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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.

The Lurie budget is great for bad cops

Proposal slashes funding for Department of Police Accountability, eliminates sheriff inspector general.

The budget is all about Mayor Lurie’s campaign promises to ‘clean the streets’

If we want to avoid civic failure, we need to rethink not just spending but how we finance San Francisco—and parking meters in the park won't do it

The brutality of the Billionaires Budget starts to unfold

Here are some of the critical services on the chopping block—and why this doesn't need to happen

Lurie doesn’t say the words ‘Sanctuary City’ at supes meeting

Mayor still cautious on resisting Trump ICE raids; Walton challenges him on fairness of shelters for the unhoused

5,000 march against ICE in the Mission; where is Mayor Lurie?

Opposition to Trump crackdown just keeps growing—and the mayor, activists say, is way too quiet

Finally, some details on the mayor’s budget (we can only hope)

Plus: The debate over shelters, and new leadership at the Police Commission ... that's The Agenda for June 8-15

Parks Alliance leaders duck oversight hearing, so supes agree to issue subpoenas

Key leaders will be forced to testify at future hearing as public comment raises odd question about Rec-Park Director Phil Ginsburg

Brutality of Lurie budget comes into focus as labor, community vow to fight back

Many of the cuts will hurt the most vulnerable but much of the damage is still not clear

New Yimby bill would make it harder for cities to raise money for affordabe housing

Wicks measure would undermine one of the few tools cities have to tax big real-estate for housing money

What the Lurie budget does—and doesn’t—offer

Plus: What did the director of Rec-Park know about the Parks Alliance scandal? That's The Agenda for Jun3 1-8