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COVID

COVID safety is a progressive responsibility

Government, media, institutions no longer work to protect us; we need to keep raising our voices and taking action.
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I have long COVID—and Sen. Scott Wiener wouldn’t help

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

Campaign Trail

Letter from Milwaukee: Reflections on the RNC—and the protests

Peaceful activists challenged racist and sometimes violent MAGAs during the Trump coronation.
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Opinion

Kamala Harris and America’s incapability to grapple with the ‘root cause’ of immigration

The US approach to immigration—regardless of party perspective—reveals a fundamental failure of national politics.
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Campaign Trail

SF Democratic Party calls for more queer women in office—then votes for D9 guys

Tim Redmond -
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Campaign Trail

Letter from Milwaukee: Reflections on the RNC—and the protests

Peaceful activists challenged racist and sometimes violent MAGAs during the Trump coronation.
JJ Lansing and Trista Ngo -
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Opinion

Kamala Harris and America’s incapability to grapple with the ‘root cause’ of immigration

The US approach to immigration—regardless of party perspective—reveals a fundamental failure of national politics.
Ian Firstenberg -
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Opinion

The labor movement and the Democratic convention

56 years later, a party with a serious foreign policy problem is back in Chicago.
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Opinion

Elon, what are you doing hurting your own interests?

And open letter to Musk: Trump is not a fan of electric cars. Oh, and you could give the Twitter HQ to climate action groups.
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Onstage

As Elvis Herselvis, she’s put the King in ‘drag king’ for 35 years

Catching up with SF legend Leigh Crow, who'll shake, rattle, and roll the big Elvis Presley Tribute Party
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Campaign Trail

Breed’s allegiance to the Yimby movement is hurting her political future

Some of her Big Tech allies have abandoned her—and now the neighborhoods are unhappy too.
Calvin Welch -
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Featured

48hills wins four prestigious California Journalism Awards

Our local writers garnered citations in Environmental Reporting, Music Reporting, and Food Writing. Check them out!
Marke B. -
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The Agenda

The supes vote on an imperfect, but much better, budget …

... plus new affordable housing and a series of City Charter amendments and a celebration of labor. That's The Agenda for July 14-21
Tim Redmond -
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Campaign Trail

GOP delegates headed for Milwaukee—and protesters are there to meet them

Thousands expected to take on Trump agenda as Republican National Convention opens
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Labor

Subway workers rally, demand fair treatment

Labor Commissioner investigating allegations of minimum wage, overtime violations at local sandwich shops.
Megan Robertson -
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Elections

Look who’s funding the local Democratic Party

The right-wing tech barons and plutocrats are now the party's biggest donor base.
Tim Redmond -
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Campaign Trail

The Chron creates a ‘scandal’ that doesn’t exist

The endorsement process of the Bernal Heights Democratic Club suddenly becomes an issue. So does the pretty mainstream positions of a D9 canddate.
Tim Redmond -
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Media

Media Week: Joe Biden, the party ‘elite,’ and the reality of big political money

Working-class voters seem less and less interested in a Democratic candidate who won't challenge the basic assumptions of neoliberalism.
Tim Redmond -
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Housing

Supes agree to endorse rent-control measure after another strange debate

Breed won't side with tenant groups but board votes 8-2 in favor of Costa-Hawkins repeal; 'pro-housing' officials are actually anti-tenant.
Tim Redmond -
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Homelessness

Breed ready to criminalize people for lacking a place to live

Mayor tells supes that 'we will not allow people to just remain.'
Tim Redmond -
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Best of the Bay

VOTE NOW! Polls are open in the 50th Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll

Best Burrito, Best Drag Performer, Best Plumber, Best Dive Bar, Best Politician, Best Sex Club—tell us what you love!
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Housing

Rent control measure goes to full board after Safai votes with tenants

Ronen calls out landlord lies as renters push for repeal of Costa-Hawkins law.
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Sports

Skaters outwit cops for Dolores Hill Bomb

After last year's mass arrests, the annual renegade event did the unthinkable—it moved one street over.
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The Agenda

For supes, mayor, there’s no more ducking a crucial rent-control issue

Breed, board will have to side with landlords or tenants. Plus: The failure of state housing mandates, and fall charter amendments. That's The Agenda for July 7-14
Tim Redmond -
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Art

Tosha Stimage’s ‘SUPERBLOOM’ invites Presidio visitors into Bay’s rich floral heritage

Florist's Chilean strawberries and California poppies budded from research into the land.
Emily Wilson -
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Campaign Trail

New Farrell corruption allegations could make case for inspector general initiative

Peskin proposal (and mayoral campaign) may benefit from ongoing reports (and ongoing scandals at CIty Hall).
Tim Redmond -
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LGBTQ

Pictures from Pride

Festive, fun, sunny ... and not terribly political.
Tim Redmond -
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Police

Will annual Dolores Hill skateboard event happen—and how will the cops respond?

Plus: Finally, a vote on a critical landlord-tenant issue that could impact the mayor's race. That's The Agenda for July 1 to 7
Tim Redmond -
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Homelessness

Lawsuit against SF’s homeless sweeps will continue despite Grants Pass case

City is still violating court injunction by destroying the property of unhoused residents.
Phebe Bridges -
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Homelessness

Breed, Chiu gave right-wing Supreme Court ammunition to criminalize poverty

Grants Pass decision on homelessness relies heavily on the city's legal brief.
Tim Redmond -
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Homelessness

The brutality of criminalizing homelessness

The Supreme Court decision is another step in the process of legitimizing systems of oppression.
Tiny -
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Police

Cops used robots for search warrants, and now want a robot dog

New report contains alarming data about the use of automated military weapons against people in San Francisco.
Tim Redmond -
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News + Politics

We just need 10 more members this week for a $10K matching grant!

We are so close! Help independent, local media survive in the billionaire-dominated, corporate-infested news landscape.
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Housing

The money trail: How big landlords are trying to undermine the state rent control initiative

It's not enough to seek to defeat the Costa-Hawkins repeal; Big Real Estate wants to stop the measure's sponsor from ever doing this again.
Tim Redmond -
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Media

Media Week: Why is Haney’s dubious campaign spending not a bigger story?

Plus: If SF is the worst-run city in the country, the data doesn't show it.
Tim Redmond -
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News + Politics

PG&E delays have cost SF $35 million since 2018; public power has saved $50 million

Capital planning agency to hear update on long-overdue plan to take over distribution system, with dramatic new evidence.
Tim Redmond -
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The Agenda

Protests and public comment on Breed’s budget …

...Plus a bright-line supes vote on a critical tenant issue. That's The Agenda for June 24-30.
Tim Redmond -
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Opinion

Save Free City College

A community lifeline approved by the voters is threatened by the mayor's budget proposal.
Alan Wong -
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Onstage

Juneteenth reading of ‘3rd & Palou’ humanized 1966 Hunters Point Uprising

Biko Eisen-Martin's thrilling work-in-progress play is 'based on the world immediately outside the exit doors.'
Tom Molanphy -
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Environment

Burning Man is getting dirtier and dirtier

New data show carbon pollution way up in Black Rock City — until the rainstorm hit last year
Steven T. Jones -
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Housing

Big Real Estate wants to prevent effective rent control—and is pushing SF supes

Showdown looms next week on state ballot measure that would let local government regulate rents on new housing and vacant apartments.
Tim Redmond -
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Housing

A truly bizarre debate on rent control at the Board of Supes

Stefani, Dorsey argue that protecting tenants is somehow a Nimby plot to block new housing.
Tim Redmond -
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Campaign Trail

Is crime really the only issue in the SF mayor’s race?

There is so much more to talk about. But that's not what the Democratic Party debate suggested.
Tim Redmond -
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Housing

Does the US have a housing shortage—or an affordable housing shortage?

New study challenges the Yimby concept and argues that issue isn't supply, it's price.
Tim Redmond -
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