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Wiener housing bill passes, trusting the market to solve the crisis

Tim Redmond - June 5, 2017

The biggest policy issue in Sacramento this spring, aside from health care, was almost certainly housing, and with good reason: San Francisco is not...

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The big media lie about single-payer health care

Tim Redmond - June 4, 2017

The headlines were so consistent, so predictably bad, that I almost couldn’t read them. “Single-payer will cost $400 billion.” “Single-payer costs dwarf entire state...

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Assembly passes bill to limit land-use ballot initiatives

Tim Redmond - June 1, 2017

A bill that would make it harder for local residents to pass ballot measures limiting development has passed the state Assembly with almost no...

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In historic vote, Democratic Party supports rent control

Dean Preston - May 23, 2017

Here’s some big news from last weekend’s California Democratic Party Convention that won’t make the papers: Delegates voted to pass a resolution expressing “the...

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When hate speech became a movement

Andrew Lam - May 21, 2017

Just over a year ago Microsoft introduced Tay, an AI chatbot that was designed to learn from and replicate online chatter. Tay, according to...

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Single-payer’s next step

Anjali Baliga - May 19, 2017

On April 26, 2017, the Healthy California Act (S.B. 562) was passed with a 5-2 vote at the Senate Health Committee hearing in Sacramento. The...

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A ‘nationwide dragnet’ targets millions of immigrants

Sana Saleem - May 16, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDHM7Ef59FQ On the morning of February 28th, 2017, Fatima Avelica was getting ready to say goodbye to her father as he dropped her off at...

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Charges dropped against unarmed man shot and wounded by police

Sana Saleem - May 10, 2017

Remaining criminal charges against Sean Moore, 43-year-old unarmed man who was shot on the steps of his home by San Francisco police officers investigating...

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Scott Wiener’s housing straw man

Calvin Welch - May 2, 2017

“The market is powerful, but we need other things. That’s why we have regulations. We have to go against the flow and re channel...

Music

Bursting into color

Joanna Ladd - May 2, 2017

Sat/6 at Rickshaw Stop, Bay Area audiences will have a chance to hear the sound of an artist’s limitations falling away. Local favorite Meklit,...

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Wiener housing bill passes, trusting the market to solve the crisis

The big media lie about single-payer health care

Assembly passes bill to limit land-use ballot initiatives

In historic vote, Democratic Party supports rent control

When hate speech became a movement

Single-payer’s next step

A ‘nationwide dragnet’ targets millions of immigrants

Charges dropped against unarmed man shot and wounded by police

Scott Wiener’s housing straw man

Bursting into color

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