Ed McGovern has a pretty good track record when it comes to raising public awareness — the longtime political consultant and former deputy mayor in San Francisco was the brains behind the early campaigns to get a new baseball park built in The City. Now, he and his wife, Tina, have turned their talents to an attempt to raise money to fight Coats’ disease, a rare eye disorder affecting their youngest child, Jack.
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Usually it’s so quiet at San Francisco Golden Gate Angling and Casting Club that you can hear a line drop. That’s not the case this week as the venerable casting pools in Golden Gate Park are the site of the American Casting Association’s 100th national tournament.
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There is an unwritten rule in journalism — deeply held, and almost religiously followed — that columnists should never criticize other columnists.
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With some schools opening in just a week, it’s nice to know the kids can have something to look forward to this year — reduced academic courses, cuts in athletic programs and lingering budget problems.
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The move this week to put a charter amendment on the November ballot to create a new Historic Preservation Commission in San Francisco overseeing historic buildings and landmarks seems like a great idea except for one reason: We don't need one.
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On Monday, Sept. 10, 2001, U.S. officials intercepted conversations among al-Qaida operatives boasting in Arabic such sentiments as "The match begins tomorrow" and "Tomorrow is zero hour." Those conversations were not translated until Wednesday, the 12th. What a difference a day makes.
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It may be fetching to some voters, but the theme of "change" so embraced by so many candidates in this year’s presidential contest is vacuous, an idea with absolutely no content in and of itself. We need change, we are nevertheless told: change, change, change, as if any kind of change would be ipso facto wonderful.
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There’s no way to sugarcoat the sheer bizarreness of Iowa’s first-in-the-nation process of choosing presidential nominees via local caucuses rather than popular vote.
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During a secret briefing two years ago on waterboarding and other interrogation techniques employed by the U.S. government, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood on her chair and waved her fists in the air, screaming at the
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