In 2016, like millions of other people in America, I was sure there was no way that Donald Trump could possibly win the presidential election. I voted. And that was that. Nothing ... Read More
Sadly, San Francisco has become a laboratory for social experiments that are proving destructive and have incentivized the criminal trade. At the heart of the matter is the ... Read More
In July, I authored an article questioning where District 7 Board of Supervisors candidate Vilaska Nguyen resides. Vilaska, a San Francisco public defender, and his wife have resi... Read More
In his September 21 blog, Tim Redmond claimed my recent article was inaccurate when I ascribed the sexual assault on a juvenile girl by a released burglar as the responsibility of... Read More
Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, recently initiated fact checking in response to the incessant false public statements made by elected public officials on his social media platfor... Read More
Little did I know that by moving to the Marina, I’d be joining a massive swell. From 2011 to 2016, a wave of millennials crashed down on Crissy Field and across the entire 94123... Read More
Recently we learned that the National Park Service (NPS) wants to move the Alcatraz ferry from its long-term home at the Port of San Francisco to Fort Mason. This move may be neces... Read More
When Sean Penn intercedes to save a North Beach landmark, I sit up and take notice. One assumes Penn has more pressing things to do — like going to bat for UNESCO’s Haitian... Read More
In the December 2012 Marina Times, Susan Dyer Reynolds wrote about “big-box” Equinox Fitness moving into the old Metro Theater on Union Street and compared it to the propos... Read More
For years, there has been a movement to convince cable television providers to charge for their channels on an a la carte basis. You can select each of the channels you want and pa... Read More
For several years now, there has been momentum to close a large stretch of Market Street to automobile traffic. The Better Market Street organization is pushing a plan that would d... Read More
Page Street has become the bane of my existence where bicyclists behaving badly are concerned. Driving home one recent afternoon, I stopped at a four-way sign, looked all direction... Read More
Dear Editor: In “Blond roots” (May 2012), John Zipperer only told part of the story. I did a short blip on the blonds in the Marina 10 years ago, when I wrote the column ... Read More
“In closing, I want to dedicate this story to my late helmet. She died in heroic fashion today as my head slammed into the tarmac … may she die knowing that because she com... Read More
In our August 2012 issue, the Marina Times will present a special feature recognizing people from the Marina and across the northside of San Francisco who have made a positive diff... Read More