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Tests for the supes: The budget, protecting rent-controlled housing ….

... and an RV ban that could force families onto the streets. That's The Agenda for July 13-20

Urban Ore fails to rehire union workers

Owners say losses during 40-day strike make it impossible to rehire everyone covered in an agreement

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Tests for the supes: The budget, protecting rent-controlled housing ….

... and an RV ban that could force families onto the streets. That's The Agenda for July 13-20

Urban Ore fails to rehire union workers

Owners say losses during 40-day strike make it impossible to rehire everyone covered in an agreement

Will supes oust one of the most effective members of the Homeless Oversight Commission?

And what does this say about the mayor and the board changing policy on Prop C and 'housing first?'

Opinion: Erasing queer history in North Beach

Why is Scott Wiener so opposed to recognizing the historic importance of the city's first LGBTQ+ neighborhood?

Opinion: Preserve the housing money—and stop the mayor’s power grab

The supes need to reject Lurie's plan to gut affordable housing money from Prop. C

Supes to vote on Billionaire Budget deal amid protests over housing money

Plus: A crackdown on RV parking that will make more families homeless, and will the Police Commission do a real national search for the next chief? That's The Agenda for July 6-13

Wiener-Newsom CEQA ‘reform’ is a dangerous fraud

Lithium battery factories without environmental review. Miami Beach development along the coast. And it's not going to make housing more affordable

Shipyard tales celebrated 20th century Black migrant lives of success and sacrifice

'Holding Ground' event brought beleaguered yet vital area's past into the present, with future questions.

Trump wants to censor US history at national parks

The truth about Tule Lake, Alcatraz, Sutro Baths and hundreds of other sites could be erased under an executive order

Demolish rent-controlled housing? New Wiener bill could wipe out restrictions

Plus: Politics and Pride. That's The Agenda for June 19-July 6

SF, a sanctuary city for the billionaires

Will Mayor Lurie invite the rich New Yorkers who are scared of a democratic socialist to move here? Yikes!

Drag performer taken by ICE, morning after Pride Week pageant

Hilary Rivers was detained during a scheduled immigration appointment in downtown SF after Miss & Mr. Safe Latino Pageant.

Behind the late-night budget deal

The mayor got most of what he wanted. The process was a train wreck

Supes, mayor at budget impasse

Layoffs, housing money at issue as Lurie won't back down on cuts

Lurie zoning plan has no support at all except the Yimby coalition

No small business group, no neighborhood group ... it's as if the mayor isn't even trying to find consensus

The silly ‘red scare’ over New York’s leading candidate for mayor

Mamdani's platform is just common sense, and it worked; is the Democratic Party Old Guard even paying attention?

PRIDE PARTY RADAR: Viva la Lesbianaissance + 35 more rainbows to ride

Pink Block, Juanita More Pride, Hard French, Purple Disco Machine, partying for prison abolition, a slew of dyke bars... too much? Never!

Blue Bottle workers announce intent to organize union at four East Bay locations

Response from management at Nestle-owned company appears to be firing a popular worker leader.

The violence of towing homes

I've lived through this. Taking peoples homes is a terrible approach

Lurie budget draws mass protest

Hundreds turn out to oppose massive cuts; are the supes paying attention?

Berkeley’s Orwellian upzoning plan

New language would undermine the Citizen Participation Element of the city's General Plan

No, you can’t ‘save’ queer people by bombing them to death

Bastardizing the fight for gay rights to justify war, whether on Gaza or Iran, is ridiculous and must end.

Protesting the Lurie budget—and talking about long-term progressive solutions

Plus: Will the board defy a district supe and let Lurie shift money from housing into shelters? That's The Agenda for June 23-30

Board of Appeals sets dangerous precedent for demolishing rental housing

Ruling could encourage speculators to ignore city preservation policy

Funding Muni and BART: Should the very rich also pay?

Wiener makes clear that taxing the billionaires is not a priority as he seeks ways to fund transit

‘Queer Food’—or, the cruel enigma of the spinach soufflé

Author John Birdsall dishes about his new history of LGBTQ+ food writers and chefs, and how queer cookery can meet the moment.

SF Pride ED Suzanne Ford reacts to horrible anti-trans youth Supreme Court ruling

'The worst affront to the equal protection clause since Plessy v. Ferugson,' says longtime trans activist, urging unity.

The supes will at last have a serious discussion about income inequality and taxing the rich

Chen measure would ask the state Legislature to allow a local income and wealth tax on the richest San Franciscans

Appeals Board hearing raises key issue about protecting existing rental units

Planning Department wants to allow the removal of what evidence shows was a rent-controlled housing unit, setting a potentially dangerous precedent

SFMTA approves rules that would evict most people living in RVs

It's inhumane. It won't work. There's massive opposition. But the commissioners voted to approve it anyway.

A profoundly important new book exposes the truth behind crime mythology

'Copaganda' should be required reading for anyone concerned about police, jails, and lies—and that includes journalists

SF weaponizes parking rules to displace RV families: 6 takeaways from El Tecolote’s blockbuster report

Winston Drive community of working class families was torn apart in 2024—and now Mayor Lurie intensifies the crackdown.

At Fresh Meat queer arts fest, ‘conformity isn’t an option’

Mudd the Two Spirit, more brilliant performers continue to lay annual showcase's transformative groundwork.

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Win a free ticket to a Frameline Film Fest movie

Join us at the world’s original—and largest—LGBTQ+ film festival in the world for Pride month.

Massive protests: Against Trump—and against the Lurie budget

Millions all over the country, including red states, oppose Trump. Plus: Brutal city budget comes down to the final weeks. That's The Agenda for June 15 to 22

The Lurie budget is great for bad cops

Proposal slashes funding for Department of Police Accountability, eliminates sheriff inspector general.

The budget is all about Mayor Lurie’s campaign promises to ‘clean the streets’

If we want to avoid civic failure, we need to rethink not just spending but how we finance San Francisco—and parking meters in the park won't do it

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