Extreme weather and changes in seasonal patterns are fundamentally altering the landscape, in cities and in farming communities. You’re going to pay for it. BY GABRIELLE GURLEY DECEMBER 4, 2025 (Prospect.org) This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina unleashed a levee-busting catastrophe on… Continue reading
This might be the defining issue in the race to succeed Nancy Pelosi By J.D. Morris, Alexei Koseff,Staff WritersDec 9, 2025 Gift Article An affordable housing complex at 383 Sixth Ave., formerly 4200 Geary Blvd., became a vivid example of a bitter divide between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan over their approaches to… Continue reading
by Randy Shaw on December 8, 2025 (BeyondChron.org) Mayor Lurie made a smart choice in picking Alan Wong as the new D4 Supervisor. Three factors support a Wong victory in June. First, Wong is exactly the type of mayoral appointee capable of winning an election. Unlike past appointees that lost—former Mayor Lee’s choices… Continue reading
by Randy Shaw on December 8, 2025 (BeyondChron.org) Photo of Family Zoning on SF Planning website The battle over Mayor Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan is a fight over San Francisco’s future. Backers see the Plan opening the city’s doors to the long priced-out working and middle-class; opponents believe it widens the door to… Continue reading
by Randy Shaw on December 1, 2025 (Beyond Chron.org) 1993 flyer. What tenants faced prior to the BIC Five city officials with no connection to tenant groups is trying to eliminate San Francisco’s most vital tenant protection body: the Building Inspection Commission (BIC). Minutes from a recent meeting of the Streamlining Committee reflect… Continue reading
Dec. 9, 2025 (NYTimes.com) By Michelle Goldberg Opinion Columnist In 1982, Phyllis Schlafly, perhaps the most important anti-feminist in American history, debated the radical feminist law professor Catharine MacKinnon. Schlafly believed that sexism was a thing of the past; to her, if women had different roles in society than men, it… Continue reading
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Third of May” redirects here. For the date, see May 3. THE THIRD OF MAY 1808 Wikimedia | © OpenStreetMap ARTIST Francisco Goya YEAR 1814 MEDIUM Oil on canvas DIMENSIONS 268 cm × 347 cm (106 in × 137 in)[1] LOCATION Museo del Prado, Madrid The Third of May 1808 in Madrid (commonly known as The Third… Continue reading
Andy Borowitz2d The Borowitz Report Dec 7, 2025 Since his death in 1994, Richard Nixon has refrained from public comments. Today, however, he has broken his silence in a letter from Hell. Mr. Nixon offered The Borowitz Report the exclusive right to publish the following letter he wrote to Donald… Continue reading
