Glen Martin / California Magazine
Aug 18, 20174 min read
Is Tunneling Water Across the State Our Best Option?
Like many before him, California Governor Jerry Brown has vowed to “fix” the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, that vast and beleaguered...
Elliott Negin
Aug 18, 20176 min read
Energy Department Scientists Barred From Attending Nuclear Power Conference
Edwin Lyman, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, was one of 30 U.S.-based scientists scheduled to speak at the quadrennial...
Elliott Negin
Jul 12, 20178 min read
Trump Should Build A Wall, But Not On The Mexican Border
After President Trump met with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto last Friday at the G20 summit in Germany, a reporter asked him if...
Jon Carroll / joncarrollproserose.com
Jul 7, 20174 min read
Jon Carroll / Manly Men
I’m writing this in order to find out what I think. I do not expect this to be easy. I am treading in weirdly dangerous territory, and I...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
Jun 4, 20173 min read
Ahhh Havana – a Snapshot
An old but central water pipe sprang a leak. The water department dug up the 100 year old line to replace the section but the adjoining...
Krissy Eliot / California Magazine
May 8, 201711 min read
Ann Coulter at Berkeley: Untangling the Truth
It’s been about a week since Ann Coulter tried but failed to speak on the Berkeley campus, and the outrage continues unabated. Outrage...
Shelly Gehshan
May 2, 20174 min read
Signs of Our Times .... the People's Climate March
“It’s already hot enough in NC” “April is the new August” “91 degrees in April. SAD!” It was fitting that the temperature for the Climate...
Glen Martin
Mar 17, 20176 min read
The SF Bay-Delta Is Invaluable. What Will Happen to It Under Trump?
The Bay-Delta, comprised of San Francisco Bay and the shared delta of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers, is the largest estuary on...
Jeffrey Nightbyrd Shero
Mar 16, 20174 min read
Fukushima: Dangerous to You
This week Fukushima Power plant has become the worst nuclear disaster in the history of the earth, a fact ignored by the establishment...
Jon Carroll
Mar 16, 20172 min read
Jon Carroll / Rage against Rumpcare
Rage is a useless emotion. It may be an appropriate emotion, but it scrambles your brain. It is so intense that it makes you feel like...
Michael Ventura
Mar 14, 20179 min read
Ventura at 4am / March!
This piece introduces a new series of essays, ventura_at_4am, specifically focused on Resistance and Vision during this crisis of the...
the Lunch Guys
Mar 2, 201715 min read
The Lunch Guys / Trump & the Press
Every Thursday for the last 20+ years a group of artists, scientists, writers and one bail bondsman have gotten together in the Mission...
Various writers
Feb 24, 201715 min read
Opinion / Facing Fascism
This is an ongoing compendium of articles concerning the election of 2016 and its aftermath: "But, despite populism’s seeming ubiquity,...