Tim Redmond
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.
‘In the name of climate sanity’
Hearing shows there is now way for the city to meet its greenhouse-gas goals without controlling Uber, Lyft, and car-based delivery services. Hello, Sacramento?
SF responds to climate crisis (but will anyone mention Uber?)
Plus: Helping small business -- and a massive project that will make the housing crisis worse (but is back by TMG Partners and Ron Conway). That's The Agenda for July 22-28
New measure would link jobs and housing in SF
No more office space until there are affordable places for the new workers to live -- that's the goal of a March 2020 ballot initiative.
Haney’s plan for Homeless Commission faces close vote
The Board of Supes will vote next Tuesday on a Charter Amendment that would create a Homelessness Commission, setting up a fall ballot campaign over a plan that Mayor Breed at this point opposes.
Does the Marriott Corporation need a $5 million tax break?
Peskin pushes to end historic-preservation benefit for a giant corporation that is doing nothing new to protect its building on Market Street.
The stunning corruption that shows why supporters are pushing a Dark Money initiative
Real-estate developers have found ways around the existing laws and poured vast sums into local campaigns.
Responding to the ICE raids
Trump is trying to create terror -- but the Bay Area is prepared to fight back. Here are the key resources.
Will Newsom sign PG&E bailout bill?
Measure that would harm public power and clean energy efforts sails through the Legislature.
Deputy Sheriffs Association resorts to bizarre Red Scare tactics in DA race
Union posts a video by the John Birch Society -- that old racist McCarthy-era group that still somehow lives -- to attack Chesa Boudin.
Fewer’s racial-equity plan could change the way SF makes policy
A new office would analyze legislation through a lens that has been missing from city policy -- and could lead to some dramatic changes in the political discussion.