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…
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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…
Finally, more than an hour after my arrival, I first set eyes on William Allan ‘Redbeard’ Evers, accused burglar additionally charged with the attempted murder…
My close friend Sally’s health took a nosedive after her second stroke. And like many old people – and candor demands that we ourselves could…
As an adult, the smartest thing my mentally ill and drug-addicted brother did was to move to the City and County of San Francisco. I…
Mental illness, with all its many ripples as it winds its destructive way through our families and communities, is a regular and growing topic in…
Hearing activists and Americans with hearing loss alike were undoubtedly popping champagne corks in celebratory glee on August 18, 2017, when President Donald Trump signed…
My parents had many droll and irreverent friends, among them their orthopedist, who declared (most likely after a few belts at one of their circa…