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Tagged with: Sacramento

News + Politics

Why can Uber and Lyft use city streets for free?

Tim Redmond -
When San Francisco news media reported on a blockbuster study showing the impacts of Uber and Lyft on San Francisco transportation and traffic, Sup....
News + Politics

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

Tim Redmond -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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It’s official: Leno is running for mayor

Tim Redmond -
The 2019 mayor’s race formally began today when former state Sen. Mark Leno did what everyone had been expecting for months and pulled papers...
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Scott Wiener’s housing straw man

Calvin Welch -
 “The market is powerful, but we need other things. That’s why we have regulations. We have to go against the flow and re channel...
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Dignity Health sued for refusing care to a transgender patient

Sana Saleem -
The ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU of Southern California, the ACLU LGBT & HIV Project and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP...
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