BeyondChron Takes A Break

Posted December 19, 2012 by Randy Shaw

Today begins BeyondChron’s annual holiday break. We will return with new stories on January 7, 2013. If you want to revisit Lisa Schiff on schools, Dana Woldow on school lunches, Steve Early and Carl Finamore on labor, cultural coverage by
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To the Editor…

Posted December 19, 2012 by

I hate the deplorable practices detaiiled in the article. However, as a person who works across the street from (i guess) the only store located in a truly impovershed food desert area (Bayview-HP), i am sorry to see this one
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San Francisco 2012: The Year in Review

Posted December 18, 2012 by Randy Shaw

San Francisco had one of its greatest years in 2012, as the city’s job growth and vibrancy outpaced nearly everywhere else. In a single year, San Francisco committed to longterm funding for affordable housing, created a much more progressive business
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School Beat: Schools and California’s New Political Terrain

Posted December 18, 2012 by Lisa Schiff

My daughter came home from school the other day frustrated and angry. She had been excited the evening before because she’d learned that having finished The Odyssey her ninth-grade English class was now going to tackle Beowolf. We discussed the
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“I HEARD THAT:” WHAT’S GOING ON?;…SUPERVISOR OLAGUE SEEKING PEACE…

Posted December 18, 2012 by Rochelle Metcalfe

STOP the killings! Ban automatic assault weapons! Lyrics from late singer, Marvin Gaye, ring in my mind, ‘Mother, Mother…Father, Father…WHAT’S GOING ON?’ Last Friday morning, the world shook over the horrific news that a mass killer rampaged at Sandy Hook
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TOP FILMS OF 2012 COUNTDOWN

Posted December 18, 2012 by Peter Wong

Granting Top Films of 2012 blessings to a riveting drama about a troubled boy’s redemption does not imply well-done superhero movies lack any cinematic merit. Very good or better entertainment will always outshine mediocrities aspiring only to liberate one’s disposable
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To the Editor…

Posted December 18, 2012 by

The murder of 20 children and 7 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut was horrible beyond words. Schools are supposed to be a safe place for our children or at least they used to be. My
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To the Editor…

Posted December 18, 2012 by

Martin Luther King warned us speaking about right-to-work laws in 1961.“In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as ‘right to work.’ It is a law to rob us of our
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