"The coins amounted to $800, which the mother and her 18-year-old daughter, Avery Sanford, were forced to pick up by hand with help from several friends in the neighborhood. They have since donated the money to a domestic abuse center in Richmond" ajc.com/news/man-dumps…
“My mom came out and was like, ‘What are you dumping in my yard?’ " said Sanford.
“It’s your last child support payment!” the man said.
“It’s not just my mom he’s trying to embarrass, it’s also me and my sister,” Sanford told local station WTVR. “It’s upsetting that he didn’t consider that before he did that.”
"Avery's father said his actions were the result of 18 years of built-up frustration and his emotions got the best of him. He said the last thing he wanted to do was to put a further wedge between him and his daughter."
“Ginsburg said Thursday that Peskin’s alleged bullying and problem with alcohol has been an open secret at City Hall since 2000. “ sfchronicle.com/local-politics…
Several city officials say (not all of them named) that Peskin has been abusively drunk on the job...for decades.
Swear there is more weirdness, corruption, and dysfunction here, pound for pound, than other cities I’ve lived in (NYC) and also covered (DC).
Since Al Laffer is in the news for being his 🙄self, I feel obligated to tell you of the time that my Dad gave me the charades clue "Laffer Curve" to act out.
I was 10.
"Everybody knows what this is," he insisted.
Journalists, man.
That same game that he also stuck me to act out "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" which is an expression from the 1920s penchant for horrific brain surgery to address mental illness if you'd like to inflict this clue on your own family.
Going back to the office for the first time in more than a year is like struggling to snap out of amnesia. Where are the cards and code I need to get into building? Don’t forget to bring reading glasses. Etc.
Tripped the alarm :(
Bring batteries and/or leave time to recharge wireless keyboards and mouse
Pandemic transit outages/curtailed hours and a dead cell phone just lead me to a 2 hr transit saga that felt like NYC in the 90s, AMA...
Shout out to both the BART station agent who, b/c no trains were running *at all* and didn’t have the right charger for my phone walked me a few blocks to the muni stop under the freeway (which I eventually abandoned but) and
And, after the wait under the freeway got decidedly much dicier, the bartender I eventually found and asked “this is very old school, but could you call me a cab” did so.
Man, though, pandemic transit when you can’t check timetables is A THING
1/ I learned *so much* from listening to @alibreland and @Fer_Echavarri discuss both the historic forms of extremism that are merging and recombining right now and...GULP...the purchase it is getting among Gen Zers. apple.co/3fIzWrt
2/ The other part of our mini series on extremists and Jan 6 insurrectionists is @smencimer's reporting on the radicalization of Stanford-educated doctor/lawyer Simone Gold: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…