Carol Pogash

Aug 12, 2024 | visionhispanausa.com | Carol Pogash

Through many metal gates, across an active exercise yard, past cyclone fences topped with curled barbed wire, at the end of a row of neglected warehouses at the California State Prison Solano, there is an incongruous sight: a restaurant. The cooks are men serving time for murder and drug and gang-related crimes.

Jul 30, 2024 | msn.com | Carol Pogash

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Jul 30, 2024 | calmatters.org | Carol Pogash |Liliana Michelena

The venture, launched by a venerable San Francisco foundation, counts former Governor Jerry Brown and current Governor Gavin Newsom among its supporters. Through many metal gates, across an active exercise yard, past cyclone fences topped with curled barbed wire, at the end of a row of neglected warehouses at the California State Prison Solano, there is an incongruous sight: a restaurant.

Apr 8, 2024 | berkeleyside.org | Carol Pogash

Kate Coleman, a ferocious journalist, competitive swimmer and periodic upstairs hostess at Chez Panisse, who chronicled the Bay Area’s political and sexual upheaval for more than 50 years, died Tuesday from complications of dementia. She was 81. Kate lived Bay Area history and took notes, even when her research went against her politics.

Jan 23, 2024 | ajrarchive.org | Carol Pogash

The Los Angeles Times rose from mediocrity to join the newspaper elite. But in July the unthinkable happened: 150 newsroom positions were slashed and sections were scrapped. Where does it go from here? He recalls the crusading words of the paper's Greek God of a publisher, Otis Chandler: The Los Angeles Times was going to be the number one newspaper in the nation. Chandler promised to spend whatever it took to push the New York Times off its pedestal. That was 30 years ago, at an awards banquet.