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The big missing story on the power outages

Tim Redmond - October 9, 2019

I am a longtime critic of the SF Chronicle, so let me take a second to say this: As the crisis of power outages...

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...

Puff

Puff: Light up, it’s Pride time

Dan Karkoska - June 24, 2019

PUFF This is the week of a thousand parties and events in the Bay Area as we celebrate LGBTQ Pride. You are going to...

News + Politics

Wiener’s ‘transit-oriented development’ bill screws public transit

Calvin Welch - May 2, 2019

State Sen. Scott Wiener is promoting his housing bill, SB 50, as an example of environmental progress, since the measure is pushing transit-oriented development...

News + Politics

Critical housing measure comes to the board of supes

Tim Redmond - April 3, 2019

The Board of Supes Government Audit and Oversight Committee will consider Thursday/4 a resolution that could put the board in direct opposition to the mayor...

Campaign Trail

Election winners and losers in SF

Tim Redmond - November 7, 2018

First, we don’t really know anything for sure yet. There are, according to the Department of Elections, an astonishing 139,000 ballots still to be...

News + Politics

Yimbyism and the cruel irony of metropolitan history

David Levitus - March 2, 2018

The sense of housing crisis is nearly everywhere. Debates about housing policy are heating up, turning once arcane fields into the subject of fevered...

News + Politics

Will SF allow the owner who evicted a 100-year-old to get a condo conversion permit?

Tim Redmond - January 10, 2018

The SF Planning Commission is set to vote Thursday/11 on allowing the owners of the building where Iris Canada was evicted to convert to...

News + Politics

Finally, some sanity on legal cannabis

Tim Redmond - November 29, 2017

The award for political sanity went Monday to Sup. Sandra Lee Fewer, who pointed out that too much high-end job growth was a factor...

Arts + Culture

Expanding consciousness

Caitlin Donohue - August 1, 2017

At some point, humankind will look back and figure out what to make of our heavy usage of psychedelics at music festivals. Despite the...

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