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Can SF run its own bike-share program (and challenge the privatizers?)

Plus: The June 6 ballot shapes up—and will the Police Commission take civilian oversight seriously? That's The Agenda for Feb. 14-21

The hits keep coming: Haney backers go after Campos, Mahmood

Big money pays as (utterly false) dirt flies in the Feb. 15 election—but is it too late to make a difference?

Police Commissioners angry at chief’s move to undermine reform

Panel tells Chief Scott he "blindsided" them, and to go back and work things out with the DA—but he isn't backing down.

Remembering Bob Planthold, activist for sunshine and disability rights

Upon learning that fellow good-government activist Bob Planthold had died, Maxine Anderson reminded associates of an old African proverb: “When an elder dies, a...

Preston proposes a tax on vacant apartments

With 40,000 empty units in the city, taxing speculators and greedy landlords might bring 5,000 more homes onto the market—and pay for affordable housing.

SF to close four more SIP hotels, putting hundreds of unhoused at risk

The feds are still paying, so why the rush to put people on the streets or in congregate shelters?

Police chief undermines his own department’s reform agenda

Bill Scott voided an MOU that was a key part of a federal-level effort to improve accountability; will the commission let this stand?

Supes grill PG&E exec on how the company is holding SF hostage

The company is basically saying 'Screw You' to the city, and is unapologetic about wanting to block SF from using its own clean public power.

Flush with significance: Why reopening a BART bathroom is a very big deal

Surveillance state overreach, homophobia, anti-homeless hysteria—sometimes a toilet isn't just a toilet.

Trailblazing lesbian publisher Kim Corsaro was ‘wondrous, determined’

Remembering the larger-than-life leader of the Bay Times, who radicalized local gay journalism and famously got a police chief fired.

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