Legal cannabis sellers versus illegal weed dealers

Tom Schuba wrote a nice news report in Tuesday’s paper about legal and illegal weed, but it did not address one very large and real consideration.

2) And how many times has a dealer told a customer that he’s out of weed, but just happens to have some really nice cocaine, available at an amazing discount for first-timers.

The evacuations and concerns people have about being exposed to the plume of burnt chemicals pales in comparison to what a nuclear accident would look like in Illinois.

After the 1987 earthquake, San Franciscans woke up and realized that the expressway they had built in earlier “car is king” days, the Embarcadero, was a big mistake.

We will replace it with “fun” public transportation that can move great masses of people from one world-class attraction to the next.

But — and here is my fear — renaming the existing Lake Shore Drive for Jean Baptiste Point DuSable could make it that much harder to reimagine, repurpose and replace the Drive.

Palestinians consider the march, meant to celebrate Israel’s capture of east Jerusalem in 1967, to be a provocation.

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