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The Agenda, Feb. 1- Feb. 7: Super Bowl protests and affordable housing

Tim Redmond - January 31, 2016

The Super Bowl City display is now live at the foot of Market Street, and the protests are going live, too. We already saw...

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Peskin sends a message to Lee and Conway: Don’t you dare

Tim Redmond - January 28, 2016

The message over in Chinatown tonight was pretty clear: If Ron Conway and Mayor Lee think they can run a candidate against Aaron Peskin...

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Mayor’s housing plan: Developers get nice juicy benefit; city gets little or nothing

Tim Redmond - January 27, 2016

Affordable housing and tenant groups that are opposed to the mayor’s plans to upzone much of the city to allow more residential development will...

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Ethics Commission tries to figure out nonprofit lobbying — and pushes steep Farrell fine

Tim Redmond - January 25, 2016

The San Francisco Ethics Commission took on two fascinating items tonight involving campaign finance and lobbying. Sup. Mark Farrell is refusing to pay $190,000 that...

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The Agenda, Jan. 11-17: Being nice to Airbnb, the Super Bowl …

Tim Redmond - January 10, 2016

JANUARY 11, 2016 – It’s nice that the city is being oh-so-polite in dealing with a giant corporation that broke city laws and cheated...

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Planning Commission delays PDR displacement, rejects hotel conversion

Tim Redmond - January 7, 2016

By Tim Redmond JANUARY 8, 2016 – The San Francisco Planning Commission delayed for two months a Potrero Hill project that would have displaced a...

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The Nimbys and the housing crisis

Tim Redmond - January 4, 2016

I probably shouldn’t pay too much attention to a story about San Francisco written by a guy who lives in Venice and likes to...

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Chaos isn’t “change”

Guest Opinion - December 23, 2015

By Calvin Welch DECEMBER 23, 2015 -- In a period when our national politics are dominated by candidates on the right that rely on “counter...

Arts + Culture

Ficks’ Picks: The best films of 2015 (spoiler-free!)

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - December 21, 2015

SCREEN GRABS Our esteemed film critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, who ranged from horror classics to the Toronto International Film Festival this year, picks the cream...

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Plan that could lead to massive displacement moves forward, quietly

Tim Redmond - December 20, 2015

A proposal that could rival the forced relocations of the discredited Redevelopment Era is headed for City Hall approvals -- with very little news...

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