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Business + Tech

Let’s talk, for real, about taxes

Tim Redmond - July 6, 2023

Almost everything wrong with the US economy is the result of tax cuts for the wealthy. SF shouldn't make the same mistake.

Music

After 17 years, electronic duo Microfilm still make wistful bangers together

Marke B. - July 6, 2023

Latest album 'Body Arcana' explores the couple's blend of queer pop sensibility with shimmering dance floor acumen

Housing

Breed housing plan, which threatens tenants, gets narrow commission nod

Tim Redmond - July 5, 2023

Maybe Paris is not such a great role model for the West Side of town.

News + Politics

The Democratic Party is suffering from learned helplessness that threatens us all

Bruce Mirken - July 4, 2023

When we need serious change, it's always an excuse that says 'no we can't.'

City Hall

Supes make changes that will really matter in Breed’s budget proposal

Tim Redmond - July 3, 2023

Critical programs saved—but there's still a big structural issue here.

News + Politics

Why I went to DC to protest Biden’s foolish and cruel policy on Cuba

Mark Ginsburg - July 3, 2023

The ongoing economic blockade, a relic of Trump, makes no geopolitical or human sense.

LGBTQ

Supreme Court caps off Pride month with a slap of bigotry

Marke B. - June 30, 2023

I can't believe we've gone so far backwards that we have to care what Christians think of us again.

Homelessness

These researchers lived through homelessness. Now they’ve analyzed it

TJ Johnston - June 30, 2023

New study shows growing trend of bringing the unhoused into the conversation.

Movies

Intersex community claims its voice in director Julie Cohen’s ‘Every Body’

Pam Grady - June 29, 2023

'In the Western world, there's a desire to put things into boxes. I think a lot of us are uncomfortable with those boxes.'

Housing

This is the state of housing policy in SF in 2023

Tim Redmond - June 28, 2023

Planners say environmental law doesn't matter, and supes approve a project almost everyone hates, all to deal with state Sen. Scott Wiener's rules—and Breed wants to make it worse

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