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News + Politics

Should the tech boom pay the costs of the tech boom?

Tim Redmond - April 21, 2019

The Board of Supes will discuss two very different issues this week that are actually closely related and could inform some productive discussion about...

Foreign Correspondent

Will Julian Assange get a fair trial in the US?

Reese Erlich - April 19, 2019

British police dragged Wikileaks founder Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on April 11, witnessed by a scrum of international media. Authorities...

News + Politics

Supes vote on Breed’s Rent Board appointee will be political test

Tim Redmond - April 18, 2019

The full Board of Supes will be voting Tuesday/23 on the appointment of a supporter of Mayor Breed who has little connection with the...

Lit

Race, labor, and activism on the waterfront

Alex Catsoulis - March 15, 2019

For those unfamiliar with the radical history of dockworkers leading the fight against economic and racial inequality for workers across color lines, Peter Cole’s...

Arts + Culture

Man vs Tammany in classic musical ‘Fiorello!’

Emily Wilson - February 27, 2019

ONSTAGE Here’s something you may not know: There’s a 60-year-old musical about Fiorello La Guardia, who went from being a lawyer to a congressman to...

News + Politics

Save the Redstone Building!

Tim Redmond - February 19, 2019

My first job in San Francisco was in the Redstone Building, at 2940 16thStreet, near the 16thand Mission BART plaza. I worked as a...

News + Politics

The Sierra Club and the luxury-housing developer

Zelda Bronstein - February 17, 2019

Are you a Sierra Club member who lives in Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville, Alameda, Piedmont or San Leandro? If so, you fall under the aegis...

News + Politics

Police-reform advocates push Assembly bill to restrict shootings

Haley Keizur - February 12, 2019

Nine hundred ninety-eight. That’s how many people were shot and killed by police in the US in 2018. And 115 of those were in...

News + Politics

Chilly reception for the new Monster in the Mission plan

Tim Redmond - February 8, 2019

Outside the packed Planning Commission hearing on the Monster in the Mission Thursday evening, I saw Tim Colen, senior advisor to the pro-development Housing...

News + Politics

The lessons of the Monster in the Mission

Tim Redmond - February 2, 2019

There are a few important lessons to draw from the proposal that the developer of the Monster in the Mission has now put forward...

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