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Tagged with: Mayor

Forum: What the Nov. elections mean

The November election, as we have pointed out repeatedly, has the potential to change the direction of the city in pretty dramatic ways. Control...

Following the big tech and real estate money in D11 and D9

  It’s getting more and more complicated to Follow the Money in San Francisco, particularly when so many campaigns are making so many misleading statements...

The Agenda, Oct. 10-17: Should we celebrate the Twitter tax break?

I am glad, I suppose, that there’s nice art coming to mid-Market to “spur curiosity and connection.” Five years after the Twitter tax break,...

Why is SF tolerating Airbnb’s bad behavior?

The way the Chronicle spun the new study on Airbnb was just fine: The platform does, indeed, hurt the city’s hotel industry (and hospitality...

Obama’s supply-side toolkit attacks local housing policy

On September 27th the Obama administration released a "Housing Development Toolkit" promoting a deregulation program for market rate housing development at the local level....

Lights, camera, Mill Valley

SCREEN GRABS In the Bay Area we’re fortunate to have arthouses, film festivals and other outlets providing year-round access to movies not typically on...

Bernie Sanders group endorses Dean Preston for supervisor

More than a dozen activists gathered in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle today as "Our Revolution," a political organization founded by Bernie Sanders, announced...

The bizarre case of Josh Arce’s gumshoes

If the San Francisco election wasn’t strange enough already, it just took a dive off the political deep end. Check this out: In District 9,...

Dede Wilsey joins big money against City Hall reform

There’s an astonishing amount of money pouring into the San Francisco election, mostly through political action committees, independent expenditure committees, and groups that are...

Real estate allies want to try again for Ahsha Safai at DCCC

Two of the most conservative, pro-landlord members of the Democratic County Central Committee want to redo the endorsements vote in District 11 in an...