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.
Transparency is key to City College future
By Li Lovett
FEB. 21, 2004 -- A student I advised at City College of San Francisco said to me recently, echoing the experience of...
Where is Sup. Scott Wiener’s money coming from? Guess
By Tim Redmond
FEB. 19, 2014 -- The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, one of my favorite organizations in San Francisco, has taken the work we did...
The big real-estate money in SF politics
By Darwin Bond Graham
The tech boom has made San Francisco's real estate the most expensive in the nation. Tech companies, from startups to Fortune...
Citywide tenant convention: “This is the start of a movement”
By Tim Redmond
FEB.10, 2014 -- Among the old-timers at the San Francisco tenants convention Saturday, the same question kept coming up: When was the...
Tom’s Town: Rain water, sugar water — and a Democratic Party squeaker
By Tom Temprano
It’s raining! Real rain! Not just dense fog, but real rain in the form of droplets of water is finally making its...
Tom’s Town: Pass the Pipe, Ed
By Tom Temprano
Mayor Ed Lee and his Department of Public Health have been exercising poor etiquette in their refusal to pass the pipe over...
Tom’s Town: Back at the BART Board
By Tom Temprano
Even though workers and management at BART have settled on a new contract, it appears that Rail Rage will continue here in...
Politics on Tuesday: A challenge to Wiener in D8?
By Tim Redmond
When Sup. Scott Wiener showed up at the Castro tenants convention, he was doing what any good politician would do in an...
Sacramento control: How the state could keep City College under its thumb for years to come
By Ann Clark
On January 4, 2014, the news media in San Francisco reported the threat of closing City College of San Francisco is temporarily...
Tom’s Town: Making Google shuttles pay — and cutting party promoters some slack
By Tom Temprano
In today’s San Francisco, $1 doesn’t stand to buy you a whole lot. Sure, it can get you a can of Tecate...