Friday, May 3, 2024

Tagged with: ethics

Power, corruption, and lust: A timely ‘Tosca’ at SF Opera

Shawna Lucey has strong feeling about Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, which she directs for the San Francisco Opera October 3-30.  “It’s the perfect opera,” she said. “It’s...

Big donor supports GOP Senate campaign, Lindsey Graham … and Jessica Ho, Sonja Trauss, and Christine Johnson

In the wake of the horrifying Kavanaugh hearings, it seems likely most San Franciscans are hoping that the GOP loses control of both the...

Big Tech, Real Estate money pours into D6 and D4

You can tell a lot about a politician by what they have done in previous offices – a School Board member running for supervisor...

Examined Life: Power, patriarchy, and the imperfect guru

It’s the end of an era, albeit a very short one. In 2014, Against the Stream (ATS) Buddhist Meditation Society—an organization founded by counter culture...

American Psychological Association beats back military psychologists

On Wednesday the leadership council of the American Psychological Association (APA) voted by an overwhelming 61-33% to keep its current policy prohibiting members from...

Arts Forecast: Pistahan, Salsa Festival, Ronnie Spector …

ARTS FORECAST This weekend heralds another massive Outside Lands—the first in its 10-year history to be headlined by a woman, the awesome Janet Jackson. The...

Psychologists push to return to Guantanamo Bay

American Psychological Association (APA) policy prohibits members from working for the military in Guantanamo or any site where torture takes place. Now some military...

OPINION: The best sort of democracy for San Francisco

Calvin Welch has been a dedicated housing activist and progressive leader for decades, but we have consistently disagreed with him about Ranked Choice Voting...

Tech and real-estate money pours into SF mayoral race

So much money has poured into political clubs and independent expenditure committees supporting London Breed and attacking her opponents that the Ethics Commission has...

Author of SF campaign-finance law says loophole favors Breed

One of the authors of the city’s campaign-finance law says that the Ethics Commission is “improperly interpreting” the rules on spending caps in a...