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News + Politics

Demolish rent-controlled housing? New Wiener bill could wipe out restrictions

Plus: Politics and Pride. That's The Agenda for June 19-July 6

News + Politics Tim Redmond - June 30, 2025

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SF, a sanctuary city for the billionaires

Will Mayor Lurie invite the rich New Yorkers who are scared of a democratic socialist to move here? Yikes!

City Hall Joel Schechter - June 28, 2025

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Drag performer taken by ICE, morning after Pride Week pageant

Hilary Rivers was detained during a scheduled immigration appointment in downtown SF after Miss & Mr. Safe Latino Pageant.

Immigration Marke B. - June 27, 2025

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Behind the late-night budget deal

The mayor got most of what he wanted. The process was a train wreck

City Hall Tim Redmond - June 26, 2025

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City Hall

Supes, mayor at budget impasse

Tim Redmond - June 25, 2025

Layoffs, housing money at issue as Lurie won't back down on cuts

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City Hall

Lurie zoning plan has no support at all except the Yimby coalition

Tim Redmond - June 25, 2025

No small business group, no neighborhood group ... it's as if the mayor isn't even trying to find consensus

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The Agenda

The silly ‘red scare’ over New York’s leading candidate for mayor

Tim Redmond - June 25, 2025

Mamdani's platform is just common sense, and it worked; is the Democratic Party Old Guard even paying attention?

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Party Radar

PRIDE PARTY RADAR: Viva la Lesbianaissance + 35 more rainbows to ride

Marke B. - June 25, 2025

Pink Block, Juanita More Pride, Hard French, Purple Disco Machine, partying for prison abolition, a slew of dyke bars... too much? Never!

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Culture

Blue Bottle workers announce intent to organize union at four East Bay locations

Caitlin Donohue - June 25, 2025

Response from management at Nestle-owned company appears to be firing a popular worker leader.

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City Hall

Supes approve measure calling for local taxes on the very rich; news media doesn’t notice

Tim Redmond - June 24, 2025

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Homelessness

The violence of towing homes

Tiny - June 24, 2025

I've lived through this. Taking peoples homes is a terrible approach

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City Hall

Lurie budget draws mass protest

Tim Redmond - June 23, 2025

Hundreds turn out to oppose massive cuts; are the supes paying attention?

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Housing

Berkeley’s Orwellian upzoning plan

Zelda Bronstein - June 23, 2025

New language would undermine the Citizen Participation Element of the city's General Plan

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Editorial

No, you can’t ‘save’ queer people by bombing them to death

Marke B. - June 23, 2025

Bastardizing the fight for gay rights to justify war, whether on Gaza or Iran, is ridiculous and must end.

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The Agenda

Protesting the Lurie budget—and talking about long-term progressive solutions

Tim Redmond - June 22, 2025

Plus: Will the board defy a district supe and let Lurie shift money from housing into shelters? That's The Agenda for June 23-30

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Housing

Board of Appeals sets dangerous precedent for demolishing rental housing

Tim Redmond - June 22, 2025

Ruling could encourage speculators to ignore city preservation policy

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News + Politics

Funding Muni and BART: Should the very rich also pay?

Tim Redmond - June 19, 2025

Wiener makes clear that taxing the billionaires is not a priority as he seeks ways to fund transit

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Lit

‘Queer Food’—or, the cruel enigma of the spinach soufflé

Marke B. - June 19, 2025

Author John Birdsall dishes about his new history of LGBTQ+ food writers and chefs, and how queer cookery can meet the moment.

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LGBTQ

SF Pride ED Suzanne Ford reacts to horrible anti-trans youth Supreme Court ruling

Marke B. - June 18, 2025

'The worst affront to the equal protection clause since Plessy v. Ferugson,' says longtime trans activist, urging unity.

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