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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...

News + Politics

Little-known Yimby-developer bills will have big impact on local planning

Zelda Bronstein - December 3, 2017

Of the fifteen bills in the “housing package” signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on September 29, the one that got the most...

Opinion

OPINION: The case against Tasers

Barbara Attard - October 27, 2017

On Friday, November 3, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. at City Hall the San Francisco Police Commission will be holding its last public hearing on...

News + Politics

Opinion: Airbnb must stop discriminating against disabled people

Becky Ogle and Bob Planthold - September 30, 2017

While Airbnb’s racial discrimination problems have received widespread public attention, the company’s unwillingness to follow the Americans with Disabilities Act and provide disabled travelers...

News + Politics

Cohen moves to sideline opposition to ‘profoundly undemocratic’ state law

Tim Redmond - July 19, 2017

Sup. Malia Cohen, unexpectedly and at the last moments of yesterday’s Board of Supes meeting, announced that she wanted to delay consideration of a...

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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

Little-known Yimby-developer bills will have big impact on local planning

OPINION: The case against Tasers

Opinion: Airbnb must stop discriminating against disabled people

Cohen moves to sideline opposition to ‘profoundly undemocratic’ state law

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