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07 Oct 2020

4 Things Your Server Wants You To Know About Dining Out During COVID

Cruising into our seventh month of living through a pandemic, everyone is still adjusting to the new normal and wondering if we will ever have the old normal back again. Each day brings more adjustments we all have to deal with, but there are few things restaurant workers would like

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06 Oct 2020

When Pressure Works: DA Reopens Oscar Grant Case with Other Officer in Sights

It’s been more than 11 years since Oscar Grant was killed by a BART police officer on the Fruitvale station platform, but the case may not yet be settled.  In response to demands made by Grant’s family, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley announced Monday: “I have assigned a team

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06 Oct 2020

Thomas, Alito Signal Same-Sex Marriage Rights Could Be Undone

Get ready for the undoing. It was February 12, 2004 in San Francisco when then Mayor Gavin Newsom officiated the country’s first same-sex marriage ceremony, helping legally tie the knot for Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, a couple who’d already been together for 50 years. In the month that followed,

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06 Oct 2020

Texas Officer Arrested After Killing Unarmed “Pillar of the Community”

The Texas Rangers arrested a Wolfe City police officer two days after he fatally shot Jonathan Price, a 31-year-old unarmed Black man, while he was walking away “in a non-threatening posture.” The story sounds familiar because it unfortunately is.  From the disturbance call to the officer’s trigger reaction, to the

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05 Oct 2020

13 GOP Scandals You Might Have Missed During Trump’s Walter Reed Debacle

This list is going around FB so I figured I’d share it with links so people can verify exactly how evil and corrupt the GOP is. Here is the news we would’ve heard this weekend had Walter Reed not dominated the headlines: – Coronavirus is surging anew in several states

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05 Oct 2020

There’s SO Much Great Stuff on Netflix in October!

On Netflix, October’s first half brings such expected scary shows as the new season of Mike Flanagan’s “Haunting” series and a film about monster-hunting babysitters.  But who would have expected a German series mixing beer and violence?  Or seeing an acclaimed film about imagining the filmmaker’s father’s death?  Or even

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05 Oct 2020

The November 2020 BAS Voter Guide

Primarily researched and written by Stephen Torres with help from Stuart Schuffman. We stand at the precipice of one of the most polarizing federal elections that has ever occurred in this country. Each day brings another dash of chaos, and yet here we are, once again sifting through another labyrinthine

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