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Tagged with: Mayor Ed Lee

Liberals — except when it comes home

My old boss, Bruce Brugmann, who ran the Bay Guardian, told me early on in my career that you could tell the real politics...

The Panama Papers and SF’s housing crisis

The whole world is talking today about the Panama Papers, the amazing leak of documents from a law firm that specializes in helping the...

The Agenda, April 4-10: Changing the DCCC rules (again), the first Kim-Wiener debate ….

Let us start this week with Airbnb. The company has finally decided, after many years, to help the city crack down on what everyone...

Who sent the mayor to Brazil? A group that wants to turn the Mission into tech offices

So we haven’t seen much of Mayor Ed Lee for a while, partly because he doesn’t seem to want to hear protesters go after...

Mayor faces challenge replacing labor-standards chief

When the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement was established in 1996, it had a relatively limited mandate, watching to make sure that...

The Agenda, March 28-April 3, 2016: Why developers can’t cry poverty

Most of the city seems to be on Spring Break this week; the supes aren’t meeting, most of the commissions aren’t meeting, and the...

Yes, gentrification will hit the Tenderloin

  In an admirable burst of optimism, a current BeyondChron post concludes that, unlike the rapidly gentrifying Mission District, the Tenderloin is not “... transforming...

Why we have a homeless emergency

If you want to understand one of the reasons San Francisco has a homeless emergency, consider the case of Ronald Lee, a Navy veteran...

The deep roots of SF’s housing crisis

The most interesting and insightful analysis of the local housing crisis that I’ve read in quite a while appeared today – not in the...

Supes won’t override mayoral veto on transit funding

Pretty much every transit advocacy group supported Sup. John Avalos’ long-shot move to get the supes to override Mayor Lee’s veto of a transit-funding...