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Business + Tech

The plutonium of Artificial Intelligence could be coming to a city near you

Tim Kingston - June 10, 2020

Of all the tools of mass surveillance deployed by law enforcement, private industry and the federal government, Facial Recognition Technology poses by far the...

COVID

Foreign Correspondent: Washington’s COVID blame game

Reese Erlich - April 24, 2020

The Republican Party is trying to shift blame for President Donald Trump’s disastrous coronavirus policies onto China. Chinese communists, Republican leaders claim, hid the...

Movies

‘Crip Camp’ captures a very vivid moment in disability rights struggle

Emily Wilson - April 16, 2020

In 1970 and 71, Jim LeBrecht attended Camp Jened for teenagers with disabilities in upstate New York. The camp had a profound effect on his...

News + Politics

Coronavirus crisis doesn’t stop eviction cases

Tim Redmond - March 17, 2020

Update: The courts have agreed to put evictions on hold. The mayor has declared a moratorium on evictions for nonpayment of rent. The sheriff has...

Campaign Trail

Talking Yimby, acting Nimby in District 5

Calvin Welch - October 6, 2019

A story is unfolding in the District Five supervisor race, ignored by the news media, that illustrates the contradiction between narrative and fact that...

News + Politics

Massive new office development in Soma? Maybe not

Tim Redmond - October 2, 2019

The various parties to a series of lawsuits over Soma development have settled– but that doesn’t mean two massive new office projects are going...

News + Politics

Will the taxpayers bail out the Millennium Tower developer?

Tim Redmond - September 5, 2019

In all the talk of the pending settlement of the lawsuits over the Great Leaning Tower of Soma, a key fact has been largely...

News + Politics

The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

Tiny - March 6, 2019

No matter how many times you “sweep” me,“arrest me,” or “study me, it doesn’t give me a home. In 1984, when I was 11 and...

News + Politics

Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

Zelda Bronstein - January 3, 2019

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has been planning a coup. Not the putsch kind of coup, where armed insurgents overthrow a duly constituted government, but an...

News + Politics

Climate-change denial, right here in California

Calvin Welch - September 6, 2018

“In California, facts and science still matter,” said Gov. Jerry Brown in a prepared statement. “These findings are profoundly serious and will continue to...

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The plutonium of Artificial Intelligence could be coming to a city near you

Foreign Correspondent: Washington’s COVID blame game

‘Crip Camp’ captures a very vivid moment in disability rights struggle

Coronavirus crisis doesn’t stop eviction cases

Talking Yimby, acting Nimby in District 5

Massive new office development in Soma? Maybe not

Will the taxpayers bail out the Millennium Tower developer?

The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

Climate-change denial, right here in California

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