Inequality Archives - Page 6 of 28

Labor

Plan to put police funding in City Charter creates huge public safety risks

Tim Redmond - November 1, 2023

Labor activists say Dorsey measure would threaten a wide range of public-safety programs; it also won't work.

Crime

The new War on Drugs isn’t working any better than the old one did ….

Tim Redmond - October 30, 2023

But Breed and Jenkins are pushing to make it worse. We have seen this before and it ended very badly.

News + Politics

Cops use force on Black people 21 times as often as on white people

Tim Redmond - October 29, 2023

Police Commission to discuss the issue. Plus: Corporate rentals and the mayor's power over Muni fares. That's The Agenda for Oct. 29-Nov. 5

Housing

The Yimbys are winning the media narrative, and that’s bad for all of us

Tim Redmond - October 16, 2023

Why are no local reporters willing to look beyond the simple (inaccurate) slogans and talk about the facts?

Art Review

A view of ‘Bay Area Now 9’: Protective orishas, booming speakers, and complex queries

Charles Lewis III - October 16, 2023

30 Bay Area creatives receive their due inside the well-resourced art institution's walls.

Movies

Screen Grabs: 3rd i Fest takes on Indian politics, TikTok obsession, Bangla Surf Girls

Dennis Harvey - October 16, 2023

Plus: UN Film Fest on the dying press and nuclear testing, charming classic Chinese musicals, Birthday Party doc

Homelessness

Billionaires file legal brief attacking the unhoused in SF

Tim Redmond - October 8, 2023

While city fails to train staff on sweeps, the people who created this crisis are asking the Supreme Court to blame the victims.

News + Politics

The local record and legacy of Dianne Feinstein

Tim Redmond - October 2, 2023

Let's celebrate her accomplishments. But there's another story that needs to be told. I was there.

Housing

A chron oped on the housing hearing is wrong, and signals a new attack on the supes

Tim Redmond - September 27, 2023

Board members asked for a modest delay to consider the mayor's amendments to a complex housing bill. The Chron talks of "Nimbys."

Nightlife

Dance floor to ‘First Floor’: Shawn Reynaldo grapples with electronic music’s slippery culture

Marke B. - September 27, 2023

The longtime journalist's popular newsletter—and now book—captures the fine-grain details of a mercurial scene

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