I hope I am not the only one stunned by the frequently arcane and irrelevant dimensions of the current presidential campaign. I am stunned because neither the candidates, nor the herds of journalists, bit players and commentators directly engaged with the process, seem to be rooted in objective reality.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
The San Francisco Chronicle has been featuring lurid tales recently about the city’s escalating crisis with homelessness. And unfortunately, most of the reportage is embarrassingly bad. The biased and distorted nature of the newspaper’s coverage of homelessness results from several factors, not the least of them being its semi-colonial relationship with the city. [...]
Friday, November 23, 2007
Big Mike, the wheelchair-bound, homeless man I have been intensively photographing for years, is dead. I was recently informed of his death by his hard, drinking street people colleagues. I knew he was in serious trouble for more than a year. His health was declining, and his strong, fierce will to [...]
Monday, October 22, 2007
Much of the conventional wisdom in the United States regarding chronic homelessness is shortsighted, provincial and tragically inadequate. This is due to several factors, not the least of them being the ill-conceived tradition of permitting politicians too much latitude to frame the issue and propose politically palatable fixes. The full magnitude of [...]
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
The large, white man in the big, new, unmarked American made automobile caught my attention because such folk are rarely found in this neighborhood. There are of course lots of large, white men in big, new unmarked automobiles in this South of Market neighborhood. But in almost all instances, their vehicles are [...]
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
September 17, 2007
Having resided in the San Francisco neighborhood centered around South park for more than a decade, I am qualified to comment on the manner in which rapid, hyper-gentrification is transforming the troubled lives of the poorest residents. South Park itself is located in the South of market section of the city between [...]
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
San Francisco’s current contretemps regarding homeless camps in Golden Gate Park is exposing important shortcomings in the city’s effort to eliminate chronic homelessness.
The basic problem is that municipal officials have never really come to terms with the magnitude and complexity of the overall problem.
The Golden Gate Park fiasco, which has produced additional stress and suffering [...]
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