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 [...]
When the first four women were elected to the California Assembly in 1918, the state’s newspapers disagreed on the breakthrough’s significance. The Los Angeles Times called it an “experiment.” [...]
A new federal mandate, with penalties for non-compliance within a short time frame, requiring major changes in how states, local jurisdictions and the public behaved — in 1970, this was the Clean [...]
