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Should the Castro be filled with a tech mogul’s surveillance cameras?

Tim Redmond - June 1, 2021

A sort-of, kind-of private organization that does neighborhood improvements in the Castro is meeting next week to decide whether to move forward with a...

Lit

Literary lion Ferlinghetti exits, but his community legacy roars on

Marke B. - February 23, 2021

Thoughts on Lawrence's passing—and how his heroic drive still resonates in SF, even now.

News + Politics

New leadership at Police Commission

Tim Redmond - January 3, 2021

After vice president who refused to put key reform items on the agenda abruptly quits, there's an opportunity for change.

Housing

The last time an SF cop was charged with killing a Black man

Marc Norton - December 1, 2020

It was 1968. The trial was a sensation. The outcome was a disaster.

City Hall

If SF bans smoking weed in your apartment, where could you get high?

Caitlin Donohue - November 25, 2020

Bill would criminalize pot smoking for a large part of the city's population.

News + Politics

Supes panel declines to reject police contract

Tim Redmond - November 5, 2020

Deal that committee members agree is deeply flawed will move forward to full board.

Labor

Giants and Warriors give their workers the boot

Marc Norton - August 4, 2020

I got the email firing me from my job at the Giants ballpark on Monday evening, July 27. On Tuesday evening I learned from...

News + Politics

Finally, a monument to a victim of police violence

Tim Redmond - July 19, 2020

For the first time in history, San Francisco will soon have a permanent monument to a person of color killed by the police. I was...

COVID

Tenants harassed by construction work during COVID

Garrett Leahy - July 15, 2020

In her 27 years as a tenant on Leavenworth, Andrea Carla Michaels has had few issues with any of her landlords. Now she is the...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Revisit the glitzy disaster of ‘Showgirls’

Dennis Harvey - June 3, 2020

During a week in which a nation-shaking epidemic shutdown has managed to become a concern secondary to curfews, social chaos, and military-dictatorship-type responses to...

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Should the Castro be filled with a tech mogul’s surveillance cameras?

Literary lion Ferlinghetti exits, but his community legacy roars on

New leadership at Police Commission

The last time an SF cop was charged with killing a Black man

If SF bans smoking weed in your apartment, where could you get high?

Supes panel declines to reject police contract

Giants and Warriors give their workers the boot

Finally, a monument to a victim of police violence

Tenants harassed by construction work during COVID

Screen Grabs: Revisit the glitzy disaster of ‘Showgirls’

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