Business + Tech

At Game Developers Conference, game-workers keep unionization hopes alive

In an industry buffeted by layoffs, tariffs, and AI, United Videogame Workers organizers keep pushing for labor rights.

Gaming Leah Isobel - March 16, 2026

Airbnb, under pressure from labor, drops $120 million lawsuit against SF

After calls for boycott, giant company folds in a win for activists who fight corporate tax cuts

Business + Tech Tim Redmond - March 5, 2026

DA Brooke Jenkins attacks unions, says the city needs to be nicer to billionaires

At conference for democrats who want to crush the left, Jenkins says the city is at a "reckoning" with local labor

Business + Tech Tim Redmond - March 3, 2026

No, taxes on billionaires won’t destroy innovation in California

Tax opponents are putting out a line that makes no sense; just look at Bay Area tech history

Business + Tech Tim Redmond - February 23, 2026

Business + Tech

Supes side with AT&T on massive cell phone tower in Diamond Heights

Tim Redmond - February 10, 2026

Mandelman says the city has no choice and AT&T could sue; neighbors say that's no way to make policy decisions

Labor

The Super Bowl, labor, and economic inequality

Dave Meggyesy - February 7, 2026

I played in the NFL for 7 years. If we could change the profit system in something as quintessentially American as professional football, we can change it anywhere.

Business + Tech

Dear Marc Benioff: Are you a socialist?

Joel Schechter - October 12, 2025

You seem to want the government to pay for your private security. Is a wealth tax next?

Business + Tech

Neighborhood finds it’s hard to fight AT&T

Tim Redmond - September 25, 2025

Planners approve 104-foot tower in Diamond Heights over broad community opposition

Business + Tech

Law and order: Let’s put the Tesla robotaxis in jail

Joel Schechter - July 31, 2025

How about a high penalty on the world's richest man for illegally bringing driverless cars into San Francisco?

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Tech

Can they digitize your epiphanies?

Leah Isobel - July 25, 2025

At the Human + Tech conference, a movement to meld AI to personhood that ended up feeling more machine than humankind.

Business + Tech

Steal this future

Annalee Newitz - July 24, 2025

We don't need to let the Big Tech oligarchs and creepy cyber-libertarians decide what city—and what kind of society—we want to live in.

Opinion

The Drain: Marke B. spouts off on poverty porn peddlers and the billionaires who love them

48 Hills - April 9, 2025

Our publisher popped on the popular podcast for a few laughs at tech oligarch Garry Tan and some thoughts on SF's political scene.

Campaign Trail

Neighborhood businesses threatened by upzoning and speculators

Tim Redmond - August 26, 2024

Peskin plan would slow down the displacement of longtime commercial tenants as Breed's proposal starts to fuel evictions.

Business + Tech

New conservative DCCC members will face vote on critical labor issues

Tim Redmond - April 18, 2024

Will the 'moderate' majority elected with tech money support bills that regulate AI, robotaxis, and robotrucks?

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Business + Tech

Wiener wants to regulate AI—but not help people whose jobs are destroyed

Tim Redmond - April 3, 2024

Half a million people Californians make a living as drivers; if robots replace them, how will they survive? That's not on the Wiener agenda.

Lit

Indie booksellers in trouble? BincTank to the rescue

Lou Fancher - March 11, 2024

A program that grew out of Borders now helps BIPOC-owned bookstores stay open and thrive through its grants.

Business + Tech

Prop. C won’t produce much housing—but could cost the city a lot of money

Tim Redmond - February 26, 2024

Breed's plan is probably worthless, city economist says—but if it works, it will cost millions.

Business + Tech

The city has a new business tax plan—which doesn’t address economic inequality

Tim Redmond - February 9, 2024

We can tinker with 'revenue-neutral' changes, but SF is facing a massive fiscal crisis, and the big corporations and billionaires are still not paying their fair share.

Business + Tech

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

Tim Redmond - December 27, 2023

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

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Business + Tech

At Game Developers Conference, game-workers keep unionization hopes alive

Airbnb, under pressure from labor, drops $120 million lawsuit against SF

DA Brooke Jenkins attacks unions, says the city needs to be nicer to billionaires

No, taxes on billionaires won’t destroy innovation in California

Supes side with AT&T on massive cell phone tower in Diamond Heights

The Super Bowl, labor, and economic inequality

Dear Marc Benioff: Are you a socialist?

Neighborhood finds it’s hard to fight AT&T

Law and order: Let’s put the Tesla robotaxis in jail

Can they digitize your epiphanies?

Steal this future

The Drain: Marke B. spouts off on poverty porn peddlers and the billionaires who love them

Neighborhood businesses threatened by upzoning and speculators

New conservative DCCC members will face vote on critical labor issues

Wiener wants to regulate AI—but not help people whose jobs are destroyed

Indie booksellers in trouble? BincTank to the rescue

Prop. C won’t produce much housing—but could cost the city a lot of money

The city has a new business tax plan—which doesn’t address economic inequality

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

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