(For many years I thought that people who took politics seriously could understand the difference between principled criticism and personal animosity. How wrong I was. In my whole long life I’ve met only three such…
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(From O’Shaughnessy’s News Service) — In mid-August Dale Gieringer, the longtime director of California NORML, invited some 15 pro-cannabis colleagues to a zoom meeting to discuss what had been dubbed “the YMCA Problem” – as…
ABC ran a special Sept. 22 honoring Norman Lear age 100. He has all his marbles and is full of life. His friend, Rita Moreno, also looked great. She chided him for not hiring her…
Either Mussolini or my high school civics teacher defined fascism as “government, business and labor working together in the interests of business.” By this definition fascism isn’t looming in the US, fascism is here, having…
Ruth Gottstein died in late August at the age of 100. She was the founder of Volcano Press, a small publisher in the Sierra foothills that brought out Dell Martin’s “Battered Wives” and more than…
by Fred Gardner A few months ago Governor Newsom visited Alameda Point – our decommissioned Naval Air Station, renamed by developers – to hold a press conference at the HQ of a company called Astra Space,…
September 13 was the day on which all the patients at Laguna Honda were supposed to have been evacuated and the hospital’s federal funding cut off. So it was decreed back in April by the…
Barbara Ehrenreich made a quick visit to San Francisco last week to promote her new book, “Dancing in the Streets.” Her noontime talk at the Commonwealth Club Jan. 18, excerpted below, was attended by about…