When I was in high school my father would get home from his San Francisco law office at around 7 and, much to my mother’s…
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An Englishman I met on a kibbutz in Israel during the many international travel years of my youth asked me a question I’ve pondered ever…
Does anybody around here remember California Governor Gray Davis? You know, the guy who so hopefully set up extra card tables at the Capitol to…
Remember in the not-so-long-ago past when America’s car makers very publicly cried foul over how electric cars would collectively toss them on the trash heap…
Though I was only nine years old, I still remember how overjoyed my parents were back in November of 1960 when the votes had been…
When I walked into the day room of the Bay Area board and care facility where my friend Sally lives, a pall of gloom had…
Though there’s not much agreement between rednecks and libs these days, there’s one foundational issue that nearly everyone seems to agree on: U.S. Senate confirmation…
I never met him, never even saw him, though my formative years in the Bay Area were inextricably entwined with Charles McCabe. McCabe didn’t occupy…
Dear Nancy: 2021 will soon gasp its last breath, providing you a timely opportunity to reflect on the year’s merciful conclusion and sketch out a…
Providing electricity to millions of customers is a zero-sum game for both electric utilities and their customers. The generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity are…
In 1969 my husband boarded a military transport bound for what he assumed would be a long flight to Danang. The flight landed instead on…