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Featured Marke B. - October 20, 2025

Protesting Donald Trump is not enough

We need to demand elected officials address economic inequality at every level—including here at home

Housing Tim Redmond - October 20, 2025

The GOP speaker finds some anarchists in San Francisco

If not for Mike Johnson, they might have gone unnoticed among the wide range of people who showed up at the No Kings march.

Opinion Joel Schechter - October 20, 2025

Lurie’s (Rich) Family Zoning Plan faces its first test at supes committee

Plus: Looks like Pelosi will not run again. Will the progressives have a candidate? That's The Agenda for Oct. 19-26

The Agenda Tim Redmond - October 19, 2025

Housing

A pro-growth Yimby ally has some untimely questions about Wiener’s new bill

Zelda Bronstein - October 19, 2025

Veteran planner Bill Fulton is all about more housing, but he isn't sure that SB 79 will work. He could have said that sooner.

Protest

Massive No Kings protest in SF—and all over the country. Where was Lurie?

Tim Redmond - October 18, 2025

Lots of talk about the billionaire class. The city's billionaire mayor was nowhere in sight

Protest

No Kings protests this weekend: A guide

Tim Redmond - October 16, 2025

Here's where to go and how to participate

News + Politics

Task Force moving to eliminate community oversight of many departments

Tim Redmond - October 14, 2025

Why make a very strong mayor even stronger? It's all part of the oligarch agenda

LGBTQ

Trans trailblazer Miss Major has passed: Read our 2023 interview with the Stonewall veteran

Caitlin Donohue - October 14, 2025

'The best trait an organizer can have is to listen, and to listen closely to what the people want,' she told us.

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Development

News media coverage about Lurie’s upzoning plan misses the most important player

Tim Redmond - October 13, 2025

The ugly choices the city faces are largely the result of one person: Scott Wiener

Police

Inside SF’s private surveillance state

Ian Firstenberg - October 13, 2025

The privatization of public safety (and spy cameras) is a costly threat to all of us

The Agenda

A political attack on supportive housing

Tim Redmond - October 12, 2025

Plus: Protecting legacy businesses—and is there a real search for a new police chief? That's The Agenda for Oct. 12-19

Opinion

OPINION: The serious problems with Dorsey’s sober-housing legislation

Jordan Wasilewski - October 12, 2025

It bans all supportive housing that isn't 'drug free.' This will make the situation on the streets worse.

Business + Tech

Dear Marc Benioff: Are you a socialist?

Joel Schechter - October 12, 2025

You seem to want the government to pay for your private security. Is a wealth tax next?

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Housing

Berkeley’s city planning ‘cancel culture’

Zelda Bronstein - October 9, 2025

Small shops and the public cut out of the process of upzoning three neighborhoods

Labor

Labor-led coalition calls for Airbnb boycott

JJ Lansing - October 8, 2025

The company is trying to get out of $120 million in local taxes. Labor is fighting back

Drug policy

Dorsey wants to block city funding for supportive housing that isn’t drug-free

Tim Redmond - October 7, 2025

Bill is a direct challenge to years of data-driven policy that focuses on 'housing first' and harm reduction

Homelessness

Catch a new film about the brutality of sweeps and attacks on the unhoused

Tiny - October 7, 2025

With no love from Hollywood, 'Crushing Wheelchairs' gets two Bay Area screenings

City Hall

New poll shows resounding support for public bank in San Francisco

Tim Redmond - October 6, 2025

Across demographic groups, 67 percent favor the concept

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News + Politics

There will be tickets at the door for Wednesday’s Community Gala!

Protesting Donald Trump is not enough

The GOP speaker finds some anarchists in San Francisco

Lurie’s (Rich) Family Zoning Plan faces its first test at supes committee

A pro-growth Yimby ally has some untimely questions about Wiener’s new bill

Massive No Kings protest in SF—and all over the country. Where was Lurie?

No Kings protests this weekend: A guide

Task Force moving to eliminate community oversight of many departments

Trans trailblazer Miss Major has passed: Read our 2023 interview with the Stonewall veteran

News media coverage about Lurie’s upzoning plan misses the most important player

Inside SF’s private surveillance state

A political attack on supportive housing

OPINION: The serious problems with Dorsey’s sober-housing legislation

Dear Marc Benioff: Are you a socialist?

Berkeley’s city planning ‘cancel culture’

Labor-led coalition calls for Airbnb boycott

Dorsey wants to block city funding for supportive housing that isn’t drug-free

Catch a new film about the brutality of sweeps and attacks on the unhoused

New poll shows resounding support for public bank in San Francisco

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