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News + Politics

‘In the name of climate sanity’

Hearing shows there is now way for the city to meet its greenhouse-gas goals without controlling Uber, Lyft, and car-based delivery services. Hello, Sacramento?

Tim Redmond - July 22, 2019

News + Politics

SF responds to climate crisis (but will anyone mention Uber?)

Plus: Helping small business -- and a massive project that will make the housing crisis worse (but is back by TMG Partners and Ron Conway). That's The Agenda for July 22-28

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2019

News + Politics

New measure would link jobs and housing in SF

No more office space until there are affordable places for the new workers to live -- that's the goal of a March 2020 ballot initiative.

Tim Redmond - July 18, 2019

News + Politics

Judge says cops got bogus warrant to search reporter’s phone

Reporter Bryan Carmody's cell phone records should never have been seized in Adachi death case.

Michael Toren - July 18, 2019

News + Politics

Haney’s plan for Homeless Commission faces close vote

The Board of Supes will vote next Tuesday on a Charter Amendment that would create a Homelessness Commission, setting up a fall ballot campaign over a plan that Mayor Breed at this point opposes.

Tim Redmond - July 17, 2019

News + Politics

Does the Marriott Corporation need a $5 million tax break?

Peskin pushes to end historic-preservation benefit for a giant corporation that is doing nothing new to protect its building on Market Street.

Tim Redmond - July 17, 2019

News + Politics

In Yuba County, protesting Northern California’s last ICE prison

Repulsion to Trump is expanding beyond the liberal enclaves.

James Tracy - July 15, 2019

Campaign Trail

The stunning corruption that shows why supporters are pushing a Dark Money initiative

Real-estate developers have found ways around the existing laws and poured vast sums into local campaigns.

Tim Redmond - July 15, 2019

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The Agenda

News + Politics

Kaiser workers prepare for strike over mental-health staffing

Plus: A massive upzoning at Van Ness and Market raised transportation and congestion issues. That's The Agenda for July 8-14

Tim Redmond - July 7, 2019

News + Politics

Celebrate 40 years of rent control — and support the Tenants Union

Tim Redmond - June 9, 2019

Plus: Keeping Uber and Lyft out of SFO -- and the first hearing on a public-power report. That's The Agenda for June 10-16

News + Politics

Does more density bring down housing costs? Come to the debate

Tim Redmond - May 26, 2019

Plus: Big changes in the campaign-finance laws -- and all the presidential candidates will be in town this weekend! That's The Agenda for May 26-June 6

News + Politics

Court to hear arguments on police raid of reporters house

Tim Redmond - May 20, 2019

Search that embarrassed the city goes before a judge, leaving City Attorney Dennis Herrera to defend the cops in a pretty indefensible case. Plus: Harvey Milk's birthday events, UCSF and Dignity Health -- and 'politicizing' the Rent Board. That's The Agenda for May 20-26

News + Politics

Protesting Uber’s IPO — and police secrecy

Tim Redmond - May 5, 2019

Drivers ask why they keep getting pay cuts as the top execs prepare to become staggeringly rich -- and why is SFPD still dragging its heels on new police-misconduct disclosure laws? That's The Agenda for May 6-13

Opinion

News + Politics

UC’s deal with Big Pharma should raise red flags

Why is there so little outcry over GlaxoSmithKline's role in a new genomic lab at two public universities?

Tina Stevens - June 27, 2019

News + Politics

There are no Yimbys

Denis Mosgofian - June 4, 2019

It's not Yes in My Back Yard -- it's Yes in Your Back Yard. A perspective from a long-time working-class family home owner (aka Land Baron).

News + Politics

The Sierra Club and the luxury-housing developer

Zelda Bronstein - February 17, 2019

Northern Alameda chapter backs San Leandro project in a sign that the pro-growth forces are trying to take over the environmental group.

News + Politics

A scary time in Venezuela

Carolina Morales - January 26, 2019

The US is participating in an undemocratic coup.

News + Politics

Conservatorship: The new ‘ugly laws’

Tiny - December 17, 2018

Another tool to take individuality and power away from poor, disabled, and senior people will start in SF and LA.

Tenant Troubles

News + Politics

Tenant Troubles: What Prop. 10 is really about

The measure does nothing but allow local control; for a lot of tenants, it could make a huge difference

Dave Crow - October 24, 2018

Tenant Troubles

Tenant Troubles: My washer broke — should I sign a lease?

Dave Crow - July 19, 2018

In San Francisco, if you don't have a lease it may be harder for the landlord to evict you.

News + Politics

Tenant Troubles: Can I add two roommates? Should I?

Dave Crow - June 13, 2018

Is it a good idea to move out, sort of, but keep a rent-controlled unit by subletting to new "roommates?"

Tenant Troubles

Tenant Troubles: How do I get my roommate to leave?

Dave Crow - June 7, 2018

It's not easy -- and it shouldn't be. Hiring a lawyer and doing an eviction is expensive and ugly, so look for other options

Tenant Troubles

Tenant Troubles: Can my landlord refuse to let me have a service animal?

Dave Crow - May 17, 2018

In many cases, no -- but be careful about the paperwork

Foreign Correspondent

What’s really going on in Hong Kong

Protestors flooded the streets this June, but the roots of the conflict between the island and mainland China run deep.

Reese Erlich - July 12, 2019

Foreign Correspondent

The ‘Trump Doctrine’ is sinking fast

Reese Erlich - June 28, 2019

The Iranian government saw the President’s vacillation as a sign of weakness, one journalist tells me, ''Iran was ready to retaliate on an unbelievable scale.”

Foreign Correspondent

Russia sees through Trump’s Iran bluster, but has Middle East problems of its own

Reese Erlich - June 14, 2019

By trying to isolate Russia and Iran, the US is only isolating itself.

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent: Live, from Moscow

Reese Erlich - June 3, 2019

A Russian TV host shares thoughts on Iran, Syria, the United States, and Putin.

Foreign Correspondent

Bernie and Biden: A foreign policy analysis

Reese Erlich - May 3, 2019

Two of the leading Democratic presidential contenders have spent decades in DC. Here's a look at their records on war, interventionism, and other key issues.

Campaign Trail

The stunning corruption that shows why supporters are pushing a Dark Money initiative

Real-estate developers have found ways around the existing laws and poured vast sums into local campaigns.

Tim Redmond - July 15, 2019

Campaign Trail

Deputy Sheriffs Association resorts to bizarre Red Scare tactics in DA race

Tim Redmond - July 10, 2019

Union posts a video by the John Birch Society -- that old racist McCarthy-era group that still somehow lives -- to attack Chesa Boudin.

Campaign Trail

The end of Joe Biden as a serious candidate for president

Tim Redmond - June 27, 2019

Not a great night for Bernie. A "breakout" for Kamala Harris. Elizabeth Warren still the overall winner -- but Biden is done, period.

Campaign Trail

What the vaping ballot initiative is really about

Tim Redmond - June 6, 2019

There are no new protections for kids; it's all about stopping the city from banning the sale of JUUL products.

Campaign Trail

Bernie Day at the state Dem Convention

Tim Redmond - June 2, 2019

Sanders makes case for a progressive agenda as a way to beat Trump. Plus: Castro on police reform and affordable housing. Convention, Day Three.

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SF responds to climate crisis (but will anyone mention Uber?)

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2019

Plus: Helping small business -- and a massive project that will make the housing crisis worse (but is back by TMG Partners and Ron Conway). That's The Agenda for July 22-28

Foreign Correspondent

What’s really going on in Hong Kong

Reese Erlich - July 12, 2019

Protestors flooded the streets this June, but the roots of the conflict between the island and mainland China run deep.

News + Politics

‘In the name of climate sanity’

Tim Redmond - July 22, 2019

Hearing shows there is now way for the city to meet its greenhouse-gas goals without controlling Uber, Lyft, and car-based delivery services. Hello, Sacramento?

News + Politics

New measure would link jobs and housing in SF

Tim Redmond - July 18, 2019

No more office space until there are affordable places for the new workers to live -- that's the goal of a March 2020 ballot initiative.

News + Politics

Haney’s plan for Homeless Commission faces close vote

Tim Redmond - July 17, 2019

The Board of Supes will vote next Tuesday on a Charter Amendment that would create a Homelessness Commission, setting up a fall ballot campaign over a plan that Mayor Breed at this point opposes.

Art Looks

At Creativity Explored, Isaac Haney-Owens curates a vibrant ‘Cityscape’

Emily Wilson - July 22, 2019

From a replica of a newsstand to his own painted reproductions of iconic signs, the artist presents a vision of San Francisco.

Music and nightlife

Back to black—and Amy—with ‘The Winehouse Experience’

Joshua Rotter - July 18, 2019

Singer Mia Karter recreates the stellar, tragic singer for adoring fans at Swedish American Music Hall.

News + Politics

Judge says cops got bogus warrant to search reporter’s phone

Michael Toren - July 18, 2019

Reporter Bryan Carmody's cell phone records should never have been seized in Adachi death case.

Lit

Beyond the valley of the gig economy

Johnny Ray Huston - July 10, 2019

'Raw Deal' author Steven Hill on Uber tech, the perils of California ideologies, and the twilight of the elites.

Homelessness

News + Politics

Haney’s plan for Homeless Commission faces close vote

The Board of Supes will vote next Tuesday on a Charter Amendment that would create a Homelessness Commission, setting up a fall ballot campaign over a plan that Mayor Breed at this point opposes.

Tim Redmond - July 17, 2019

News + Politics

Fewer’s racial-equity plan could change the way SF makes policy

Tim Redmond - July 8, 2019

A new office would analyze legislation through a lens that has been missing from city policy -- and could lead to some dramatic changes in the political discussion.

Onstage

Avast ye, developers! SF Mime Troupe’s ‘Treasure Island’ opens 60th season

Joshua Rotter - June 29, 2019

Street theater legends take on massive housing project in the bay, with singing, dancing, and radiation level warnings.

News + Politics

People in cages, Earth under attack in occupied colonial land

Tiny - June 24, 2019

Horrors and some nasty surprises on a poverty tour of the Southwest

News + Politics

Oakland budget fight focuses on city revenue

Carroll Fife - June 23, 2019

The money's there -- so why is the city failing to fund critical services?

Development

Art Looks

At Creativity Explored, Isaac Haney-Owens curates a vibrant ‘Cityscape’

From a replica of a newsstand to his own painted reproductions of iconic signs, the artist presents a vision of San Francisco.

Emily Wilson - July 22, 2019

News + Politics

SF responds to climate crisis (but will anyone mention Uber?)

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2019

Plus: Helping small business -- and a massive project that will make the housing crisis worse (but is back by TMG Partners and Ron Conway). That's The Agenda for July 22-28

News + Politics

New measure would link jobs and housing in SF

Tim Redmond - July 18, 2019

No more office space until there are affordable places for the new workers to live -- that's the goal of a March 2020 ballot initiative.

Campaign Trail

The stunning corruption that shows why supporters are pushing a Dark Money initiative

Tim Redmond - July 15, 2019

Real-estate developers have found ways around the existing laws and poured vast sums into local campaigns.

Lit

Beyond the valley of the gig economy

Johnny Ray Huston - July 10, 2019

'Raw Deal' author Steven Hill on Uber tech, the perils of California ideologies, and the twilight of the elites.

Evictions

Onstage

Avast ye, developers! SF Mime Troupe’s ‘Treasure Island’ opens 60th season

Street theater legends take on massive housing project in the bay, with singing, dancing, and radiation level warnings.

Joshua Rotter - June 29, 2019

News + Politics

The Twitter Tax Break was a bad idea

Zachary James - June 7, 2019

Supes hearing shows the negative impacts of the Central Market deal that helped make SF a tech hub

News + Politics

MIT researcher takes on 48 Hills — or maybe not

Tim Redmond - May 23, 2019

Despite the Yimby narrative, we agree the evidence shows that upzoning in Chicago led to speculation and higher housing costs.

News + Politics

We’ve been counted and studied. We still don’t have homes.

Tiny - May 22, 2019

Big surprise: The number show more homeless people on the streets. Now let's do something about it -- not just "sweep" people out of sight.

News + Politics

The real lessons from the surging numbers of homeless people on the streets of SF

Tim Redmond - May 17, 2019

Mayor Breed opposed a measure that would have made a big difference. Now she can't fix the problem with a few hundred new shelter beds and a modest housing bond.

Activism

News + Politics

In Yuba County, protesting Northern California’s last ICE prison

Repulsion to Trump is expanding beyond the liberal enclaves.

James Tracy - July 15, 2019

Movies

From ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ to Frameline: Kate Walsh on acting and activism

Joshua Rotter - June 25, 2019

As rom-com 'Sell By' premieres at LGBTQ fest, the screen favorite speaks about the importance of gay friends and Planned Parenthood.

Party Radar

Party Radar: ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2019

Marke B. - June 23, 2019

Pink Block, Polka Dots, Hot Pants, Pullin' Pork, Fake & Gay, and more musts for this bonkers week.

Culture

Stern Grove Festival changes family hands—but not its free music mission

Emily Wilson - June 10, 2019

Fifth-generation Goldman brothers take over SF tradition: "We're here experiencing music in nature, not through AirPods."

All Ears

Queercore legends Team Dresch return to swing the bat of love

Johnny Ray Huston - June 8, 2019

Reissuing their rip-roaring albums—along with a new singles collection—the pioneering foursome from Olympia comes to Bottom of the Hill.

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