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An ethics pledge for the district attorney race

Larry Bush - February 23, 2019

Two candidates for district attorney, Chesa Boudin and Leif Dautch, have created an ethics pledge for the campaign, and it takes us further toward...

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Some reality facing the candidates for president

Tim Redmond - January 22, 2019

The 2020 presidential race is well under way, and now that Sen. Kamala Harris surprised nobody by announcing she’s running, more people will enter. Harris...

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A progressive candidate files for DA, opening up the 2019 race

Tim Redmond - January 15, 2019

Since the day George Gascon announced he’s not running for re-election as district attorney, progressives involved in the criminal justice system have been wondering...

Arts + Culture

Puff: The doctor done told me

Dan Karkoska - January 11, 2019

So US Surgeon General Jerome Adams finally said it. The most authoritative medical opinion in America stated that the government should rethink its stance...

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The spy cameras you didn’t know about in Golden Gate Park

Beth Winegarner - December 27, 2018

Just inside Golden Gate Park, not far from where Haight Street dead-ends at Stanyan, Alvord Lake offers a quiet, shady spot to relax, walk...

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Mayor Breed’s brother should be released from prison

Tim Redmond - December 20, 2018

Jerry Brown is poised to leave office with 740 people on death row and 130,000 others in state prisons, 70 percent of them Black...

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On Veterans Day, let’s also remember those who fought for the right to dissent

Elaine Elinson - November 11, 2018

When Robert Simmons, an African American man from Savannah, Georgia, was brought to the foggy, windswept island of Alcatraz in the winter of 1918,...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Festival mania fills local cinemas!

Dennis Harvey - November 6, 2018

SCREEN GRABS There is surely nowhere in the world with more film festivals per capita than San Francisco. While the bigger annual events are...

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The POA wants to lock more people up — and thinks its chosen candidates will, too

Tim Redmond - October 22, 2018

If you think the solution to the problems of drugs and car break-ins is to make more arrests, prosecute more cases, and lock more...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: Free Solo, Arab Film Fest, Studio 54…

Dennis Harvey - October 8, 2018

SCREEN GRABS Two of the major releases are major disappointments from hitherto reliable directors. Scenarist Drew Goddard’s first directorial feature since ingenious horror deconstruction...

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