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Tagged with: Mayor

Sup. Mar takes on Zombie Neighborhoods and Housing Hoarding

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 16, 2014 -- A measure by Sup. Eric Mar to tax unoccupied or largely unoccupied housing units could be one of...

About inconvenience and protests

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 15, 2014 – When workers at San Francisco International Airport restaurants went on strike last week, Mayor Ed Lee’s response was...

Why the mayor’s office is asking the wrong questions about housing

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 12, 2014 – Almost 30 years ago, the San Francisco Planning Commission heard a proposal to develop the empty Balboa Reservoir...

The politics of Ron Conway’s torture tweets — and a curious measure to help permit expediters hide their payments

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 11, 2014 – At some point, Ron Conway’s Republican roots, his connections to George W. Bush, and his very non-San Francisco...

What’s Ron Conway up to? And why is SF still (almost) broke in the tech boom?

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 8, 2014 – There’s not a single elected Republican in San Francisco government (the last GOP member to hold any elective...

Margaret Cho hits the streets to raise money for homeless people

By Denise Sullivan DECEMBER 8, 2014---“If you have, give. If you need, take.” That’s comedian and San Francisco native Margaret Cho's simple, seasonal message to the...

Tom’s Town: Why were top SF officials so quiet on the police brutality issue?

By Tom Temprano DECEMBER 5, 2014 -- It has been difficult, if not impossible, to focus on anything in the news besides the utterly demoralizing...

With no opponent, Lee may appoint a landlord-friendly supe in D3

  By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 3, 2014 -- The lack of a strong competitor challenging Mayor Ed Lee from the left could shift the political calculus...

Will there be a mayor’s race in 2015?

  By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 2, 2014 – With Mark Leno officially taking himself out of the 2015 mayor’s race, there’s a real possibility that Mayor...

Public power in SF: How far we have come

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 2, 2014 -- In the spring of 1970, when activists and political leaders around the country were planning the first Earth...