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.

News + Politics

[UPDATED] Community demands better district lines—and so far, the Task Force is responding

April 4, 2022

Huge outpouring of opposition to the mayor's approach leads to a much-better map—for the moment.

City Hall

Opposition to new district lines just keeps growing

March 31, 2022

Nobody except the mayor seems to like what the Redistricting Task Force is doing. Will the community opposition even matter?

News + Politics

Haney attacks Campos for supporting a measure that Haney also supported

March 30, 2022

Mailers complain that Campos wanted a pause on the luxury housing causing displacement in the Mission. So did Haney.

News + Politics

New district lines would deeply hurt progressive politics in San Francisco

March 28, 2022

Astonishing gerrymandering blows District 5 into bits and divides up progressive voters across the city to give the conservatives a strong advantage.

Economy

I don’t want Gavin Newsom’s $400 gift card

March 24, 2022

If he sends me one, I'm sending it to the Coalition on Homelessness. But it's still a terrible idea.

Education

SFUSD’s big administrative expenses

March 21, 2022

Teachers are getting laid off—but the district has a bigger administrative staff than most in the state.

News + Politics

The new supes districts: How you can weigh in

March 20, 2022

Plus: The future of Amazon's SF distribution center—and why Newsom is all wrong about the state's surplus and gas prices. That's The Agenda for March 21-27

Housing

The stunning speculator profit in Ellis Act evictions

March 17, 2022

City report shows how much money gets made evicting tenants—and how little tenants get in relocation fees.

Crime

An embarrassment of injustice: Innocent man pleads guilty to crimes he didn’t commit to get out of long prison sentence

March 16, 2022

José Inez García Zárate was found not guilty of homicide by an SF jury and has spent seven years behind bars. Now he's facing conviction in federal court.

Housing

Bogus group-housing plan approved—sort of

March 16, 2022

In a sign of how messed up state law has become, Supes allow five-unit building that developer says is too small.

Tim Redmond

[UPDATED] Community demands better district lines—and so far, the Task Force is responding

Opposition to new district lines just keeps growing

Haney attacks Campos for supporting a measure that Haney also supported

New district lines would deeply hurt progressive politics in San Francisco

I don’t want Gavin Newsom’s $400 gift card

SFUSD’s big administrative expenses

The new supes districts: How you can weigh in

The stunning speculator profit in Ellis Act evictions

An embarrassment of injustice: Innocent man pleads guilty to crimes he didn’t commit to get out of long prison sentence

Bogus group-housing plan approved—sort of

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