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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...

News + Politics

Should Uber be shut down?

Tim Redmond - July 6, 2017

Everyone’s talking about Uber’s latest problems with management style, sexual harassment, company culture … and CEO Travis Kalanick, who embodied all of that, has...

News + Politics

SF to pay out cash for cop misconduct

Sana Saleem - April 11, 2017

In a closed session this week the San Francisco Police Commission will be deliberating settlements in three legal cases filed against the Police Department. Settlements...

Arts + Culture

Ding-dong aesthetics

Marke B. - November 28, 2016

ALL EARS Bay Area experimental music composer and legend Pauline Oliveros, who passed away last Thursday, once described her famous Deep Listening practice as...

News + Politics

Suit: California has illegally suspended licenses of more than 600,000 drivers

Sana Saleem - October 25, 2016

A lawsuit filed in the Alameda County Superior Court on Tuesday argues that the state of California has illegally suspended licenses of more than...

News + Politics

Gawker is dead. Who’s next?

Tim Redmond - August 25, 2016

Gawker.com, which helped redefine journalism in the era of the blogger, shut down Monday, and while much of the discussion has been around the...

News + Politics

The developers are wrong: CEQA doesn’t stop housing

Tim Redmond - August 23, 2016

Developers see the California Environmental Quality Act as some sort of Great Satan, the source of pretty much everything that’s wrong with the state....

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