Steven T. Jones, Author at 48 hills

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Bike safety law has bipartisan support—but will Newsom sign it?

August 4, 2022

There's widespread agreement that bicyclists should treat stop signs as yield signs. The governor has rejected that proposal in the past.

Culture

At American Steel, a trailblazing artist community is displaced for redevelopment

April 26, 2022

Tight-knit Burning Man clan reckons with moving—but may have itself paved the way for West Oakland industrial hub's gentrification

Culture

Burning Man is back—but a lot has happened since 2019

February 23, 2022

Black Rock City returns after two years of pandemic cancellations, DIY experiments and financial hardships

Art

‘It was the same story’: Bay’s iconic industrial art hubs are a dying breed

October 20, 2021

Filmmaker Yasmin Mawaz-Khan upcoming documentary offers look at one battle lost: the Ace Junkyard's quixotic 2009 fight for survival.

News + Politics

We don’t need to ‘get back to work’

June 22, 2020

People are dying to get back to work, top Republicans have been saying for the last month, justifying efforts to force the U.S. economy...

Can a museum exhibit capture Burning Man?

October 22, 2019

It has blinky lights, art cars, the gifting of trinkets, and the Temple of Reunion by legendary temple-builder David Best. There’s cool video from...

News + Politics

Biking California’s closed coastal highway

July 22, 2018

We met them in Lucia, which is less a town than a remote store and restaurant along California’s coastal highway, 13 miles north of...

Culture

The man behind The Man: Larry Harvey, 1948-2018

May 2, 2018

The death of Larry Harvey was a major loss for the Burning Man culture that started in San Francisco and spread around the world. Larry...

News + Politics

Trump’s offshore oil plan is a hostile act by a rogue nation

January 31, 2018

We can’t overstate just how much President Trump’s offshore drilling offensive threatens the planet and its inhabitants. Not only is he inviting dirty drilling...

News + Politics

Fierce resistance to save the Earth from Trump

January 17, 2017

People are resisting Trump. They won’t accept his divisive, reckless, rapacious brand of politics and they’re fighting back. That’s what I’ve seen on the...

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