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Blue America Endorsement: Saikat Chakrabarti For Congress
Saikat Chakrabarti is running for Congress in my old hometown, San Francisco. Nancy Pelosi has had the seat since 1987 and she hasn’t...
Howie Klein
Mar 128 min read
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20 Terms In Congress Is Enough— Saikat Chakrabarti Is Running Against Nancy Pelosi In San Francisco
Between the time I was living in Amsterdam and when I loved to Los Angeles, my home, for the better part of a decade, was San Francisco....
Howie Klein
Feb 73 min read
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Don't Mourn For San Francisco— Mourn For The Next San Francisco
Aaron Peskin's Defeat With Be The City By The Bay's Death Knell A week from Saturday, September 28, David Polonoff is having his book...
Howie Klein
Sep 19, 20247 min read
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Elon Musk & Other Rotten Tech Billionaires Make Another Bid To Buy San Francisco
Bernie & Pelosi Fight Back: Endorse Dean Preston Ever blurb a book? I never had— until Trouser Press Books asked me to write one for...
Howie Klein
Jul 26, 20243 min read
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There Are Reasons That Conservatives Call Themselves "Moderates" Instead Of What They Really Are
In The Long Run, Blue Dogs And New Dems Can Be Worse Than Republicans When conservatives are allowed to appropriate the word “moderate”...
Howie Klein
Jun 13, 20248 min read
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Aaron Peskin Joins Race In San Francisco's Ranked-Choice Mayoral Election Just In Time
-by Denise Sullivan In case by any chance you’ve been following the story of San Francisco, in case by chance you care, our city of...
Denise Sullivan
Apr 12, 20243 min read
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For Decades San Francisco Has Been Liberal On Social Issues & Conservative On All Things Fiscal
But People Are Freaking Out That The City Has Turned Right I washed up in San Francisco after a few years of living in a van, driving...
Howie Klein
Mar 11, 20247 min read
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What Do You Call A Tech Bro Who's A Lady?
Lexi Reese Is About To Waste Many Millions Of Dollars Yesterday, Noah Smith asked if “tech bros” ruined San Francisco. I moved there when...
Howie Klein
Jun 18, 20236 min read
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Who Is Rose Pak? New Film “Rally” Tells (Almost) All
-by Denise Sullivan Still confused about Northern California politics, San Francisco in particular, and how and why so many of our...
Denise Sullivan
Apr 23, 20232 min read
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The Bible According To Tim
As you probably know, I’m writing a memoir and occasionally post pages here. That's what this is, one of those pages. The other day an...
Howie Klein
Mar 3, 20234 min read
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Armed Police Department Robots Roaming Our Streets Shooting People? San Francisco Decides Today
Yesterday, Shahid Buttar called me to let me know that this afternoon, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on a proposal to...
Howie Klein
Nov 29, 20225 min read
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Dancing In The Dark
I hitchhiked to Miami— or tried to— when I was in high school, 14-15 years old. I was apprehended by the state highway police on the New...
Howie Klein
Nov 26, 20224 min read
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When U2 Came To Town The First Time
I’m embarrassed. I can’t remember how I first met U2. I know I was in London and it was before they had any music out. I’m guessing I met...
Howie Klein
Sep 30, 20223 min read
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How the Establishment Demonizes-- And Cancels-- The Working Class
Peter Calloway is a Deputy Public Defender at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office and I just happened to run across an important...
Howie Klein
Apr 2, 20226 min read
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San Francisco Ponders: What Comes After Nancy Pelosi?
Bonus: Should Billionaires Be Abolished? Nancy Pelosi is one month away from her 82nd birthday. She's on the ballot again for her San...
Howie Klein
Feb 23, 20225 min read
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What Really Happened In San Francisco's Recall Election?
-by Denise Sullivan “…It should really alarm people that a few tech billionaires can remove democratically-elected public officials from...
Denise Sullivan
Feb 19, 20223 min read
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Illinois GOP Senate Candidate: Dan Crenshaw Is A Cockie, Sanctimonious RINO & A Democratic Operative
Did you know that Tammy Duckworth is up for reelection next year? Don't worry, no one else did either. The GOP isn't challenging that...
Howie Klein
Aug 12, 20213 min read
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Eric Curry Isn't Waiting For Pelosi To Decide If She'll Abide By Her Agreement To Retire Or Not
This week, reporting for the Washington Post, Felicia Sonmez wrote that Pelosi may be trying to wriggle out of her agreement to retire as...
Howie Klein
May 8, 20215 min read
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