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Newsom’s lawsuit against SF goes to court this week

Tim Redmond - June 27, 2017

A San Francisco Superior Court Judge will hear arguments Wednesday/28 in a lawsuit filed by Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom and his State Lands Commission...

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Wiener housing bill passes, trusting the market to solve the crisis

Tim Redmond - June 5, 2017

The biggest policy issue in Sacramento this spring, aside from health care, was almost certainly housing, and with good reason: San Francisco is not...

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The Agenda, May 15-21: Who can afford ‘affordable’ housing?

Tim Redmond - May 14, 2017

Two competing affordable housing bills – and another bill that could override both of them to give developers more density – are headed for...

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The life and death of Iris Canada, the 100-year-old victim of eviction

Sana Saleem - March 30, 2017

Iris Canada, 100, sat in a wheelchair looking frail and tired but not without the touch of her impeccable sense of style; yellow blazer,...

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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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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...

Business + Tech

Why SF needs municipal broadband

Tim Redmond - February 17, 2017

Supervisor Mark Farrell and former Sup. Eric Mar are taking on a challenge that has far-reaching implications for the digital divide and the role...

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Kim wants to tax economic inequality

Tim Redmond - January 24, 2017

Sup. Jane Kim announced today that she’s introducing legislation to increase business taxes for companies that pay their CEOs vastly more than the average...

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‘And so begins the resistance’

Tim Redmond - January 20, 2017

“And so begins the resistance,” Tom Temprano, a newly elected member of the Community College Board, told me. We were standing in the pouring rain,...

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The Agenda, Inauguration Week: How and where to protest Trump

Tim Redmond - January 15, 2017

I first heard about Aeon Magazine on the Freakonomics radio show, when the host, Stephen Dubner, interviewed these two historians about the importance of...

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Newsom’s lawsuit against SF goes to court this week

Wiener housing bill passes, trusting the market to solve the crisis

The Agenda, May 15-21: Who can afford ‘affordable’ housing?

The life and death of Iris Canada, the 100-year-old victim of eviction

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

Alternative facts and the mayor’s housing plan

Why SF needs municipal broadband

Kim wants to tax economic inequality

‘And so begins the resistance’

The Agenda, Inauguration Week: How and where to protest Trump

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