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Teacher’s Union endorses Wiener opponent for state Senate

Jeantelle Laberinto - January 20, 2020

The March State Senate primary in San Francisco is heating up. Jackie Fielder, the Indigenous-Mexicana queer activist who has been involved in the campaign for...

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Facebook money pushes Chiu housing bill

Zelda Bronstein - August 17, 2019

48 hills’ “Facebook money and California housing” series delves into the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s multi-million-dollar funding of the pro-growth shadow government that’s reshaping California...

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Big Telecom tries another deregulation scam in Sacramento

Chris Witteman and Tracy Rosenberg - August 14, 2019

They’re at it again. After losing in their attempt to torpedo net neutrality protections in California, Assembly members are back with a new and better way...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: A gripping dispatch from the heart of Aleppo

Dennis Harvey - July 24, 2019

SCREEN GRABS No doubt many cineastes in the Bay Area and well beyond will be lining up this weekend for arguably the first interesting mainstream...

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Homeless, at the airport

Tiny - April 22, 2019

“Get up, you have to move along…did you hear me? It’s time to move along…” The hard wood of the baton slammed against the...

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CASA’s secret New York junket

Zelda Bronstein - January 15, 2019

During the final meeting of the CASA Technical Committee on December 12, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf let slip that she and unnamed others had...

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What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

Zelda Bronstein - January 10, 2019

The first installment of my CASA story listed bills introduced in the state Legislature on December 3, most notably Scott Wiener’s do-over of his...

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Should SF allow a tobacco company to operate on Port property?

Tim Redmond - December 2, 2018

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is demanding information about a lease deal that JUUL, the e-cigarette company, has signed with a developer who...

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The big right-wing money in key East Bay Assembly race

Harriet Steele - June 1, 2018

Big, outside money has been a major issue in the San Francisco mayor’s race, where tech and real estate interests are pouring hundreds of...

Music

La Favi reigns

Caitlin Donohue - March 6, 2017

Natalia García a.k.a. La Favi was raised in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood. She started performing as a little kid who danced in the...

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