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SF Carnaval: How it began and what it looks like 37 years later

Caitlin Donohue - May 19, 2016

Carnaval in the Mission is next weekend (May 28-29). The yearly parade and street festival has been around long enough that it's become an institution to...

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A regional-planning coup

Zelda Bronstein - May 16, 2016

In late April the year-long power struggle between our region’s land use and transportation planning agencies, respectively the Association of Bay Area Governments and...

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Regional government sells out Bay Area cities

Zelda Bronstein - April 15, 2016

I’ve been covering the current power struggle between the Association of Bay Area Governments, our region’s land use planning authority, and its transportation planning...

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Who’s ‘against change?’

Zelda Bronstein - March 27, 2016

Like 48 hills editor Tim Redmond, I welcome UC Berkeley geographer Dick Walker’s piece in the East Bay Express debunking the supply-side approach to...

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The deep roots of SF’s housing crisis

Tim Redmond - March 23, 2016

The most interesting and insightful analysis of the local housing crisis that I’ve read in quite a while appeared today – not in the...

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Developers win with “smart growth” rule

Zelda Bronstein - March 13, 2016

With a big assist from the state Legislature, the SF Planning Department opened a new front in the city’s density wars last week. On...

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Young people report holes in foster care safety net

Andrew Lam - February 29, 2016

Liberty Dycus, 23, who was adopted from Ethiopia as a child, ended up in foster care after being abused. She says that when she emancipated...

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Where will the Division Street homeless go?

Sana Saleem - February 24, 2016

As if moving them under the bridge, away from public view wasn’t enough, San Francisco health officials declared homeless tents a health hazard yesterday,...

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The Agenda, Feb. 1- Feb. 7: Super Bowl protests and affordable housing

Tim Redmond - January 31, 2016

The Super Bowl City display is now live at the foot of Market Street, and the protests are going live, too. We already saw...

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The regional government merger: Is anyone asking why?

Zelda Bronstein - January 21, 2016

On Friday, January 8, the latest phase of the power struggle between the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments, a.k.a....

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