By EDWARD BOYER FEB. 17, 2002 With the cold slap of reality still stinging, black elected officials and some community leaders remain in an uproar over Mayor James K. Hahn’s announcement that he will not support a second term for Police Chief Bernard C. Parks. These are the same leaders who have been in the […]
Gleaming ‘Big Mo’ in Hawaii on Last Cruise
“There are only two kinds of sailors in the Navy–those who have been battleship sailors and those who wish they could have been.”
Making Demons of Those We Fear (September 1998)
Does anyone remember “Dog Town?” That’s the unflattering name police in Oakland sometimes used to describe the mostly African American neighborhood near the Nimitz Freeway. When the Nimitz pancaked during the Loma Prieta earthquake in October, 1989, 30 people were killed. Dozens more had to be rescued. Residents of the West Oakland neighborhood rushed to […]
Andrea Ford: A Remembrance (August 1999)
The last time I saw her is the way I want to remember her. She was happier than I had ever seen her in the nearly 10 years we had known one another. And she could laugh out loud when her friends at the Times kidded her unmercifully, saying she was leaving the paper and […]