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Sup. Vallie Brown evicted low-income tenants

Tim Redmond - October 10, 2019

Sup. Vallie Brown has a narrative driving her campaign: She had a difficult childhood, faced evictions and homelessness, and is now working to protect...

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Talking Yimby, acting Nimby in District 5

Calvin Welch - October 6, 2019

A story is unfolding in the District Five supervisor race, ignored by the news media, that illustrates the contradiction between narrative and fact that...

Onstage

Review: ACT’s ‘Top Girls’ spotlights ladies of the ’80s (and 800s)

Dennis Harvey - September 27, 2019

With Cloud Nine in 1979 and Top Girls (through October 13 at ACT) three years later, Caryl Churchill shot to the front ranks of living...

News + Politics

An open letter to Marc Benioff about homelessness

Tiny - September 24, 2019

Dear Marc Benioff: A few months ago you announced the launch of a $30 million study of homelessness: Benioff Homelessness and Housing initiative . As you launch...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Native American Reelism, Bay Area Thrash Metal …

Dennis Harvey - September 10, 2019

SCREEN GRABS The ever-lengthening annual period known as “awards season” arguably starts this Friday with the arrival of The Goldfinch, which premiered at the Toronto...

News + Politics

Fighting Trump’s bill to keep immigrants from any public assistance

Jeantelle Laberinto - September 8, 2019

The Trump administration’s latest string of changes to immigration policy have created widespread confusion and fear for immigrant communities -- but organizers are fighting...

News + Politics

‘If you’re done with poverty, build your union’

Emily Wilson - September 3, 2019

When Sara Nelson, the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, talked about the protestors in Hong Kong and police violence, she got choked...

Campaign Trail

Sanders comes to SF to talk about ending student debt

Jeantelle Laberinto - August 24, 2019

Sen. Bernie Sanders held a town hall in San Francisco on Friday to discuss one of his campaign’s major promises: canceling student debt. An excited...

Foreign Correspondent

China trade war not going well for Trump

Reese Erlich - August 9, 2019

China is coming after us! Time to steel ourselves for battle against the human-rights-violating, currency-manipulating, job-grabbing, intellectual-property-stealing, missile-launching evil doers. Or so Washington, D.C....

News + Politics

Eviction, elder abuse, and homelessness

Tiny - July 30, 2019

“I am being evicted from the home I was evicted to. I don’t know where to go now. I want to come back to...

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Sup. Vallie Brown evicted low-income tenants

Talking Yimby, acting Nimby in District 5

Review: ACT’s ‘Top Girls’ spotlights ladies of the ’80s (and 800s)

An open letter to Marc Benioff about homelessness

Screen Grabs: Native American Reelism, Bay Area Thrash Metal …

Fighting Trump’s bill to keep immigrants from any public assistance

‘If you’re done with poverty, build your union’

Sanders comes to SF to talk about ending student debt

China trade war not going well for Trump

Eviction, elder abuse, and homelessness

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