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The flaws in Stanford’s anti-rent-control study

Tim Redmond - March 13, 2018

Economists who believe in free-market solutions generally don’t like rent control, because – by definition – it distorts the market. So we’ve seen a...

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Why workers had to strike in Oakland

Tim Redmond - December 7, 2017

I shouldn’t be surprised that the mainstream East Bay news media are, to say the least, unsympathetic toward the Oakland city workers’ strike. The...

Arts + Culture

Puff: How the fires affect the cannabis industry

Dan Karkoska - October 24, 2017

Welcome to Puff, our new cannabis column, covering news, product reviews, and broader issues important to the cannabis community. Puff is also a monthly...

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59 dead. Hundreds maimed. And we still can’t get real gun control

Tim Redmond - October 2, 2017

The best analysis I’ve seen so far of the horrific killings in Las Vegas is from Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker, who notes: If...

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Dolores Huerta, filling the screen

Caitlin Donohue - August 29, 2017

In 1962, political organizer Dolores Huerta was a twice-divorced mother of seven. She had also just told Cesar Chávez that she would join him...

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Yes (on affordable housing) In My Back Yard!

Tim Redmond - July 24, 2017

I’m kind of done talking about the Yimby conference, which has gotten far more press than you normally see for a wonky housing policy...

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Should Uber be shut down?

Tim Redmond - July 6, 2017

Everyone’s talking about Uber’s latest problems with management style, sexual harassment, company culture … and CEO Travis Kalanick, who embodied all of that, has...

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Democrat who blocked single-payer gets big money from insurance industry

Tim Redmond - June 26, 2017

State Assembly Speaker Rendon, who is blocking single-payer health care in the state, has received more than $700,000 in campaign money from the insurance...

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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...

News + Politics

The big media lie about single-payer health care

Tim Redmond - June 4, 2017

The headlines were so consistent, so predictably bad, that I almost couldn’t read them. “Single-payer will cost $400 billion.” “Single-payer costs dwarf entire state...

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