BY BILL PICTURE Published: July, 2018 San Francisco’s Pier 39 and Aquarium of the Bay announced a plan last month to minimize the distribution of plastic straws along the San Francisco waterfront in an effort to reduce the harmful pollution of waterways. The announcement fell on the heels of an ordinance introduced in […]
Published: February, 2001 Journal, March 6, 2000 "The poet’s challenge is to find something in culture that isn’t already defined as poetic and make it poetic." Robert Pinsky Miles of deserted concrete, acres of unoccupied housing, twelve feet tall anchor fence. Once a week I sail past this forlorn patch of neglect in the midst […]
Published: March, 2003 Editor’s note: This kicks off our latest editorial flight of fancy, in which we will occasionally lunch with folks of note and print interesting conversational snippets. We start off by visiting with John M. Gioia, a member of the Contra Costa Board of Supervisors, representing District 1. Gioia’s district includes the Richmond […]
