Fiction: Girth Worms
Steven J. Moss It seemed like a good idea at the time. I’d just come back from India and had lost a lot of weight on account of a worm I’d picked up…
Steven J. Moss
Publisher’s View: Pakistan
I’ve been to some out-of-the-way places, including Haiti and Niger, neither of which receive much American tourist traffic. When I tell people about these travels, they generally express mild curiosity,…
Publisher’s View: Books
About 20 years ago, biking at Burning Man I came across an impressive sculpture composed of books. The artist was present, fielding questions from passersby. One asked whether, in Burning…
Publisher’s View: Energy Affordability
California’s for-profit utility electricity rates – including Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) – have risen sharply over the past five years, faster and higher than municipal utility rates, or…
Publisher’s View: Fulbright
In June most members of the Fulbright Student Program board resigned, after the Trump Administration blocked “a substantial number” of scholars from receiving grants. Like so many federal initiatives, the…
Publisher’s View: Loneliness
In 2023 the U.S. Surgeon General declared that America suffered from a “loneliness epidemic,” caused by shrinking participation in such communal outlets as Kiwanis Clubs and bowling leagues. Replacement activities…
Publisher’s View: The Pitt
At first the Max show, The Pitt, seems like a remake of ER, the ought-era television hospital procedural that launched George Clooney’s career. Noah Wyle, who played fresh-faced John Carter…
Publisher’s View: Government
I became a federal employee in 1985, skirting a government-wide hiring freeze by vaunt of being a Presidential Management Intern (PMI), a program intended to recruit the “best and the…
Publisher’s View: Land Trusts
Kings Canyon, Sequoia, and Yosemite are visited by upwards of five million people a year, fulfilling the National Park Service’s writ to preserve natural resources “for the enjoyment, education, and…
Publisher’s View: The Potrero View
“Mobile Drug Clinic for Hill Rejected,” “Assault Wave Hits Elders,” “Community Tree Planting Gets Underway.” These headlines, published in The Potrero View’s August 1970 inaugural issue, aren’t so different from…
Publisher’s View: More Wisdom
Steven Moss turned 64-years-old last fall, a passage that prompted him to share the “wisdom” he’s acquired over the past six decades and a half. In the olden days people…
Fiction: The Sounds of Silence
“I haven’t spoken to her in twenty-two years, and I don’t intend to start now,” my mother proclaimed, scrubbing at the already clean counter to emphasize her point. “But Mom,…
Publisher’s View: Wisdom
My 64th birthday is at the end of this month. Not that old, right? We have senators, Supreme Court justices, presidents, who are a lot older. They cling on to…
Residential Construction in SF Dominated by Two-Bedroom or Smaller in Midrises
Access to housing, and the associated social ills of unaffordability – sprawl, crowding, commuting, homelessness – is a perennial political hot topic in San Francisco. Most everybody wants to increase…
Publisher’s View: Misdiagnosed
We’re a Kaiser Permanente family. I’ve been a member since before college, apart from a few employment-related coverage gaps. Our daughter, Sara, was born at a Kaiser facility on Geary…
Publisher’s View: The Cave
Roughly 2,500 years ago the Greek philosopher Plato wrote The Republic, in which he floated an allegory so compelling it remains in active use today. Plato described people who spend…
What’s in Your Closet?
These photographs surfaced from my sister’s, Elise’s, closet. Though the linage is uncertain, in 1918 my Jewish great-great grandparents, Israel Moskovitz and Elka Aspis, lived in Kelse, Poland with their…
Four Candidates, Plus Roughly 40 More, Vie to Replace Incumbent Mayor
Mayors running for reelection typically scare off significant challengers, given the power of incumbency. Not so this year. Four notables – Mark E. Farrell, Daniel Lurie, Aaron Peskin and Ahsha…
Publisher’s View: History
Each of us, if we live long enough, is a part of history. Between the time I was born in 1960 and now, terrorist planes crashed into and toppled Manhattan’s…
Publisher’s View: Doom
Lots of indicators suggest that we Americans are struggling. Twice as many should-be students are missing more than 10 percent of the school year than before the pandemic. Drug overdose…
Publisher’s View: Facts
Facts are facts. The sun rises and sets as expected by the clock, even if time itself is subject to deeper exploration. Black men are incarcerated at much higher rates…
Publisher’s View: Fix It
Ask pretty much any San Franciscan what’s wrong with their City and they’ll quickly come up with a passionate, well-considered, response: too many mentally unstable people living on sidewalks; streets…
Publisher’s View: Homes
California Housing Element Law requires that San Francisco catalyze creation of sufficient accommodations to meet its Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) goals, as approved by the California Department of Housing…
Publisher’s View: 53
The View doesn’t have so much a business model as a business prayer. Every month, we hope that enough ads are booked, subscriptions taken, and donations received that we can…
Publisher’s View: Go Fish
Phishing texts – smishing – regularly pop up on our cellphones. These obscure messages are purportedly from people who know us, or sent by innocent mistake, but their real purpose…