[NormsRevenge]

Editor's note: This is the first of an occasional series highlighting the lives of your neighbors. Some of them you know. Some of them you thought you knew. Mostly, though, you'll meet neighbors you've never met but will be glad you did.

Veteran writer Dave Newhouse long has enthralled readers with his profiles of sports figures in the Tribune sports pages. Now, Dave expands his search for unsung heroes, role models and simple folks you really ought to get to know. And he finds them, not in the limelight or in the spotlight, but working quietly and diligently to make this city and the Bay Area a better place to live.

[NormsRevenge]

"When I wanted to be cheerleader at San Fernando High School California in 1962, there had never been a black cheerleader there," Lee recalled ...

[MovementConservative]

But you can't wage war to stop war.

Is Barbara Lee French? Who are these people who keep re-electing someone who doesn't have the stomach to fight evil?

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

"served on the staff of Ron Dellums"

THERE's her true pedigree! As 60's/70's commie/left as one can be........

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Lipstick meet pig.

[lilylangtree]

Now the *itch is being hailed a hero. Whoodathunked?

[LanPB01]

"But where did she find the backbone to pilot her lonely raft through such stormy seas?"

I can't believe someone would willingly print such a sentence in any form of serious publication.

[Buck W.]

"But where did she find the backbone to pilot her lonely raft through such stormy seas?"

Backbone is easy to fake when you're in a safe district.