Mayor Archives - Page 46 of 188

Crime

Video shows cops beating a man in the Tenderloin who committed no real crime

Tim Redmond - December 14, 2021

...while mayor calls for more cops in the Tenderloin and attacks a surveillance ordinance for no good reason.

News + Politics

Don’t blame progressives for problems like homelessness, drugs, and crime

Tim Redmond - December 13, 2021

Neoliberal mayors and their failed market-based policies have created the crisis that the left is now trying to solve.

Onstage

Review: Bright ‘Twelfth Night’ can’t quite wash away outside concerns

Charles Lewis III - December 9, 2021

At SF Playhouse, Shakespeare's other shipwreck play has great elements—but not enough protocols.

Business + Tech

Taxi drivers protest, demand relief from SF’s failed permit program

Garrett Leahy - December 7, 2021

Drivers decimated by Uber and Lyft say SF cheated them out of millions, and they want action, now.

The Agenda

Those high-tech scooters on the streets are hurting pedestrians

Tim Redmond - December 5, 2021

Plus: Sick leave for domestic workers, an update on Dream Keepers—and what's up with the city's Climate Action Plan anyway? That's The Agenda for Dec. 6-12

News + Politics

SF destroyed the lives of cab drivers—and is now trying to duck responsibility

Tim Redmond - December 2, 2021

SF sold drivers expensive permits, then let Uber and Lyft undermine the industry. Now the permits are worthless—and the city is doing nothing.

Housing

Supes pass key affordable housing bill with a veto-proof majority

Tim Redmond - November 30, 2021

Vote demonstrates a clear mandate that the Mayor's Office use Prop. I money for social housing.

Opinion

Memo to SF supes: On affordable housing, don’t be Joe Manchin

Kim Tavaglione - November 29, 2021

Approving money for social housing is a clear mandate—and the opposition talking points are the same old tired nonsense we have heard before.

The Agenda

Supes face key affordable housing vote

Tim Redmond - November 28, 2021

Plus: more taxpayer dollars for bad cops, and 248 people locked up beyond the legal time for a speedy trial because SF courts are lagging ... that's The Agenda for Nov. 29-Dec. 5

Homelessness

Politics killed a homeless drop-in center, supes hearing shows

Tim Redmond - November 19, 2021

Mayor's Office cancelled project the same day Breed told a conservative group in the Haight that 'it's not going to happen.'

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