To employ a saying that may be more appropriate in my home state of Colorado than in the Bay Area, Covering Occupy Oakland’s Move-In Day through clouds of smoke and between lines of cops and of protesters—each in their own respective riot gear—was not my first rodeo.

On Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, Oakland Police entered a duplex at 1415 10th St. and arrested 12 people in and around the home; the realtor called in a locksmith to change the locks and the police came in behind them.

The Stop Online Piracy Act or HR 3261, and its sister bill in the Senate, the Protect IP Act, have been touted as an appropriate…

After yaears of contentious debate, Congress passed free-trade agreements with Columbia, Panama and South Korea that were originally drafted under the Bush administration in 2006.

Music and Nature together is the best therapy for anything. The San Francisco Community Music Center in the Mission has both of these. I have been a…