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Business + Tech

Supes pass Overpaid CEO tax

Tim Redmond - July 28, 2020

Tax policy was at the top of the Board of Supes agenda Tuesday. The supes placed on the ballot a new business tax that would...

Campaign Trail

Some defining issues in the fall supes race

Tim Redmond - July 21, 2020

The San Francisco Democratic Party will vote on endorsements for the Board of Supes Wednesday/22, and while the party nod doesn’t always mean victory,...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Films that pull back the veil

Dennis Harvey - July 21, 2020

The Trump regime’s egregious wrongdoing and pollutive effect on society has wound up bringing greater attention to long-term (yet rapidly worsening) woes of American...

Housing

The Chron gives up on homelessness

Tim Redmond - July 12, 2020

You have to go pretty deep into the Chron’s annual series on homelessness to find anything very useful, but I read it all, and...

News + Politics

Large majority of voters support tax on millionaires

Tim Redmond - June 9, 2020

Some 70 percent of California voters would support a higher tax on income above $1 million, a new poll shows. The survey, by the highly...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Black history and protest films to stream now

Dennis Harvey - June 7, 2020

As public outrage towards police violence against the Black community (like the gun control movement) has too often seemed to wane in the Trump...

Foreign Correspondent

The rest of the world sees uprisings, not riots

Reese Erlich - June 5, 2020

One of Germany's largest dailies ran the headline “This killer cop set America ablaze,” with a photo of the Minneapolis police officer who killed...

Business + Tech

The future of cities—and the one percent

Tim Redmond - May 19, 2020

The New York Times devoted its entire Sunday Review section this week to an analysis of the future of cities. It’s a critical topic:...

Culture

An online summit targets COVID’s racial disparity

Marke B. - May 15, 2020

Evidence continues to mount that Black and Latino communities are being disastrously and disproportionately affected by COVID and its economic fallout. As CNN, analyzing...

Opinion

Opinion: Action desperately needed for COVID-hit Latino community

Jon Jacobo - May 5, 2020

Numbers matter. Inequity, by definition, means a lack of fairness or justice. Inequity in practice means 84% of the hospital beds in San Francisco General Hospital for...

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