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.
The mayor’s looming budget problem
By Tim Redmond
Mayor Ed Lee has a serious budget problem. And it could become a serious political problem.
See, the city is flush with a...
Supes vote 7-4 to oust Angela Chan from Police Commission
By Tim Redmond
APRIL 29, 2014 -- Well, that was ugly.
By a 7-4 vote, the Board of Supervisors tossed Angela Chan off the Police Commission...
La lucha continua: Chicano journalist slain by LAPD subject of PBS documentary
By Caitlin Donohue
Earlier this month, the cover of San Francisco’s oldest bilingual newspaper, El Tecolote, was given over to a review of the new...
The strange politics of the Angela Chan reappointment
By Tim Redmond
APRIL 29, 2014 – The politics of the reappointment of Police Commission member Angela Chan are getting awfully weird.
Sup. David Chiu, who...
Donald Sterling is No Abberation
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
APRIL 28, 2014 -- Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling is no aberration. On an audio recording that allegedly captures...
Why are Mayor Lee’s allies trying to oust a good police commissioner?
By Tim Redmond
APRIL 28, 2014 -- I have spent the past week shaking my head and trying to figure out one of those weird...
Ask the Bud Man: Can we keep 420 clean? (Please?)
By Ngaio Bealum
Dude. What’s the deal with the 420 gathering in Golden Gate Park? Stoners can’t clean up after themselves? Jeez.
Dave
Dude. Right? I...
Listen to the gunshots that killed Alex Nieto — the sound file is here
By Tim Redmond
I now have the sound file of the police shooting of Alejandro Nieto. You can listen yourself and see what you hear...
Tom’s Town: Go Warriors — and a privately financed arena
By Tom Temprano
San Francisco is inarguably a baseball and football town. As a basketball fan (albeit also a Giants and Niners guy), I get...
What the Keystone Pipeline delay really means
By John H. Cushman Jr
APRIL 22, 2014 -- By delaying a final decision on the Keystone XL pipeline until Nebraska devises a legally...