State and local party leaders should be looking for solutions here at home, including taxes on the rich and protections for vulnerable communities. Here are some ideas.

Opinion

Once again, the myth that sporting events lead to sex trafficking has emerged

megan hobza - March 25, 2025

New CA bill would give cops more power to arrest sex workers—and could lead to deportations

Housing

Opinion: Save affordable housing! Stop the conversion of the Mosser Hotel

Angelica Cabande - March 18, 2025

SF restricts conversions of residential hotel rooms to tourism. The owners of this building are trying an end run around that law.

Editorial

The detention of Mahmoud Kahlil is a travesty of justice

48 Hills - March 17, 2025

The Trump Administration's arrest of the former Columbia student and protest leader is an unlawful breach of free speech rights.

Opinion

A tsunami of chaos and destruction, but there may be hope

Bruce Mirken - March 16, 2025

There's a car salesman in the White House and an evil billionaire in your Social Security file, yet cracks are starting to show.

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Opinion

What’s on next at the Trump Center for the Performing Arts (besides more booing)?

Joel Schechter - March 14, 2025

Buckle up for wrestling matches, rare earth mineral mining, and an extrajudicial spin on 'Mack the Knife'

Letters We Answer

Letters we answer: Pelosi, Newsom, trans athletes …

Tim Redmond - March 12, 2025

... and are taxes really too high in San Francisco?

Environment

The death of a beloved wild burrowing owl may augur the next pandemic

Steven T. Jones - March 10, 2025

Avian flu is claiming the lives of iconic San Francisco Bay wildfowl—and the Trump administration can hardly be trusted to contain it.

Opinion

Newsom just threw the trans community under the bus

Gabriel Haaland - March 7, 2025

Why did the governor go out of his way to attack a small, vulnerable community? We can never trust him again.

Opinion

OPINION: Labor, progressives, and the politics of the West Side

Tim Paulson - March 3, 2025

Unions helped Connie Chan win. Joel Engardio is facing a recall. Is there a lesson here?

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Opinion

Trump attacks on the environment aren’t new. But why are Democrats helping?

The Cherry Blossom Festival is complicit in police violence and the crisis in Gaza

The Dyke March needs help to return full-throttle

Rümeysa Öztürk’s ‘last’ Op-Ed

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

Listen to the rank and file: Political lessons from something I missed 25 years ago

A $50,000 Rolex faces deportation

Three bills that threaten the rights of sex workers—and civil rights in general

OPINION: SF teachers fight to rebuild what Trump is tearing down

OPINION: Time for local Democrats to step up the resistance to Trump

Once again, the myth that sporting events lead to sex trafficking has emerged

Opinion: Save affordable housing! Stop the conversion of the Mosser Hotel

The detention of Mahmoud Kahlil is a travesty of justice

A tsunami of chaos and destruction, but there may be hope

What’s on next at the Trump Center for the Performing Arts (besides more booing)?

Letters we answer: Pelosi, Newsom, trans athletes …

The death of a beloved wild burrowing owl may augur the next pandemic

Newsom just threw the trans community under the bus

OPINION: Labor, progressives, and the politics of the West Side

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