Author: Fred Gardner

Laguna Honda’s Predictable Crisis

September 13, 2022  was the day on which all the patients at Laguna Honda were supposed to have been evacuated and the hospital’s federal funding cut off. The shutdown had been decreed back in April by the Centers for...

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Makaveckas PS

Guilty Verdict Handed Down on Former SFPD Officer JULY 21, 2015 sfpd press release Today, a guilty verdict was handed down in Superior Court against former officer Paul Makaveckas. This verdict comes as a result of a joint...

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Mamdani Ad

A 30-second spot. The screen shows a poster for the movie Casablanca.  Dooley Wilson is singing “… You must remember this…”  QUICK DISSOLVE to footage  in which Bogart, at a table in his cafe, is being...

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Funding High School Sports

A Conversation with Supervisor Terence “Kayo” Hallinan  (11/13/91 in the Anderson Valley Advertiser) AVA: Your plan was to tax The Giants and the 49ers to help pay for high school sports? Hallinan: Yes –high school and...

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Post-its

After posting this memoir, I moved from the East Bay to a town in Sonoma County. Unpacking, I’ve come across some items that I would included in the Kayo Chronicles. Here they are: • A 1978 Christmas card from the Hallinan...

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