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City Hall

The budget is all about Mayor Lurie’s campaign promises to ‘clean the streets’

If we want to avoid civic failure, we need to rethink not just spending but how we finance San Francisco—and parking meters in the park won't do it

The brutality of the Billionaires Budget starts to unfold

Here are some of the critical services on the chopping block—and why this doesn't need to happen

Finally, some details on the mayor’s budget (we can only hope)

Plus: The debate over shelters, and new leadership at the Police Commission ... that's The Agenda for June 8-15

Brutality of Lurie budget comes into focus as labor, community vow to fight back

Many of the cuts will hurt the most vulnerable but much of the damage is still not clear

What the Lurie budget does—and doesn’t—offer

Plus: What did the director of Rec-Park know about the Parks Alliance scandal? That's The Agenda for Jun3 1-8

Could a New York mayoral candidate have a solution to SF, state budget crisis?

Lurie, Newsom, face strong pushback from labor as cuts loom. Maybe everyone should be looking east, where taxing the rich could get a socialist elected mayor of the nation's largest city

Lurie’s compliant Board of Supes

Plus: A stealth Amazon center in Bayview—and Muni's epic fail on Bay to Breakers day. That's The Agenda for May 19-25

UPDATED: 48 Hills wins *16* California Journalism Awards

Our fiercely independent reporting scored awards for General Excellence, Best Column, Arts Coverage, Homeless Reporting, more

Newsom’s latest attack on the unhoused is brutal, cruel—and a political fail

The guv wants to be president, but the data shows he's taking the wrong path. Are we surprised?

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Fentanyl deaths up 50 percent in three months; why isn’t this a big news story?

Plus: A terrible project that Yimby, Wiener and Co. has forced on San Francisco. That's The Agenda for May 11-18

More money for the district attorney—but what about the public defender?

Plus: The end of harm reduction, equity in planning ... and no, Donald Trump can't be the next Pope. That's The Agenda for May 4-11

The Pope, Capitalism, and the SF budget battle

Plus: An exclusive golf club vs. school kids, and would a new hotel undermine an existing historic building? That's The Agenda for April 27-May 4

The basic idea of telling people about development runs into the Yimby agenda

Plus: The end of harm reduction as a primary policy. That's The Agenda for April 20-27

SF wants to run an untested experiment on West Side neighborhoods

Plus: Preventing families from eviction from shelters, and the next step in taking over PG&E. That's The Agenda for April 13-20.

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Can the West Side absorb more density without displacing existing tenants and small businesses?

Plus: Is the privatization of public housing working in SF? That's The Agenda for April 6-13

Note to Matt Dorsey: UCSF doctors support harm reduction

Plus: SFPD still seems to have problems with illegal searches. That's The Agenda for March 31-April 6

SF takes another step toward public power

First report released on buying out PG&E. Plus: Landlord allows illegal office use, now wants forgiveness (and no conversion fees). That's The Agenda for March 23-30

This is one disease I thought I wouldn’t have to worry about. Wrong.

Plus: Is SF moving away from harm reduction and Housing First? That's The Agenda for March 17-24

Lurie won’t commit to an alternative approach to the opioid crisis

Mayor doubles down on law enforcement, rejects Fielder's call for a 'Four Pillars' approach that has worked in other cities

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