Tussles over land use changes are nothing new in San Francisco. Protests erupt over removing a diseased street tree, or building a backyard deck. Larger projects are periodically blocked. The Whole Foods on Rhode Island Street was supposed to be Macromedia; community advocates surgically removed Kaiser Permanente from opening an outlet at the Corovan site.…
While Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton continue to wrestle for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, San Francisco is in the middle of an internecine battle between three candidates for the State Senate. Current State Senator Carole Migden is running against Assemblyman Mark Leno and former Assemblyman Joe Nation. San Francisco Police Commissioner Joe Alioto Veronese…
The Potrero View is San Francisco’s longest-running neighborhood newspaper. We’ll celebrate our 45th anniversary this August. Throughout its years, the View has had an ongoing commitment to and engagement with the arts and artists. The paper’s founding publisher, Ruth Passen, was part of the mix of craftspeople, artists, activists, and writers who settled on the…
President Barack Obama’s plan to normalize relations with Cuba, announced late last year, sparked memories of a family trip I took to the island more than a decade ago. My sister and three nephews, wife and toddler daughter went to deliver pharmaceuticals to a synagogue, though mostly we were curious to experience this Cold War…