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Screen Grabs: You say you wanted a ‘Revolution’

Dennis Harvey - August 4, 2020

At this point even six months ago may feel like an entirely different, long-lost epoch—as, meanwhile, November 3 can’t possibly come soon enough. But...

News + Politics

Supes, by one vote, reject public advocate plan

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2020

The San Francisco supes today refused by one vote to put a measure on the ballot creating a public advocate to focus on public...

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Some defining issues in the fall supes race

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2020

The San Francisco Democratic Party will vote on endorsements for the Board of Supes Wednesday/22, and while the party nod doesn’t always mean victory,...

News + Politics

Finally, a monument to a victim of police violence

Tim Redmond - July 19, 2020

For the first time in history, San Francisco will soon have a permanent monument to a person of color killed by the police. I was...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal

Dennis Harvey - July 3, 2020

New releases of interest this Friday run a global gamut from Vegas to Australia and Japan, with France, Russia and South Korea in between....

News + Politics

Anatomy of a corrupt $125 million city contract

Tim Redmond - July 2, 2020

In a remarkable and highly unusual hearing today, the Government Audit and Oversight Committee dug into the anatomy of a multimillion contract that Sup....

News + Politics

Culture of casual corruption faces political reckoning

Tim Redmond - June 30, 2020

The city controller and city attorney released a report this week showing how a lack of oversight and loopholes in ethics laws allowed the...

News + Politics

Public toilets—and public corruption

Tim Redmond - June 28, 2020

The deepening public works scandal, which now involves political connected permit expediter Walter Wong, appears to have links to a big corporation that has...

News + Politics

BREAKING: Three more suspects charged in City Hall corruption probe

Tim Redmond - June 8, 2020

The feds have charged three more people with crimes related to the Mohammed Nuru public works scandal, the US Attorney’s Office announced this afternoon. The...

News + Politics

We’re all outside agitators at this point

David Talbot - May 31, 2020

We all knew America was a powder keg and, we all knew it had to blow up. Endless police or vigilante violence against Black...

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Screen Grabs: You say you wanted a ‘Revolution’

Supes, by one vote, reject public advocate plan

Some defining issues in the fall supes race

Finally, a monument to a victim of police violence

Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal

Anatomy of a corrupt $125 million city contract

Culture of casual corruption faces political reckoning

Public toilets—and public corruption

BREAKING: Three more suspects charged in City Hall corruption probe

We’re all outside agitators at this point

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