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Supes are driving the political agenda in SF

Tim Redmond - July 15, 2020

The center of public policy in San Francisco has so clearly shifted from the Mayor’s Office to the Board of Supes that nearly every...

Business + Tech

Supes consider major changes in business taxes

Tim Redmond - July 12, 2020

The Board of Supes Budget and Finance Committee will consider Thursday/16 a series of tax measures that could raise more than $100 million for...

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Grassroots uprising calls for defunding police

Tim Redmond - July 9, 2020

The grassroots movement to defund the SF police has made its presence felt this week as hundreds of callers have flooded two supes committee...

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Big reforms could be headed for fall ballot

Tim Redmond - July 8, 2020

The Board of Supes Rules Committee will hold a special meeting Thursday/9 to consider a series of City Charter amendments for the fall ballot...

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Jane Morrison, lifelong activist, dies at 100

Tim Redmond - July 5, 2020

Jane Morrison, who was an urban environmentalist before anyone knew what that meant and a central part of the progressive movement in this city...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal

Dennis Harvey - July 3, 2020

New releases of interest this Friday run a global gamut from Vegas to Australia and Japan, with France, Russia and South Korea in between....

News + Politics

Anatomy of a corrupt $125 million city contract

Tim Redmond - July 2, 2020

In a remarkable and highly unusual hearing today, the Government Audit and Oversight Committee dug into the anatomy of a multimillion contract that Sup....

Business + Tech

Appeals Court upholds Prop. C in major win for local tax measures

Tim Redmond - July 1, 2020

Less than a week after hearing oral arguments on the validity of the city’s big-business tax to fund homeless programs, a unanimous panel of...

News + Politics

Culture of casual corruption faces political reckoning

Tim Redmond - June 30, 2020

The city controller and city attorney released a report this week showing how a lack of oversight and loopholes in ethics laws allowed the...

Movies

In ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble,’ filmmaker Dawn Porter limns civil rights icon

Pam Grady - June 29, 2020

Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights icon who has represented the 5th District of Georgia, including Atlanta, since 1987, is 80 now, running for...

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Supes are driving the political agenda in SF

Supes consider major changes in business taxes

Grassroots uprising calls for defunding police

Big reforms could be headed for fall ballot

Jane Morrison, lifelong activist, dies at 100

Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal

Anatomy of a corrupt $125 million city contract

Appeals Court upholds Prop. C in major win for local tax measures

Culture of casual corruption faces political reckoning

In ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble,’ filmmaker Dawn Porter limns civil rights icon

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