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The Agenda, July 10-16: A landlord attack on ballot initiatives …

Tim Redmond - July 9, 2017

A landlord-sponsored bill that would make it harder for local residents to pass growth-control ballot measures – and would have a huge impact in...

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Democrat who blocked single-payer gets big money from insurance industry

Tim Redmond - June 26, 2017

State Assembly Speaker Rendon, who is blocking single-payer health care in the state, has received more than $700,000 in campaign money from the insurance...

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Maybe nurses should run the world

Sasha Cuttler - June 17, 2017

My union nurse colleague Helen voted for Donald Trump and loves to shoot guns. Helen believes that nurses deserve respect and need to be active...

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Why can Uber and Lyft use city streets for free?

Tim Redmond - June 16, 2017

When San Francisco news media reported on a blockbuster study showing the impacts of Uber and Lyft on San Francisco transportation and traffic, Sup....

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Wiener housing bill passes, trusting the market to solve the crisis

Tim Redmond - June 5, 2017

The biggest policy issue in Sacramento this spring, aside from health care, was almost certainly housing, and with good reason: San Francisco is not...

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The big media lie about single-payer health care

Tim Redmond - June 4, 2017

The headlines were so consistent, so predictably bad, that I almost couldn’t read them. “Single-payer will cost $400 billion.” “Single-payer costs dwarf entire state...

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Assembly passes bill to limit land-use ballot initiatives

Tim Redmond - June 1, 2017

A bill that would make it harder for local residents to pass ballot measures limiting development has passed the state Assembly with almost no...

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In historic vote, Democratic Party supports rent control

Dean Preston - May 23, 2017

Here’s some big news from last weekend’s California Democratic Party Convention that won’t make the papers: Delegates voted to pass a resolution expressing “the...

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Why ABAG housing quotas lead to displacement

Thomas Lord - May 19, 2017

The Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA), a product of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), assigns to each Bay Area Jurisdiction quotas of...

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Single-payer’s next step

Anjali Baliga - May 19, 2017

On April 26, 2017, the Healthy California Act (S.B. 562) was passed with a 5-2 vote at the Senate Health Committee hearing in Sacramento. The...

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The Agenda, July 10-16: A landlord attack on ballot initiatives …

Democrat who blocked single-payer gets big money from insurance industry

Maybe nurses should run the world

Why can Uber and Lyft use city streets for free?

Wiener housing bill passes, trusting the market to solve the crisis

The big media lie about single-payer health care

Assembly passes bill to limit land-use ballot initiatives

In historic vote, Democratic Party supports rent control

Why ABAG housing quotas lead to displacement

Single-payer’s next step

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