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The Agenda, March 20-26: Breed’s oddly conservative attack on income taxes

Tim Redmond - March 19, 2017

So now we know for sure what Donald Trump and the Republicans have in mind for their first budget: Cut everything that is good...

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The budget picture is bleak — but Mayor Lee has no worries

Tim Redmond - March 12, 2017

It was all doom and gloom at the Board of Supes Budget Committee March 9, with the mayor’s budget director and the controller warning...

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Would a simple tax create 30,000 new housing units in SF?

Tim Redmond - March 8, 2017

Let us stipulate for a moment that there are reasonable people who have rational disagreements about some local policy issues. We can also agree...

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Alternative facts and the mayor’s housing plan

Calvin Welch - February 28, 2017

Mayor Ed Lee two weeks ago launched a new effort to bring about "affordable" housing opportunities for San Franciscans by proposing, as he did...

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Begging and Immoral Lives: A pattern of police citations

Tim Redmond - February 23, 2017

San Francisco police have issued tens of thousands of citations for minor quality-of-life crimes in recent years, and most of them are clustered in...

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The Agenda, Feb. 13-19: Can Mayor Lee really deny funding to defend immigrants?

Tim Redmond - February 13, 2017

Mayor Ed Lee has said on repeated occasion that he doesn’t want to send city money to the Public Defender’s Office to represent undocumented...

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Why SF’s City Planning Department doesn’t get it

John Elberling - February 12, 2017

There is no designated Sociologist position on the 200+ staff of San Francisco’s City Planning Department. And a bachelor/masters degree in Urban Planning can...

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Sheriff evicts 100-year-old

Tim Redmond - February 10, 2017

The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office quietly showed up at the home of Iris Canada this morning at around 11:30 and changed the locks. Canada,...

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Who wants to evict a 100-year-old?

David Bogachik - February 6, 2017

Peter Owens feels hurt. That’s what he said in the courtroom to Tommi Avicolli Mecca, a tenant-rights activist. Mecca has spent months fighting for...

Arts + Culture

Lit: A reluctant sleuth searches for the heart of SF

Tony Robles - January 30, 2017

LIT A reluctant sleuth who can’t keep his shoelaces tied as he probes the streets of San Francisco, Bill Haywood is a reporter for...

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