LGBTQ representation on Bay Area county supervisor boards could increase dramatically now that three out candidates are headed to November runoffs in Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo counties as no candidate received more than 50% of the vote.
LGBTQ representation on Bay Area county supervisor boards could increase dramatically now that three out candidates are headed to November runoffs in Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo counties as no candidate received more than 50% of the vote.
Tony Bravo December 14, 2020Updated: December 18, 2020, 12:03 pm
Former Alameda poet laureate Gene Kahane posts a poem on trees near his home in Alameda. Kahane has been posting his poems on the trees every day since the pandemic shelter-in-place restrictions began in March. Photo: Paul Chinn, The Chronicle
It’s a sunny day on Bay Farm Island in Alameda, and pedestrians are out in full social-distance force on Souza Court. The street, which overlooks a lagoon, is popular with dog walkers and families and for exercising. A man there is walking alone when a group of trees near a picnic table captures his attention. He stops to inspect pieces of paper posted upon makeshift placards on the five trees, each containing a stanza of a poem.