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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.
Housing

Peskin, Chan want to know if SF can sue the state over impossible housing rules

Letter to city attorney seeks advice on how to deal with mandates from Sacramento that almost everyone agrees SF can never meet.
Housing

The Chron, voting rights, and district elections

If the state Legislature starts to see district elections of local legislators as a Nimby problem, the oligarchs in SF will rejoice.
Business + Tech

The brutal budget crisis of 2024—and how the city could address it without huge cuts

San Francisco needs to rethink how it collects taxes—and the state is going to have to get out of the way.
Elections

Here come the billionaires: Election 2024

Big money goes into measures attacking poor people and eroding police oversight. It's really about Breed's re-election and the oligarchs controlling the city.
Housing

The year in housing policy: State forced SF into a no-win situation (and Breed went along)

The supes did what they had to do, although a lot of them didn't like it—but it's not going to matter anyway.
News + Politics

Young people arrested in police sweep at Dolores skate event file federal suit

Held for seven hours, with no water or access to bathrooms, in the cold, teenagers who did nothing illegal are demanding the city take responsibility.
Protest

Jenkins files serious charges against Bay Bridge protesters demanding Gaza ceasefire—but it’s a stretch

Serious criminal charges in civil disobedience cases are rare in SF, for good reason.
News + Politics

Why is the Chron so freaked out about Socialism?

Yes, neoliberal capitalism helped create the homelessness crisis. What are we even arguing about that?
Housing

Planning Commission agrees to end public input on many housing developments

Narrow 4-3 votes ends the ability of community activists to call out unscrupulous landlords and speculators.
Housing

Check the record: Preston and his progressive colleagues are not against housing

Back in 2021, when Heather Knight was still at the Chronicle, the Yimbys put out something they called a "study" of the housing record...
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