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Housing

Peskin, Chan want to know if SF can sue the state over impossible housing rules

Tim Redmond - January 1, 2024

Letter to city attorney seeks advice on how to deal with mandates from Sacramento that almost everyone agrees SF can never meet.

News + Politics

Our top stories of 2023, from Dianne Feinstein to Japanese sandos

Marke B. - December 29, 2023

Your support helped us produce 1100 stories this year, showing an unmatched breadth of news, arts, and cultural coverage

Housing

The Chron, voting rights, and district elections

Tim Redmond - December 28, 2023

If the state Legislature starts to see district elections of local legislators as a Nimby problem, the oligarchs in SF will rejoice.

Business + Tech

The brutal budget crisis of 2024—and how the city could address it without huge cuts

Tim Redmond - December 27, 2023

San Francisco needs to rethink how it collects taxes—and the state is going to have to get out of the way.

Elections

Here come the billionaires: Election 2024

Tim Redmond - December 24, 2023

Big money goes into measures attacking poor people and eroding police oversight. It's really about Breed's re-election and the oligarchs controlling the city.

Housing

The year in housing policy: State forced SF into a no-win situation (and Breed went along)

Tim Redmond - December 22, 2023

The supes did what they had to do, although a lot of them didn't like it—but it's not going to matter anyway.

News + Politics

Opinion: The Valencia Street center bike lane was a mistake and has to go

Kevin Ortiz and David Quinby - December 22, 2023

It's bad for cyclists, bad for small business, and shows the need for SFMTA reform.

Featured

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48 Hills - December 20, 2023

Going into an election year, independent media must survive the assault by billionaires, conservatives, and big chains.

News + Politics

Young people arrested in police sweep at Dolores skate event file federal suit

Tim Redmond - December 19, 2023

Held for seven hours, with no water or access to bathrooms, in the cold, teenagers who did nothing illegal are demanding the city take responsibility.

Protest

Jenkins files serious charges against Bay Bridge protesters demanding Gaza ceasefire—but it’s a stretch

Tim Redmond - December 18, 2023

Serious criminal charges in civil disobedience cases are rare in SF, for good reason.

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