This week we read in the news that 2012 presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has filed paperwork in preparation for a 2016 presidential run, with Paul Ryan listed as his running mate. Coming in the wake of a string of primary
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Born Arabella Ryan in 1832, Belle Cora was the daughter of a Baltimore minister and a doting mother. She rose to become one of San Francisco’s most celebrated madams. Along with her paramour Charles Cora, Belle opened her first San
At Thursday’s Democratic debate in New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton went head-to-head (sans third wheel Martin O’Malley) on the stage for the first time. It was a slugfest relative to earlier debates, signaling an end to the congeniality
A few nights ago I was talking with a bartender friend, and we got caught up in a conversation about the calendar. She told me the story of railwayman Moses Cotsworth, who, vexed by his irregular monthly earnings, created a
Today we see in the news that Pope Francis has tied with Donald Trump for second place in a poll of the world’s most admired men (both lost to Barack Obama, which is no surprise: the sitting US president typically
Just as 2015 has been a milestone year for climate change awareness, it has also been a game changer in the world of sustainable development. Starting with the May publication of the Papal encyclical Laudato Si, a blistering critique
By Joe Bonadio
A first generation Greek-American reared in Nova Scotia, Bay Area entrepreneur Vasilios Pavlounis graduated with a business degree from The University of Halifax in 1986. His life changed course, however, when he saw an ad for a
By Joe Bonadio
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman”
I recently
By Joe Bonadio
A San Francisco nonprofit called Rainforest Connection has devised an ingenious way to convert used cell phones to solar-powered listening devices, and is now employing them to monitor old-growth rainforests for the sounds of illegal loggers. The
By Joe Bonadio
Twenty-two Afghani men, ten of them police officers, have been convicted for the killing of Farkhunda Malikzada, a 27-year old woman lynched by a mob in Kabul after being falsely accused of burning a copy of