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The Agenda, 7/25/2016: Down to the wire for the November ballot

The battle of the November ballot continues Tuesday as several key items left over from last week’s crazy Board of Supes meeting are back...

Governor’s housing plan promoted at closed-door meeting with Mayor Lee

I went to the strangest press conference today. Ed Lee was there; so was Ben Metcalf, who is Gov. Jerry Brown’s director of housing...

Big wins for progressives at key board meeting

The Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday started off with the mayor showing up for Question Time and asking for unity on the city budget...

The Agenda, 7/18-7/24: Look for a wild supes meeting

It’s going to be a week of fireworks at the Board of Supes: The city budget is up Tuesday/19, as are a series of...

The story Ahsha Safai doesn’t tell in his campaign for supervisor

Ahsha Safai is running for supervisor in District 11 as a labor activist who has the support of some of the city’s unions –...

A Fox to guard the henhouse? Cop who shot Luis Gongora now part of police reform unit

  UPDATE: At the Police Commission meeting at City Hall SFPD Chief Toney Chaplain said Sgt Nate Steger voluntarily transferred from the Professional Standards and Principled...

SFPD is a toxic culture of old boys run by insiders who resist reform

The final report of the Blue-Ribbon Task Force investigating the San Francisco Police Department came out today, and while much of it is not...

The Agenda, July 11-17: Why bad committee appointments matter …

Pretty much everyone agrees that elected officials should be judged on their records in office, and typically that means legislation introduced, votes on difficult...

The Agenda, August 1-8: The attack on blue-collar jobs continues …

I’ve often wondered how much housing San Francisco is building for international criminals. And now it appears the feds are asking the same question. A...

Homelessness: the media’s big problem

These are some of the headlines we saw in the San Francisco Chronicle this past year: “San Francisco’s summer of urine and drug-addicted homeless.” “Amid rising...