By Senator Scott Wiener– While there are two similar-sounding housing measures on San Francisco’s November 8 ballot—Prop D and Prop E—only one of them will make it faster and easier…
By Assemblymember Phil Ting– October means the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) has begun the process of sending $9.5 billion tax relief payments to most Californians. As Assembly Budget Chair, I…
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– Although it has been two and a half years since COVID turned our lives upside down, the pandemic has not gone away. The…
By Eduardo Morales, Ph.D.– The word Halloween originated from the phrase “All Hallows’ Eve” and dates back to the ancient times after the Romans conquered the Celts. In the festival…
By Donna Sachet– See Moulin Rouge, the touring Broadway production that has it all … dazzling lighting, eye-popping sets, flashy costumes, snippets of a host of pop songs, all delivering,…
By Michele Karlsberg– Michele Karlsberg: This month, Patrica Grayhall is celebrating the publication of her memoir, Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine (She Writes Press). The inspiration for the memoir began with a box…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– Elsa Gidlow lived her life as she wanted always: openly as an independent woman. Poet, essayist, philosopher, and humanist, Gidlow wrote her first book, On a…
By David Landis, The Gay Gourmet– It’s more than 50 years after the Summer of Love but Sausalito’s The Trident restaurant and bar is still groovy, more than a generation…
By Dr. Tim Seelig– “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time…
By Elisa Quinzi– What are we evolving toward? Without conscious awareness of a north star, we continue to act out of, and react from, our ego’s primal survival needs. But…
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