The election to fill the vacant District 7 Council position is April 16. City Council Committees except the Agenda and Rules Committee and undefined “certain exceptions” are suspended until May 1.

I often think I should approach writing the Activist’s Diary like plein air painting by picking a .point in time and stopping, but the world and the City keep moving on while I write. I finished Naomi ...

Since 1969, California has required that all local governments plan to meet the housing needs of everyone in the community regardless of income. The state required process for determining how many ...

During the extremely rainy weather in the Bay Area over the recent holidays, like many people I mostly stayed home. One of the ways I entertained myself was to take another look, perhaps for the ...

When I was a young man, an eighteen-year-old, to be exact, I was psychotic, and I was unaware that what you do can have consequences. Some consequences of actions, even actions taken at the tender age ...

Many disabled people have issues that do not shorten life expectancy and often live as many years as those without a disability. On the other hand, many, including those of us with mental illness, ...

Helping mentally ill people recover is often one of the objectives of treatment. Yet it is not the only objective. The agendas of mental health treatment that I've seen include to keep psych consumers ...

In modern day society in the U.S., with our level of technology, medicine, and economic opportunity, government and citizens are obliged by common ethics to take care of those who could not survive on ...

Does psychosis take a break when you're kissing someone? Does depression take a break when you are eating a fresh, crisp, yummy apple? Does Mania take a break when you are stuffing your face with ...

When I first became severely psychotic in 1982, apparently my father realized he was in over his head in trying to deal with me alone, and believed I needed professional help. He first took me to an ...

We, the undersigned, are writing to express our concern about the recent decision by the Berkeley City Council, the City Manager, and the Berkeley Police Department to use encrypted public safety ...

Do you continually say to yourself or to others something that amounts to "Help, poor me"? It doesn't matter. Because if you look deeper than that, you might be able to find an area of consciousness ...