At the Occupy San Francisco demonstration, the “human microphone” seemed cult-like to me, a form of protest that encourages obedience to the inanities of some speakers’ words. Is it a lame, and poorly organized disaster? Or am I just too old to get it?
Florida recently instituted a drug test as a qualification to get welfare benefits and discovered that not that many poor people were on drugs. This Ohio state representative thinks we should test the bankers who got the bailout money too.
What kind of woman would marry Jerry Brown, especially as he hit 70 years of age? That was the question underlying the profile of his wife Anne Gust that I did for San Francisco magazine in January 2011, in time for Brown’s inauguration to his third term as governor. Turned out Anne Gust is focused, … Anne Gust — Jerry Brown’s secret weapon
Right about now, all over San Francisco, my magazine piece about the Lembi family is being taken off the shelves and the next issue of San Francisco Magazine is filling that slot. As a writer, it’s always sad when that happens, when the reading public moves on. After working on the story for a year … Good-bye To The Story, Hello To The City
A British company, The New York Times reports, had the same idea as the Lembi’s did, and met a similar fate. Dawnay Day bought up 47 rent controlled apartment buildings in East Harlem hoping to “ease out” the lower paying tenants and rehabilitate the apartments for a more affluent crowd of urban pioneers. The bottom … Same Business Plan, Different City