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Trump Comes After the Lawyers

Posted March 31, 2025 by Stephen Kaus

The Week in Trump Law Donald Trump’s recent Executive Orders seeking to bring several large law firms to heel or put them out of business are full-bore authoritarianism. A failure to fight here will write off the courts as a Read More »

Biden Remains Democrats’ Best Choice

Posted July 8, 2024 by Randy Shaw

A Misguided Electoral Panic Joe Biden has been the best president of my lifetime. He’s unquestionably the most progressive president since FDR. But now many see him as incapable of again defeating Donald Trump. A bad debate performance has led Read More »

City Of Saint Francis Turns Deaf Ear To Cathedral Hill Priests’ Calls For Help

Posted April 15, 2024 by Sebastian

“Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil” I often see Father Jerry walk around the rose garden of the Salesian Provincial office which is also the home of their retired priests at 1100 Franklin and O’Farrell Streets in San Read More »

Cathedral Hill Rolls Out Green Carpet For APEC SF 2023

Posted November 6, 2023 by Sebastian

Neighbors in Cathedral Hill have spruced up their neighborhood to welcome World Leaders and CEOs to San Francisco for the APEC summit. They proudly showcase San Francisco’s Behlen Country Urban Garden District, privately paid for, to show their environmental and Read More »

Photo shows SFPD crackdown has cleared 600 Eddy drug market

Will Supes Back $27 Million SFPD /DA Supplemental?

Posted February 27, 2023 by Randy Shaw

Funds Needed to Close Drug Markets The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will soon vote on whether to increase the SFPD/DA budget by $27 million. Despite rising concerns about public safety across the city, it is uncertain whether eight supervisors Read More »

Wildfires Should Incinerate Opposition to Urban Housing

Posted August 25, 2020 by Randy Shaw

Politicians Still Moving in Wrong Direction The November 2018 Camp Fire in the foothill town of Paradise was the “deadliest and most destructive wildfire” in California history. The previous worst, the Tubbs Fire, occurred in 2017. October 2019 saw the Read More »

Chipotle Cultivating Violence, Not Integrity, Activists Say

Posted June 9, 2014 by Wayne Hsiung

Over 30 Protesters Converge on Corporate Festival, Disrupt Keynote Speaker The tens of thousands of Bay Area residents who streamed into the Chipotle Cultivate Festival this past Saturday were greeted with a surprising sight: dozens of animal rights activists with Read More »

Dark TV

Posted June 6, 2014 by E. ”Doc” Smith

I’m not sure when TV turned into the grizzly, macabre and explosive juggernaut we have before us today. Perhaps it was before the dawning of shows like the X-Files in the 1990s, the brutal bludgeoning of the Sopranos, or Read More »