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OPINION: Keep transit lanes for public transit

Sue Vaughan - June 29, 2020

The SFMTA Board of Directors will hold a special meeting Tuesday/30 to consider, among other items, the creation of temporary emergency transit lanes. We...

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Uber, Lyft drivers take message to CEO’s house

Garrett Leahy - June 25, 2020

For longtime Uber and Lyft driver Hector Castellanos, the fight for classification as an employee under AB5 is personal. For eight months after an...

Housing

Appeals Court hears arguments on SF tax on big businesses

Tim Redmond - June 24, 2020

A California Court of Appeal panel yesterday heard oral arguments on a lawsuit seeking to block the city from collecting taxes from the biggest...

News + Politics

SFPUC could be accepting PG&E’s nuclear energy

Tim Redmond - June 23, 2020

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is facing an unusual choice: PG&E wants to give the city’s clean-power agency $1.4 million worth of free...

Movies

All hail Jacki Weaver, Pride’s hilarious, touching ‘Stage Mother’

Joshua Rotter - June 23, 2020

When Jacki Weaver was asked to star in director Thom Fitzgerald’s latest film, Stage Mother, the Academy Award-nominated Animal Kingdom and Silver Linings Playbook...

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We don’t need to ‘get back to work’

Steven T. Jones - June 22, 2020

People are dying to get back to work, top Republicans have been saying for the last month, justifying efforts to force the U.S. economy...

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

Tim Redmond - June 22, 2020

Donald Trump has – no surprise – turned a basic public-health practice into a political issue, putting millions of lives at risk. Trump has consistently...

News + Politics

DACA decision offers no real protection, rights groups warn

Garrett Leahy - June 20, 2020

On Thursday, Free SF, a coalition of immigrants’ rights groups, warned that the Supreme Court’s rejection of Trump’s attempt to end DACA offers no...

Puff

Puff: Get high on Pride

Dan Karkoska - June 19, 2020

As I read all my Pride-inspired emails this year, it is funny how many gummies now have special Pride tins. I know for certain...

News + Politics

Labor unions join call to defund the police

Garrett Leahy - June 18, 2020

A group of about 150 demonstrators representing several Bay Area labor unions gathered outside the Oakland Police Officers Association headquarters on Wednesday, endorsing calls...

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OPINION: Keep transit lanes for public transit

Uber, Lyft drivers take message to CEO’s house

Appeals Court hears arguments on SF tax on big businesses

SFPUC could be accepting PG&E’s nuclear energy

All hail Jacki Weaver, Pride’s hilarious, touching ‘Stage Mother’

We don’t need to ‘get back to work’

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

DACA decision offers no real protection, rights groups warn

Puff: Get high on Pride

Labor unions join call to defund the police

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