April 23
In”All of Us Yahoos” (NYRB, March 26) Dan Sperrin devotes about 5,000 words to the...
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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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Barbara McNair’s Unsung Heroism
When Barbara McNair died in February of 2007, not a single obituary mentioned her role in bringing...
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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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That Championship Season
By Fred Gardner December 5, 2025. The Golden State Warriors invited the seven surviving players...
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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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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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