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If PG&E caused the fires, it wouldn’t be the first time

Tim Redmond - October 13, 2017

Let us consider, for a moment, the cause of the fires that have devastated the North Bay and Wine Country. The conditions were clearly ripe...

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The strange saga of 114 Lyon St

Tim Redmond - October 11, 2017

In what longtime planning observers say is a highly unusual move, the owners of a building in the Haight are asking legal permission to...

Music

Party Radar: Fundraisers for North Bay fires, Puerto Rico, Mexico

Marke B. - October 11, 2017

PARTY RADAR Another devastating tragedy, another round of climate change refugees who will most likely rely on monetized crowdfunding platforms to survive and recover. But...

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The climate apocalypse is upon us

Tim Redmond - October 10, 2017

We were in Sebastopol a few hours before the fires started. Lovely Sunday afternoon, visiting an old friend, a few cheeseburgers and fries, a...

Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: Sandcastles, Teotihuacan, Street Food Fest, Poke-Con….

Marke B. - October 8, 2017

ARTS FORECAST We're heavy into high season for arts (and food, and dance, and everything else wonderful), and there's so many things I'm bursting to...

News + Politics

SF Planning Commission debates housing, ignores gentrification

Tim Redmond - October 6, 2017

The San Francisco Planning Commission discussed the housing crisis Thursday, and there were a few remarkable moments. Much of the presentation by planners focused on...

News + Politics

For seniors, eviction can be a death sentence

David Bogachik - October 3, 2017

DIALOGUES FOR LIFE When I was studying to be a psychoanalyst, one of my teachers, Dr. Irma Birman, shared a recollection from her childhood...

Arts + Culture

Tremble, fair reader, before the mighty Litquake!

Marke B. - October 2, 2017

Litquake -- the annual, gargantuan local literary festival (October 6-14) -- is turning 18 this year. And it's ready to rumble right out of...

News + Politics

59 dead. Hundreds maimed. And we still can’t get real gun control

Tim Redmond - October 2, 2017

The best analysis I’ve seen so far of the horrific killings in Las Vegas is from Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker, who notes: If...

News + Politics

Opinion: Airbnb must stop discriminating against disabled people

Becky Ogle and Bob Planthold - September 30, 2017

While Airbnb’s racial discrimination problems have received widespread public attention, the company’s unwillingness to follow the Americans with Disabilities Act and provide disabled travelers...

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