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Housing

Supes promise protections for small businesses and gig workers

Tim Redmond - March 17, 2020

So many updates from City Hall as we (mostly) shelter in place: Sup. Hillary Ronen announced this morning that she and others are working on...

News + Politics

Giving the supes more investigative power …

Tim Redmond - February 24, 2020

Sup. Aaron Peskin, who has had trouble in the past getting reluctant witnesses to provide information to the board, is now moving to give...

News + Politics

A nonprofit alliance becomes an ally of Big Telecom

Chris Witteman and Tracy Rosenberg - November 24, 2019

It's not unusual for businesses to spend princely sums lobbying government to free them from regulations, which generally means consumer protections are reduced or...

News + Politics

Behind the big money influencing City Hall

Haley Keizur - September 15, 2019

Lobbyists spent more than $12 million seeking to influence San Francisco City Hall in just the first six months of 2019, according to a...

Campaign Trail

SF Democrats side with mayor’s candidates for supe, DA

Tim Redmond - August 29, 2019

The progressive majority on the Democratic County Central Committee splintered last night. Although a reform slate was elected in 2016 specifically with the mandate to...

News + Politics

Facebook money pushes Chiu housing bill

Zelda Bronstein - August 17, 2019

48 hills’ “Facebook money and California housing” series delves into the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s multi-million-dollar funding of the pro-growth shadow government that’s reshaping California...

Movies

‘The Great Hack’: They’ve got your data, and yes they’ve used it

Joshua Rotter - July 23, 2019

Social network Facebook has faced fierce criticism for its dubious privacy practices for years. In the beginning, it was tracking user activity via "Like"...

Campaign Trail

The stunning corruption that shows why supporters are pushing a Dark Money initiative

Tim Redmond - July 15, 2019

The Board of Supes Rules Committee heard today why the city needs to seriously upgrade its campaign-finance disclosure laws in an era when dark...

News + Politics

Kaiser workers prepare for strike over mental-health staffing

Tim Redmond - July 7, 2019

Mental-health workers at Kaiser’s French Campus on Geary are launching a one-day strike Wednesday/10 to focus attention on the massive health-care operation’s failure to...

Campaign Trail

Eight ‘Big Ideas’ at MoveOn Forum

Jeantelle Laberinto - June 2, 2019

On Saturday afternoon, eight Democratic presidential hopefuls appeared for MoveOn’s “Big Ideas Forum” in San Francisco. Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Cory Booker, Congressman Beto O’Rourke,...

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Supes promise protections for small businesses and gig workers

Giving the supes more investigative power …

A nonprofit alliance becomes an ally of Big Telecom

Behind the big money influencing City Hall

SF Democrats side with mayor’s candidates for supe, DA

Facebook money pushes Chiu housing bill

‘The Great Hack’: They’ve got your data, and yes they’ve used it

The stunning corruption that shows why supporters are pushing a Dark Money initiative

Kaiser workers prepare for strike over mental-health staffing

Eight ‘Big Ideas’ at MoveOn Forum

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