Thursday, May 2, 2024

Tagged with: Local Government

Campos throws down gauntlet, calls for state of emergency on homelessness

Supervisor David Campos, frustrated by the city’s lack of progress on homelessness, is planning to announce Tuesday/8 that he’s introducing legislation to call a...

The problem with the Google bus program

On Tuesday, Jan. 26, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will hear an environmental appeal of the permanent commuter shuttle program. That program, now...

Mayor’s budget message blames pension costs, lets corporations off the hook

JANUARY 6, 2015 -- Mayor Ed Lee is telling all city departments to cut their budgets by three percent over the next two years,...

Chaos isn’t “change”

By Calvin Welch DECEMBER 23, 2015 -- In a period when our national politics are dominated by candidates on the right that rely on “counter...

The attack on local zoning control

  DECEMBER 8, 2015 -- My last story about the continuing power struggle between the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission...

A pricey palace, huge losses in risky investments, a busted bridge — and now the agency responsible wants more power

  OCTOBER 11, 2015 -- It now looks as if the open power struggle between the Association of Bay Area Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation...

Should the regional transportation agency be elected?

The power struggle between the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments got a lot more complicated over the past week. Since...

The press whips up toxic anti-immigrant madness

Even in SF, reporters are leaping on the bandwagon, blaming a very reasonable city policy for a tragic murder By Tim Redmond JULY 7, 2015 –...

SF gives $50 million to Oracle — for what?

Two supes question long-term software contract that may be obsolete a year or two after it starts By Tim Redmond JUNE 17, 2015 -- When proposed...

SF’s housing crisis, the talk of Miami

Planners and academics from all over the world are looking at SF and saying:WTF? By Tim Redmond APRIL 10, 2015 -- I am in Miami, at...