If you need more persuasion to get to the polling booth, Proposition 22, also known as the Knight Initiative, should be enough. This initiative states, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”

Originally published on February 11, 2010. Is love possible between two people with opposing political views? New York City held its breath when Ann Coulter (Freason, Slander, Godless are just some of her books excoriating liberals) started dating Andrew Stein (a prominent lifelong New York Democrat), but they soon broke up over “irreconcilable differences.”

Editor's note: To honor February as Black History Month, Synapse offers "snapshots" of significant dates in African-American history.

Originally published in Synapse on Dec. 1, 1977. Advocates of decriminalizing heroin received a powerful shot in the arm from the White House this month when President Carter authorized a federal panel to oversee research into the medicinal uses of heroin and marijuana.

At the Nov. 20 UC Regents meeting, Chancellor Haile Debas proposed the formation of a partnership between UCSF and a consortium of local business leaders called Bay Area Life Sciences Alliance (BALSA) for the development of the new UCSF Mission Bay campus.