October 2026 - Beyond Chron

Can Jane Kim Win Race for Insurance Commissioner?

Posted October 5, 2026 by Randy Shaw

Voters May Ignore Attacks Of all of California’s statewide candidate races, none has created more furor in newspaper editorial rooms than the contest for Insurance Commissioner between former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim and State Senator Ben Allen. The San<br> Read More »

Will New Tenderloin Police Boundaries Clear Sidewalks?

Posted October 5, 2026 by Randy Shaw

SFPD Reverses Historic Wrong October 1 marked a positive turning point for San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Tenderloin Police Station has returned to its original goal of protecting the Tenderloin. A decade of a wrongheaded redistricting that vastly expanded Tenderloin Station<br> Read More »

Proles: Post-Sixties’ Salting Among the “Salt of The Earth”

Posted October 5, 2026 by Steve Early

In the early 1970s, when many student activists were migrating from campus to industrial jobs to promote working class radicalization, no labor film was more influential than Salt of the Earth. This pioneering docudrama was made two decades earlier by<br> Read More »

Reviews From Mill Valley Film Festival 49

Posted October 5, 2026 by Peter Wong

Pegah Ahangarani’s fascinating yet wrenching personal documentary “Rehearsals For A Revolution” recounts the political betrayals of Iran’s Islamic Republic through the fates of the director’s family, acquaintances, and friends. Using everything from old audio recordings from a beloved uncle to<br> Read More »