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.

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COVID is devastating the US economy—while the very rich get very richer

July 5, 2020

My poor puppy hates the fireworks. They’re loud and unpredictable. There are many theories, some of them pretty out there, as to why so...

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Jane Morrison, lifelong activist, dies at 100

July 5, 2020

Jane Morrison, who was an urban environmentalist before anyone knew what that meant and a central part of the progressive movement in this city...

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Anatomy of a corrupt $125 million city contract

July 2, 2020

In a remarkable and highly unusual hearing today, the Government Audit and Oversight Committee dug into the anatomy of a multimillion contract that Sup....

Business + Tech

Appeals Court upholds Prop. C in major win for local tax measures

July 1, 2020

Less than a week after hearing oral arguments on the validity of the city’s big-business tax to fund homeless programs, a unanimous panel of...

News + Politics

Culture of casual corruption faces political reckoning

June 30, 2020

The city controller and city attorney released a report this week showing how a lack of oversight and loopholes in ethics laws allowed the...

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Public toilets—and public corruption

June 28, 2020

The deepening public works scandal, which now involves political connected permit expediter Walter Wong, appears to have links to a big corporation that has...

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Appeals Court hears arguments on SF tax on big businesses

June 24, 2020

A California Court of Appeal panel yesterday heard oral arguments on a lawsuit seeking to block the city from collecting taxes from the biggest...

News + Politics

Harry Britt, LGBT progressive pioneer, dies at 82

June 24, 2020

Harry Britt, who was a pioneering LGBTQ leader as well as a champion of the city’s left, died today at 82. Britt was a close...

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SFPUC could be accepting PG&E’s nuclear energy

June 23, 2020

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is facing an unusual choice: PG&E wants to give the city’s clean-power agency $1.4 million worth of free...

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Wearing a mask is a political statement—that you care about community

June 22, 2020

Donald Trump has – no surprise – turned a basic public-health practice into a political issue, putting millions of lives at risk. Trump has consistently...

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