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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...

News + Politics

Which side of the ‘house divided’ are you on?

Scott Soriano - May 31, 2020

This morning I made the dire mistake of reading twitter comments on a San Francisco Chronicle report of protesters at SF Mayor London Breed's...

COVID

For taxi drivers, COVID is a brutal dilemma

Garrett Leahy - April 3, 2020

“I can’t even afford to go to work,” said taxi driver Colin Marcoux, who has been driving a cab for over two decades. COVID has...

News + Politics

Some surprising political analysis from the local election results

Tim Redmond - March 5, 2020

The voter turnout is up to 55 percent in San Francisco now, and will exceed 60 percent once the last 54,000 ballots are counted....

Housing

Terence Hallinan, rebel and advocate for the oppressed

Tim Redmond - January 21, 2020

Terence Hallinan died Jan. 17, and in death got a lot more positive press than he ever did in life. The Chron ran a nice...

News + Politics

The Agenda, New Year’s edition: Saving City College …

Tim Redmond - January 2, 2020

It’s pretty unusual for a public official who runs a major institution that is short of cash to refuse help. But that’s what’s going...

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Investigation: Complaints cite racist, sexist harassment by Muni fare inspectors

Chloe Bennett - December 9, 2019

In January, 2019, a woman called Muni’s customer service to complain about what she described as her daughter’s alarming interaction with a fare inspector....

Housing

Mayor Breed sides with the Yimbys and developers

Tim Redmond - November 21, 2019

The housing agenda of Mayor London Breed continues to become more clear – and it’s entirely in line with development interests and the Yimby...

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Finally, a monument to a victim of police violence

Tenants harassed by construction work during COVID

Screen Grabs: Revisit the glitzy disaster of ‘Showgirls’

Which side of the ‘house divided’ are you on?

For taxi drivers, COVID is a brutal dilemma

Some surprising political analysis from the local election results

Terence Hallinan, rebel and advocate for the oppressed

The Agenda, New Year’s edition: Saving City College …

Investigation: Complaints cite racist, sexist harassment by Muni fare inspectors

Mayor Breed sides with the Yimbys and developers

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