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This is a great time to support 48 Hills and our mission to provide an alternative voice and real investigative journalism to a city being taken over by powerful interests and compliant corporate media. You’ve helped us grow our audience to more than 35,000 readers a week, and we’re publishing more of the stories that reflect the soul of San Francisco. We rely on you to exist and keep fighting!

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Here are some of the big stories you’ve helped us publish: 

Uber’s Tax avoidance strategy costs the government millions

The truth behind the Airbnb lies

Why market rate housing makes the crisis worse

The attack on local zoning control

Peskin wins in a terrible night for Ed Lee

It’s not hard to be an ethical landlord

At 17th and Mission, a “gentrification bomb”

A major tenant victory at City Hall

The false promise of regional government

Why the Chron is SO wrong about this eviction

Displacement policy at risk in quiet power struggle

The SF hipster is dead, ya’ll

A city at war: Why we can’t all just get along

Leap buses are nice — unless you’re in a wheelchair

The week ACT UP shut SF down

The “Old Boys Club” is alive and well in SF

The truth about the Flower Mart petitions

The tragedy of InnerMission

Up against a serial evictor

Don’t be a Stanford asshole

Quick ‘n dirty guide to this year’s Folsom parties

 

 

Marke B.
Marke B.
Marke Bieschke is the publisher and arts and culture editor of 48 Hills. He co-owns the Stud bar in SoMa. Reach him at marke (at) 48hills.org, follow @supermarke on Twitter.

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