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The Agenda, June 20-27: The budget battle begins

Tim Redmond - June 19, 2016

It’s all about the budget this week. For months, the supes Budget and Finance Committee has been holding hearings and going over department needs and...

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Have regional planners set their targets on SF’s growth-control law?

Zelda Bronstein - June 15, 2016

Plan Bay Area—the controversial, state-mandated regional “blueprint” for land use and transportation planning through 2040—is back. Actually, it never went away; it just stopped...

Arts + Culture

Celebrate life at Frameline 40

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - June 14, 2016

Not only is the Bay Area celebrating the world's longest-running international LGBTQ film festival (June 16-26), the 40th anniversary Frameline feels like the most...

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Terrible housing bill slowed down — for now

Tim Redmond - June 10, 2016

California came within days of adopting a law that would have taken away the right of the public to have a hearing about major...

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Can we stop the displacement of arts space and industry?

John Elberling - June 1, 2016

Sup Jane Kim is drafting legislation that seeks to strongly deter the destruction epidemic that is attacking arts and industrial spaces in the Mission,...

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The right to remain

Rupa Marya - May 31, 2016

Seven years ago, on a weekend like this past one, we would be sitting at The Revolution Cafe in the Mission district. All day....

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A terrible housing bill looms in Sacramento

Tim Redmond - May 22, 2016

The State Assembly may vote as early as Monday on a bill that would give real estate developers a huge windfall at the expense...

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The Agenda, May 23-29: Amateur hour in the Mayor’s Office …

Tim Redmond - May 22, 2016

By mid-afternoon, a little after 3pm Friday, reporters were starting to gather out in front of the Mayor’s office. We’d gotten the word, thanks...

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Why allowing more housing makes property more expensive

Tim Redmond - May 18, 2016

Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, director of the Housing Rights Committee, stood on the steps of City Hall yesterday morning and explained why allowing the free market...

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A real answer to the mayor’s (latest) bogus housing plan

Calvin Welch - May 16, 2016

Market based “solutions” to our housing affordability crisis come and go like spring fashions; only the crisis persists. Eight years ago, it was removing maximum...

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