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The sick politics behind the Farrell and Wiener anti-homeless measures

The key to understanding the two homeless and street crime ballot measures sponsored at the last minute by Sups. Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener...

Dem Party Chair Mary Jung’s sex-work hypocrisy

Truth is a pretty fungible commodity during election season, and we all give candidates a little slack. But an oped in today’s Examiner by...

Liberals — except when it comes home

My old boss, Bruce Brugmann, who ran the Bay Guardian, told me early on in my career that you could tell the real politics...

The agenda, Feb. 8-14: Lee’s strange transit policy …

Here’s a strange one that’s mostly under the radar: Mayor Ed Lee has introduced a ballot measure that would direct all future increases in...

The Agenda, Jan. 11-17: Being nice to Airbnb, the Super Bowl …

JANUARY 11, 2016 – It’s nice that the city is being oh-so-polite in dealing with a giant corporation that broke city laws and cheated...

The mayor is sworn in — to boos and arrests

By Tim Redmond JANUARY 8, 2106 – I’ve been to a lot of mayoral inaugurations, and I’ve never seen one like today’s. There were so many...

The Tom and Tim Show: The jail, the cops, missing Sara Shortt …

... and what's up with Gavin Newsom and pot anyway? We talk about the week

How the 2016 races shape up

Control of the city, and its future, on the line in a year of high-octane, high-stakes politics   By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 4, 2015 – The next...

What the next homeless director needs to do

Let's make a plan to put 6,000 homeless people into housing. It's something the city can do By Jennifer Friedenbach In my 20 years of working...

Dreaming of a new Streetopia

Groundbreaking 2012 arts festival -- which fought Lee's "art washed" gentrification plan -- is revisited with new book and two events, Thu/15 and Fri/16.  By...