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Mar pushes Breed on budget accountability

Sup. Gordon Mar made his first big statement today, demanding that Mayor London Breed open up the budget process to community advocates. During Question Time,...

CASA’s secret New York junket

During the final meeting of the CASA Technical Committee on December 12, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf let slip that she and unnamed others had...

PG&E is in bankruptcy court — and public power may be the only way out

It was, in a weird way, ironic to hear on NPR today that PG&E is one of the first companies that is directly impacted...

‘Come From Away’ a record of human kindness in a post-9/11 tableau

On the morning of September 11, 2001, millions of Americans were glued to their television sets, watching the horrific images of planes crashing into...

A more inclusive city budget, housing that doesn’t get built …

The new Board of Supes starts its real work this week, and one of the opening events will be Question Time. The mayor can...

Corporate Democrats win in SF state delegate elections

I ran into Tim Paulson, the former head of the Labor Council who now works for the building trades, out in front of the...

What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

The first installment of my CASA story listed bills introduced in the state Legislature on December 3, most notably Scott Wiener’s do-over of his...

Relax: Yee’s ‘interim committees’ are just placeholders

The progressive supporters of Sup. Norman Yee, who won the board presidency thanks to the votes of three moderates, have been saying that he...

Yee is board president — what does that mean?

I ran in to Sup. Norman Yee last night, outside of the Chinatown banquet honoring the four newly elected progressive supervisors. I asked him...

Political power — in San Francisco and Sacramento

It was a time to celebrate in San Francisco tonight. Progressive groups in Chinatown held a banquet for the new supervisors, who ran on...