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.

Police

Cops appeared to violate their own policies during mass skateboard arrests

July 10, 2023

Public Defender cites lack of access to lawyers, parents despite clear rules on juvenile detention.

News + Politics

Does SF need 24/7 robot taxis (that don’t pay any fee to be taxis)?

July 9, 2023

Plus: A move to limit ballot information, and a cut to affordable housing requirements for developers. That's The Agenda for July 9-16

Police

Police crackdown at Dolores skate party raises all sorts of troubling questions

July 9, 2023

Why so many militarized officers? Why arrest so many kids? Will Jenkins press charges? How much will this cost the city? And where is Sup Mandelman?

Business + Tech

Let’s talk, for real, about taxes

July 6, 2023

Almost everything wrong with the US economy is the result of tax cuts for the wealthy. SF shouldn't make the same mistake.

Housing

Breed housing plan, which threatens tenants, gets narrow commission nod

July 5, 2023

Maybe Paris is not such a great role model for the West Side of town.

City Hall

Supes make changes that will really matter in Breed’s budget proposal

July 3, 2023

Critical programs saved—but there's still a big structural issue here.

Housing

This is the state of housing policy in SF in 2023

June 28, 2023

Planners say environmental law doesn't matter, and supes approve a project almost everyone hates, all to deal with state Sen. Scott Wiener's rules—and Breed wants to make it worse

City Hall

Breed says she wants even more power

June 27, 2023

In national podcast, she says she missed the pandemic days when she had emergency authority and calls for limits on what supes can do.

News + Politics

Fielder way ahead in D9 fundraising

June 27, 2023

Fifteen months before the election, she has raised enough to qualify for $309,000 in total money.

The Agenda

A bit of Breed budget trickery, and the side of the housing story that the press missed

June 25, 2023

Plus: A measure that would allow massive demolitions of existing housing. That's The Agenda for June 25 to July 2