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Opinion: Action desperately needed for COVID-hit Latino community

Jon Jacobo - May 5, 2020

Numbers matter. Inequity, by definition, means a lack of fairness or justice. Inequity in practice means 84% of the hospital beds in San Francisco General Hospital for...

News + Politics

Letter to the Editor: ‘Ceci n’est pas une guillotine’

Mira Martin-Parker - April 22, 2020

I guess I’ll have to sell something in order to pay rent to our corporate landlords this month. I’ve been holding out, trying bide...

News + Politics

Social distancing is the wrong term

Marc Norton - April 9, 2020

I am very tired of hearing about “social distancing.” We do not need social distancing. We need physical distancing. What we need is social solidarity. I...

Opinion

OPINION: Save the soul of San Francisco

John Kirkley and Joanna Lawrence Shenk - April 3, 2020

How do you shelter at home, when you don’t have a home? As our city leaders have moved rapidly and wisely to minimize the risks...

News + Politics

Where’s the money for health care and saving the planet? Well, we clearly have it

Christopher D. Cook - March 30, 2020

With an unprecedented $2 trillion economic stabilization package at last finalized, and a flood of cash and credit emanating from the government to stem the...

News + Politics

Some surprising political analysis from the local election results

Tim Redmond - March 5, 2020

The voter turnout is up to 55 percent in San Francisco now, and will exceed 60 percent once the last 54,000 ballots are counted....

News + Politics

Mohammed Nuru’s worst offense

Sam Lew - February 4, 2020

A $2,070 bottle of wine from a Chinese billionaire, a $5,000 bribe to an SFO airport commissioner, and a John Deer tractor for his...

Housing

Forget SB 50 — San Francisco needs a bold plan for social housing

Steven Hill - January 9, 2020

State Senator Scott Wiener has reintroduced his housing bill, SB 50, which seeks to alleviate the housing crisis by forcing more density around transit corridors. But...

News + Politics

The violence of wealth-hoarding

Tiny - December 27, 2019

Your ambivalence is violence Your paralysis is more homelessness Your hoarding creates our impoverished life story I have shared with descendants of wealth-hoarders, land stealers who know that...

News + Politics

OPINION: Golf courses or affordable housing?

Steven Hill - December 17, 2019

Despite all the public concern over the affordable housing crisis, and an alphabet soup of ballot and bond measures in recent years intended to...

Opinion

Opinion: Action desperately needed for COVID-hit Latino community

Letter to the Editor: ‘Ceci n’est pas une guillotine’

Social distancing is the wrong term

OPINION: Save the soul of San Francisco

Where’s the money for health care and saving the planet? Well, we clearly have it

Some surprising political analysis from the local election results

Mohammed Nuru’s worst offense

Forget SB 50 — San Francisco needs a bold plan for social housing

The violence of wealth-hoarding

OPINION: Golf courses or affordable housing?

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