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Healthcare professionals demand police brutality be declared a health crisis

Sana Saleem - May 24, 2016

Students and healthcare professionals from the University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco State University argued yesterday that police brutality should be seen as...

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A terrible housing bill looms in Sacramento

Tim Redmond - May 22, 2016

The State Assembly may vote as early as Monday on a bill that would give real estate developers a huge windfall at the expense...

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Trump-brand hate has no home in SF

Maria Poblet, Myrna Melgar, and N'Tanya Lee - May 20, 2016

On Tuesday, the SF Board of Supervisors and the sheriff have an opportunity to uphold core San Francisco values. The stakes are high. Trump-style...

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Chief Suhr is out — now what?

Tim Redmond and Sana Saleem - May 19, 2016

https://youtu.be/fCkaFqZGOfQ After months of protests, this evening Mayor Ed Lee announced he had asked for and received the resignation of San Francisco Police Chief Greg...

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Why allowing more housing makes property more expensive

Tim Redmond - May 18, 2016

Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, director of the Housing Rights Committee, stood on the steps of City Hall yesterday morning and explained why allowing the free market...

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A regional-planning coup

Zelda Bronstein - May 16, 2016

In late April the year-long power struggle between our region’s land use and transportation planning agencies, respectively the Association of Bay Area Governments and...

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A real answer to the mayor’s (latest) bogus housing plan

Calvin Welch - May 16, 2016

Market based “solutions” to our housing affordability crisis come and go like spring fashions; only the crisis persists. Eight years ago, it was removing maximum...

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One After Another Supervisors Jane Kim, David Campos, John Avalos, and Eric Mar call for Chief Suhr to quit

Sana Saleem - May 11, 2016

In a statement released this morning Supervisor Jane Kim joined the Frisco 5 – Maria Cristina Gutierrez, Edwin Lindo, Sellassie Blackwell, Ilyach Sato and...

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Mayor Lee faces questions on police violence — and has no real answers

Tim Redmond - May 10, 2016

Mayor Ed Lee was forced to answer a series of questions about his embattled police chief and department today, and he took the opportunity...

Arts + Culture

Straight man bends: How the AIDS Lifecycle Ride changed me

Guest Opinion - May 4, 2016

By Kenneth Kann I’m a 69 year old straight, married man, in a glittering red dress, on a bicycle, pedaling 42 miles through conservative California...

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