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Letters we answer: Pelosi, Newsom, trans athletes …

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

Lurie won’t commit to an alternative approach to the opioid crisis

Mayor doubles down on law enforcement, rejects Fielder's call for a 'Four Pillars' approach that has worked in other cities

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

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

How is SF going to approach drug dealing? There are very different proposals

Plus: A report on police misconduct, and a documentary on the vulture capital firm that is destroying local news. That's The Agenda for March 9-16

After Newsom abandons trans people, a fairly tepid response at SF City Hall

When Gov. Gavin Newsom threw the trans community under the bus last week, LGBTQ+ leaders in the state Legislature and statewide activist groups—many of...

Dear Gavin: You are all wrong about trans women athletes

I was a competitive college swimmer. There are no 'unfair advantages.' Just look at the numbers.

Newsom just threw the trans community under the bus

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

Maybe San Francisco needs a luxury tax

Mansions? Teslas? $500,000 shoes? San Francisco could help Muni, the schools, and unhoused people by an extra sales tax on things nobody really needs

Supes open door for corruption, allow officials to solicit money from big business

There's a good reason SF limited 'behested payments.' Now the exceptions are out of control.

Trump was insulting, frightening, and deranged; where was Pelosi?

Eight years ago, she tore up a Trump speech. This time? Nothing. What's up wth the Democrats?

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