Mayor Ed Lee Archives

News + Politics

Finally, Walton will get to ask Breed about reparations

Tim Redmond - April 16, 2023

Plus: Next steps for the Castro Theater, the farce of 479 Stevenson, and how the city in once again screwing over cab drivers. That's The Agenda for April 17-24

Music

30 years of wild Noise Pop nights and ‘talent beyond genre’

Joshua Rotter - February 21, 2023

Festival co-owner Jordan Kurland on filling the city with independent music and his favorite live moments

Elections

Breed School Board appointee is now losing to progressive challenger

Tim Redmond - November 14, 2022

Alida Fisher will likely replace Ann Hsu; Mar's hopes are dimming in D4.

News + Politics

Scooter companies can keep riders off the sidewalk, but won’t spend the money

Tim Redmond - October 19, 2022

Furious supes demand action, but the Breed Administration's love of Big Tech prevents any real change. We've seen this so many times before.

Business + Tech

The Uber files just confirm what local critics have been saying for years

Tim Redmond - July 20, 2022

SF let this rogue company get started and prosper; now the city needs to take responsibility for violence against drivers.

News + Politics

Scathing new city report repudiates Lee, Breed policies on Uber, Lyft

Tim Redmond - June 30, 2022

Planners say TNCs have caused terrible problems because the city didn't regulate them. Plus, on housing: It's capitalism, stupid.

News + Politics

Don’t blame progressives for problems like homelessness, drugs, and crime

Tim Redmond - December 13, 2021

Neoliberal mayors and their failed market-based policies have created the crisis that the left is now trying to solve.

Business + Tech

Taxi drivers protest, demand relief from SF’s failed permit program

Garrett Leahy - December 7, 2021

Drivers decimated by Uber and Lyft say SF cheated them out of millions, and they want action, now.

News + Politics

SF destroyed the lives of cab drivers—and is now trying to duck responsibility

Tim Redmond - December 2, 2021

SF sold drivers expensive permits, then let Uber and Lyft undermine the industry. Now the permits are worthless—and the city is doing nothing.

Housing

The profound importance of a new Housing Plan for San Francisco

Tim Redmond - October 10, 2021

The Agenda: City planners admit the 'Jobs Economy' was a disaster. Will they really take another path this time?

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Finally, Walton will get to ask Breed about reparations

30 years of wild Noise Pop nights and ‘talent beyond genre’

Breed School Board appointee is now losing to progressive challenger

Scooter companies can keep riders off the sidewalk, but won’t spend the money

The Uber files just confirm what local critics have been saying for years

Scathing new city report repudiates Lee, Breed policies on Uber, Lyft

Don’t blame progressives for problems like homelessness, drugs, and crime

Taxi drivers protest, demand relief from SF’s failed permit program

SF destroyed the lives of cab drivers—and is now trying to duck responsibility

The profound importance of a new Housing Plan for San Francisco

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