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  • Nov 28, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Jeff Bercovici

    They lined up by the score in the predawn dark and chill on Pier 33, clutching camping chairs and children, swaddled in blankets woven in tribal patterns, and crowded aboard ferries. Their destination: Alcatraz Island, there to take part in one of San Francisco's most unique and enduring Thanksgiving Day traditions. The annual sunrise gathering on Alcatraz carries multiple layers of meaning, according to its organizers, the International Indian Treaty Council.

  • Nov 2, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Emily Dreyfuss |Jeff Bercovici

    We're now just days away from the event that will expose the divisions at the heart of American society. That's right: Daylight saving time is ending. The semiannual changing of the clocks, which takes place early Sunday morning, Nov. 3, elicits strong feelings in people, pro and con. Californians, on balance, are against it: In 2018, to join Arizona and Hawaii in opting out of the whole mishegas. Here at The Standard, the rift over daylight saving time runs right down the middle of the newsroom.

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Jeff Bercovici
Jeff Bercovici @jeffbercovici
14 May 25

It's so easy to spend all day reading and replying to emails, but highly productive people like Marc Andreessen understand if you do that you'll never have time to spend all day reading and replying to right-wing group chats https://t.co/LmTm2C6vsZ

Ben Lang
Ben Lang @benln

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Jeff Bercovici
Jeff Bercovici @jeffbercovici
12 May 25

Can someone who was watching a lot of pro sports, say, 30 years ago tell me whether it was as true then as it is now that postseason success came down heavily to whose best players avoided injury?

Jeff Bercovici
Jeff Bercovici @jeffbercovici
9 May 25

Learning today that my youngest reporters have NEVER HEARD of "Gilligan's Island" and I'm experiencing thoughts and feelings related to mortality and/or the fragmentation of our shared cultural legacy