Susan Dyer Reynolds

Mar 3, 2025 | marinatimes.com | Susan Dyer Reynolds

On Feb. 11, 2025, District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder posted on social media platform X that she issued a Letter of Inquiry into the “dangerous San Francisco police chase that sent 6 people, including a mother and child, to the hospital, resulted in two car crashes, and destroyed a parklet on Super Bowl Sunday.” Written in the style of a high school junior’s prose, Fielder blustered five follow-up posts.

Feb 4, 2025 | marinatimes.com | Susan Dyer Reynolds

“A Trump promise could be ‘catastrophic’ to California’s wine industry,” a Nov. 13San Francisco Chronicle headline read. “Farm ranchers in my district already have trouble filling the jobs they have available,” said Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa. “We have a tremendous gap between the number of workers we have and the number of job openings.

Jan 21, 2025 | thevoicesf.org | Susan Dyer Reynolds

Rick Shade’s family has been growing avocados for six generations in Carpinteria, Calif. (located on the south coast of Santa Barbara County), something they couldn’t do without the help of migrant workers. According to the Department of Labor, nearly half of U.S. farm laborers are undocumented migrants, and years of inconsistent policy and border crackdowns have taken a toll on the already short supply.

Jan 7, 2025 | marinatimes.com | Susan Dyer Reynolds

At 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, I met District 4 supervisor Joel Engardio at Peet’s Coffee on Sloat Blvd. I was running a little late, having been with Animal Care and Control executive director Virginia Donahue and Assemblymember Matt Haney and his staff earlier that afternoon discussing ways to help the sheltering crisis at the state and local levels. The meeting was productive and worked the way politics should — you don’t have to agree on everything to get things done.

Dec 5, 2024 | thevoicesf.org | Susan Dyer Reynolds

In Southern Italy, where my grandfather was born, they celebrate La Vigilia in anticipation of the midnight birth of the baby Jesus. It was first introduced to America in the late 1800s in New York’s Little Italy, where my grandparents lived upon their arrival to America. Now known as the Feast of the Seven Fishes, it’s part of the Italian-American Christmas Eve, usually a day of abstinence from eating meat.