By Debra Walker A month in and I am still in shock. I know I am not alone in this. As I tried to put one foot in front of…
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large On December 2, a large fire took the lives of 36 people attending a concert in a warehouse known as “Ghost Ship” in…
By John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney Whenever we hear the ubiquitous holiday music that pervades the airwaves this time of year, we can’t help but want to sing along—not with…
By Marcy Adelman After the President-elect takes office, we will need to be prepared for an assault on federal programs that benefit elders and people living with disabilities. We can…
By Zoe Dunning New Amnesty Program for SF Library Users If you are one of 155,000 library patrons with overdue items from the San Francisco Library, I have good news…
By Rafael Mandelman Seeing as this is my first column since the election—certainly the very worst election of my lifetime—I feel compelled to acknowledge what we must all be feeling: this…
By John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney No aspect of the 2016 election was more unsettling for us than being forced to confront one of life’s most discomforting but universal truths:…
By Michele Karlsberg In the insightful and inspirational memoir, The Sea Is Quiet Tonight, Michael Ward returns to the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when so little was known and…
Just five months ago we joined thousands of other people at the corner of Castro and Market to come together in the face of the massacre of 49 members of…
When we hear about Ellis Island, we immediately think about an island by New York City that was the stop-gap for immigrants coming from Europe. Yet many in California aren’t…
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