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Community, labor leaders protest scary Big Tech dark money

Tim Redmond - October 14, 2016

The flood of sleazy dark money coming into Districts 1 and 11 got the attention of labor leaders and community activists, who met on...

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Forum: What the Nov. elections mean

Tim Redmond - October 11, 2016

The November election, as we have pointed out repeatedly, has the potential to change the direction of the city in pretty dramatic ways. Control...

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The Agenda, Oct. 10-17: Should we celebrate the Twitter tax break?

Tim Redmond - October 9, 2016

I am glad, I suppose, that there’s nice art coming to mid-Market to “spur curiosity and connection.” Five years after the Twitter tax break,...

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Why is SF tolerating Airbnb’s bad behavior?

Tim Redmond - October 6, 2016

The way the Chronicle spun the new study on Airbnb was just fine: The platform does, indeed, hurt the city’s hotel industry (and hospitality...

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Luis Gongora autopsy confirms he was shot on the ground

Sana Saleem - October 5, 2016

Last week, the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office released the autopsy report of Luis Demetrio Gongora Pat, a 45-year-old Yucatec Mayan man who was...

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Obama’s supply-side toolkit attacks local housing policy

Calvin Welch - October 4, 2016

On September 27th the Obama administration released a "Housing Development Toolkit" promoting a deregulation program for market rate housing development at the local level....

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Lights, camera, Mill Valley

Dennis Harvey - October 4, 2016

SCREEN GRABS In the Bay Area we’re fortunate to have arthouses, film festivals and other outlets providing year-round access to movies not typically on...

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The bizarre case of Josh Arce’s gumshoes

Tim Redmond - October 2, 2016

If the San Francisco election wasn’t strange enough already, it just took a dive off the political deep end. Check this out: In District 9,...

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Dede Wilsey joins big money against City Hall reform

Tim Redmond - September 30, 2016

There’s an astonishing amount of money pouring into the San Francisco election, mostly through political action committees, independent expenditure committees, and groups that are...

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Real estate forces fail to force a DCCC revote in D11

Tim Redmond and Sana Saleem - September 28, 2016

More than 70 community leaders from the Mission and Excelsior showed up to tell the local Democratic Party not to make a last-minute change...

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