A few months after I started this job as editor of the Bay Area Monitor back in 2006, I joined a group of League members for a boat tour of the construction of the Bay Bridge. The new span wasn’t [...]
Around the end of 2019, a friend and I hiked the Skyline-to-Sea trail. The trail begins in Castle Rock State Park (where I spent many weekends in high school learning to rock climb), meanders [...]
The Monitor has always been a publication with a scientific orientation. After all, the League launched it in 1975 to address air pollution, a problem that calls for systematic study, [...]
Let’s start with this request: Sign up for Monitor Notes, our weekly e-mail newsletter. Because yes, as announced on our cover, the League of Women Voters of the Bay Area intends to discontinue [...]
End-of-year holidays are upon us, although the season doesn’t feel so festive under our current pandemic circumstances. Yet while the social gatherings typical for this time of year are not [...]
Given the unprecedented turmoil that 2020 has wrought thus far, we understand if you have more pressing concerns on your mind right now than the upcoming November 3 election. But the League of [...]
Back in April, in the previous edition of the Monitor, I gave the alert that this current June/July 2020 edition could be our very last, due to years of declining funding coupled with the [...]
In 1975, the year it launched, the Bay Area Monitor was produced on a mimeograph machine. In case you’re wondering, a mimeograph is basically a high-volume stencil, a way to reproduce printed [...]
The civic open space that surrounds the State Capitol in Sacramento has benches for rest, a rose garden for inspiration, and mature trees for shade. On a typical day at Capitol Park you’re likely [...]
When women won the vote in 1920, the two primary goals of the newly formed League of Women Voters were to make sure that women had the opportunity to cast an informed vote, and that they would [...]
