CESAR CHAVEZ'S BIRTHDAY was Thursday the 31st. As we remember the crucial movement Chavez launched, we remind persons interested in Chavez and the UFW that the best book on Chavez is Frank Bardacke's Cesar Chavez…
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The front-page headline was no April Fool’s Day prank: “Amazon Workers on Staten Island Vote to Unionize.” The Times would devote three days to the story, which took many “experts” by surprise. The Retail, Wholesale…
MEMO: To All Staff FROM: Management RE: Back to Work! March 21, 2022 Hello, and welcome back to the office! (Note: This is being sent to all employees of record. Those employed by MEGA INC.…
SCENE: Middle age couple pushing wheelchair into hospital, cranky old man (JACK NICHOLSON) aboard. At reception desk is LOUISE FLETCHER. Jack’s children agree the “Bronze Plan” (least expensive) is sufficient for dad’s food, housing and…
I can’t afford an electric car. Congressman Huffman, thinks I must. Huffman doesn’t work for Tesla. He’s supposed to work for us representing California’s second congressional district. Recently, Politico, a moderate to left, online publication,…
You can say everybody who’s a politician is getting into the drought act. They’re all coming up with solutions to end all solutions. It would help if Mother Nature were giving her advice to the…
Soon after the mob occupied the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, the New Yorker published a lengthy, detailed piece by a reporter who had closely monitored the planning of the action and then took part in…
To understand San Bruno Mountain today it helps to know some of its history. After all, it’s probably the last frontier in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nearly 300 years after Christopher Columbus arrived in…
I think there’s some protesting over on the coast or near the coast, maybe about logging. Or drilling, or a bridge, or the name of a town over there. You say there are no angry…