By Rhonda Winter •
February 14, 2009
Several dozen residents of San Francisco (also known as San Pancho) Mexico staged a spontaneous sit-in yesterday in the middle of their main thoroughfare to halt the destruction of hundreds of the city’s trees and the replacement of permeable paving stones with flood-causing impervious concrete. Local school children were joined by business owners and many other residents of the town who simply sat down in the middle of the road to stop the heavy machinery from destroying their street and [...]
By Rhonda Winter •
January 21, 2009
San Francisco is often depicted as a bastion of enlightened progressive hippie vegans on bicycles, or sometimes as a queer and glittering island, raft with Prius-driving smug self-righteous liberals who rapture in the smell of their own farts. If only that were true. All of us who live here know that the local
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By Rhonda Winter •
January 19, 2009
The decision to remove this critical bike lane baffled not only me, but hundreds of my fellow citizens and elected public officials, who demonstrated Friday morning in opposition to the MTA’s proposed plan. At the rally I overheard many frustrated protesters questioning the MTA’s logic: “They say that they want to remove the bike lane because cars are still making illegal right turns and hitting bicyclists. That’s like saying if pedestrians are still be hit in by automobiles we should [...]
