By Terry Canaan
July 3, 2008
Good news for marriage equality in California. At least one national Democrat isn’t joining in on the irrational panic over same sex marriage there.
Associated Press:
Presidential candidate Barack Obama has come out against a ballot measure that seeks to outlaw same-sex marriage.
A club for gay Democrats in San Francisco says it […]
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By Julia Cheever
July 1, 2008
Five proponents of a ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage have asked the California Supreme Court to reject a bid to knock the measure off the Nov. 4 state ballot.
The supporters said in a brief filed with the court in San Francisco Monday that removing the initiative would be an […]
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By Julia Cheever
June 30, 2008
A commission created by the California Senate four years ago released a report today saying the state’s death penalty system is broken and “close to collapse.”
The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice said the state’s death row of 670 inmates is the largest in the nation and that appeals […]
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From the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
June 27, 2008
Washington, D.C. - Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Center and Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement:
“Our fight to enact sensible gun laws will be undiminished by the Supreme Court’s decision in the Heller case. While we disagree with the Supreme Court’s […]
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By Joe O’Donoghue
June 25, 2008
The late Jean-Michel Folon, a Belgian artist, illustrated brilliantly, in bright color form, the desolate voids of 20th century cities and their inhabitants.
This blank verse entitled “A Political Urban Legacy” was influenced by Jean-Michel’s graphics. He is best known for his illustrations of Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis.”
A Political Urban Legacy
Bureaucratic-honed streets […]
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June 19, 2008
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Officiated by Mayor Gavin Newsom, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon became
the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco yesterday
following the state Supreme Court’s decision last month
to legalize same-sex marriage.
Photos by John Han and Stephen Dorian Miner
By Jesse Dungan
June 17, 2008
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon wed at San Francisco City Hall yesterday, 55 years into […]
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June 8, 2008
“We’re literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up.”
- James Howard Kunstler
Global oil peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now. Are today’s suburbs destined to become the slums of the future? This is a short version of “The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and […]
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Bo Diddley, December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008, RIP.
Photo courtesy Chess Records
By John Hoctor
June 7, 2008
As an inquisitive 7-year-old during the lazy crazy summer of 1962, two years before Beatlemania, seemingly out of nowhere, was unleashed upon our shores, I habitually would roam my Father’s giant depression-era 12-room Yonkers house alone, desperately trying to […]
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June 6, 2008
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