoir about a lesbian of conscience who became a fugitive who…
By Brett Andrews– San Francisco has remarkably low unemployment overall at 1.9%. That prosperity and stability are not shared equitably across our community. A high cost of living, driven primarily…
By Assemblymember Phil Ting– The number of Real IDs issued by the California Department of Motor Vehicles is lagging behind projected demand. If you anticipate needing one, I advise you…
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– One of the challenges facing our democracy is the underrepresentation of the needs of youth. From the horrors of stop-and-frisk committed against Black…
By Andrea Shorter– Are you ready for some Primary Election? Good, because next Tuesday, March 3, is the California Democratic Primary Election. As now one of 14 states holding primary…
By Stuart Gaffney– You never know for sure what awaits you at breakfast time at my 96-year-old dad’s Southern California retirement community, where John and I visited over the recent…
Supervisor Rafael Mandelman on February 11 introduced an ordinance requiring the Department of Public Health to update their minimum health and safety standards for commercial adult sex venues and to…
It is sometimes hard to find constants in the fast-paced Bay Area, given the high turnover of jobs, living arrangements, small businesses, and more. Perhaps that is one reason it…
By Louise “Lou” Fischer– November 3, 2020, will be the most important Election Day ever for every living, breathing human being in the United States and probably the world. The…
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