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SF needs a mayor who will tax, spend, and regulate

Consider a short list of the realities facing our next mayor: The social/economic/cultural transformation of the city through unchecked hyper-gentrification caused by a development policy...

Tenant Troubles: Can my landlord spy on me?

Editors note: Tenant lawyer Dave Crow is here every Wednesday to answer your questions. Email askdave@48hills.org I’m a 14-year rent controlled tenant in the TenderNob....

OPINION: Strengthening CEQA to help solve the housing crisis

CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act, has long been the bugaboo of developers who – surprise, surprise -- don’t like restrictions, regulations, rules or...

SF supes oppose Wiener real-estate bill

The Board of Supes voted today to oppose State Senator Scott Wiener’s real-estate bill, SB 827, which would upzone most of San Francisco.  The discussion...

Puff: From Peron to Prop. 64

PUFF History was made in the Castro on a bench at Cafe Flore in 1974. Dennis Peron shared a joint with Mary Jane Rathburn...

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

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...

Special Report: Ed Lee’s police legacy

Editor’s note: As the candidates for mayor discuss law enforcement, police accountability, and the future of the SFPD, it’s worth looking back at how...

Yimbyism and the cruel irony of metropolitan history

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

Party Radar: Mexican Jihad, Ben UFO, Galaxy Radio…

PARTY RADAR Hello from Detroit, where I'm currently warmer than y'all are in the Bay, because climate change is happening and weird! Here's a...

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

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