By Assemblymember Phil Ting– It’s a simple concept. If chronically ill people eat a nutritious, healthy diet, they will need fewer medications and hopefully fewer hospitalizations. By reducing these expenses,…
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– In California, this year alone, a total of 6,568 fires burned an area of 1,502,293 acres, according to the California Department of Forestry…
Marketing Ecosystem: A Crash Course By Kristin Mehiel– Investing in an effective lead generation program is pivotal to organizations, both big and small. Establishing an official lead generation plan will…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– Because we have always been here, there are many firsts associated with our LGBT communities. For brevity, we are using terms like gay, lesbian and homosexual…
Amber, your A.I. therapist will see you now. If things get a little tense in today’s group session, she may suggest “we return to our breath.” But she won’t be…
By Cinder Ernst– I know summer’s over, but in my experience, people vacation at all times of the year. Do you find yourself worried about losing your exercise momentum while…
By Karen Bardsley– It’s the first Friday of the month and Oakland is full of life. Galleries have opened their doors to a stream of visitors passing from venue to…
1970s San Francisco LGBTQ activism will be brought back to vivid life on September 28 during the first ever reunion of founding members of the San Francisco Bay Times, which…
By Louise “Lou” Fischer– It’s been almost 2 years since the 2016 presidential election, and some of us are still sitting shivah (mourning) over the defeat of Hillary Clinton (we…
By John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney– On September 6, 2018, India, the world’s largest democracy, finally shed the British colonial-era law that for over a century and a half has…
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