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 Cove of Weepers: Why San Francisco has often had good reason to be nervous about new arrivals
By Rebecca Solnit
“In the past, it was racists and homophobes who attacked newcomers to San Francisco. Today, anti-tech activists are promoting a new nativism, charging incoming tech workers with...
Tom’s Town: There’s $4 toast in Texas, too
Greetings from the wide open ranges of Texas! That’s right, this week’s Tom’s Town comes to you from the halls of George Bush Intercontinental Airport in sunny Houston. As...
Why is there no housing for Google and Apple workers on the Peninsula?
Why is it wrong for Google workers to live near where they work? (Hint: The suburbs don't want them)
By Tim Redmond
It's time for our daily dose of Why San...
How SF Weekly and C.W. Nevius got the tech protests all wrong
Actually, protests are good. And they work.
By Tim Redmond
FEB. 24, 2014 -- I don’t have any bad feelings for SF Weekly these days. The era when the dickwad owners...
Ellis Act reform effort starts in Sacramento
By Tim Redmond
FEB 21, 2014 -- Efforts to reform the Ellis Act -- one of the key demands of the tenant rally this week -- are now underway.
Assemblymember Tom...
Tom’s Town: A visit to River City (and what’s up with the David Chiu landlord-lawyer fundraiser?)
By Tom Temprano
My last visit to Sacramento happened when I was ten years old on a road trip to Gold Country with my dad. The memories I have from...
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 others who found their path...
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 here to a new detailed...
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 500 firms, are cleaving more...
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 last time we saw this...
