Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks prior to U.S. President Joe Biden at Green River College in Auburn on April 22, 2022. (Photo: Karen Ducey/Getty Images) “What the scientific community is telling us now, is that the Earth is screaming at us,” said the Washington governor. “We need to stop… Continue reading
Paris Marx Jul 23, 2023, 3:04 AM PDT (BusinessInsider.com) Threads, the newest social-media app from Meta, rocketed past 100 million users less than a week after it went live. The explosive start from Mark Zuckerberg’s latest brainchild made it the fastest-growing app in history and took a significant bite out of Twitter’s traffic,… Continue reading
J.K. Dineen July 24, 2023 Updated: July 25, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) The San Francisco Board of Supervisors appears set to slash affordable housing requirements and lower or delay a slew of associated fees in an effort to resuscitate a residential development industry that has sunk into a deep torpor as the city scratches… Continue reading
by Randy Shaw on July 24, 2023 (BeyondChron.org) London Breed, Ahsha Safai, Aaron Peskin, Daniel Lurie A New Direction for SF? I’ve followed San Francisco elections since 1979. There’s never been so much focus on mayor and supervisor races with 15 months to go. Why are people so focused on November 2024? Three… Continue reading
By Silas Valentino Updated July 24, 2023 (SFGate.com) FILE: A view of the beach at the exclusive Bohemian Club’s Russian River encampment near Monte Rio in August 2006. Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Around 2 p.m. on July 20, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a departure delay at San Francisco International with a curious… Continue reading
Teachers at City College of San Francisco are concerned that waitlists for the fall semester could climb as high as 6,000 students if the school does not hire back faculty it laid off last spring. In June, the college Board of Trustees passed a resolution to rehire 38 tenured faculty members it… Continue reading
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during a press conference with labor leaders and service workers on May 4, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) “Raising the federal wage floor is the single most efficient, effective—and wildly popular—bipartisan tool we have to deliver economic stability to… Continue reading
When Peet’s opened in 1966, the entire country was drinking Folger’s Instant and there were no baristas, so no call for a workers’ union. Bill Coffin was 15 when he started working there, and he recalls many pivotal moments. by Janis Mara July 25, 2023 (oaklandside.org) Long before the pandemic, the… Continue reading
Noah Arroyo July 20, 2023 Updated: July 24, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) Could a century-old banking concept originally designed for North Dakota farmers help ease San Francisco’s perennial housing crisis and economic woes? A city working group thinks so, proposing what would be the nation’s first municipal public bank to help fund… Continue reading
Enjoyment Right & Left Todd McGowan While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to grasping our current political crisis, Todd McGowan argues that the intrinsically excessive nature of enjoyment is critically important to this effort. In a world that appears completely divided between… Continue reading
