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Fewer calls on city to ‘blow up’ taxi permit system

Tim Redmond - June 11, 2019

Sup. Sandra Lee Fewer yesterday called for the city to “blow up” its current taxi permit system, find a way to pay back drivers...

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SF pays $58,000 for Uber and Lyft rides

Tim Redmond - June 3, 2019

San Francisco spent almost $58,000 in the past year reimbursing city employees for rides on Uber and Lyft, public records show. Records obtained from the...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Last Black Man in San Francisco, Mexico’s Golden Age ….

Dennis Harvey - June 3, 2019

SCREEN GRABS In addition to SF Cinematheque’s annual Crossroads showcase for experimental work at SFMOMA (see Jesse Hawthorne Ficks' preview this week) and the continuation...

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Warren steals the show at Democratic Convention

Tim Redmond - June 1, 2019

It’s remarkable how much the mainstream of the Democratic Party has shifted since Bernie Sanders shook up the party three years ago. This year,...

Housing

New study challenges Wiener’s approach to housing

Tim Redmond - May 12, 2019

Pretty much everybody who’s paying attention to the housing crisis in San Francisco – except, apparently, the Chronicle – is talking about the new...

News + Politics

Uber is already undermining public transit …

Tim Redmond - May 9, 2019

Uber’s newly revealed goal of damaging public transit is already working in San Francisco, a new study shows. It comes in the wake of...

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Tech IPOS will radically increase housing costs and inequality, report shows

Tim Redmond - April 28, 2019

The six tech IPOs that are likely to happen in the next year could drive up housing prices as much as 11 percent –...

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Could SF tax new IPO wealth?

Tim Redmond - March 13, 2019

Supervisor Gordon Mar wants a hearing on the impacts of the IPOs that are the result of the Twitter tax break and that threaten...

News + Politics

How the Twitter tax break continues to damage San Francisco …

Tim Redmond - March 10, 2019

The long-term impact of the Twitter tax break was never going to be the money that came in or was lost by the city...

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Some reality facing the candidates for president

Tim Redmond - January 22, 2019

The 2020 presidential race is well under way, and now that Sen. Kamala Harris surprised nobody by announcing she’s running, more people will enter. Harris...

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Fewer calls on city to ‘blow up’ taxi permit system

SF pays $58,000 for Uber and Lyft rides

Screen Grabs: Last Black Man in San Francisco, Mexico’s Golden Age ….

Warren steals the show at Democratic Convention

New study challenges Wiener’s approach to housing

Uber is already undermining public transit …

Tech IPOS will radically increase housing costs and inequality, report shows

Could SF tax new IPO wealth?

How the Twitter tax break continues to damage San Francisco …

Some reality facing the candidates for president

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