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Protesters call for public control of PG&E — and it makes such perfect sense

Tim Redmond - January 10, 2019

Activists shut down another hearing of the California Public Utilities Commission today, just after Pacific Gas and Electric Co. tried to head off bankruptcy...

News + Politics

Relax: Yee’s ‘interim committees’ are just placeholders

Tim Redmond - January 10, 2019

The progressive supporters of Sup. Norman Yee, who won the board presidency thanks to the votes of three moderates, have been saying that he...

News + Politics

Yee is board president — what does that mean?

Tim Redmond - January 8, 2019

I ran in to Sup. Norman Yee last night, outside of the Chinatown banquet honoring the four newly elected progressive supervisors. I asked him...

News + Politics

The real stakes in the board president vote

Tim Redmond - January 3, 2019

Political observers are scrambling to figure out who the next president of the Board of Supes will be – and in the process, some...

The Agenda

Celebrating the new supes …

Tim Redmond - December 30, 2018

The new Board of Supes is sworn in Jan. 8, and the first order of business will be electing a president. The process has...

News + Politics

PG&E is on the ropes

Tim Redmond - December 26, 2018

When the California Public Utilities Commission – never known for its tight oversight of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. – suddenly starts talking about...

News + Politics

Halting the epidemic of housing demolitions

Tim Redmond - December 11, 2018

Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Rafael Mandelman introduced legislation today that could save thousands of units of rent-controlled housing and stop the epidemic of demolition...

News + Politics

Behind the battle for board president

Tim Redmond - December 10, 2018

When I was a young reporter at the Bay Guardian, the editor, Bruce Brugmann, told me not to bother writing stories about how “the...

News + Politics

SF keeps losing affordable housing

Tim Redmond - December 9, 2018

The latest Housing Balance Report comes before the Board of Supes Land Use and Transportation Committee Monday/10 and the news is as bleak as...

Opinion

Beyond Zuckerberg General Hospital

Bob Prentice - December 5, 2018

The current flap over Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s proposal to remove Mark Zuckerberg’s name from San Francisco General Hospital because of Facebook’s failure to protect...

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Protesters call for public control of PG&E — and it makes such perfect sense

Relax: Yee’s ‘interim committees’ are just placeholders

Yee is board president — what does that mean?

The real stakes in the board president vote

Celebrating the new supes …

PG&E is on the ropes

Halting the epidemic of housing demolitions

Behind the battle for board president

SF keeps losing affordable housing

Beyond Zuckerberg General Hospital

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