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PG&E is in bankruptcy court — and public power may be the only way out

Tim Redmond - January 14, 2019

It was, in a weird way, ironic to hear on NPR today that PG&E is one of the first companies that is directly impacted...

Arts + Culture

Puff: The doctor done told me

Dan Karkoska - January 11, 2019

So US Surgeon General Jerome Adams finally said it. The most authoritative medical opinion in America stated that the government should rethink its stance...

News + Politics

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

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...

Arts + Culture

Tamara Palmer’s California Eating is the SF food zine you need to read

Caitlin Donohue - January 10, 2019

We've been fans of Tamara Palmer for more than a minute. At SF Weekly, the Outer Sunset writer logged over 1,000 articles on the...

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

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...

Foreign Correspondent

Trump: The sudden anti-war champion?

Reese Erlich - December 28, 2018

Last week President Donald Trump surprised the world, and much of his own staff, by announcing plans to pull more than 2,000 US troops...

News + Politics

Two local slates vie to set direction for state Democratic Party

Tim Redmond - December 27, 2018

City Hall pretty much closes up shop for a couple of weeks this time of year; the city, unlike the federal government, is not...

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