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Appeals Court upholds Prop. C in major win for local tax measures

Tim Redmond - July 1, 2020

Less than a week after hearing oral arguments on the validity of the city’s big-business tax to fund homeless programs, a unanimous panel of...

News + Politics

Public toilets—and public corruption

Tim Redmond - June 28, 2020

The deepening public works scandal, which now involves political connected permit expediter Walter Wong, appears to have links to a big corporation that has...

Housing

Appeals Court hears arguments on SF tax on big businesses

Tim Redmond - June 24, 2020

A California Court of Appeal panel yesterday heard oral arguments on a lawsuit seeking to block the city from collecting taxes from the biggest...

The Agenda

Breed’s choices on cops and homeless face challenges

Tim Redmond - June 8, 2020

The full Board of Supes will decide Tuesday/8 whether to reject Mayor London Breed’s two nominees to the Police Commission. The vote will come as...

News + Politics

A massive real-estate scam could force counties to give cash rebates to giant commercial landlords

Tim Redmond - May 17, 2020

The state Board of Equalization, a little-know agency that among other things oversees local property tax assessors, is about to consider some tax-law changes...

News + Politics

Preston seeks to end Muni ‘price gouging’

Tim Redmond - April 22, 2020

Sup. Dean Preston, who helped spearhead opposition to a Muni fare hike, took a new and novel approach today: He asked the city attorney to...

Culture

With Black community hard-hit by COVID, Bayview groups demand aid

Marke B. - April 2, 2020

As tragic stories about COVID cluster deaths in Black communities begin to emerge from New York and Detroit to Georgia and beyond, many are...

COVID

In COVID crisis, judges decide to keep more people in jail

Tim Redmond - March 29, 2020

At a time when local authorities are working hard to reduce the number of inmates in county jails to reduce the spread of COVID-19,...

Housing

Stopping evictions and price-gouging in the coronavirus crisis

Tim Redmond - March 8, 2020

Sup. Dean Preston is calling for a moratorium on all evictions in San Francisco during the coronavirus outbreak. And District Attorney Chesa Boudin has...

News + Politics

What did Breed’s Nuru announcement really mean?

Tim Redmond - February 16, 2020

It’s taken a couple of days, but the local news media have mostly come around to the fact that the real news Friday was...

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Appeals Court upholds Prop. C in major win for local tax measures

Public toilets—and public corruption

Appeals Court hears arguments on SF tax on big businesses

Breed’s choices on cops and homeless face challenges

A massive real-estate scam could force counties to give cash rebates to giant commercial landlords

Preston seeks to end Muni ‘price gouging’

With Black community hard-hit by COVID, Bayview groups demand aid

In COVID crisis, judges decide to keep more people in jail

Stopping evictions and price-gouging in the coronavirus crisis

What did Breed’s Nuru announcement really mean?

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