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Ballot Selfies: Post Away

BY MATTHEW C. ALVAREZ After months of debate, the California legislature this week finally reversed a decades-old law which prohibited Californians’ constitutionally-protected right to the ballot selfie.  That is, the right to post online a photo of yourself alongside your completed ballot, marked for the candidates and ballot measures of your […]


Desperate Measures 347

BY BRAD HERTZ   In Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll used the phrase “curiouser and curiouser” to describe Alice’s amazement as her body grew so big she imagined having to mail her shoes to herself. “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense,” she says. “Nothing […]


New Year, New Laws 2

BY BRAD HERTZ   You probably remember Proposition F (the anti-Airbnb law that lost) and Proposition A (the $310 million affordable housing bond that won) from San Francisco’s November ballot. But you might not be aware of the 10 new state laws that take effect January 1. In what has […]