The Agenda: The eviction tsunami begins
Local courts will start to hear cases Monday; tenant groups plan protest.
The Agenda: State housing battle plays out before SF supes
Mar wants ABAG to recognize that SF has already approved more luxury housing that it needs.
Breed budget comes to the supes
The mayor’s budget proposal, delayed because of the COVID crisis, comes before the Board of Supes Budget and Appropriations Committee Wed/12, Thu/13 and Fri/14. It’s going to be a...
Finally, a monument to a victim of police violence
For the first time in history, San Francisco will soon have a permanent monument to a person of color killed by the police.
I was up on Bernal Hill the...
Supes consider major changes in business taxes
The Board of Supes Budget and Finance Committee will consider Thursday/16 a series of tax measures that could raise more than $100 million for the city and change the...
Public toilets—and public corruption
The deepening public works scandal, which now involves political connected permit expediter Walter Wong, appears to have links to a big corporation that has been doing business in SF...
Wearing a mask is a political statement—that you care about community
Donald Trump has – no surprise – turned a basic public-health practice into a political issue, putting millions of lives at risk.
Trump has consistently refused to wear a mask,...
Breed’s choices on cops and homeless face challenges
The full Board of Supes will decide Tuesday/8 whether to reject Mayor London Breed’s two nominees to the Police Commission.
The vote will come as protesters all over the world...
The Agenda: Why isn’t the Police Commission meeting?
Two members of the SF Police Commission are asking Mayor London Breed to allow the panel to start meeting again – and it’s past due.
The mayor’s Shelter-in-Place order bars...
Why turn affordable SROs into tourist hotel rooms?
While the supervisors and the mayor are engaged in a critical, and bitter, debate about moving homeless people into hotels, the Planning Department is moving forward a plan to...
