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…
By John Lewis– When I was rummaging through old boxes from my childhood home recently, I came upon a decades-old newspaper that piqued my interest, not only because of its…
By Tom Moon, MFT– Q: When I read your columns on attachment theory (3/2/2019, 4/07/2019 and 4/18/2019 issues), I realized that your description of the avoidant attachment style fits my…
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) Acclaimed author Toni Morrison, born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, died peacefully at age 88 this week following a short illness, according to her publisher Knopf. She was best…
By Fairley Parson, LCSW– I believe that hoarding disproportionally impacts LGBTQ older adults. Unfortunately, we don’t have research that reports on hoarding behavior in the LGBTQ community. Still, given available…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– Presenting Spivy Le Voe: chanteuse, composer and nightclub owner, whose songs lampooned “the socially prominent and insufferably snobbish,” the very patrons she sought. During the 1940s,…
As part of its star chef-studded 40th Anniversary Dinner Series, Greens Restaurant recently featured Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, a restaurant that is in its 48th year. There are many…
By Ann Rostow– Big Little Lies Things are getting worse and worse. Toxic. The racism of Trump’s attacks on The Squad do not appall me as much as the patently…
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