GGBA Member Spotlight: Cate Steane of Make It Happen Preparedness Services GGBA Member Spotlight: Cate Steane of Make It Happen Preparedness Services
Cate Steane, the founder and owner of Make It Happen Preparedness Services, did not set out to be good at emergency preparedness. The emergencies the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, the Oakland Hills fire in 1991, the Wine Country fires in 2017, and more kept finding her. Here, Steane explains how she and her select team of specialty contractors make preparedness happen for businesses.
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It s a big deal that any independent media outlet can mark a significant anniversary this year, as the COVID pandemic has put extra strain on publications in an already tough industry. It s even more of a feat for an outlet covering queer news and culture.
On this week s Out in the Bay podcast and radio program, news editor Cynthia Laird and publisher Michael Yamashita recount the Bay Area Reporter s founding 50 years ago, high and low points of queer civil rights reflected in the B.A.R. s coverage, and the challenges of staying alive and vibrant today.
The Bay Area Reporter started in 1971 as a gossipy bar rag biweekly newspaper covering San Francisco s gay bar culture and grew over the decades into a nationally important LGBTQ news publication. (It later went weekly.) Today it boasts the largest readership of any U.S. LGBTQ news outlet and the longest continuously published.
Opinion: S.F. s working poor have it hard enough. Don t tow their cars, too
Miguel Bustos
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A tow truck impounds a car to the AutoReturn impound facility in San Francisco.Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle 2018
It began with a $90 citation. It ended with 32-year-old MiQueesha Willis losing the home she shared with her 2-year-old son, Tobias. And it all went down because the city of San Francisco chose to tow her legally parked car.
Willis, a construction worker, was living in her car with her child due to the high cost of housing. She parked near the worksite, but often could not move her car to avoid parking tickets due to the demands of her job. Between taking care of Tobias and trying to find stable housing, the ticket became the last thing on her mind.
Palo Alto s housing debate is a battle over Silicon Valley segregation
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Abin Rahbar (left) takes a stroll in Palo Alto, her hometown, with her sons Farin Raissi (right ),11, and Matin Raissi (center), 9, after distance learning. Rahbar grew up in Palo Alto after her family immigrated from Iran, then moved back in 2014 to be close to her parents and public schools that offered more support for her son’s cerebral palsy diagnosis.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Abin Rahbar (center) helps her son Matin Raissi (right) with compound words as her other son Farin Raissi (left) 11, does schoolwork during distance learning from their Palo Alto home.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less