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The Agenda, May 16-22: Big, ugly luxury housing projects in the Mission and the Tenderloin….

Tim Redmond - May 15, 2016

The local news media made a big deal of the legal thrashing that Federal Judge Charles Breyer gave to an SF police officer who,...

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Eileen Hansen, fighter for the Good Fight, has died and we all miss her

Tim Redmond - May 6, 2016

San Francisco lost a fighter, a progressive leader, and a friend to many of us April 29 when Eileen Hansen died of cancer. She...

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The case for the youth vote

Tim Redmond - May 4, 2016

The Board of Supes met with the Youth Commission Tuesday, and the biggest question around a potential charter amendment allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to...

Arts + Culture

Straight man bends: How the AIDS Lifecycle Ride changed me

Guest Opinion - May 4, 2016

By Kenneth Kann I’m a 69 year old straight, married man, in a glittering red dress, on a bicycle, pedaling 42 miles through conservative California...

News + Politics

Supes to decide if 16 and 17-year-olds should vote

Tim Redmond - May 2, 2016

There are plenty of reasons why San Francisco should lower the voting age to 16, but the most important one is that young people...

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Day X of Hunger Strike: “On Tuesday We March to City Hall”

Sana Saleem - May 2, 2016

This post is part of our special coverage on the #hungerforjusticesf. Five San Francisco residents are on hunger strike outside Mission Police Station, demanding...

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Airbnb suddenly drops $245,000 into local politics

Tim Redmond - April 28, 2016

Just days after Sups. David Campos and Aaron Peskin announced a measure to more tightly regulate short-term rentals, Airbnb, the biggest company in that...

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The Agenda, April 25-May 1: Lots of housing data …

Tim Redmond - April 25, 2016

It’s going to be a week full of housing data, which is a good thing since so much of the information the national news...

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Pulsing onward

Maro Guevara - April 14, 2016

A renaissance at 25? For almost a quarter century, CounterPulse had been producing "risk-taking art that shatters assumptions and builds community," providing San Francisco...

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The Agenda, April 10-17: Superdelegates, nationally and locally

Tim Redmond - April 10, 2016

Just as the Bernie Sanders campaign is stepping up its criticism of the role party officials play in the nomination process, a proposal to...

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