Deisy Bach is the CEO and owner of HR Ideas, a Bay Area-based business that handles human resources for small and mid-sized companies, including many in the hospitality industry. Before participating in a panel on what San Francisco can teach Obamacare, she talked chocolate mousse, out-of-the-box thinking, and having a talent for teaching in the Zócalo green room.
In a room filled with wreaths bearing Chinese characters on broad ribbons, two Buddhist nuns in embroidered yellow robes started chanting and striking bells. One by one, members of my …
I awoke before dawn on November 19, 1978, nearly 900 miles away from the city desk of the San Francisco Examiner, where I worked. As I stepped from the shower, …
Sandra Hernández is president and CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation. She is also an assistant clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine and maintains …
Before Obamacare became part of the American lexicon—before Barack Obama had been elected president—San Francisco implemented healthcare reform of its own. What can Healthy San Francisco, which launched in 2007 …
Before Barack Obama was elected president, San Francisco embraced health reform. In 2006, the city rolled out the Healthy San Francisco program with the goal of providing healthcare access to …
Before Obamacare became part of the American lexicon—before Barack Obama had been elected president—San Francisco implemented healthcare reform of its own. What can Healthy San Francisco, which launched in 2007 …
Poor San Jose—so far from God, so close to San Francisco.
San Jose is the 10th largest city in the United States, the third most populous in the state of California—and …
Canada’s motion picture industry earned the nickname “Hollywood North” because the country so often serves as a center of location production for American films. But in the early 1970s, this …
An affliction jocularly known as “codfish fever” swept San Francisco in the late 1800s. Caught up in the craze, a number of enterprising young men set to sea in whatever …
