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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.

Debunking the myth of the poor landlord

  By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 30, 2014 – If you haven’t heard the one about the poor struggling landlord who has a millionaire tenant with a...

Housing — or “safe deposit boxes in the sky?”

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 29, 2014 – In the earlier days of San Francisco urban environmental movement, we talked about the “Manhattanization” of the city...

What’s really behind Obama’s Cuba move

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson DECEMBER 23, 2014 -- There were two big takeaways from President Obama’s Cuban opening. The first is obvious. After 55 years...

Why not just send everyone a ballot?

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 22, 2014 – Supervisor David Campos has an idea that could revolutionize electoral politics in San Francisco – and it’s so...

Days in the life of a substitute teacher

By Martin Nicolaus DECEMBER 19, 2014 -- Substitute teachers, like plumbers and emergency room doctors, don’t see systems at their best.  Crap and blood everywhere...

Tom’s Town: The 12 days of San Franciscmas

By Tom Temprano DECEMBER 19, 2014 -- The holidays are here, and despite this feeling like a tough year for many of us on San...

The elusive Barbara Beno: The story of the person who is behind the move to shut down City College

By Mary Strope, Michaela Payne and Arami Reyes DECEMBER 18, 2014 -- “No narrative would be complete without a worthy villain, and we have one...

Mayor says he’s “open” to a tax on vacant housing

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 17, 2014 – Mayor Ed Lee said yesterday that he was “open” to the concept of a tax on vacant residential...

Protesters disrupt landlord from getting on Google bus

By Sara Bloomberg DECEMBER 16, 2014 -- Sometimes he drives to work, but this morning Jack Halprin decided to take a private shuttle to his...

Sup. Mar takes on Zombie Neighborhoods and Housing Hoarding

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 16, 2014 -- A measure by Sup. Eric Mar to tax unoccupied or largely unoccupied housing units could be one of...