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Activism

Public funding transforms D11 race

And there's some pretty funny money in the Safai campaign disclosures.

Tim Redmond - August 4, 2020

Activism

Giants and Warriors give their workers the boot

Some of the richest companies and people on Earth say they can't afford to pay the people who kept the fans happy at their venues.

Marc Norton - August 4, 2020

News + Politics

Fielder shows surprising strength in state Senate fundraising report

Incumbent Wiener's money comes from big state interests and real-estate; his challenger almost matched him with many more small local donors.

Tim Redmond - August 3, 2020

Campaign Trail

Campaign money and what it shows: District 7

The latest campaign finance reports—which show a lot about how state and local races are shaping up—are now on file, and they indicate some important, if unsurprising, patterns.

Tim Redmond - August 2, 2020

Activism

A free fridge opens in the Mission

Mission Meals Coalition reimagines what mutual aid looks like.

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - August 2, 2020

Foreign Correspondent

Trump’s desperate, last-ditch effort to hike tensions with Iran

This might be the final stretch for his failed policy of maximum pressure

Reese Erlich - July 31, 2020

Business + Tech

Breed budget prioritizes cuts to frontline workers over taxes on the rich

Layoffs or pay reductions for the people who are protecting us from COVID -- but less support for making the billionaires pay their share.

Tim Redmond - July 30, 2020

Business + Tech

How Big Philanthropy undermines democracy

New report shows how a tiny number of very rich people have come do dominate the charitable sector -- giving them too much control over all our lives.

Tim Redmond - July 29, 2020

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The Agenda

News + Politics

Finally, a monument to a victim of police violence

Plus: Public Advocate plan needs one more vote; Preston seeks more public housing; Ronen seeks to end tech-office creep in the Mission. That's The Agenda for July 20-27

Tim Redmond - July 19, 2020

Business + Tech

Supes consider major changes in business taxes

Tim Redmond - July 12, 2020

Mayor wants to limit increases; board members want another $150 million a year from the biggest companies. Plus: Housing reports and Black Lives Matter posters in police stations -- that's The Agenda for July 12-19

News + Politics

Public toilets—and public corruption

Tim Redmond - June 28, 2020

The Agenda: Supes want to invalidate contract pushed by Nuru -- and create new accountability measures in the wake of the widening scandal.

News + Politics

Wearing a mask is a political statement—that you care about community

Tim Redmond - June 22, 2020

Plus youth voting, undocumented residents on commissions -- and a major change to the way SF does affordable housing. That's The Agenda for June 22-29.

The Agenda

Breed’s choices on cops and homeless face challenges

Tim Redmond - June 8, 2020

The Agenda: Supes to question Police Commission appointments, COVID housing policies. Plus: a move to let undocumented people serve on commissions and allow young people to vote.

Opinion

News + Politics

OPINION: Defunding the police is just one step

We need to look at all the laws that divide the 'entitled' from the 'non-entitled.'

Paul Boden, Molly Beckhardt, and Erin Goodling - July 1, 2020

News + Politics

OPINION: Keep transit lanes for public transit

Sue Vaughan - June 29, 2020

The MTA is about to create more transit-only lanes -- but will the Google buses be allowed to use them?

Opinion

Pride is a defense of Black bodies, and always has been

Carolyn Wysinger - June 25, 2020

OPINION: 'The need to stop centering whiteness in our movement has never been more urgent,' says SF Pride Board President

News + Politics

People protested peacefully — and things got worse

Davey D Cook - May 31, 2020

Why is Black outrage treated so differently in the news media? (And the worst looting is the corporate bailouts.)

News + Politics

We’re all outside agitators at this point

David Talbot - May 31, 2020

The raging pandemic, our broken healthcare system, the ruined economy, the political corruption, the corporate greed, the militarized violence, the voter suppression, the dog-whistle presidential racism… it all just became too much.

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

Trump’s desperate, last-ditch effort to hike tensions with Iran

This might be the final stretch for his failed policy of maximum pressure

Reese Erlich - July 31, 2020

Foreign Correspondent

SF joins fight for US-Cuba medical cooperation

Reese Erlich - July 22, 2020

Supes pass resolution calling for scientific and medical collaboration in the fight against COVID

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent: Russian bounty story falls flat

Reese Erlich - July 17, 2020

Opportunist Democrats and foreign policy insiders drive false rumor to keep troops in Afghanistan.

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign correspondent: Libya, the forgotten war

Reese Erlich - July 2, 2020

Though it has disappeared from headlines, Libya’s humanitarian crisis continues unabated

News + Politics

Foreign Correspondent: Lessons from the Cuban police

Reese Erlich - June 22, 2020

Community-based crime fighting -- with very little violence -- should be part of the US debate.

Campaign Trail

Activism

Public funding transforms D11 race

And there's some pretty funny money in the Safai campaign disclosures.

Tim Redmond - August 4, 2020

Campaign Trail

Campaign money and what it shows: District 7

Tim Redmond - August 2, 2020

The latest campaign finance reports—which show a lot about how state and local races are shaping up—are now on file, and they indicate some important, if unsurprising, patterns.

Campaign Trail

SF Democratic Party endorsements go (mostly) to progressives

Tim Redmond - July 23, 2020

Conservative members (and some in the progressive camp) serve as swing votes in D7 and D11.

Campaign Trail

The end of Shahid Buttar’s campaign — and the lessons

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2020

Progressive groups need to be careful about their political strategy for something as critical as a lifetime seat in Congress.

Campaign Trail

Some defining issues in the fall supes race

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2020

The direction of city planning shows clear split between progressive and moderate candidates.

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Fielder shows surprising strength in state Senate fundraising report

Tim Redmond - August 3, 2020

Incumbent Wiener's money comes from big state interests and real-estate; his challenger almost matched him with many more small local donors.

Activism

Giants and Warriors give their workers the boot

Marc Norton - August 4, 2020

Some of the richest companies and people on Earth say they can't afford to pay the people who kept the fans happy at their venues.

Campaign Trail

Campaign money and what it shows: District 7

Tim Redmond - August 2, 2020

The latest campaign finance reports—which show a lot about how state and local races are shaping up—are now on file, and they indicate some important, if unsurprising, patterns.

All Ears

All Ears: Denise Young takes the helm of the SFJAZZ board of trustees

John-Paul Shiver - August 4, 2020

The true aficionado is already making big changes at the vaunted institution.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: You say you wanted a ‘Revolution’

Dennis Harvey - August 4, 2020

Jack O’Connell's 1968 documentary is probably the best feature about San Francisco as flower power nexus. Our critic also checks out 'A Thousand Cuts' and 'You Never Had It: An Evening With Charles Bukowski.'

Education

OPINION: Education pods for everyone

Guest Opinion - July 26, 2020

Instead of wealthy parents forming a private educational system on Facebook, cities should develop a public alternative.

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Local shows to stream on your screens

Caitlin Donohue - August 3, 2020

D'Arcy Drollinger's new weekly 'Hot Trash,' plus RAWDance, OMCA's Black Panther retrospective, a Compton's Cafeteria documentary, and more.

Business + Tech

Breed budget prioritizes cuts to frontline workers over taxes on the rich

Tim Redmond - July 30, 2020

Layoffs or pay reductions for the people who are protecting us from COVID -- but less support for making the billionaires pay their share.

Activism

A free fridge opens in the Mission

Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí - August 2, 2020

Mission Meals Coalition reimagines what mutual aid looks like.

Campaign Trail

The end of Shahid Buttar’s campaign — and the lessons

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2020

Progressive groups need to be careful about their political strategy for something as critical as a lifetime seat in Congress.

Homelessness

Business + Tech

Breed budget prioritizes cuts to frontline workers over taxes on the rich

Layoffs or pay reductions for the people who are protecting us from COVID -- but less support for making the billionaires pay their share.

Tim Redmond - July 30, 2020

News + Politics

Supes, by one vote, reject public advocate plan

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2020

Peskin, Fewer split with other progressives; board does approve plan to break up DPW.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Films that pull back the veil

Dennis Harvey - July 21, 2020

This week's recommendations for movies that expose the country's social inequities, including 'Down and Out in America'; 'Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets'; and a Les Blank double feature.

News + Politics

Berkeley youth march to defund police

Garrett Leahy - July 14, 2020

Young organizers pushing City Council to go further to shift funding away from law enforcement

Housing

The Chron gives up on homelessness

Tim Redmond - July 12, 2020

Yes, there's a solution (which the paper reports). But an embarrassing editorial says there's nothing anyone (except the private market) can do. And what about the Democratic Party?

Development

Arts + Culture

A bright story behind the city’s new mural wave

"We could use a splash of color": Artivism's Restore 49 project brightens the city, encourages cultural dialogue, and supports Bay Area artists.

Emily Wilson - July 30, 2020

Housing

Bill that could cost SF $50 million up for key Assembly vote

Tim Redmond - July 27, 2020

Will Chiu support a measure that the entire Board of Supes opposes? It's at his committee Tuesday.

Education

OPINION: Education pods for everyone

Guest Opinion - July 26, 2020

Instead of wealthy parents forming a private educational system on Facebook, cities should develop a public alternative.

Campaign Trail

SF Democratic Party endorsements go (mostly) to progressives

Tim Redmond - July 23, 2020

Conservative members (and some in the progressive camp) serve as swing votes in D7 and D11.

Housing

City Planning (finally) admits it has a problem

Tim Redmond - July 23, 2020

Social and racial equity is now part of land-use decisions -- which could have a major impact.

Evictions

Campaign Trail

The end of Shahid Buttar’s campaign — and the lessons

Progressive groups need to be careful about their political strategy for something as critical as a lifetime seat in Congress.

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2020

Campaign Trail

Some defining issues in the fall supes race

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2020

The direction of city planning shows clear split between progressive and moderate candidates.

News + Politics

Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, journalist and activist, dies at 47

Tina Gerhardt - July 19, 2020

From punk-rocker and squatter to organizer, legislative aide to Matt Gonzalez, and fearless reporter, he lived a powerful life.

News + Politics

OPINION: Defunding the police is just one step

Paul Boden, Molly Beckhardt, and Erin Goodling - July 1, 2020

We need to look at all the laws that divide the 'entitled' from the 'non-entitled.'

Housing

Campaign Trail

Some defining issues in the fall supes race

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2020

The direction of city planning shows clear split between progressive and moderate candidates.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Welcome to Jewish Film Fest’s online ‘Cinegogue’

Dennis Harvey - July 14, 2020

Plus: A Hong Kong cinema showcase and Romanian movies in the streaming spotlight.

Lit

Our publisher’s ‘must-read’ history of US protests is out now!

48 Hills - July 7, 2020

'Into the Streets' is a colorful, lively guide to the country's resistance movements, aimed at young adults but essential reading for all

News + Politics

People’s March on Pride: Reclaiming the streets and looking fierce

Marke B. - June 30, 2020

Pride was canceled, but colorful marchers stepped out to revive its radical Gay Liberation message.

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