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Fight the PG&E bailout!

Tim Redmond - January 27, 2019

THE AGENDA The California Public Utilities Commission is meeting Mon/28 to discuss, among other things, PG&E’s rates and the pending bankruptcy. Some of the...

Foreign Correspondent

Does Cuba censor the Internet? Think again

Reese Erlich - January 25, 2019

HAVANA -- A group of Cubans stared intently at the screens of their smart phones here in Old Havana, checking emails and Googling news...

News + Politics

Building momentum and the Women’s March

Tim Redmond - January 21, 2019

The New York Times spent a lot of time talking about the “controversy” around this weekend’s Women’s March. The march was “smaller;”maybe there’s a “waning...

News + Politics

CASA’s secret New York junket

Zelda Bronstein - January 15, 2019

During the final meeting of the CASA Technical Committee on December 12, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf let slip that she and unnamed others had...

News + Politics

What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

Zelda Bronstein - January 10, 2019

The first installment of my CASA story listed bills introduced in the state Legislature on December 3, most notably Scott Wiener’s do-over of his...

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

Political power — in San Francisco and Sacramento

Tim Redmond - January 7, 2019

It was a time to celebrate in San Francisco tonight. Progressive groups in Chinatown held a banquet for the new supervisors, who ran on...

News + Politics

The new supes, a public bank, police secrecy …

Tim Redmond - January 6, 2019

Matt Haney had his ceremonial swearing in today at Glide, and the room was packed. Even State Sen. Scott Wiener and Assemblymember David Chiu,...

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...

News + Politics

Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

Zelda Bronstein - January 3, 2019

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has been planning a coup. Not the putsch kind of coup, where armed insurgents overthrow a duly constituted government, but an...

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Fight the PG&E bailout!

Does Cuba censor the Internet? Think again

Building momentum and the Women’s March

CASA’s secret New York junket

What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

Yee is board president — what does that mean?

Political power — in San Francisco and Sacramento

The new supes, a public bank, police secrecy …

The real stakes in the board president vote

Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

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