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Beyond Zuckerberg General Hospital

Bob Prentice - December 5, 2018

The current flap over Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s proposal to remove Mark Zuckerberg’s name from San Francisco General Hospital because of Facebook’s failure to protect...

Culture

Transgender rights battle continues, on Trump’s rocky ground

Emily Wilson - October 3, 2018

When Kris Hayashi was executive director of the Audre Lorde Project in New York City, a community organizing center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, Two...

News + Politics

Cooking in your car

Tiny - August 15, 2018

The smell of salt, grease and fried meat filled the air, with just hint of burnt sugar thrown in. My mind wandered to breakfasts...

News + Politics

Why workers had to strike in Oakland

Tim Redmond - December 7, 2017

I shouldn’t be surprised that the mainstream East Bay news media are, to say the least, unsympathetic toward the Oakland city workers’ strike. The...

News + Politics

59 dead. Hundreds maimed. And we still can’t get real gun control

Tim Redmond - October 2, 2017

The best analysis I’ve seen so far of the horrific killings in Las Vegas is from Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker, who notes: If...

News + Politics

Yes (on affordable housing) In My Back Yard!

Tim Redmond - July 24, 2017

I’m kind of done talking about the Yimby conference, which has gotten far more press than you normally see for a wonky housing policy...

News + Politics

Democrat who blocked single-payer gets big money from insurance industry

Tim Redmond - June 26, 2017

State Assembly Speaker Rendon, who is blocking single-payer health care in the state, has received more than $700,000 in campaign money from the insurance...

News + Politics

The big media lie about single-payer health care

Tim Redmond - June 4, 2017

The headlines were so consistent, so predictably bad, that I almost couldn’t read them. “Single-payer will cost $400 billion.” “Single-payer costs dwarf entire state...

News + Politics

Single-payer’s next step

Anjali Baliga - May 19, 2017

On April 26, 2017, the Healthy California Act (S.B. 562) was passed with a 5-2 vote at the Senate Health Committee hearing in Sacramento. The...

News + Politics

The Agenda, April 24 -39: Real health-care reform!

Tim Redmond - April 23, 2017

A measure that would transform health care in California and set the stage for a profound change nationwide comes before its first committee Wednesday/26. SB...

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Beyond Zuckerberg General Hospital

Transgender rights battle continues, on Trump’s rocky ground

Cooking in your car

Why workers had to strike in Oakland

59 dead. Hundreds maimed. And we still can’t get real gun control

Yes (on affordable housing) In My Back Yard!

Democrat who blocked single-payer gets big money from insurance industry

The big media lie about single-payer health care

Single-payer’s next step

The Agenda, April 24 -39: Real health-care reform!

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