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Single-payer’s next step

On April 26, 2017, the Healthy California Act (S.B. 562) was passed with a 5-2 vote at the Senate Health Committee hearing in Sacramento. The...

The Agenda, April 24 -39: Real health-care reform!

A measure that would transform health care in California and set the stage for a profound change nationwide comes before its first committee Wednesday/26. SB...

Can burned-out SRO housing units be saved?

This is what we all feared after the huge fire on 29th and Mission. A building with a (great) taco place, and a greatly missed...

Who wants to evict a 100-year-old?

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...

Push for single-payer healthcare grows in CA

More than a thousand people (my estimate) showed up today at the state building to weigh in on health-care costs – and make the...

The Agenda: LGBT history, high insurance rates, the leaning tower of Soma …

Phil Burton, the legendary politician who created the Golden Gate National Recreation Era and helped define the modern US Congress, lost his first race...

As Trump wages war on women’s health, San Francisco’s elected women are fighting back

As the Trump administration moved into defund international Planned Parenthood San Francisco's elected women leaders are fighting back. On Tuesday, Supervisor Hillary Ronen introduced a resolution that strongly...

I just had an abortion and I am so lucky

I found out I was pregnant on New Year's Eve. I had a feeling and plus I was late – a solid five days...

Obama, the rich, and fair taxes

There are two things I took away from President Obama’s final address. Well, three. First, it demonstrated once again what it’s like to have a...

The next police commissioner

The Board of Supes Rules Committee, on a 2-1 vote, sent the full board a recommendation that law professor and immigration-rights lawyer Bill Ong...