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Lurie had a great year—if you’re in the top 20 percent

For San Franciscans who are not rich, the city's numbers aren't looking anywhere near as good.
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The Agenda

How to tax AI when companies replace human workers

Plus: Will the supes be serious about protecting rent-controlled housing from greedy speculators? That's The Agenda for March 8-15
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Business + Tech

Airbnb, under pressure from labor, drops $120 million lawsuit against SF

After calls for boycott, giant company folds in a win for activists who fight corporate tax cuts
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News + Politics

Lurie had a great year—if you’re in the top 20 percent

For San Franciscans who are not rich, the city's numbers aren't looking anywhere near as good.
Tim Redmond -
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The Agenda

How to tax AI when companies replace human workers

Plus: Will the supes be serious about protecting rent-controlled housing from greedy speculators? That's The Agenda for March 8-15
Tim Redmond -
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Business + Tech

Airbnb, under pressure from labor, drops $120 million lawsuit against SF

After calls for boycott, giant company folds in a win for activists who fight corporate tax cuts
Tim Redmond -
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Immigration

How close are Lurie and SFPD to ICE?

Disturbing comments by (former) head of homeland security and SFPOA suggest more cooperation than the Sanctuary City ordinance allows
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Music

The Audium thrums with Pamela Z’s factory-sampling ‘Arbeitsklang’

Composer weaves sounds from German worksites—Bayer plant, futon stitchery, Gutenberg press—for latest piece.
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Remembrance

Diamond Dave Whitaker, a San Francisco icon and legend, dies at 88

He turned Bob Dylan onto pot and Woody Guthrie. He organized underground poetry and political protest. He was part of the city's radical soul, and we will miss him
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Protest

SF protests against war on Iran draw cries to “Send Barron’

On Saturday and Monday, crowds gathered to demand an end to US intervention in the Middle East.
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Business + Tech

DA Brooke Jenkins attacks unions, says the city needs to be nicer to billionaires

At conference for democrats who want to crush the left, Jenkins says the city is at a "reckoning" with local labor
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Labor

When you eat broccolini, remember the farmworkers who harvest it for you

Fresh produce is a great benefit of living in the Bay Area—but the workers in the fields are the ones who make it happen
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The Agenda

Why is Trump going to war with Iran?

Plus: Finally, a supervisor calls out City Planning for ignoring affordable housing, and the next move toward a public bank. That's The Agenda for March 1-8
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Transportation

The real story behind Muni’s budget deficit

Instead of investing in public transit, City Hall has been looking for ways to privatize it
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Environment

Lurie plan would nearly eliminate the Department of the Environment

Protesters say 80 percent cut would imperil Climate Action Plan
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City Hall

And now, another big tax cut for the developers and speculators in SF

Lurie, Mahmood want to eliminate affordable housing money to help the profits of luxury developers
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Business + Tech

No, taxes on billionaires won’t destroy innovation in California

Tax opponents are putting out a line that makes no sense; just look at Bay Area tech history
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The Agenda

Bernie Sanders talks about AI—and the billionaires who control it

Plus: The DCCC holds its endorsements meeting, and the supes vote on more chain stores and an illegal $40 million luxury hotel tax break. That's The Agenda for Feb. 22-March 1
Tim Redmond -
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Campaign Trail

Democratic candidates run away from the billionaire tax

Discussion of economic inequality was rare at the state convention. Our report from Moscone Center
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News + Politics

With Gov Gav missing, will Democrats have a strategy to win in November?

The state's weird primary system could put two Republicans in the general election for governor. What is a party with too many weak candidates going to do?
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News + Politics

Corporate Democrats are in control as party holds state convention in SF

No big-name speakers who support the billionaire tax get to take the stage, a sign of who controls the party as we head for the midterms
Tim Redmond -
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News + Politics

For Trump and his toadies, the reckoning will come

Some day, maybe fairly soon, the majority of this country will realize how horrible this time has been—and Bezos. Zuckerberg, Musk and the rest will be held accountable
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Environment

Trump maxes human endangerment with greenhouse gas ruling rollback

Climate change has already killed people. And death is generally agreed to be bad for one’s health.
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The Agenda

How Lurie bungled the teachers strike

Plus: Why is an administration obsessed with public safety cutting crime-prevention programs that are way cheaper than cops? That's The Agenda for Feb. 15-22
Tim Redmond -
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News + Politics

PG&E CEO grilled at supes hearing—and says Lurie wanted Opera House opened in blackout

We also got a preview of the lies the company will tell to oppose public power
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Housing

Is the tide finally turning on the ‘abundance agenda?’

Two new studies show that the free market won't solve the housing crisis—and that Newsom, Lurie, and Wiener are wrong
Tim Redmond -
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Art

‘Pride in Panels’ fest inks in queer cartoon brilliance

Biennial showcase highlights fierce DIY spirit in time of attacks—but may be unofficial requiem for CCA's pioneering Comics program.
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Business + Tech

Supes side with AT&T on massive cell phone tower in Diamond Heights

Mandelman says the city has no choice and AT&T could sue; neighbors say that's no way to make policy decisions
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Campaign Trail

Chakrabarti doubles down on support for Mahmood, Lurie

Congressional candidate insists that Mahmood is a "progressive' and says Lurie 'has been okay.'
Tim Redmond -
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Education

Watch: Teachers rally outside City Hall as strike launches

Union organizers rejected Mayor Lurie’s last-minute request for a 72-hour delay and walked out on Monday.
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News + Politics

How about ‘Pretti Good Hospital?’

A move to replace Mark Zuckerberg with the people who died fighting ICE
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Protest

Protests, puppets, and a big Bad Bunny at Super Bowl LX

Marchers decried ICE outside the stadium, while the Puerto Rican superstar represented the power of culture within.
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The Agenda

When, oh when, we SF finally take action to get rid of PG&E?

Plus: An illegal $40 million giveaway, fighting ICE—and will the supes stand up to AT&T? That's The Agenda for Feb. 8-15
Tim Redmond -
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Labor

A little perspective on the teacher strike

SF has plenty of money to pay cops. What about teachers?
Tim Redmond -
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Labor

The Super Bowl, labor, and economic inequality

I played in the NFL for 7 years. If we could change the profit system in something as quintessentially American as professional football, we can change it anywhere.
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Opinion

‘Sex trafficking’ stings—or ICE deportation at the Super Bowl?

The Super Bowl trafficking panic doesn’t reduce exploitation—it legitimizes policing that harms sex workers and immigrants
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Development

Supes move forward $40 million tax break for luxury hotel—while key records remain secret

The city has a report showing a 'demonstrated funding gap.' The law says that has to be public. It's not
Tim Redmond -
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Housing

Supes approve affordable senior housing project—but discussion raises larger issue

Nonprofit housers are good neighbors. Speculators are not. But Wiener's law treats both the same way
Tim Redmond -
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Opinion

United Nations, won’t you come on home?

The U.N. was founded in SF. Thanks to Trump, it's nearly bankrupt in New York. Why can't SF give it space and bring it back?
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Housing

Finally, a media breakthrough of the pro-Yimby narrative that has dominated press and politics

The Washington Post, of all places, runs a story on a new study debunking the idea that more market-rate housing will bring down prices
Zelda Bronstein -
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The Agenda

Hardly anyone opposes low-income senior housing, but there’s an appeal anyway

Bernal Heights project will go before the supes—but why?
Tim Redmond -
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Healthcare

Rainbow Families Action fights for local trans kids with protests, board resolution

Facing federal ban on gender-affirming care, parents of trans kids join with labor and Sup. Chan to stand up to attacks.
Marke B. -
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The Agenda

Lurie wants to give away $40 million in public money for a private hotel—but it may not be legal

Plus: Is somebody really, seriously, organizing a "March for Billionaires?" If it's a hoax, it's a good one. That's The Agenda for Feb. 1-8
Tim Redmond -
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