By Mary Swift-Swan Published: August, 2004 The story of the 2004 Pacific Cup run,The thirteenth running of this ocean race of fun.Forty-nine boats started the desperate dash,The weather was nice and they did not crash Bobbi Tosse, Navigator on Bodacious Mari Cha IV threw long shadows setting a blazing pace, Yet with a sky high […]
BY SEJAL CHOKSI-CHUGH Published: February, 2019 I understand the mindset of the people who decided to build dirty, dangerous oil refineries on the gorgeous San Francisco Bay shoreline. Many decades ago, they likely envisioned sites around the Bay where tanker ships could easily dock and offload crude oil. They saw an endless source […]
BY SEJAL CHOKSI-CHUGH Published: June, 2019 As the dust settles from the whirlwind transition of the California governor’s office, it’s a relief that the state has squashed the Delta tunnels water project. The proposal for massive twin tunnels through the Delta was an expensive infrastructure project—deceptively named “WaterFix”—that would have caused irreparable harm to […]
