Today is Cesar Chavez Day in California. Chavez is the nation’s most honored Latino, and momentum is growing for a national holiday in his honor. In the fall of 2005, I began planning a book that would portray how Chavez,
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In case anyone wondered how the SF Weekly really felt about losing a $15.6 million judgment to the San Francisco Bay Guardian, check out Matt Smith’s current column. Titled, “Let the Sun Shine, You Hypocrites,” Smith argues that an alliance
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On April 9th, San Francisco will be the only city in North America to host the 2008 Olympic Torch relay for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. San Francisco is home to North America’s largest overseas Chinese population. Thirty percent of
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In a poll released yesterday by the Public Policy Institute that interviewed 2,000 likely California voters, Proposition 98 appears headed for defeat. The initiative to abolish rent control is trailing 37-41, which is a fatal place to be two months
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Probably not. At least according to the latest communication from the Mayor’s Office in San Francisco. What happens in practice is another matter altogether. For weeks, there’s been uncertainty about how the City that is rocked regularly by demonstrations of
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