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Statewide tenant group celebrates ten years of organizing

Tim Redmond - September 20, 2018

What began as an experiment is now the longest running statewide tenant organization in California history. Tenants Together, California’s statewide renters’ rights organization, is...

News + Politics

Business districts use public money to attack homeless people, study finds

Tim Redmond - September 19, 2018

Business Improvement Districts, which are in essence private tax assessors that spend money to spiff up certain parts of town, have been using public...

Opinion

OPINION: The best sort of democracy for San Francisco

Steven Hill and Tom Ammiano - July 18, 2018

Calvin Welch has been a dedicated housing activist and progressive leader for decades, but we have consistently disagreed with him about Ranked Choice Voting...

News + Politics

Profiles in corruption: How telecoms control the state Legislature

Chris Witteman and Tracy Rosenberg - July 1, 2018

The last couple of weeks have not been good ones for those who see communications as a social justice issue. The 2015 Open Internet Order,...

News + Politics

OPINION: The progressive movement was the winner in this election

David Campos - June 21, 2018

San Francisco just went through one of the most memorable elections in decades. The mayor’s race was the closest in modern San Francisco history,...

News + Politics

Police accountability bill passes key state Senate committee

Tim Redmond - April 21, 2018

A bill that would open some disciplinary records of police officers accused to serious misconduct cleared a key state Senate committee last week after...

Nightlife

Drag Queens Against Guns

Nick Large - March 26, 2018

On June 12th, 2016, a mass shooting left 49 dead and 53 wounded at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida on Latin night. As someone...

News + Politics

Leno files for mayor, promises ‘fundamental change’

Tim Redmond - January 8, 2018

Mark Leno formally filed his nomination papers for mayor this morning, and promised a “fundamentally new direction for City Hall.” He told a group of...

News + Politics

Monster in the Mission spends $300K on signatures

Tim Redmond - August 21, 2017

I was out of town when the latest chapter of the Monster in the Mission fight took place. As Mission Local reports, the developer...

Featured

Inside the Yimby conference

Zelda Bronstein - July 20, 2017

Last weekend about 120 attendees from 17 cities gathered in downtown Oakland for the Yimbytown 2017 conference. Organized by East Bay Forward, the event...

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Statewide tenant group celebrates ten years of organizing

Business districts use public money to attack homeless people, study finds

OPINION: The best sort of democracy for San Francisco

Profiles in corruption: How telecoms control the state Legislature

OPINION: The progressive movement was the winner in this election

Police accountability bill passes key state Senate committee

Drag Queens Against Guns

Leno files for mayor, promises ‘fundamental change’

Monster in the Mission spends $300K on signatures

Inside the Yimby conference

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