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.

Campaign Trail

With Fewer retiring, Connie Chan takes up progressive banner in D1

January 18, 2020

District 1 has a remarkable political history. It’s not, by definition, one of the most left-leaning parts of the city. The voters who tend...

Housing

Real-estate industry rebels at modest measure to limit corporate rentals

January 15, 2020

The real-estate industry and the San Francisco Planning Department are going crazy over a rather modest proposal by Sup. Aaron Peskin to limit corporate...

News + Politics

The Chron’s bizarre (but predictable) attack on Chesa Boudin

January 14, 2020

To read the San Francisco Chronicle headlines, a rather routine decision by the new district attorney to bring his own staff to leadership positions...

News + Politics

Supes poised to create 12 new districts where vacancy tax can be assessed

January 13, 2020

The Board of Supes is moving to create a dozen new neighborhood commercial districts – a move that will bring more of the city...

Housing

Why so little state money for housing?

January 12, 2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing the biggest budget in state history, $220 billion,which is a huge number, and it shows that Newsom, unlike his...

News + Politics

DA Chesa Boudin sworn in with promises of dramatic reform

January 8, 2020

A reformer who has promised to shake up the broken criminal justice system was sworn into office Thursday, with a promise to end cash...

Arts + Culture

The death of Metal Arts at City College

January 7, 2020

Editor's note: There are many, many programs impacted by the decision of the City College chancellor to cut a wide range of classes in...

Housing

SF 2019 Housing scorecard is really bleak

January 6, 2020

On the day that State Sen. Scott Wiener is announcing a new bill to mandate more private-market housing – which means, given the economics...

News + Politics

How ICE treats transgender people — a horror story

January 5, 2020

Lexis Avilez thought she was going home on Christmas. It seemed, she later said, like a miracle when Yuba County sheriff’s deputies took her Dec....

Housing

Wiener’s housing deregulation bill is back!

January 5, 2020

State Sen. Scott Wiener will hold a press conference and rally in Oakland Tuesday/7 to announce that he’s re-introducing a new version of his...