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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...

Campaign Trail

Campaign trail: A path for SF Dems to endorse Kim and Leno?

Tim Redmond - February 26, 2018

I may have been wrong about my assessment of the SF Democratic Party and the mayor’s race. If the strategy of the Mark Leno and...

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Newsom’s agency folds on waterfront case

Michael Toren - February 22, 2018

The proposed settlement agreement announced Wednesday in the State Lands Commission’s lawsuit to overturn Proposition B represents a near-total concession by the state. It also...

Campaign Trail

Campaign trail: Kim gets progressive endorsements, Breed wants Tasers …

Tim Redmond - February 21, 2018

While Mark Leno is getting a lot of press attention for his campaign, and a growing number of organizations are doing a ranked-choice strategy...

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Ethics Commission blows up over controversial reform law

Tim Redmond - February 20, 2018

The SF Ethics Commission blew up last week as President Peter Keane abruptly announced his resignation after failing to get the four votes to...

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Leno, Kim backers adopting ranked-choice voting strategy

Tim Redmond - February 18, 2018

The established progressive leaders and organizations in San Francisco appear to be leaning toward dual endorsements of Mark Leno and Sup. Jane Kim for...

News + Politics

Progressive debate offers a bit of candidate clarity

Tim Redmond - February 15, 2018

What a difference two weeks and a different venue makes. The three leading candidates for mayor all said they supported, more or less, Sen. Scott...

News + Politics

The big winner in the mayoral vote …

Tim Redmond - January 28, 2018

The New York Times, which has local reporters and ought to know better, ran a headline last week stating that the progressives had “ousted”...

News + Politics

Farrell as mayor: How did this happen?

Tim Redmond - January 24, 2018

How did Mark Farrell, one of the most conservative members of the Board of Supes, wind up with the support of progressives to become...

The Agenda

The Agenda: Ron Conway gets his way

Tim Redmond - January 15, 2018

Two of the leading candidates for mayor told me this week that they think something went very wrong with the Planning Department’s decision to...

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Yimbyism and the cruel irony of metropolitan history

Campaign trail: A path for SF Dems to endorse Kim and Leno?

Newsom’s agency folds on waterfront case

Campaign trail: Kim gets progressive endorsements, Breed wants Tasers …

Ethics Commission blows up over controversial reform law

Leno, Kim backers adopting ranked-choice voting strategy

Progressive debate offers a bit of candidate clarity

The big winner in the mayoral vote …

Farrell as mayor: How did this happen?

The Agenda: Ron Conway gets his way

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