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Betty’s legacy lives on
Betty Reid Soskin was many things to many people during her 104 years on the planet.
She married twice, mothered four children, owned the first...
Back in time: California confronts Trump’s third-term talk
Could President Donald Trump be setting himself up to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did in 1941, by serving a third term as president?...
Unsung heroes fight censorship
Amidst political backlash, censorship and the denial of gender identities, librarians may be the most undersung heroes of democracy. American filmmaker Kim A. Snyder’s...
SNAP lapse leads to local scaling back, sharing and communing
East Bayers are implementing their own contingency plans as the Trump administration reluctantly agrees to issue half the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits...
Fighting fire with fire
Tatiana Haddawy wore a crown, carried a torch, and donned a teal robe and sash emblazoned with the words, “Not For Sale,” as she...
Who gets a Head Start?
When Sheena Biggers first walked into a Berkeley Head Start, she was a 19-year-old mom, looking for a safe place for her young daughter...
Renters left out of the housing-solution conversation
It’s easy to be convinced that the YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) movement has the interests of rent-burdened Californians at heart while the NIMBY...
New bill proposes people-powered politics
Zahra Ahmed is an activist, a scholar and a mother in Alameda who sometimes imagines herself running for public office. But there’s one thing...
