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Letters to the Editor

Letters we answer: Pelosi, Newsom, trans athletes …

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

Letters We Answer Tim Redmond - March 12, 2025

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Letters to the editor: What is the city getting by allowing housing demolitions?

Project by project, existing housing is destroyed for new high-priced units. Is this the way to solve the housing crisis?

Letters to the Editor Tim Redmond - January 23, 2025

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Letters we answer: On Luigi and the US healthcare system

Are we looking through a 'single keyhole,' and what does that mean anyway?

Letters We Answer Tim Redmond - December 10, 2024

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Letters to the editor: What to do about the Great Highway park

Should we just leave it to Mother Nature? Is this all a good start? Readers respond to our recent article.

Letters to the Editor Tim Redmond - November 20, 2024

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Letters We Answer

Letter to the editor: Yes, a taxpayer can sue over the state’s housing laws

Tim Redmond - January 2, 2024

Retired real estate lawyer weighs in on state law.

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Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: Don’t blame Tesla for Elon Musk

Joseph Tomasone - November 28, 2022

"Despite Musk's eccentricities, the employee corps at Tesla appear to be carrying on as normal, producing cars that their owners love."

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Letter to the editor: The promise of a public bank

Eric Weaver - May 29, 2022

It's a great idea. Let's talk about what it could actually do.

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Housing

Letter to the Editor: Supply and demand doesn’t apply to housing — or really anything

Mary McFadden - May 2, 2022

Emphasizing supply intentionally ignores what drives demand: tax subsidies for multi-billion-dollar corporations

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Letter to the Editor: A mural for Ukraine

48 Hills - March 13, 2022

Keeping the lost art of Maria Pryimachenko alive in San Francisco, and hoping for peace.

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Letters to the Editor: Castro Theatre takeover—very con and very pro

48 Hills - January 22, 2022

Readers sound off on the recently announced Another Planet Entertainment plan to manage the 100+-year-old cinema.

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Letters to the Editor

Let them eat handbags

Mira Martin-Parker - November 29, 2021

Can someone please explain to me why the stealing of mere symbols of social goodness (i.e., social status) is somehow worse than the stealing of actual goodness.

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An ethical landlord calls for more social housing

Spike Kahn - November 29, 2021

Why the supervisors should approve $64 million in spending with a veto-proof majority

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Letter to the Editor: ‘I have so many questions’ about nightlife after COVID

48 Hills - April 12, 2021

SF culture took a massive hit pre-pandemic, a reader writes. Can we let history guide us to better times?

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Letter to the Editor: Weighing in on Garfield’s leftist cred

48 Hills - March 29, 2021

Garfield has been transformed into a icon of the left—but what's his creator doing with Mike Pence?

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Letters to the Editor: Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti

48 Hills - March 14, 2021

Remembrances of the late literary lion from writers David Talbot, Tony Robles, and Eric Sneathen

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Letter to the Editor: Uighurs, disinformation, and US media coverage

48 Hills - February 28, 2021

Foreign Correspondent Reese Erlich responds to criticism of his piece on Chinese repression and US media coverage

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Letter to the Editor: After COVID, a polar bear swims again

David McGuire - February 24, 2021

An open-water swimmer returns to the freezing sea, savoring the breath of life.

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