Saturday, May 4, 2024

Tagged with: Mark Leno

The budget picture is bleak — but Mayor Lee has no worries

It was all doom and gloom at the Board of Supes Budget Committee March 9, with the mayor’s budget director and the controller warning...

The Agenda, March 6-12: The next front in the anti-Trump resistance

The looming train wreck that is the San Francisco budget will start to take shape this week when the supes Budget and Finance Committee...

Push for single-payer healthcare grows in CA

More than a thousand people (my estimate) showed up today at the state building to weigh in on health-care costs – and make the...

The Agenda: LGBT history, high insurance rates, the leaning tower of Soma …

Phil Burton, the legendary politician who created the Golden Gate National Recreation Era and helped define the modern US Congress, lost his first race...

City College wins accreditation battle — but issues remain

  City College of San Francisco will continue as an accredited institution for the next seven years, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges...

The Agenda, 2017: How SF can really fight Trumpism

Everyone at City Hall agrees that San Francisco should be the Anti-Trump City. We are mostly Democrats in this city, and other than the...

A militant in pink slippers: Remembering an eviction fighter

  Mary Elizabeth Phillips was the reluctant media star of San Francisco’s eviction epidemic. And now, she has quietly passed into the vibrant history of...

Corporate Democrats, nationally and at home

I am not an expert on national politics or the national Democratic Party. But I think at this point we ought to be able...

Election night: High turnout, nasty ads … and has the mayor killed his own homeless measures?

My polling place was crowded this morning, and I saw crowds at precincts all over the Mission. And when I voted this morning, a...

The sleaze reaches high tide in SF election

The level of sleaze in the local elections has reached the level where it’s threatening to swamp us all; some of the district supe...