I used to love to go to Subway to get myself a cheap sandwich, where I could admire the funky wallpaper—orange and yellow and black, with old-timey subway

Local author, poet & friend Julia Park Tracey launches her delightful romantic comedy in Petaluma - Whoa Nelly!: A Love Story with Footnotes

In this month's review, Julia Park Tracey examines the charming 'San Francisco Boy' by Lois Lenski. Check out all the love for Alameda!

The Trump regime’s campaign of whitewashing US history has reached the halls of the Smithsonian museums, with exhibits dealing with slavery, the civil rights movement, and other struggles against oppression now under threat of elimination. The regime has ordered a review of seven museums thus far and threatened to block federal funding – which accounts for the majority of the museums’ budgets – unless administrators bring displays into conformity with the regime’s ideology. This attack on the past is all about the politics of the present. The Trump regime is methodically dismantling programs that seek to address inequality and fight discrimination. That white nationalist project becomes far easier if the public lacks the historical context for why those programs were created and remain critical to our progress as a nation. All of us need to push back. Join us in urging the Smithsonian Board of Regents to reject this interference and defend the right of all Americans to learn the full truth about our history.