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Tagged with: Sacramento

Should the tech boom pay the costs of the tech boom?

The Board of Supes will discuss two very different issues this week that are actually closely related and could inform some productive discussion about...

Campaign against dark money kicks off Wednesday

The campaign to shed sunlight on dark money in San Francisco holds its kickoff Wednesday/17 at Manny’s on 16thStreet. Sup. Gordon Mar, former Assemblymember Tom...

The SF supes’ salvo against Wiener’s housing deregulation bill

The story hasn’t received much news media attention, in part because it came as no surprise, but the Board of Supes this week decided,...

Critical housing measure comes to the board of supes

The Board of Supes Government Audit and Oversight Committee will consider Thursday/4 a resolution that could put the board in direct opposition to the mayor...

Two oversight hearings sidetracked when mayoral staffers don’t show

Two hearings called by Sup. Aaron Peskin were sidetracked last week when two officials from the Breed Administration didn’t show up. Peskin wanted to know...

How the Twitter tax break continues to damage San Francisco …

The long-term impact of the Twitter tax break was never going to be the money that came in or was lost by the city...

The Democrats in Sacramento want to deregulate housing — but that has never worked

Of all the information that came out of the hearing on homelessness last week, when several supervisors said the Mayor’s Office and its Department of...

Police-reform advocates push Assembly bill to restrict shootings

Nine hundred ninety-eight. That’s how many people were shot and killed by police in the US in 2018. And 115 of those were in...

Another step toward a public bank

The Board of Supes took a step toward the creation of a public bank today, approving unanimously a resolution by Sup. Sandra Lee Fewer...

ACLU sues after Sacramento sheriff blocks Black Lives Matter on Facebook

  The First Amendment protects freedom of expression, but how does that law, written hundreds of years before smartphones were even imagined, apply to today’s...