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The familiar scene of Confederate flags waved by fans at NASCAR tracks could soon be a relic of racing's good ol' boy roots. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Gary Phillips, the mayor of San Rafael, was rightly frustrated after a brutal weekend of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. So he ordered the city to lower its flags to half-staff until Congress passes better gun control legislation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Last month Insight contributor Lev Kushner suggested that San Francisco needed a flag that better conveyed the 21st century spirit of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco needs a flag that is bright and optimistic - one that conveys the promise that we can tackle the challenges that face us. My proposed flag has a healthy respect for geometry and boasts a bold character. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sen. Kamala Harris' campaign was adamant about draping American flags from Oakland City Hall at the kickoff event last weekend for her presidential bid - but it almost didn't happen. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

We're suckers for flags and statues. Think of how fraught the movement to tear down Confederate war monuments has been across the South (it may yet launch Mitch Landrieu's presidential campaign), or what it will mean if Mississippians succeed in redesigning their state flag, the last state flag in the nation to include the stars and bars of the Confederate Battle Flag. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Change has swept over San Francisco like a hurricane, but there are bits and pieces of an older city everywhere. You just have to look, sometimes in odd corners of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In San Francisco, where watching "The Dukes of Hazzard" might be a questionable political decision in 2017, a flag of the Confederacy flying near City Hall with the blessing of the mayor seems unimaginable. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California prohibits its government agencies from selling or displaying the Confederate flag. But in a settlement of a lawsuit by an artist, who had to wait a year before his Civil War painting that included the Stars and Bars could be shown at a state-sponsored fair, the state has agreed that the ban doesn't apply to private citizens on state property. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The flag of the communist Socialist Republic of Vietnam will not be welcome on city property in San Jose after council members voted to ban the emblem Tuesday night. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Bay Area radio talk-show host has launched a mission to bring down San Francisco's official flag, calling it an eyesore and uninspiring. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While the world is outraged regarding the killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe by Walter James Palmer, we really should not forget that there are literally hundreds of small and large canned hunting ranches here in the United States, where individuals (I cannot call them hunters) can pay a fee and shoot at defenseless animals including a mountain goat, a black bear, and in one case, an old and helpless tiger. Cecil's killing should be a graphic message that people who pay to shoot animals in this manner are not hunters. They are cowards, incapable of understanding that nonhuman animals feel pain every bit as much as we do. The time for ending this despicable practice is now. Let Cecil's death not be in vain. Let it stand for something. Let the anger we all feel toward this disgusting situation be directed toward ending the practice once and for all. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill to boot the Confederate flag from State House grounds earlier this month, it was a beautiful moment - if decades late. State lawmakers finally acted out of revulsion of images of a confessed shooter posing with the Civil War relic before he shot to death nine African American church parishioners on June 17. Flag apologists lost their stomach for defending the banner as an emblem of states' rights. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

We all have to admit that Donald Trump in just a few short weeks has accomplished what no statesman on either side of the Washington, congressional aisles or president has done. He's brought the two diverse Democrat and Republican sides together in tight unity under a mutually shared, best-for-America platform; they both hate him. It's a good start. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"I'm a descendant of Jefferson Davis, OK? But that does not matter. ... It's about the people of South Carolina who have demanded that this symbol of hate come off the State House grounds.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's a fitting and overdue response to a horrific tragedy. In a bipartisan vote, South Carolina lawmakers agreed to do away with the Confederate flag that has long flown on the state Capitol grounds, a citadel of the South. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A lovely young women is killed on the Embarcadero. There is garbage, bodies and human waste strewn all over the city. Car break-ins are completely the norm and don't even draw a raised eyebrow from police. The absolute lack of leadership and effectiveness that our elected leaders show when dealing with these fundamental quality-of-life issues is shocking. If they don't wake up, they are going to kill the golden goose that gives them the money to pursue their lofty agendas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Regarding "The movement: How struggle for historic change built momentum over the decades" (June 27): As usual, Carolyn Lochhead has presented a masterpiece on the history of equal marriage rights. I especially appreciated her mention of the Baker case. Jack Baker and Mike McConnell were legally married in 1971 and have since lived quiet, happy and productive lives as an attorney and a librarian. Jack Baker had difficulty being allowed to take the Minnesota bar exam, which he eventually passed. The University of Minnesota withdrew its job offer to Mike McConnell. It pleases me that these two great human beings have lived long enough to see full marriage equality in the United States. They saw marriage as the real right of all people and were often reviled for being too radical for the movement for nondiscrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"Trump thumped" (Editorial, July 1) was a spot-on indictment of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. But we've heard similar remarks and were subjected to similar imagery for quite some time now from the Republican Party and its presidential hopefuls. There's been a nonstop stream of xenophobic, homophobic, sexist and racist remarks and jokes, an offensive flag proudly displayed, and associations with white supremacist groups, to name a few. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Regarding "Benicia hotel's holdover: Confederate flag window" (June 29): How about crowd-sourcing funds to replace the Confederate flag with the flag of California? Surely, the Historic Preservation Review Commission could find no fault with replacing an 1863 flag with an 1846 flag. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As debate rages across the country and Confederate flags are lowered from statehouse flagpoles and pulled from store shelves, one example of the pilloried stars and bars seems like it's not going anywhere. Subtly tucked into a stained glass window [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With the national controversy over hoisting the Confederate flag at a boiling point following the Charleston, S.C., shooting that left nine black parishioners dead, a Petaluma man decided this week to defend it - briefly - by raising it over his lawn. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After last week's horrific massacre of nine African American churchgoers in South Carolina, allegedly by a young white man, there's a growing national consensus that it's time for elected leaders to remove the Confederate flag. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal Monday by high school students in Morgan Hill who were barred from wearing American flags on their T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo, a year after an angry confrontation between flag-waving Anglo and Mexican American students. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Three conservative judges accused a federal appeals court Wednesday of catering to "the will of the mob" by refusing to reconsider a ruling upholding Morgan Hill school officials' decision to ban shirts showing American flags on Cinco de Mayo for fear of ethnic violence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A recent Friday, 7:18 a.m.: Just after a car heading north on the Golden Gate Bridge let out a honk, Rob Peterson turned his head and waved his American flag in appreciation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A recent Friday, 7:18 a.m.: Just after a car heading north on the Golden Gate Bridge let out a honk, Rob Peterson turned his head and waved his American flag in appreciation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly, who faced criticism when he was the lone Assembly member to vote against a ban on state-run souvenir shops selling Confederate memorabilia, is under fire again for a comment that one opponent said gave equal weight to the Nazi and Israeli flags. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly, who faced criticism when he was the lone Assembly member to vote against a ban on state-run souvenir shops selling Confederate memorabilia, is under fire again for a comment that one opponent said gave equal weight to the Nazi and Israeli flags. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While there's only one "Grand Old Flag," there are many grand, old flags, and if you're a confirmed vexillophile, there's nothing better than an emblem of the land you love (or state, college, sports team or medieval re-creators group). And because flags are so often a touchstone for big events - without the flag, the guys at Iwo Jima would have been holding up a stick - more often than not specific flags come with great stories. Here are a few spots where the love of banners will never, well, flag. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The rainbow flag at the intersection of Market and Castro streets seems like an affirming and positive local icon. But this is San Francisco, where even toys from Happy Meals can seem sinister. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Morgan Hill high school principal reasonably feared violence on campus when he saw a group of students wearing American flags on their shirts on Cinco de Mayo, and he did not violate their freedom of speech by telling them to turn the shirts inside out or go home, a federal judge has ruled. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nothing says San Francisco like a fight over Elizabeth Taylor, Harvey Milk and flying the American flag. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Patriotism is not measured by an American's willingness to sing the national anthem or recite the Pledge of Allegiance, but by his or her dedication to the defense of the values in the words within those rituals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Caltrans apologized Tuesday for painting over a large American flag mural on a hillside above Interstate 680 just four days before the Fourth of July. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Three men who painted an American flag on a retaining wall along Interstate 680, only to see it covered this week by Caltrans workers who treated it as graffiti, got an apology from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Write him nasty letters or call him names in the street, and Daniel Webster will shrug and say that's what comes with newspapering in a small town. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Redding high school paper served up a taunting idea for end-of-the-year issue: a front-age photo of a student burning the flag - plus an inside editorial defending the act. Yes, it was deliberatively, unnecessarily provocative. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"Old Glory's Helper Flag," the largely forgotten banner that flew over a guard tower at Alcatraz at times during the 1969-71 Indian occupation, sold for $60,000 Thursday to a Texas bookstore owner who in recent years has purchased a lock of Che Guevara's hair and a guitar once owned by Jimi Hendrix. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sometime during the 19-month American Indian occupation of Alcatraz that began in 1969, a banner called Old Glory's Helper Flag flew from one of the island's guard towers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]