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Homelessness

The bad narrative of ‘bad choices’

Tiny - February 25, 2021

It's an easy way to look away and blame homelessness on poor people.

Labor

The push for $15 an hour

Garrett Leahy - February 24, 2021

Local demonstration joins national movement calling on senators to support increase in minimum wage.

The Agenda

Denmark, taxes, happiness, racism …

Tim Redmond - February 21, 2021

... plus saving the SIP hotels, cracking down on serial permit scofflaws, and more problems with private prisons. That's The Agenda for Feb. 22-28

Education

Teaching Behind the Mask: Overcoming stereotypes to promote change

Chandler Graddick - February 21, 2021

Public schools, private schools, privilege, and how I became an early-childhood educator.

Housing

SPUR, Yimbys say stealth state laws can force more housing

Zelda Bronstein - February 17, 2021

But what happens if developers don't want to build anything but luxury condos -- and maybe not even those?

COVID

We can reimagine the post-COVID San Francisco

Tim Redmond - February 12, 2021

The future should be up to us -- not the corporate overlords who have controlled city planning for decades.

Labor

The Super Bowl billionaires

Marc Norton - February 7, 2021

Sports team owners, including Charles Johnson of the Giants, made $98.5 billion during the pandemic. Their stadium workers are suffering.

Homelessness

The next battle for People’s Park

Tiny - February 3, 2021

Once again, UC is displacing people to expand its campus. It's a pattern.

Movies

‘Small Axe’: ardent slices of life from an overlooked community

Dennis Harvey - January 19, 2021

Director Steve McQueen's five-part series explores recent UK Black history, from protest to celebration

News + Politics

Taxi drivers, disability-rights advocates oppose new Market St. traffic plan

Tim Redmond - January 18, 2021

Plus: UC Regents vote on huge new project -- and Willie Brown's Chronicle column will quietly disappear. That's The Agenda for Jan 19-26

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