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It's Wicked Gay's fifth season premiere. And because it's Pride Month, this is an episode of Wicked GOOD Gay! Meet Oliver Sipple, one of the reasons why President Gerald Ford lived to pratfall another day. Things didn't end so well for Oliver, though. 

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During the 19th century it seemed like the American West held endless possibilities for great wealth, and Americans were looking for that next big thing. Two Kentucky swindlers, taking advantage of gemstone fever, lured some of the country's biggest bankers and businnessmen -- and the founder of Tiffany & Co. -- into a jewel con with claims of having discovered a large deposit of diamonds. The value of their diamond mine would have exceeded $86 million in today's money. If it had been real.

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“San Francisco’s tax structures are incentivizing companies to, in some cases just move entirely out of San Francisco”-Anna Tong

This is part two of the three stories we are covering on how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the downtown of San Francisco and the efforts to address the issues and the reinvention of downtown San Francisco.

In this episode we feature the voices of two local reporters Anna Tong from the San Francisco Standard and Noah Arroyo from the San Francisco Chronicle who are doing some interesting and informative reporting on all of the issues plaguing downtown San Francisco as well as some of the efforts by business, nonprofits and the government to address the issues.

To read Anna Tong’s great reporting on downtown san francisco as well as her other reporting on the many issues and topics impacting san francisco please go to sf standard dot com / author / anna-tong/

And to read Noah Arroyo’s great reporting on both downtown and what is next for san francisco through the SF Next series please go to sf chronicle dot com / author / noah-arroyo/

To hear part one of our three stories on downtown San Francisco which featured the voices of Christ Wright from Advance SF and Jeff Bellisario from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute listen to episode 95

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One of the basic duties of government—at any level—is providing security for its citizens and their property. How disgraceful that some city governments are failing miserably in this fundamental task.

Last week, the San Francisco Chronicle asked its readers if city residents should just tolerate burglaries as part of city life, and instead focus on making their homes more burglary proof. In a similar vein, Los Angeles authorities are telling robbery victims they should “cooperate and comply” with thieves, and simply report crimes later. Good luck getting George Soros-installed LA District Attorney George Gascon to prosecute them.

This passive acceptance of crime is un-American and wrong. We don’t let law-abiding citizens to be victimized by thieves: our streets don’t belong to the criminals. Instead, we hire police to apprehend the wrongdoers, and then we prosecute them, and then we put them in jail. That’s the way it works in a country bound by the rule of law.

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One of the basic duties of government—at any level—is providing security for its citizens and their property. How disgraceful that some city governments are failing miserably in this fundamental task.

Last week, the San Francisco Chronicle asked its readers if city residents should just tolerate burglaries as part of city life, and instead focus on making their homes more burglary proof. In a similar vein, Los Angeles authorities are telling robbery victims they should “cooperate and comply” with thieves, and simply report crimes later. Good luck getting George Soros-installed LA District Attorney George Gascon to prosecute them.

This passive acceptance of crime is un-American and wrong. We don’t let law-abiding citizens to be victimized by thieves: our streets don’t belong to the criminals. Instead, we hire police to apprehend the wrongdoers, and then we prosecute them, and then we put them in jail. That’s the way it works in a country bound by the rule of law.

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American music journalist and historian Denise Sullivan talks about the early influences on what we call Rock and Roll music genre, her insight is informative and her passion for all music is contagious.   Just listen to the list of artists and songwriters she gives create to for their contributions. 

In the newest episode of Warriors 24/7 award winning journalist Cyrus Saatsaz (Hall of Famer Rick Barry is rejoining the show next week following his Alaska fishing trip) discusses Joe Lacob's recent comments about trading for Ben Simmons and how the Golden State Warriors' brass suddenly penny pinching could directly cause them to not win more World Championships, the ramifications of Andrew Wiggins' decision to not vaccinate himself which could result in him missing every home game thus possibly forcing a trade, the team's recent acquisition of Avery Bradley and how it was the first great move by the front office in a while, Saatsaz's appearance on the #Lakers podcast and his beef with the San Francisco Chronicle for purging his bylines published from 2010-2012 without providing any specific reasons.

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This entire year has been one huge change after another, forcing us all to take a deeper look at how we used to live and wonder what the future holds. Our stories this week explore how society is rapidly changing before our eyes.

Dylan Heuer looks at how Covid-19 is affecting the way mothers balance work and life. An excerpt from HRN’s Queer the Table featuring Soleil Ho shows how assumptions about the audience for food writing and restaurant reviews are being upended. Alicia Qian ponders pumpkin spice and the implications that come with such “basic” trends. Armen Spendjian brings us a report on how UT Austin’s campus dining program has changed for the Fall semester. 

Further Listening/Reading:

Listen to episode 15 of The Big Food Question: How can Growing Your Own Food Address Issues of Food Sovereignty and Access?

Read more from Katherine Goldstein about bailing out American mothers here and anti-mom bias in the workplace here, plus listen to The Double Shift wherever you get your podcasts. 

Listen to episode 15 of Queer The Table - A New Kind of Restaurant Critic: Soleil Ho

Preorder Jaya Saxena’s new book, Crystal Clear: Reflections on Extraordinary Talismans for Everyday Life here.

Listen to episode 87 of Meat and Three - School Lunch in the Age of Social Distancing

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NBA Hall of Famer Rick Barry and award winning journalist Cyrus Saatsaz welcomed the San Francisco Chronicle's Golden State Warriors' beat reporter Connor Letourneau who talked about why Kevin Durant left the Warriors, how Letourneau utilizes social media and if he's into "NBA Twitter," whether Steve Kerr's security blanket comments in regard to Stephen Curry were disrespectful to the superstar, who is deserving of the MVP and Rookie of the Year Awards, and if the Warriors were calculated in deciding on when Stephen Curry would return to the team. Plus Cyrus put Rick on the 24 second shot clock and asked him who the greatest small forward is in the history of the game.

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Soleil Ho is the newly minted restaurant critic for the San Francisco Chronicle – making her one of the youngest in her field, and perhaps the first millennial restaurant critic for a major US publication. While pondering her newfound position (she might be the only millennial actually capable of killing Applebee's), Soleil is more focused on a more practical task: finding an apartment and making the move to the Bay Area. She sat down with Caity Moseman Wadler and Kat Johnson of HRN to talk about how she's planning to take on the Bay Area's food scene once she hits the ground running at the Chronicle.

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