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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Some surprising political analysis from the local election results

March 5, 2020

The voter turnout is up to 55 percent in San Francisco now, and will exceed 60 percent once the last 54,000 ballots are counted....

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A little perspective on the Democratic primaries

March 4, 2020

Let’s put the Democratic presidential primaries in a little perspective. Yes, the moderates and the party establishment, who clearly don’t want Bernie Sanders to be...

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Wednesday results: Not much has changed

March 4, 2020

I’ve been seeing a lot of social media comments about low turnout in the primary in San Francisco. That’s understandable – the early returns...

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Results show strong night for local progressives

March 3, 2020

It’s a good night for progressives in San Francisco. With the final Election-Day results in, we can say that two public defenders and a tenant...

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More results: Public defenders winning for judge

March 3, 2020

More results – only 22,000 Election Day votes, but we can seem some trends. All of the ballot measures are now passing; the tax and...

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First results: A few surprises

March 3, 2020

The early results are in and there are some surprises. For starters, the numbers are very small – only 46,000 ballots were returned by...

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Election night live: Upbeat crowd at Sanders HQ

March 3, 2020

The Bernie Sanders’ San Francisco Office started to become more upbeat once the polls closed in California. At around 7:40pm, the office was busy with...

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LGBT leaders take on elder abuse

March 3, 2020

Two longtime LGBT leaders are holding a special event Thursday/5 to discuss elder abuse in the queer community. The LGBT population of San Francisco is aging....

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Election Day: Early turnout is light, but that will change

March 3, 2020

At first glance, the turnout for Election Day seems a bit slow: The Department of Elections reports that 385,999 vote-by-mail ballots have been issued,...

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Last-minute campaign intelligence — and Election Night Parties

March 1, 2020

I haven’t seen a campaign mailer from Rep. Nancy Pelosi in at least 20 years. She doesn’t make a habit of coming back to...

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