Obama Archives - 48 hills

Music

Under the Stars: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass breezes in with the fall

John-Paul Shiver - September 26, 2023

Plus: Pharoah Sanders, La Doña, TRICKY FM, Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids, local punk posse Spiral Dub, more music

Homelessness

Some city officials are asking the courts to endorse more homeless sweeps

Tim Redmond - August 17, 2023

I got a press release this morning from the South Beach Democratic Club, which reads as follows: Supervisor Dorsey and Supervisor Mandelman will be holding...

Drug policy

The myth of drug cartels is a cover for state-sanctioned violence

Caitlin Donohue - August 11, 2023

Author Oswaldo Zavala says the way we think about Mexican narcos is all wrong

Music

Killer Mike: ‘I’ve been making dope music for 20 years, but people haven’t really met me’

Joshua Rotter - July 24, 2023

On rapper's new album 'Michael,' things he's long needed to say about himself and the state of the world

News + Politics

Why I went to DC to protest Biden’s foolish and cruel policy on Cuba

Mark Ginsburg - July 3, 2023

The ongoing economic blockade, a relic of Trump, makes no geopolitical or human sense.

City Hall

Breed says she wants even more power

Tim Redmond - June 27, 2023

In national podcast, she says she missed the pandemic days when she had emergency authority and calls for limits on what supes can do.

News + Politics

A first glimpse at the two progressive candidates for US Senate

Tim Redmond - May 16, 2023

Working Families Party forum brought Lee and Porter to a statewide progressive audience—and both still have some work to do.

Lit

11+ books that stuck with us in 2022 (and a good part come from the East Bay)

Lou Fancher - January 2, 2023

Leila Mottley, Hua Hsu, Ibram X. Kendi, Ericka Huggins, even an appearance by Barack Obama on this year's list

Lit

Obama in Charleston: ‘Grace’ delves into White House response to horrific hate crime

Lou Fancher - December 2, 2022

White House Chief Speechwriter Cody Keenan reflects on pressures and transcendence of '10 Days in the Battle for America'

Elections

What to look for as tonight’s election results come in

Tim Redmond - November 8, 2022

Swing district, taxes—and the national fear factor

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