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The battle for Midtown: A community housing struggle

The weekly tenant meetings of the residents of Midtown Park Apartments at the corner of Geary and Divisadero always begin and end with a...

The Agenda: Rose Pak, the devastation of the Eastern Neighborhoods ….

Gordon Chin, a founder and former director of the Chinatown Community Development Center, notes in his book Building Community, Chinatown Style, that for Rose...

The Agenda, Sept. 12-18: A plea for political honesty

(THIS STORY INCLUDES AN UPDATE TO CORRECT AN EARLIER ERROR) The hits just keep on coming, and they are going to continue into the fall....

PARTY RADAR: Everything’s a Sure Thing

PARTY RADAR With this week's news that London's massive, legendary Fabric club has closed, due to another ginned up wave of popular panic about drugs,...

POA tries to hijack selection of new police chief

The deadline for applications for the job of San Francisco police chief closed Wednesday, and because the process is not exactly open, it’s hard...

Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

On August 10, Kate Vershov Downing, a 31-year-old intellectual-property lawyer, set the media aflutter when she posted on Medium a letter to the Palo...

The Chron decides Jane Kim’s love life is big news

A day after Supervisor Jane Kim spoke to a packed auditorium full of supporters about housing and transportation policy, the Chronicle (which ignored the...

Gawker is dead. Who’s next?

Gawker.com, which helped redefine journalism in the era of the blogger, shut down Monday, and while much of the discussion has been around the...

What’s wrong with bringing down land values in SF?

The key phrase in the affordable report by the SF Controller’s Office, released today, was mostly buried in news accounts. The headline in the...

The developers are wrong: CEQA doesn’t stop housing

Developers see the California Environmental Quality Act as some sort of Great Satan, the source of pretty much everything that’s wrong with the state....