Dancing With the One Who Brung Ya
” District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly Photos by Luke Thomas By Chris Daly June 30, 2008 Because of you, tonight I can stand here and say that I will be…
Open Letter to Supervisor Jake McGoldrick
By Pat Monk June 30, 2008 Dear Jake, Good morning. I have to confess that sometimes the positions you take leave me totally bewitched, bothered and bewildered. You are frequently…
A Legacy of Pain
By Mike Lynberg June 30, 2008 After they made hundreds of people sick on the Central Coast, and nearly killed at least two children, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Secretary A.…
Last Song of the Seven-Hearted Boy
By Adrian L. Jenkins, Special to Fog City Journal June 26, 2008 The last sleeps of martyrs, exiles and prophets are perhaps always starless. This fate, as ultimately told despite…
Lessons Ethics Should Have Learned
from the Carolyn Knee Case
San Franciscans for Affordable Clean Energy campaign treasurer Carolyn Knee, flanked by defense attorney David Waggoner (left) and her husband, Richard Knee, crack smiles when the Ethics Commission finds July…
Joe O’Donoghue: “Laconic Officials In Catatonic Mien,
Sleep Unperturbed, Indifferent”
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…
Life and Death in Baghdad
By Terry Canaan June 23, 2008 Los Angeles, Miami, maybe? If you were to guess where that photo above was taken, Iraq would probably not be your first guess. In…