Jail Archives - 48 hills

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Billionaire-funded campaign against Preston takes another step into disinformation

Tim Redmond - September 3, 2024

PAC says 400 Divisadero should have been affordable housing. It was, thanks to Preston, until the mayor killed it.

Crime

California’s reform era led to lower crime, despite what the news media reports

Tim Redmond - August 18, 2024

Moves to reduce incarceration were not associated with higher rates of violent crime—or property crime—a new report shows

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Why SF’s campaign finance laws aren’t working

Tim Redmond - August 7, 2024

The billionaires just break the rules with impunity and pay meaningless fines to make it all go away.

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Mayor makes inhumane, ineffective sweeps a major part of her re-election campaign

Christopher D. Cook - August 2, 2024

Stealing people's possessions and moving them around town solves nothing—but it makes for mayoral politics.

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In search of SF’s ‘lunatic fringe’

Joel Schechter - July 31, 2024

I can't find my card, so maybe I'm not a member. But JD Vance should know plenty about lunatics.

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SF Democratic Party calls for more queer women in office—then votes for D9 guys

Tim Redmond - July 25, 2024

Billionaire slate rejects its own resolution and votes against Jackie Fielder in D9. Are we surprised? It's all about the money.

Movies

‘Groove’ is (still) in the heart

Tamara Palmer - July 25, 2024

Raise your hands: Seminal 24-year-old film about the SF rave scene gets a fresh look at Vogue Theatre.

Homelessness

Breed ready to criminalize people for lacking a place to live

Tim Redmond - July 9, 2024

Mayor tells supes that 'we will not allow people to just remain.'

Homelessness

Breed, Chiu gave right-wing Supreme Court ammunition to criminalize poverty

Tim Redmond - June 28, 2024

Grants Pass decision on homelessness relies heavily on the city's legal brief.

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Is crime really the only issue in the SF mayor’s race?

Tim Redmond - June 18, 2024

There is so much more to talk about. But that's not what the Democratic Party debate suggested.

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Billionaire-funded campaign against Preston takes another step into disinformation

California’s reform era led to lower crime, despite what the news media reports

Why SF’s campaign finance laws aren’t working

Mayor makes inhumane, ineffective sweeps a major part of her re-election campaign

In search of SF’s ‘lunatic fringe’

SF Democratic Party calls for more queer women in office—then votes for D9 guys

‘Groove’ is (still) in the heart

Breed ready to criminalize people for lacking a place to live

Breed, Chiu gave right-wing Supreme Court ammunition to criminalize poverty

Is crime really the only issue in the SF mayor’s race?

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