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Sep 19, 2023
Make Us Whole
Vanessa Gonzales is a special services aide at Lafayette Elementary School and a member of the California School Employee Association, the union for non-credentialed educators. Gonzales may already have a union contract that she’s satisfied with, but...
Sep 19, 2023
Local Control Fail
The best that can be said for the state’s efforts to encourage local governments to allow cannabis businesses to open shop is: “At least it’s not nothing.”The pot industry in California has faltered almost from the time...
Sep 12, 2023
Time of My Life
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the discrepancies between what I believe fits into a day and what actually does. I also think about how much easier life might be if I didn’t have a day job at...
Sep 12, 2023
Freedom Art
Many people in the Bay Area came to know Ai Weiwei’s visionary art in 2014, when he remained banned from traveling outside China and remotely created the large-scale “@Large,” an installation on San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island. The exhibit...
Sep 12, 2023
Long Strange Trip
It’s been a long and fraught struggle, but to the surprise of even some advocates, the chances are now decent that California is about to decriminalize several psychedelic substances, including psilocybin—that is, “magic mushrooms”—DMT and mescaline. It...
Sep 12, 2023
Hilarious Enabling
It’s difficult to describe the current political environment, which seems stranger than fiction. A former president of the United States faces 91 criminal counts in four separate indictments. Two civil cases are pending against him. He released...
Sep 5, 2023
Without Us
When Kelechi Ubozoh needed a fresh start and a safe place to land and recuperate after dealing with trauma and a suicide attempt, she sought refuge in California a little over a decade ago. “The Mental Health...
