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OPINION: How to fix the toxic Hunters Point Shipyard mess

Tony Kelly - June 25, 2018

The US Navy recently announced the first steps of its plan to re-test some contaminated soil of the Lennar Shipyard, after a faked cleanup...

News + Politics

Yimbyism and the cruel irony of metropolitan history

David Levitus - March 2, 2018

The sense of housing crisis is nearly everywhere. Debates about housing policy are heating up, turning once arcane fields into the subject of fevered...

News + Politics

Trump’s offshore oil plan is a hostile act by a rogue nation

Steven T. Jones - January 31, 2018

We can’t overstate just how much President Trump’s offshore drilling offensive threatens the planet and its inhabitants. Not only is he inviting dirty drilling...

News + Politics

Here’s what the Blue Angels leave behind

Tim Redmond - October 6, 2017

A nasty brown stain in the air that includes a lot of very toxic chemicals.

News + Politics

Jerry Brown sides with polluters in key bill

Tim Redmond - July 13, 2017

Here are some of the things that have happened in the past two days: A giant piece of ice, the size of Delaware, broke off...

News + Politics

Should Uber be shut down?

Tim Redmond - July 6, 2017

Everyone’s talking about Uber’s latest problems with management style, sexual harassment, company culture … and CEO Travis Kalanick, who embodied all of that, has...

News + Politics

YIMBYs, Smart Growth — and unanswered questions

Zelda Bronstein - February 20, 2017

On February 1 I flew to St. Louis for the New Partners for Smart Growth conference, the largest gathering dedicated to dense, transit-oriented/walkable/bikeable development...

News + Politics

How to keep saving the planet

Steven T. Jones - November 14, 2016

In response to some of the dismaying plans that may come to pass with Trump's election as president, we ask Steven T. Jones of...

News + Politics

Polar bears and climate change in Vegas

Steven T. Jones - October 25, 2016

Las Vegas is a tough town for polar bears. But there I was, in the hours before the final presidential debate, sweating profusely inside...

News + Politics

Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

Zelda Bronstein - September 2, 2016

On August 10, Kate Vershov Downing, a 31-year-old intellectual-property lawyer, set the media aflutter when she posted on Medium a letter to the Palo...

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OPINION: How to fix the toxic Hunters Point Shipyard mess

Yimbyism and the cruel irony of metropolitan history

Trump’s offshore oil plan is a hostile act by a rogue nation

Here’s what the Blue Angels leave behind

Jerry Brown sides with polluters in key bill

Should Uber be shut down?

YIMBYs, Smart Growth — and unanswered questions

How to keep saving the planet

Polar bears and climate change in Vegas

Palo Alto and the tech shop of horrors

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