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Tim Redmond

Tim Redmond
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Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian. He is the founder of 48hills.

LA is taxing mansions to building affordable housing. Why is Lurie opposing a similar plan?

Plus: Supes to confront jail conditions ... and have the Yimbys crossed a line in the Castro?

Supes reject PG&E’s latest attempt to delay public power—but where is Lurie?

The mayor will soon name a PUC general manager, who will need to stand up to PG&E. The future of clean, cheap municipal power hangs in the balance

The oligarch, charter school, and GOP ally money behind the attacks on Connie Chan

Abundant Future is funding the hit pieces. Here's who is funding that PAC

AI operators aren’t slowing down; they are becoming even more of a threat to democracy

Plus: Will Lurie support public power? We will find out this week

SF is about to run out of affordable housing money—unless Props. I and C pass

Ten years of bond money is spent. The next bond isn't until 2034. Thousands of units will stall if the voters don't approve annual funding

Lurie’s tenant protection plan won’t really protect many tenants

But hey: At least he admit there's a crisis—caused to a great degree by his embrace of the AI industry

Want to slow down AI before it kills us? Maybe just cancel all the IPOs

Plus: How Lurie wants more control (and what it will mean) ... and can we please have a functional Sunshine Task Force? That's The Agenda for Sept. 13-20.

Jim Balderston, reporter. 1955-2026

Award-winning Bay Guardian journalist, he was the life of the party—and a very good friend.

Lurie and Mamdani could not be more different

Plus: Big Tech money moves into D10 .... and will the Planning Commission approve a project without knowing what it is? That's The Agenda for Sept. 7-14

SFPD drone spying policy faces backlash

Community groups, commission members dubious about letting cops use surveillance technology without more guardrails