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Tagged with: Mayor

My New Year’s resolutions—for everyone else

A few 2024 suggestions for policy makers, the pope, and people who don't clean up their dogshit.

Peskin, Chan want to know if SF can sue the state over impossible housing rules

Letter to city attorney seeks advice on how to deal with mandates from Sacramento that almost everyone agrees SF can never meet.

The Chron, voting rights, and district elections

If the state Legislature starts to see district elections of local legislators as a Nimby problem, the oligarchs in SF will rejoice.

The brutal budget crisis of 2024—and how the city could address it without huge cuts

San Francisco needs to rethink how it collects taxes—and the state is going to have to get out of the way.

Here come the billionaires: Election 2024

Big money goes into measures attacking poor people and eroding police oversight. It's really about Breed's re-election and the oligarchs controlling the city.

The year in housing policy: State forced SF into a no-win situation (and Breed went along)

The supes did what they had to do, although a lot of them didn't like it—but it's not going to matter anyway.

Opinion: The Valencia Street center bike lane was a mistake and has to go

It's bad for cyclists, bad for small business, and shows the need for SFMTA reform.

Planning Commission agrees to end public input on many housing developments

Narrow 4-3 votes ends the ability of community activists to call out unscrupulous landlords and speculators.

Check the record: Preston and his progressive colleagues are not against housing

Back in 2021, when Heather Knight was still at the Chronicle, the Yimbys put out something they called a "study" of the housing record...

Jenkins says the solution to homelessness is to make the unhoused ‘uncomfortable’

DA also goes all in on blaming judges for the city's overdose problems.