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Ben Daniel has replaced his old camera with a snazzy digital model, but nothing can replace the way he used to see the world through his old viewfinder.

Talking heads who shout and lie dominate television "news," but after Alison van Diggelen gets a taste of civil discourse at a local debate, she sees politics as it should be.

Kate Kendall looks at the life of lesbian activist and icon of the same-sex marriage movement, Del Martin. She died recently at age 87.

Wall Street seems to have forgotten a basic lesson we're all taught as children: clean up your mess. Holly Hubbard Preston comments.

Jocelyn Weiner was feeling great about all the Facebook friends she was piling up, until she accidentally ran into one at the airport.

Vlada Teper is caring for her grandmother who has Alzheimer's — but she's not the one doing the teaching.

Paul Staley reflects on the myths and policies that produced the housing bubble and led to the collapse of America's financial institutions.

Schools are designed to prepare every child for college. High school math teacher Julia Fong argues that agenda shortchanges the many students with no interest in college.

With 70 percent of California prisoners destined to re-offend, Racy Ming tries to teach employment skills to people who badly need them.

Wendy Kaplan Backer's family moved away from San Francisco — and discovered that place is much more than a spot on a map.

Naturalist Michael Ellis takes a look at the plants that thrive in California's parched late summer — the unfairly maligned family of weeds.

Youth Radio's Alana Germany says the hullabaloo over Bristol Palin's pregnancy is not a serious conversation about the realities of teen pregnancy.

Rising fuel costs have shortened global supply chains and threaten future shortages — but Joe Epstein sees an opportunity to rebuild America's manufacturing base.

Cindy Meyers used to knock herself out showing visiting family and friends the Bay Area sights. Then, she decided to have a life.

Nancy Lecourt discusses Revo, a youth movement to raise social awareness and build community.

The Bay Area prides itself on being different, but Scott Kirsner wonders if that has to extend to the stuff falling off cars and trucks on our roadways.

It's been nearly a year since John Brooks' daughter jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge — but the pain never stops.

There was so much red meat served up at the Democratic and Republican conventions that Brenda Payton suspects their messages were approved by the local meatpackers' union.

During their 20 years of captive recovery, California condors forgot how to feed their chicks. Chef Aaron French believes we're in danger of a similar fate.

Susan Dix Lyons makes time on a busy day for a walk in the woods with her daughter, where doing nothing isn't doing nothing.

When Barbara Brewer was a child growing up in dreary circumstances in the Tenderloin, a magical room at the DeYoung Museum sparked her imagination of a world far from her own.

Jocelyn Wiener had a habit of getting lost and discovering the unexpected. Then the GPS lady changed everything.

To Gordy Slack, the thrill of the new California Academy of Sciences museum will be the chance for science to tell its own exciting true story of the human journey.

Maya Creedman Ho recalls a September reunion in Mill Valley with her sister, the promised first of many more that will never be.