The week of June 22, 2005
By Betsey Culp
I got the message: Basta! Dayenu! Enough!
The week of May 9, 2005
Pollution Kills -
Bayview-Hunters Point Meets Harvard
By Betsey
Culp
Few observers will deny that environmental problems
are making people in Bayview-Hunters Point sick. But in the hard-headed
world of modern government, where the bottom line counts big, that
argument apparently doesn’t add up to much.
Farewell to Marla Ruzicka
By Kim Knox
Mirkarimi talked about a long ride with Marla to her home in Lake
County and how she filled and scrambled his brain with all of her ideas
and energy.
For the Historical
Record: Concession Speech - San Francisco Mayor’s Race
By Matt Gonzalez
Where were you on December 9, 2003?
5/17 Neighborhood
Schools hearing location announced... B Rock responds
When he got there and he said he had a school that
everyone could share, they didn't WANT to share — they wanted to take
that school for their own...
Handbook for the School Board Meetings
By Kim
Knox
If you are looking for the phone number that allows you to exercise your First Amendment
right to speak to the board, you will not find it on SFUSD's website.
The week of May 2, 2005
Rumors Running Rampant -
Haaland to Murphy to Brown to Haaland
By Betsey
Culp
A probably-very-boring disquisition on recent online
press brouhahas.
Pat Murphy Responds
If it turns my editorial was baseless, then of course I will apologize
publicly and profusely.
Robert Haaland Responds
I explained in my blog that it was an allegation and that no one
wanted to be quoted about it.
Lesson from Duke Ellington
By Kim Knox
Bolton is an example of a politician who doesn't allow
the spotlight on anyone but himself.
Inadvertent Errors - Reply to My California Public Document Request
By Kim Knox
In some cases, it appears you incorrectly read figures
from the adopted budget. In others, FTE's were inadvertently understated
in the budget document.
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT: Jeff Bond — UC's Designated Flak Catcher
By Rob Anderson
At the meeting on UC's
proposal for the old Extension site, I almost felt sorry for Jeff Bond, a
senior planner for UC, the designated flak catcher for the night.
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT: Queer Notes - Badlands is Bad and Spawn of
Satan
By Robert Haaland
I was astounded to see the attorneys of Les Natali at
the rally handing out flyers denouncing the ruling.
PRESS
RELEASE: Ballot Initiative to Establish Laguna Honda Hospital Special
Use District
From San Franciscans for Laguna
Honda
This initiative will remove the politics surrounding the
rebuilding of Laguna Honda, once and for all.
The week of April 25, 2005
Letter to
the Editor of the San Francisco Sentinel
From
Whitney Leigh
This was a smear attack, a truly false one, Pat.
Although you were used to disseminate this falsehood, I still hold out
the possibility that you were not knowingly so used.
Letter to
the Editor of the San Francisco Sentinel
From
Matt Gonzalez
Let me say
clearly that I did not make any phone calls to former colleagues on the
Board regarding this matter. None whatsoever.
Budget for Schools
By Kim Knox
If
pre-school is the best time to "early identify" behavior and learning
challenges, who are the people most likely to identify these problems and
figure out creative ways to tackle them? That's right — the social workers
in the pre-schools!!
But all four
social workers who currently work with SFUSD's pre-schoolers will be gone
next year.
PRESS RELEASE: Western Addition Social Security Office - Threatened
Staffing Cuts
By Howard Egerman
Employees learned on April 22, 2005 that the number of
people remaining to service the office will be reduced from 12 to 5.
Letter from Santa
Clara - Give It Up, Hanoi-Jane
By Bill Costley
Jane, given the chance then, I would have gladly done
what you did, myself, much as still furiously neo-hated John Kerry did.
So my long-considered advice is: “Give it up, Hanoi-Jane.” Once
they’d branded you “Hanoi-Jane,” they'd filled their perennially
inflamed brains with what they'd actually wanted.
Uncle Sam Drives
an SUV - Yet Another Modest Proposal
By Cliff
Hawkins
The proposal to increase taxes on drivers of hybrid cars
is flawed only in that it does not go far enough. We should heavily tax
pedestrians.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
U.S. Premiere of the Film Helen’s War: Portrait of a Dissident
From Ross Mirkirami, Board of Supervisors, District 5
Set against the explosive backdrop of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, Helen's War asks whether dissidents have a place in post-9/11 America.
The week of April 18, 2005
Request for
Information from the SFUSD
By Kim Knox
High Schools Dept. 402 Resource 70450, page 143, shows a
person at .850 FTE (approx. 35 hours per week) making $414,953 with
benefits at $61,875. What is the title of this position? What is the job
description of this position?
SFUSD: From Shortage to Surplus - Superintendent, Board Come Together to
Solve Budget Crisis
By B Rock
Acting
together, in a spirit of collegiality and togetherness, the seven San
Francisco Board of Education commissioners, the two student delegates, and
the superintendent have just concluded an astonishingly successful weekend
in which a projected budget deficit of $16 million has been turned into a
surplus of over $50 million.
Members of
the SF Gray Panther War and Peace Committee have been investigating global
economic and military issues. They have written two articles:
The Almighty
Dollar: Is It Still Mighty?
In 2000, Iraq decided to sell oil in euros. Two years later the U.S. invaded,
and the oil currency was quickly shifted back to dollars.
Gunboat
Democracy
Since 1990, each large-scale U.S. intervention has left behind a string of
new U.S. military bases in a region where the U.S. had never before had a
foothold.
Battle royal brewing
over redistricting in California
By Steven Hill
When most nonpartisan experts in California are asked what impact a
redistricting commission will have on state politics, the near-unanimous
response is: not much.
PRESS
RELEASE: Remembering a friend killed in Iraq — Marla Ruzicka
From Kevin Danaher and Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange
A case in point, taken from Marla's own journal:
CIVIC staff member Faiz Al Salaam monitors the girls' condition each day.
Nobody in the military or the U.S. Army has visited them, nor has anyone offered
to help this very poor family.
PRESS RELEASE:
Victoria Manalo Draves Park Initiative
By Roy Recio
Victoria Manalo was the daughter of a Filipino father and an English
mother during a time when it wasn't cool to be of mixed race. She wasn't
allowed to swim in some of the city's most prestigious sports clubs
because of her heritage.
The week of April 11, 2005
Fooling Some of the
People - SFSOS’s School Fantasy
By Betsey Culp
There’s a petition going around, sponsored by SFSOS, that urges “the San
Francisco Board of Education to support neighborhood schooling and
incorporate neighborhood schools into the SFUSD 2006 student assignment
process.”
Pope John Paul II -
Opening Windows in a Cornfield
By Kim Knox
Even in papal politics, the old saying still applies: "It's all in who you
know."
UPDATE: Why Is the City Attorney Defending the
Privatization of Golden Gate Park?
By Bob Damron, Billy Webb, Janice Rothstein, and Stephen
Willis (Save Golden Gate Park!)
Prop J was about the abuse of the voter initiative process to undermine
the Park Master Plan, and quietly privatize the park by wrapping it in the
mystique of "free" park revitalization....and promises like "not one
cent of public funding."
UPDATE: Rec & Park
Uncollected Fees
By Martin MacIntyre
One promoter was paying only a small portion of the fee and even that was
late. Despite this, RPD kept renewing the permits without bringing the problem
to the attention of the Commission.
PRESS RELEASE: Minister
Faces 4 Life Sentences For Religious Beliefs
By Craig Lemire
It has been 48 days in jail for Rev. Charles Eddy Lepp since the February
16th raid on his ministry and medicinal marijuana farm.
The week of April 4, 2005
Western Addition Social Security Office Wrap-up
PRESS RELEASE: Social
Security Office Saved
By Howard Egerman
When employees of the Social Security Administration's Western Addition
facility were notified in February that their office would be closed, with employees and the
public being forced to go to downtown San Francisco, American
Federation of Government Employees Local 3172 sprang into
action.
Bedtime for Bonzo, and
for You and for Me - A Fable for Today
By Betsey Culp
“You know, Dufty’s General Store is having a sale this week. You
could probably trade all your old beds in for new ones, at very little
cost to you.”
What Should We Feed?
By Kim Knox
The computer
that I was finally convinced to buy came with lots of memory and a reduced
price because it was the last in a series of computers introduced in 2004.
The last gal at the computer ball.
Western Addition Social Security Update
PRESS RELEASE: Feinstein
Joins Fight to Save Social Security Office
By Howard Egerman
The senator pointed out that 5 years ago the Social Security Administration
closed the Bay View Hunter's Point office, which made it "difficult for
underserved residents to receive appropriate attention and assistance."
The week of March 28, 2005
How our beneficent,
benevolent Bush reich is making us all safer -- An April Fools’ Day reflection
By Gino Rembetes
Do you know where your husband is? Chances are he’s tucked away in a safe,
secure environment somewhere in the Middle East, being ever so gently and
politely queried about some suspected terrorists, people suspected of having
ties to people suspected of having ties to people who, despite lack of evidence,
might be terrorists.
Take the Bait
By Marc Salomon
Today charges of baiting are used by leftists in order to shield their faulty
ideology from critical analysis.
PRESS RELEASE: Bay
Area Consultants to Become Extremely Minor Celebrities - MTV taps communications
firm to star in 16th year of hit reality show
“We’re giving these city slickers one bed, an
intermittently functioning sink, and a variety of ‘colorful’ drop-in
guests from the neighborhood,” said Real World producer Mary-Alice Bunim.
“Longevity bets at MTV have the over-under for the entire house at about
four days – and I’m giving good odds that Clemens will be out in only
two.”
ADVICE, PLEASE: A reader suggests that
the SF Call should not have run Marc Salomon's response to Kim Knox because it's "a red-baiting, anti-communist diatribe." Do you think
it is? Should it have run? Email bculp@sfcall.com. I'll post some of your responses (no names - you can speak
freely & anonymously).
It Still Isn't Nice -
Martin Luther King, Forty Years Later
By Betsey Culp
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was
"legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was
"illegal."
Of Schools and
Socialists - Two for the Price of One
By Kim Knox
School Closure Meeting on April 5
This decision
follows a meeting scheduled by the San Francisco Unified School District for 11
p.m. — yes, 11 p.m. — on Tuesday, March 22 to talk about what criteria
should be used to select the final list of schools to be closed.
They're Socialists, Marc, Not Communists
"The master
class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the
battles." Because of this speech, Debs was arrested and sentenced to ten years in
prison for "war-time espionage."
The week of March 21, 2005
My
Return to the Land of the Homeless
A Modest Proposal
By Betsey Culp
There would be a roller coaster where the steepest descent
hurtles riders past dioramas depicting financial disaster; at the end, the track
bottoms out and travels through a trash-lined street, where hairy unkempt
figures leer menacingly on both sides.
Respecting the Right to
Disagree
By Kim Knox
The people who were disenfranchised from voting at SF Green
Party meetings were active in the Frontlines newspaper.
Removing Barriers to
Participation in the Green Party
A Response to Kim Knox
By Marc Salomon
The disconnect between a party with key values of feminism,
nonviolence, and respect for diversity and one that is ruthless and
uncompromising in pursuit of their chosen agenda is the main reason why members
of the patriarchal Frontlines cadre were denied active membership for the 2005
calendar year.
ADVICE, PLEASE: A reader suggests that
the SF Call should not have run Marc Salomon's response to Kim Knox because it's "a red-baiting, anti-communist diatribe." Do you think
it is? Should it have run? Email bculp@sfcall.com.
PRESS RELEASE: Camping Citations Up
Homeless People Up in Arms
From LS Wilson and Elisa Dela-Piano,
Coalition on Homelessness
If there are fewer homeless people in San Francisco and the City is focusing
its limited resources on "Housing First," why has the number of citations issued
for camping in the city's parks nearly tripled over the past year?
Dangers to Long Term
Care in SF
By Michael Lyon
On March 15, the SF Health Commission heard that 1999’s $299 million Prop A
bond issue to rebuild Laguna Honda Hospital at its current 1,200 beds will build
only 360 beds.
How To Have
Clean and Complete Voter Rolls
By Rob Richie and Steven Hill
Our voter rolls are not clean and lead to uncertainty about voter fraud, such
as people voting in two states and some places like Alaska having more
registered voters than adults.
An update on the proposed closing of the Social Security office in the
Western Addition.
PRESS RELEASE: House
Minority Leader Opposes Social Security Office Closure
By Howard Egerman, AFGE
Pelosi noted that her office has received more than 200 calls
from elderly and disabled beneficiaries, their caregivers, and family members
who are currently served by the Western Addition office and who "will experience
enormous hardship by its closure."
The week of February 28, 2005
Common Sense
Are We Still in This Together?
By Betsey Culp
Assessment districts are the equivalent of suburban gated communities
where the residents tax themselves to pay for services. It’s a good
old-fashioned concept: Pay the piper; call the tune. You get what you pay
for.
Notes from the
Science Fair Circuit
By Kim Knox
One of them, a kindergartner, is intently talking about his science
experiment, which consists of three wooden pencils in a wooden pencil
holder.
Bona Fides for
the Fourth Estate
The Supes Hold a Press Pass Hearing
By Sue Cauthen
In police-speak, "legit" or "bona fide" journalist
means "the agencies we deal with on a daily basis," Gittens said. Heading
the SFPD list is the Chronicle (122 of the 700 current press passes), the Examiner ("extensive but a lot less"), and the major TV and radio
stations.
Press Release:
American Federation of Government Employees Objects to Another SSA Office
Closure
Western Addition Office Battle
By Howard Egerman, Union Rep, AFGE Local 3172
It is clear that the elderly and disabled individuals in inner cities
and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods have limited or no access to
the service delivery systems that the agency envisions in the near future.
Press Release:
International Humor Association Picks President
Author Allen Klein of San Francisco to head Association for Applied
and Therapeutic Humor, sets goal to “Humor-Eyes the World” in 2005
Its logo is a pair of Groucho glasses perched on a
nose, with bushy brows above and an equally bushy moustache below.
Scott’s Book
Club
By Scott Harrison
Imagine a book with hundreds of people releasing their inner stories
openly and naturally and not like bugs pinned to the Styrofoam of some
egomaniac.
The week of February 21, 2005
Whose Security? -
A Voice from the Past
By Betsey Culp
In California, Governor Warren back in the early 1940s proposed a
program of health insurance for the residents of California. The
California Medical Association staged a campaign in opposition.
Jazz, Senate, and
Working Together
By Kim Knox
Then in 1996, the Republicans took control of Congress, and tension was
high both in the House and the Senate. Mikulski decided to make the first
move.
Good for SOMA!
- Cutting Ribbons & Opening Doors
By Betsey Culp
On
Monday, the City of Refuge United Church threw a bash that rivaled the city’s
toniest art openings. Channeling Pat Steger, the SF Call attended.
A Jewelle
for the City - Newsom’s Commission Appointments
By Sue Cauthen
The 10 new
commissioners say as much about Newsom as about the kind of people who get
his attention.
Schwarzenegger
vs. Gerrymander
By Steven Hill
The problem is not who draws the legislative lines — it's where people
live.
Two on the Golden Gate Park Entrance Controversy:
Press Release:
Golden Gate Park Supporters Win Approval of Coalition for San Francisco
Neighborhoods
The proposed
MLK widening was the central issue at Tuesday's Coalition for SF
Neighborhoods meeting.
Press Release: Park Defenders Present —
What's at Stake in Golden Gate Park
Save Golden Gate Park! presents
a close-up view of our campaign to stop the widening of MLK Drive and
eliminate an illegal second entrance to the deYoung Museum garage.
Fear &
Loathing: In the Heart of the American Dream - Hunter S. Thompson
(1937-2005)
By Sue Cauthen
"Are you guys really Nazis?" asked a local. "I'm Kiwanis," he replied.
Me:
Songwriter - Musicmaker - Storyteller - Freak
By Ani DiFranco
So here I am, publicly morphing into some kinda
Fortune 500-young-entrepreneur-from-hell, and all along I thought I was
just a folksinger!
Letter from Tokyo
By Scott Harrison
The
action conjures in my own mind (because I am at the place where it
happened) untold thousands of children running, screaming…burning to
death.
The week of February 14, 2005
2.16.05. We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This
- A Week Without TV
By
Betsey Culp
The blackout means that last week, meeting junkies were left sucking
sadly on their lollipops. For the rest of us, the week probably progressed
pretty much as usual.
(Continued at 2.18.05. When Prices Are High and Talk Is Cheap)
2.18.05.
When Prices Are High and Talk Is Cheap - Decision-Making at the San
Francisco School Board
By Anne-Marie Arnaqueuse
It is a truism that we French are a logical people,
but the first thing that one notices about any American city is the
chaotic nature of its public institutions. San Francisco is no exception.
Lighting a Candle
By Kim Knox
We were standing in front of John McLaren School in
Sunnyvale, protesting the deaths of 87 young adults from all parts of San
Francisco who died in violence in 2004.
The R word
- Sound the alarm now… or it’ll soon be a
reality
By
Gino Rembetes
Unless our socio-economic direction is reversed, revolution will come
within 20 years.
Making Book on the Library
- San Francisco’s New City Librarian
By
Sue Cauthen
"Books are important" Herrera said. In Pasadena, he worked hard to
balance literature with technology, a high-wire act for every 21st-century library.
Fees Are Fees and
Donations Are Donations and a Spade Is a Spade… Or Is It?
By Martin
L. Macintyre
According to
the city's Park Code 12.22 fee schedule, the commercial FEE should
have been at least $375,000 plus the cost of security, cleanup etc., and
not the paltry $5,000 they asked for or even the additional $95,000 they
actually said they got as a DONATION.
Outrageous Undercount of
Homeless People in San Francisco
Press
Release: Coalition on Homelessness
The Mayor’s
office released a count of homeless people today, claiming a 42% decrease
in the street count, and the overall number of homeless people in the City
dropping from 8,640 to 5,642. Homeless advocates are up in arms, as this
number is impossibly low.
Care Not Cash
Fact Sheet
We have been monitoring the implementation of Care Not Cash through
data gathering, surveys of homeless people, and interviews with service
providers.
Letter from
Santa Clara - “Don’t cry for me, Silicon Valley…I never really loved you.”
(Part I)
By Bill Costley
You’ll see Santa Clara's in Silicon Valley, over which only
one Carly has floated like a thinning Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
balloon for the past 6 yrs.
Letter from
Bangkok - Marketplace
By Scott Harrison
I
thought he was trying to fool me into going to some gem store to see
colored glass priced for the naïve, but I looked over and saw what
appeared to be an outdoor flea market a couple of blocks long.
The week of February 7, 2005
This & That
By Betsey Culp
San
Francisco sunshine is a little dimmer these days. Mayor Gavin Newsom has
canceled Channel 26’s coverage of the Planning Commission and the Police
Commission.
A Cautionary Tale
By Kim Knox
If I, a Green, knew about Shelley's behavior, then many others
did as well? Yet we still elected him to be our representative.
Letter from
Bangkok - Drowning in the Fountain of Youth
By Scott Harrison
Literally
tens of thousands of troops who had spent the weeks bombing the hell out
of neighboring Asian countries came to Thailand to get drunk and pay the
local poor girls to put out the last thing most had to sell. Yes, what
I'm saying is that the invaders invented it.
The week of January 31, 2005
Save the
Monsters for Halloween
By Betsey Culp
So…
what about all those Nazi “monsters”? The word choice is unfortunate,
but it’s not really the fault of Newsweek or the Chronicle.
Marshall Plan II
By Kim Knox
In this fiscal year, the City and County of San Francisco has been
forced to spend $120 million dollars because of indirect costs from the
war effort.
Allen White Comments on SanFranciscoSentinel.Com
Today the
SanFranciscoSentinel.com website says, "The Sentinel has ceased
publication."
Letter from
Santa Clara - Nanu Trips the FBI’s e-Wire
By Bill Costley
Once I was back home, I went back into my saved
e-mails from Nanu to see if I could find what had tripped the FBI’s
e-wire.
Letter From
Bangkok - Same, Same
By Scott Harrison
I asked a woman at a shop, "Where do you go on your
day off?"
"Stay at home," she answered.
The week of January 24, 2005
Organization Men
(and Women) - Starring Gavin Newsom, Ross Mirkarimi, Martin Luther King,
the Gray Panthers, and a Cast of Thousands
By Betsey Culp
While
the national Democrats sit around howling discordantly, trying to get
their act together, San Francisco progressives are making some very
pretty music.
Matchmaking on a
Personal Level and a Citywide Level
By Kim Knox
I've gotten responses from men whose main hobby is exploring
expensive but unknown wines and men who like country/western bars in
Boise, Idaho.
It’s No Urban
Legend: There’s a Hidden Cost to Wal-Mart’s “Always Low Prices” - SEIU’s
PurpleOcean.Org to Get Out the Real Facts about Wal-Mart and Working
Families in America
Press Release: SEIU
Through the
PurpleOcean.org “fact-checker,” consumers will be able draw their own
conclusions about Wal-Mart’s claims that it offers competitive wages
that are good for workers, the country, and the economy.
Letter from
Phuket, Thailand - A Tsunami Meditation
By Scott Harrison
When I first arrived in Phuket
three days ago, the most striking thing was that there was no particular
evidence at all that anything was wrong.
The week of January 17, 2005
Breaking
News: SFPD Takes Away SF Call Press Pass
By Betsey Culp
January 18, 2005. Today the Public Affairs
Office of the San Francisco Police Department denied this reporter’s
request for a press pass on the grounds that the San Francisco Call does
not cover breaking news.
Second-Day News: Making a Ruckus - Ross Mirkarimi, Martin Luther
King, the Gray Panthers, and a Cast of Thousands
By Betsey Culp
The really important story that was shunted aside by breaking news.
To come, later in the week.
Beware Those
Devilish Details
By Kim Knox
I went back and disinvited all of the non Green-endorsed candidates
as gently as possible.
Letter from
Santa Clara - Tsun@mis rise; tsun@mis fall
By Bill Costley
Someone said that a client of hers, seeing the 24/7 TV coverage of
the recent South Asian tsunami, was pressing her to get some TV coverage
for his company & its products.
The week of January 10, 2005
“Dissent,
Rebellion, and All-Around Hell-Raising” - Swearing In the Supes
By
Betsey Culp
The supervisors know well that district
elections are under attack from the right. But they also know that their
successful re-election vindicated district elections.
Unintended Consequences
By Kim Knox
My father was the only one of two people to vote for Shirley Chisholm
in our county.
Gonzalez’s Final
Exam - Scott Harrison
interviews Supervisor Matt Gonzalez on his last night in office
SH: Did Barry Bonds bury himself?
MG: I haven’t followed it too closely. But I’d
say that a defense that someone gave you steroids unknowingly would be
accompanied by a desire to prosecute that person for harming you that way.
By Steven Hill and Rob Richie
Ballot measures supporting IRV passed by margins of two-to-one in all
three cities where it was on the ballot in 2004: Berkeley (CA), Burlington
(VT), and Ferndale (MI).
Legend Emerges as Reality
- Sutro, Gonzalez, and the Pursuit of Tidal Energy
By
Christine Miller
A European tourist asked me if San Francisco had any new tidal energy
projects. About a month later, another tourist asked me the same question.
So it was obvious that there was something going on in the world with
tidal energy, but why were they asking me?
If people were made of paper, this just might work
- Textbook lessons (Part 2)
By Scott Harrison
Swinging above the trash container and her laundry cart, she smashed a big
hole in the window, then went up close and shouted out of the broken
window, “HELP! HELP SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE!!! HELP!!”
The week of January 3, 2005
Ship of
Shame -
Filipino
Crew Stranded in Long Beach
By
Sue Cauthen
The steel
carrier Katerina was halted in Long Beach last September for oil dumping
and more than 20 other violations. Its Filipino crew members had not been
paid for several months. Fears of harassment, retaliation, and loss of
future maritime employment plagued them as the rogue officers had warned
them not to cooperate with government investigators.
Happy New Year 2005!
By
Kim Knox
Five thank you's & four resolutions.
Cries for Electoral Standards Mount
By Steven Hill and Rob Richie
In an unusually serious interview with David Letterman, Brokaw said
point blank, "We've gotta fix the election system
in this country."
If people were made of paper, this just might work - Textbook lessons
(Part 1)
By Scott Harrison
Three years ago, Scott Harrison was arrested after his wife called the
police and accused him of acts of domestic violence. Since then, the account of his ongoing struggle to clear his
name has appeared in the SF Call. This letter is an update, written on the
day that Harrison's probation ended.
Note to Phil -
“San Francisco
Chronicle — Northern California’s Largest Newspaper”
By
Casey Stangl
It is common knowledge how award winning and thorough is the
Chronicle’s admired, mountainous reporting because Mr. Bronstein thrice or
more weekly tells us so.
Letter from Santa Clara
- Dumpster-Santa Splits City By The Bay
By
Bill Costley
Like most San Franciscans', my sightseeing's utilitarian. The city will
(maybe) always be there, we imagine (forgetting 1906, etc.).
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