Politics

Marjorie Taylor Greene Bay Area Fundraiser Cancelled
You know Marjorie Taylor Greene. She’s the deranged, freshman Georgia Republican Congresswoman who worships both Trump and QAnon, suggested that the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting was staged, said there’s no evidence a plane crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, and maintains that wildfires were started by Jewish space lasers. Yeah, she’s a real peach.

The Many Similarities Between San Francisco and New York City
If you’ve ever spent a significant amount of time in San Francisco, CA, and New York City, NY, you may have noticed a large amount of eerie similarities. What makes these two cities, about as far away from each other as they could get in the contiguous United States, so

Oakland Has the Worst Roads in the United States
Shitty public infrastructure is something that we in the Bay Area have gotten used to. Whether it’s concrete blocks falling from above on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge, large gaps in our public transportation network or power lines that regularly create fiery deathstorms; we’ve generally accepted that taxpayer funded projects in

What Comedians Actually Think of the New Chappelle Special
The Controversy There has been tremendous backlash in the LGBTQ communities, as well as an unnerving silence from a range of Comedians in regards to the heated controversy around Dave Chapelle’s latest Comedy special The Closer. Where is the appropriate line in “comedy” — from low brow humor to the

Walmart Gives Gov. Greg Abbott $10,000 Five Days After Abortion Ban
Walmart is the gift that keeps on giving…reasons not to shop there. Look, squirrel! The discount retail behemoth would like you to turn your attention to their super early Black Friday sales, renewed commitment to American jobs, stock performance…anything to keep conscious consumers from pulling back the curtain on today’s

2,200+ Kaiser Employees on Unpaid Leave for Not Getting Vaxxed
By Keith Burbank Oakland-based health care provider Kaiser Permanente had just over 2,200 employees on unpaid administrative leave as of Monday because they were not vaccinated from COVID-19, Kaiser officials said. The company told its employees Aug. 2 that they would have to be vaccinated. Seventy-eight percent of employees and

Bill Signed to End Mandatory Minimum Jail Sentences for Non-Violent Drug Offenses in CA
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a bill authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, that ends mandatory minimum jail sentences for non-violent drug offenses. Wiener said Senate Bill 73 will help end mass incarceration and what he called the state’s war on drugs. “Our prisons and jails are

Haney and Campos Face Off Over Progressive Values Ahead of Election Call
By Ian Firstenberg Last week, Assemblymember David Chiu was appointed to take on the role as San Francisco’s city attorney after 20-year incumbent Dennis Herrera announced he will leave to head up the embattled Public Utilities Commission. Chiu is expected to step down on Oct. 31. The vacancy requires Gov.