Friday, May 3, 2024

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Wiener’s new housing bill is radically unfair

State Sen. Scott Wiener has introduced a new version of his housing bill that went down in flames last year, and while the current...

Should SF allow a tobacco company to operate on Port property?

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is demanding information about a lease deal that JUUL, the e-cigarette company, has signed with a developer who...

After the mudslides, Kendra McKinley’s musical dispatch from ‘Big Sur Island’

ALL EARS In the high season of May to October 2017, Big Sur was ghost town. The Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge was under construction in...

Protesters demand a Green New Deal

Donning particle masks in the smoke-fogged air this morning, dozens of protesters urged Bay Area congressional representatives Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Lee to endorse...

Tax breaks for corporations are a bad idea, new study shows

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is criticizing the massive tax incentives that New York is giving to Amazon – and that’s created a lot of much-needed discussion...

A bad Central Soma Plan is going to move forward …

The Board of Supes is set to give final approval Tuesday/13 to a Central Soma Plan that almost everyone agrees has too much office space...

For tech pioneer, preserving SF’s classic vinyl culture is a ‘Family Affair’

What would possess one of the designers of the iPhone, a celebrated tech pioneer, to launch an art gallery in Lower Haight, focused on...

6,000 more office workers with no housing, the failure of planning in the Eastern Neighborhoods …

Mayor London Breed is pushing legislation that would amend the city’s historic office-space limitation law to allow an additional 1.5 million square feet of...

UC workers walk off the job for three-day strike

Thousands of health care workers, service workers, and allies have walked off the job and are setting up picket lines and rallies at multiple...

The truth about ‘progressive’ housing policy

Randy Shaw, who runs a website called “BeyondChron,” is now writing for the Chron. In a piece that ran Oct. 21, he argues that...