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The Agenda, June 6-12, 2016: Key vote on Airbnb, Election Day partying ….

Tim Redmond - June 5, 2016

So the San Francisco Chronicle can’t bring itself to issue an endorsement in the presidential primary. That’s pretty astonishing for a big-city newspaper in...

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Bernie comes to East Oakland — with Jane Kim — and talks about police killings and affordable housing

Tim Redmond and Sana Saleem - May 31, 2016

Bernie Sanders came to East Oakland today, showing up where few presidential candidates ever do, at a church where the Black Panthers once served...

Arts + Culture

SF Silent Film Festival screens for the times

Dennis Harvey - May 27, 2016

By Dennis Harvey Every summer the Castro Theater fills with patrons — some of whom fly across the country or further for the occasion —...

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A heated battle over tasers in San Francisco

Tim Redmond and Sana Saleem - May 25, 2016

The annual San Francisco Public Defender's Justice Summit Wednesday focused on the police department's use of force policy -- and the potential introduction of...

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Why I can’t celebrate the resignation of Chief Suhr

Yayne Abeba - May 20, 2016

I am sitting here drinking wine and reflecting on the day that was yesterday. I woke up at 6am. My day started with the...

Arts + Culture

SF Carnaval: How it began and what it looks like 37 years later

Caitlin Donohue - May 19, 2016

Carnaval in the Mission is next weekend (May 28-29). The yearly parade and street festival has been around long enough that it's become an institution to...

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Bernie comes to SF to support hotel workers

Tim Redmond - May 18, 2016

Bernie Sanders showed up today to support the hotel workers boycotting the Le Meridien, and while it was supposed to be a surprise, by...

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The Agenda, May 16-22: Big, ugly luxury housing projects in the Mission and the Tenderloin….

Tim Redmond - May 15, 2016

The local news media made a big deal of the legal thrashing that Federal Judge Charles Breyer gave to an SF police officer who,...

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SFPD’s Rap Sheet: More than 25 scandals since 2015

Sana Saleem - May 14, 2016

Most of the anger directed at the San Francisco police department, and the calls to fire Chief Greg Suhr, involves the four recent shootings...

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The Frisco 5 are back: ‘This is a community-driven fight and we will keep fighting’

Sana Saleem - May 12, 2016

In their first appearance since they were taken to the hospital on Friday, May 6th, the Frisco 5 – except Maria Cristina Gutierrez –...

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