Tag: ethics
Sex workers launch a bold strategy to overturn prostitution laws – in the courts
By Tim Redmond
A sex-worker rights group based in San Francisco is teaming up with a high-profile First Amendment lawyer from the Midwest to launch a legal strategy aimed at...
Politics on Tuesday: A challenge to Wiener in D8?
By Tim Redmond
When Sup. Scott Wiener showed up at the Castro tenants convention, he was doing what any good politician would do in an election year: More than 250...
Bad urbanism: Tech and planning forum misses the point
By Zelda Bronstein
On Jan. 7, I went to an evening panel discussion at the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association entitled “What Urban Planning Can Learn from Tech...
How tech can be part of the solution
By Tim Redmond
It’s getting to be a war zone out there, a class war zone – and if the mayor hasn’t noticed it, the signs should have been clear...
City Beat: $1 billion fine for Google?
I’ve always thought San Francisco could use a Displacement and Neighborhood Impact Agency. I’ve argued that every major development, tax break, etc. should require not just an Environmental Impact...
NEWS: A rape victim — and a victim of an unjust system
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story had the wrong age for the suspect in this case. The correction is included below.
By Tim Redmond
The rapist answered an ad in...