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December 31, 2024
Time for a tutor?
Benji Kessler, founder and executive director of Albany-based Joy Tutoring, has a simple answer to the tutoring question. His advice: “If your child is in a classroom with more than 10 students, they likely would benefit from...
December 31, 2024
Journalism law professor inspired by playing within the rules
Rarely do Stanford and University of California, Berkeley, share things in common. But in the case of James Wheaton, his popularity as the professor of journalism law at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism is unaffected by his...
November 29, 2024
Heart-shaped box
Although the holidays are upon us yet again with shocking alacrity, I’m choosing to welcome the seasonal splendor. National and global disappointments aside, I’m opting to focus on what’s nearest and dearest. If I haven’t made it...
November 29, 2024
Nonprofit gifts that give locally
Everyone knows people who are ardent in support of local organizations and causes. For those folks, ideal gifts can be donations in their names to those organizations or memberships/subscriptions to places they frequently visit. Here are some...
October 29, 2024
California’s low-wage jobs are up
This article was produced by Capital & Main (CapitalandMain.com). It is co-published here with permission.
For many Californians, the phrase “low-wage worker” undoubtedly conjures a couple of very specific images: a kid grinding through a summer job, or...
October 29, 2024
Express yourself
I went through a “mod” phase in my early teens. On weekend visits, my kind and patient grandmother would take me to the nearest thrift stores, helping to find ’60s shift dresses, gloves and pillbox hats (and...
September 27, 2024
What’s good for you?
The older I get, the more health and wellness rule my life—not to mention, of course, the whole global pandemic thing. Having once lived in the “healthiest” state in the U.S. (Hawai’i, according to the U.S. Centers...
