The season to return to school is near,
A time of woe for some, for others cheer,
Tradition was you’d fill your backpack full,
With paper, pens and all the learning tools,

For me, the nebulous expression “affordable housing” has always been a mystery or an enigma; right up there with professional wrestling, Area 51 and the Loch Ness Monster.

Part one of two

French eyebrows raised, tongues clicked and wagged. That woman was back. Dozens upon dozens of male professors and their students had wondered if she had learned her lesson — apparently she had not.

In recent months, millions of protesters rushed to the streets to demand a change in America’s unjust treatment of its Black citizens -- and many young people have rushed to their phones.

As the owner and master stylist of Hair Tech Salon on Webster street, I, Katie Andersen, am looking forward to and preparing for, the future of our beloved beauty industry.

With USS Hornet serving as a venerable backdrop, Mike’s Auto Body presented Petty Officer Second Class Eladia Minton with a brand-new car last week. A mother of three, Minton is stationed at Coast Guard Island.

Some people believe that Measure A is discriminatory. The claimed discrimination (against poorer people, or people of color) is due to an assumption: that apartments are affordable. The assumption that apartments are affordable may have been true at one time. It is not true any longer.

Hiding under the bed didn’t help. Pops, bags, crackles, whizzing noises coming from every direction. I wasn’t sure I was going to make it. Explosions everywhere, I was scared, for days! Why were people shooting at each other, especially at night?

“What’s happening on the West End?” Well, somebody got shot! And nobody cared. Let me start with an exchange from one of the greatest TV shows ever produced:

It is hard for me to talk about pride. I do not immediately feel proud when I think about pride, and although my train of thought often weaves me from stop after stop in search of self acceptance and validity through old faithful logic, I often never do.