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The budget picture is bleak — but Mayor Lee has no worries

Tim Redmond - March 12, 2017

It was all doom and gloom at the Board of Supes Budget Committee March 9, with the mayor’s budget director and the controller warning...

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The Agenda, March 13-19: The next big housing battle

Tim Redmond - March 12, 2017

Two competing plans for affordable housing come before the Planning Commission Thursday/16, and they reflect the new politics of the Board of Supes and...

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La Favi reigns

Caitlin Donohue - March 6, 2017

Natalia García a.k.a. La Favi was raised in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood. She started performing as a little kid who danced in the...

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The Agenda, March 6-12: The next front in the anti-Trump resistance

Tim Redmond - March 5, 2017

The looming train wreck that is the San Francisco budget will start to take shape this week when the supes Budget and Finance Committee...

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Alternative facts and the mayor’s housing plan

Calvin Welch - February 28, 2017

Mayor Ed Lee two weeks ago launched a new effort to bring about "affordable" housing opportunities for San Franciscans by proposing, as he did...

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Racism — and politics — in SF Redevelopment history

John Elberling - February 22, 2017

Bad history -- even when well-intended -- gives me a headache, because it so often misses and conceals far more important truths. To wit,...

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YIMBYs, Smart Growth — and unanswered questions

Zelda Bronstein - February 20, 2017

On February 1 I flew to St. Louis for the New Partners for Smart Growth conference, the largest gathering dedicated to dense, transit-oriented/walkable/bikeable development...

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The Agenda, Feb 21-26: More Mission displacement ….

Tim Redmond - February 20, 2017

The luxury-housing assault on the Mission continues this week as the Planning Commission decides Thursday/23 whether to allow a developer to demolish an auto...

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Why SF’s City Planning Department doesn’t get it

John Elberling - February 12, 2017

There is no designated Sociologist position on the 200+ staff of San Francisco’s City Planning Department. And a bachelor/masters degree in Urban Planning can...

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San Francisco braces for possible immigration raids

Sana Saleem - February 10, 2017

Local immigration lawyers and activists are bracing for possible raids across the city after President Trump signed executive order aiming to block federal funding to sanctuary...

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The budget picture is bleak — but Mayor Lee has no worries

The Agenda, March 13-19: The next big housing battle

La Favi reigns

The Agenda, March 6-12: The next front in the anti-Trump resistance

Alternative facts and the mayor’s housing plan

Racism — and politics — in SF Redevelopment history

YIMBYs, Smart Growth — and unanswered questions

The Agenda, Feb 21-26: More Mission displacement ….

Why SF’s City Planning Department doesn’t get it

San Francisco braces for possible immigration raids

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