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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

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City Hall

Wiener-Newsom CEQA ‘reform’ is a dangerous fraud

Lithium battery factories without environmental review. Miami Beach development along the coast. And it's not going to make housing more affordable

Demolish rent-controlled housing? New Wiener bill could wipe out restrictions

Plus: Politics and Pride. That's The Agenda for June 19-July 6

SF, a sanctuary city for the billionaires

Will Mayor Lurie invite the rich New Yorkers who are scared of a democratic socialist to move here? Yikes!

Behind the late-night budget deal

The mayor got most of what he wanted. The process was a train wreck

Supes, mayor at budget impasse

Layoffs, housing money at issue as Lurie won't back down on cuts

Lurie zoning plan has no support at all except the Yimby coalition

No small business group, no neighborhood group ... it's as if the mayor isn't even trying to find consensus

The silly ‘red scare’ over New York’s leading candidate for mayor

Mamdani's platform is just common sense, and it worked; is the Democratic Party Old Guard even paying attention?

Lurie budget draws mass protest

Hundreds turn out to oppose massive cuts; are the supes paying attention?

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Protesting the Lurie budget—and talking about long-term progressive solutions

Plus: Will the board defy a district supe and let Lurie shift money from housing into shelters? That's The Agenda for June 23-30

The supes will at last have a serious discussion about income inequality and taxing the rich

Chen measure would ask the state Legislature to allow a local income and wealth tax on the richest San Franciscans

Massive protests: Against Trump—and against the Lurie budget

Millions all over the country, including red states, oppose Trump. Plus: Brutal city budget comes down to the final weeks. That's The Agenda for June 15 to 22

The Lurie budget is great for bad cops

Proposal slashes funding for Department of Police Accountability, eliminates sheriff inspector general.

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

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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

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