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.

News + Politics

Mayor Breed’s brother should be released from prison

December 20, 2018

Jerry Brown is poised to leave office with 740 people on death row and 130,000 others in state prisons, 70 percent of them Black...

Arts + Culture

BOOKS: ‘Liar’s Paradox’ is the best new thriller in years

December 18, 2018

Talyor Stevens is my favorite thriller writer – and she’s got competition. I have read every Lee Child (Jack Reacher) book. I love John...

News + Politics

Nancy Pelosi just announced her retirement

December 14, 2018

Rep. Nancy Pelosi cut a deal that will put her in the position of House speaker for four more years (assuming the Democrats retain...

News + Politics

Halting the epidemic of housing demolitions

December 11, 2018

Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Rafael Mandelman introduced legislation today that could save thousands of units of rent-controlled housing and stop the epidemic of demolition...

News + Politics

Behind the battle for board president

December 10, 2018

When I was a young reporter at the Bay Guardian, the editor, Bruce Brugmann, told me not to bother writing stories about how “the...

News + Politics

A new housing ‘compact’ looks a lot like a developer’s dream

December 9, 2018

With State Sen. Scott Wiener’s new housing bill now pending, a group convened by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission has released a draft plan to...

News + Politics

SF keeps losing affordable housing

December 9, 2018

The latest Housing Balance Report comes before the Board of Supes Land Use and Transportation Committee Monday/10 and the news is as bleak as...

News + Politics

Wiener’s new housing bill is radically unfair

December 5, 2018

State Sen. Scott Wiener has introduced a new version of his housing bill that went down in flames last year, and while the current...

News + Politics

Should SF allow a tobacco company to operate on Port property?

December 2, 2018

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is demanding information about a lease deal that JUUL, the e-cigarette company, has signed with a developer who...

News + Politics

When demolition threatens neighborhood merchants

December 2, 2018

The Board of Supes will consider Tuesday/4 extending a rule that exempts many property owner on commercial strips in D4 and D11 from notification requirements...