07 Oct 2019

Why You Should Support Dean Preston for District 5 Supervisor

Political junkies call electoral contests such as the one coming this November an off-year election.  The characteristics of such elections are: no big political office such as President or Governor, low voter turnout, and usually a more conservative electorate.  But interested BAS readers can turn San Francisco’s off-year election into

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16 Mar 2017

Trump Budget Calls for Border Wall: Slashes Environment, Diplomacy & Labor Protection

The message is clear in Trump’s new budget.  Federal priorities lie in increased military spending and wall construction, while cutting protections for the environment, international diplomacy, education, aid for the poor, and the arts. $2.6 billion to begin building the wall on the Mexican border and $1.5 billion for expanded detention,

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08 May 2015

9 Impressions in the Aftermath of the Baltimore Unrest

  Baltimore has always been good to me. Hospitable and friendly, I’ve never left Charm City without having a good time. When I began to read about and watch the protests, unrest and repression unfolding on the Chesapeake, I felt compelled to see for myself what was really going on.

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03 Nov 2010

DIY: Beer Can Brilliance

Now that Halloween is over and done with, we’ve moved on to cringing over Christmas. Displays are going up right and left encouraging us to be good consumers. But who has the money to shop for all your loved ones, roommates, acquaintances, former lovers and drinking pals? No one we

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