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A stunning lack of reality at Mayor Lee’s State of the City

Tim Redmond and Sana Saleem - January 26, 2017

An upbeat Mayor Ed Lee delivered a State of the City address at the old Hibernia Bank Building today that sounded like a re-election...

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Update: All seven have been released. Local rapper Equipto detained at SFPD Chief swearing in ceremony

Sana Saleem - January 23, 2017

UPDATE: All seven individuals have now been released from detention. Monday: Local rapper Equipto, real name Ilyich Sato, was arrested alongside six others at the...

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The Agenda, Jan 23-30: Trump and the media, SROs and Central SoMa

Tim Redmond - January 22, 2017

You have to give the New York Times credit: The front-page headline Sunday/21 reads “Slamming media, Trump advances two falsehoods.” The story makes clear...

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The Agenda, Jan. 9-16: Party with 48hills, a new Board of Supes …

Tim Redmond - January 8, 2017

We open this Agenda with an invite and a plea: On Thursday/19, 48hills will celebrate, so to speak, the new year and offer a...

Arts + Culture

Coming in FRESH

Caitlin Donohue - January 4, 2017

ONSTAGE The piece Bay Area dancer and educator Amara Tabor-Smith will perform this weekend at the 2017 FRESH Festival explores how capitalism seeks control of black...

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Mayor cuts homeless prevention money; hundreds at risk

Tim Redmond - January 2, 2017

Eduardo Pubill once shared a beer with Ringo Starr. He’s been a New York theater stagehand, a chef, a merchant seaman, and a cook...

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Local housing: A little reality

John Elberling - January 1, 2017

Reading the superficial year-end wrap-ups and “expert commentary” about the city’s housing situation in the local press this week is making my head hurt....

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What the police won’t tell you about the Amilcar Lopez killing

Father Richard Smith - December 19, 2016

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon says he’s about to announce his long-awaited decision about whether to charge the officers who killed Amilcar Perez...

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A militant in pink slippers: Remembering an eviction fighter

Ron Winter - December 14, 2016

Mary Elizabeth Phillips was the reluctant media star of San Francisco’s eviction epidemic. And now, she has quietly passed into the vibrant history of...

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Wiener’s first bill could set off housing war

Tim Redmond - December 9, 2016

State Senator Scott Wiener has wasted no time in wading into the statewide housing wars – just as affordable housing advocates have released a...

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