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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My son had a class in high school today about alcohol, something we never had when I was growing up. Back then, you learned...
A little reality about the housing market in SF
By Tim Redmond
Michael Yarne, a developer, former mayoral advisor and advocate for increased housing construction in San Francisco, has a metaphor for what economists...
City Beat: $1 billion fine for Google?
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I’ve always thought San Francisco could use a Displacement and Neighborhood Impact Agency. I’ve argued that every major development, tax break, etc. should require...
A battle over mayoral power?
A new reform effort aimed at limiting outside employment by SF supervisors made the front page of the Chron Dec. 9, but a much-more-significant...
City Beat: Media jamming on the Google bus and parking meters in the neighborhoods
The World as We Know It in San Francisco was buzzing all day over the protestors who blocked a Google bus – and the...
The developers’ dilemma
Developers are meeting in San Francisco to talk about how to fix the housing crisis, and one source told me this was all about...
NEWS: A rape victim — and a victim of an unjust system
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story had the wrong age for the suspect in this case. The correction is included below.
By Tim Redmond
The...
City Beat: Lobbyists here and there, saving Modern Times and the Church sex scandal
By Tim Redmond
Despite all the silly fuss over the modest pay raise for state Legislators, the public’s opinion of the Democrat-dominated Assembly and Senate...
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