Culture Meet The Locals: Yarrow Bay Area Current’s guide to your local native species and why they matter. Cole Sherlock Hersey Jan 14, 2026
Politics This Notorious Women’s Prison Could Be the Bay Area’s Next ICE Facility After formerly incarcerated survivors of sexual abuse fought to get this Dublin prison closed, they fear it may be used to hold immigrants. Marcus Gabbert Jan 12, 2026
Culture Zoe Dubno’s 'Happiness and Love' Made Me Very Unhappy and Full of Hate Yet another piece of literary fiction that reduces politics to an aesthetic. Padmini Raghunath Jan 7, 2026
Labor Starbucks Is Trying to Close Half of the Bay’s Unionized Stores. These Antioch Workers Are Fighting Back. Starbucks management, citing “sinking profits” amid astronomical CEO pay and luxe retreats, is closing 500 stores nationwide. Workers say they smell a rat. River Orellana Oct 15, 2025
