Health Insurance Archives

Housing

New laws seek to end private developer risk, burdening public instead

Zelda Bronstein - November 6, 2023

Why should cities and counties guarantee profits for builders and push the costs of growth onto the local taxpayers?

Movies

Screen Grabs: Two tough films focus on the people hit hard by economic inequality

Dennis Harvey - August 16, 2023

Great examinations of working class erosion ('Between Two Worlds') and family opioid addiction ('Stay Awake')

Labor

‘Don’t be a Giant idiot’—workers demand better COVID safety at ballpark

Marc Norton - August 30, 2021

Growing number of positive tests set off alarm among the people who serve food and beverages at Oracle Park.

Labor

Gig workers aren’t getting the healthcare they were promised

Garrett Leahy - April 29, 2021

Survey shows that most rideshare and delivery drivers are unable to access the benefits under Prop. 22

COVID

Moscone vaccination site is fast and efficient

Marke B. - March 16, 2021

Downtown site distributes 6000 COVID shots per day, but there's no reason to be daunted by smooth process

News + Politics

Breaking the law and abusing workers plays well on Wall Street

Tim Redmond - December 14, 2020

Breaking the law repeatedly, enabling thousands of evictions, ducking your taxes, overturning state labor codes, and abusing your workers seems to be a recipe...

Examined Life

Examined Life: Being human at a time like this

Karen Macklin - October 28, 2020

The future of our country may hang in the balance, but our humanity need not

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Don’t worry, he said, COVID’s ‘Totally Under Control’

Dennis Harvey - October 12, 2020

A new doc parses the US pandemic response catastrophe. Plus: Driving While Black, more

Music

Out of the Crate: When ‘Bitches Brew’ put us all on notice

John-Paul Shiver - August 19, 2020

Miles Davis entered Columbia Records Studio B in Manhattan on Tuesday, August 19, 1969—one day after the Woodstock Music festival ended. There, his explorations...

Labor

Judge orders Uber, Lyft to treat drivers as employees

Garrett Leahy - August 10, 2020

San Francisco Superior Court judge Ethan Schulman issued a prohibitory injunction ruling Monday stating that Uber and Lyft must cease classifying employees as independent...

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New laws seek to end private developer risk, burdening public instead

Screen Grabs: Two tough films focus on the people hit hard by economic inequality

‘Don’t be a Giant idiot’—workers demand better COVID safety at ballpark

Gig workers aren’t getting the healthcare they were promised

Moscone vaccination site is fast and efficient

Breaking the law and abusing workers plays well on Wall Street

Examined Life: Being human at a time like this

Screen Grabs: Don’t worry, he said, COVID’s ‘Totally Under Control’

Out of the Crate: When ‘Bitches Brew’ put us all on notice

Judge orders Uber, Lyft to treat drivers as employees

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