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Letters We Answer

Letters we answer: Pelosi, Newsom, trans athletes …

Tim Redmond -
... and are taxes really too high in San Francisco?
Drug policy

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

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

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

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

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

Tim Redmond -
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
LGBTQ

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

Tim Redmond -
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...
LGBTQ

Dear Gavin: You are all wrong about trans women athletes

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

Newsom just threw the trans community under the bus

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

Maybe San Francisco needs a luxury tax

Joel Schechter -
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
News + Politics

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

Tim Redmond -
There's a good reason SF limited 'behested payments.' Now the exceptions are out of control.
News + Politics

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

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

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