Local GOPers weigh in Sunday, hundreds of California Republicans gathered in a banquet room of the San Francisco Airport Hotel for the general session of the California Republican Party’s (CRP) Spring Convention. On the agenda for the meeting was the ratification of the Party’s platform. Every four years the CRP redrafts the platform that will…
Man who killed MCC member gets 6 years, members react BY NEAL PUTNAM Some members of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) reacted with surprise and disappointment Sunday when they learned about the 6-year prison term handed down Feb. 24 for the man who, in 2009, killed Vance Shazier, an MCC member who was often…
SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey S. White has ruled the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, in Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management, Karen Golinski’s challenge to the denial of her request for equal health insurance benefits for her wife. Golinski, a federal court employee, brought suit after her request was…
Sgt. Brandon Morgan and Dalan Wells celebrate the Marine’s homecoming.
The Oscars were outstanding – a return to glamour and traditions, but I wanted The Help to win everything. San Francisco This has been one of my very favorite destinations since the 1960s. Yes, those hippie years were outrageous and, of course, I wore both bell bottoms and mini skirts (with high go go boots)….
dvd of the week Like Crazy is a naturalistic romance about two young people in love who behave like young people in love. There’s nothing crazy about them or the movie. That it’s still so successful, so entertaining and moving, despite being so honest and realistic, is a testament to the skills of director Drake…
dvr this I hope that NBC’s third attempt in six months to find a drama on Thursday nights works out with Awake, a high-concept brain twister about a detective who seems to be living in two realities, one where his wife died in a car crash and another where his son died. It comes from…
Those who think Gov. Mitt Romney is the more threatening candidate to President Barack Obama should take heart from this week’s results in Michigan. On paper, Romney looks more electable, but in the flesh, the GOP’s own electorate just doesn’t like him. Many Republican voters – possibly most – voted strictly on electability, not because…
Deirdre Marie Capone is alleged mobster Al Capone’s grand niece. She is singing like a canary about her family and her remembrances of “Uncle Al,” the notorious gangland figure of the 1930s and 1940s, in her new book, Uncle Al Capone: The Untold Story from Inside His Family, from Recap Publishing and Ascot Media. We…
Those who think Gov. Mitt Romney is the more threatening candidate to President Barack Obama should take heart from this week’s results in Michigan. On paper, Romney looks more electable, but in the flesh, the GOP’s own electorate just doesn’t like him. Many Republican voters – possibly most – voted strictly on electability, not because…
