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Tim Redmond

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.

Board factions (mostly) work out deals for fall ballot

Everyone seems to be complaining about a lack of “collegiality” at the Board of Supes, since some of the discussions over the budget and...

The Agenda, 7/25/2016: Down to the wire for the November ballot

The battle of the November ballot continues Tuesday as several key items left over from last week’s crazy Board of Supes meeting are back...

Governor’s housing plan promoted at closed-door meeting with Mayor Lee

I went to the strangest press conference today. Ed Lee was there; so was Ben Metcalf, who is Gov. Jerry Brown’s director of housing...

Big wins for progressives at key board meeting

The Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday started off with the mayor showing up for Question Time and asking for unity on the city budget...

The Agenda, 7/18-7/24: Look for a wild supes meeting

It’s going to be a week of fireworks at the Board of Supes: The city budget is up Tuesday/19, as are a series of...

The story Ahsha Safai doesn’t tell in his campaign for supervisor

Ahsha Safai is running for supervisor in District 11 as a labor activist who has the support of some of the city’s unions –...

SFPD is a toxic culture of old boys run by insiders who resist reform

The final report of the Blue-Ribbon Task Force investigating the San Francisco Police Department came out today, and while much of it is not...

The Agenda, July 11-17: Why bad committee appointments matter …

Pretty much everyone agrees that elected officials should be judged on their records in office, and typically that means legislation introduced, votes on difficult...

Did cops tamper with evidence in Amilcar Lopez killing?

The Amilcar Perez Lopez shooting took on a new twist this week as police-reform advocates called for the officers involved in the shooting to...

The Agenda, July 5-10: Did the Homeless Project work?

So we all wrote about homelessness last week, 48hills and most of the rest of the local news media, and the goal – as...