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Tagged with: Norman Yee

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...

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...

The new supes, a public bank, police secrecy …

Matt Haney had his ceremonial swearing in today at Glide, and the room was packed. Even State Sen. Scott Wiener and Assemblymember David Chiu,...

The real stakes in the board president vote

Political observers are scrambling to figure out who the next president of the Board of Supes will be – and in the process, some...

Behind the battle for board president

When I was a young reporter at the Bay Guardian, the editor, Bruce Brugmann, told me not to bother writing stories about how “the...

Minimum pay for nonprofit workers, the mayor’s affordable housing exemptions …

The Board of Supes will consider Tuesday/23 a change to the ordinance that sets minimum wages for workers at nonprofits that get city contracts....

Prop. C kickoff puts politicians in the spotlight: Whose side are you on?

The Yes on C campaign, representing the most important issue on the November ballot, held a rousing kickoff today – and the debate is...

Too many jobs, too little housing in Soma

The Central Soma Plan – which will open South of Market to the equivalent of a new downtown, with office space for at least...

Supes reject Farrell’s final Police Commission nominee

The Board of Supes decided today to reject outgoing Mayor Mark Farrell’s move to renominate Joe Marshall to the Police Commission. Since Farrell’s previous...