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Posts tagged as “region”

Naked In The City

Last Saturday about a half dozen naked men came biking down the street towards Golden Gate Park. Two had skimpy jockey shorts on, another had a backpack on, and one had only a hard-on, and…

Sports Talk

The Summer Olympics of 2012 in London were not nearly as good or as exciting as the Beijing Olympics in China in 2008. But the single most thrilling moment in either Olympics was in the…

Monsanto University

Last month the University of California intervened in a high stakes U.S. Supreme Court case on the side of the agribusiness giant Monsanto Company by filing an amicus brief stating that the university would be…

Reggae Fest Gets Go-Ahead

An appeal of the Reggae on the River festival’s county permit was denied by a majority of the Board of Supervisors but traffic flow conditions at the event’s main entrance remain a concern. Capping a…

River Views

A couple of weeks ago this column took the Sierra Club to task for stating that wolves kill no more than the small amount of cattle that vultures, or buzzards, do. Let me make this…

Realigning HumCo

Midway into its second year, the county’s prison/jail realignment program has increased rehabilitation assistance but law enforcement officials have said it’s also led to increases in crime. So far the evidence is anecdotal. City and…

The Twinkie Defense,The Pope & Jonestown

Dan White’s Twinkie Defense spurred my decision to move to California. I'd vacationed in Berkeley and had headed home to Iowa. I boarded at SFO while the jury was still in deliberation over White’s future.…

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