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Politics on Tuesday: A victory for sunlight. Plus the politics of the new board committees

Tim Redmond - January 19, 2015

Parks panel -- finally -- shuts down a project that violates Prop. K. Breed appointments reflect moderate trend on the board By Tim Redmond JANUARY 20,...

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BART protests, $70,000, and free speech

Tim Redmond - January 13, 2015

Should a public agency force protesters to pay the costs of a demonstration? By Tim Redmond JANUARY 14, 2015 – In September, 1981, thousands of antinuclear...

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Housing — or “safe deposit boxes in the sky?”

Tim Redmond - December 28, 2014

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 29, 2014 – In the earlier days of San Francisco urban environmental movement, we talked about the “Manhattanization” of the city...

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A veterans memorial built with blood money

Tim Redmond - December 1, 2014

By Amos Gregory DECEMBER 1, 2014 -- On Friday, Oct. 10, the San Francisco Veterans Memorial was officially dedicated in the heart of the Civic...

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About that turf in Golden Gate Park ….

Tim Redmond - November 7, 2014

By Tim Redmond NOVEMBER 7, 2014 – We could fight forever over the safety of the new fields they’re putting in at Golden Gate Park....

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Soccer, Airbnb, and the colonization of the Mission

Tim Redmond - October 13, 2014

By Erin McElroy OCTOBER 13 -- By now the video of the young white “Dropbox Dudes” kicking the youth of color out of the Mission...

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The Big Lie on the anti-speculation tax

Tim Redmond - September 4, 2014

By Tim Redmond The campaign against San Francisco’s anti-speculation tax is trying to replay the successful effort in Richmond to shoot down a soda tax....

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The Karl Marx Tree: How Southern Pacific Railroad killed a socialist colony in the name of creating Yosemite National Park

Tim Redmond - August 27, 2014

By Marc Norton AUGUST 27, 2014 -- There has been considerable hoopla this summer around the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln putting his signature...

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On Michael Brown, Sketch Factor, and Finding a Safe Way Home

Tim Redmond - August 14, 2014

By Julia Carrie Wong There is a deep and disturbing dissonance between the Ferguson Police Department’s demands that protestors “Just go home,” and the reality...

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Privatization and displacement, from Detroit to the Bay Area

Tim Redmond - July 2, 2014

By Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) "We are hiding out in our own house with no water," Shelah, a 15-year-youth and poverty skola, whispered on the...

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Politics on Tuesday: A victory for sunlight. Plus the politics of the new board committees

BART protests, $70,000, and free speech

Housing — or “safe deposit boxes in the sky?”

A veterans memorial built with blood money

About that turf in Golden Gate Park ….

Soccer, Airbnb, and the colonization of the Mission

The Big Lie on the anti-speculation tax

The Karl Marx Tree: How Southern Pacific Railroad killed a socialist colony in the name of creating Yosemite National Park

On Michael Brown, Sketch Factor, and Finding a Safe Way Home

Privatization and displacement, from Detroit to the Bay Area

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