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Wiener’s real estate bill gets first Senate hearing

Tim Redmond - April 15, 2018

State Sen. Scott Wiener’s real-estate bill that would increase height limits across 96 percent of San Francisco faces its first hearing in the Senate...

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The myth of long-term housing “underproduction”

Tim Redmond - April 10, 2018

In an interview with Phil Matier on CBS April 1, State Sen. Scott Wiener repeated a line I’ve heard from him, and from many...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Walking the Irish border, making epic poetry

Marke B. - March 14, 2018

ARTS FORECAST The Counterpulse Festival is on this week (Wed/14-Sun/18) and its bursting with performance and arts innovation. One of its most interesting moments: aon mhac...

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The flaws in Stanford’s anti-rent-control study

Tim Redmond - March 13, 2018

Economists who believe in free-market solutions generally don’t like rent control, because – by definition – it distorts the market. So we’ve seen a...

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Yimbyism and the cruel irony of metropolitan history

David Levitus - March 2, 2018

The sense of housing crisis is nearly everywhere. Debates about housing policy are heating up, turning once arcane fields into the subject of fevered...

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Progressive debate offers a bit of candidate clarity

Tim Redmond - February 15, 2018

What a difference two weeks and a different venue makes. The three leading candidates for mayor all said they supported, more or less, Sen. Scott...

The Agenda

Perhaps, a real mayoral debate

Tim Redmond - February 11, 2018

Tom Ammiano called me this morning to say he was going to dial 911. “I just realized I agree with Willie Brown,” he said. That...

Exclusive

Scott Wiener’s war on local planning

Zelda Bronstein - February 1, 2018

On January 19, I attended UCLA Extension’s 2018 Land Use Law and Planning Conference at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Seated in...

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Trump’s offshore oil plan is a hostile act by a rogue nation

Steven T. Jones - January 31, 2018

We can’t overstate just how much President Trump’s offshore drilling offensive threatens the planet and its inhabitants. Not only is he inviting dirty drilling...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent: Cuba’s ‘sonic attack’ on diplomats is pure science fiction

Reese Erlich - January 28, 2018

HAVANA -- The mainstream media stories were straight out of a science fiction movie. Somebody in Cuba was aiming a super sophisticated "sonic weapon"...

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Wiener’s real estate bill gets first Senate hearing

The myth of long-term housing “underproduction”

Arts Forecast: Walking the Irish border, making epic poetry

The flaws in Stanford’s anti-rent-control study

Yimbyism and the cruel irony of metropolitan history

Progressive debate offers a bit of candidate clarity

Perhaps, a real mayoral debate

Scott Wiener’s war on local planning

Trump’s offshore oil plan is a hostile act by a rogue nation

Foreign Correspondent: Cuba’s ‘sonic attack’ on diplomats is pure science fiction

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