Friday, May 3, 2024

Tagged with: Sacramento

Should the regional transportation agency be elected?

The power struggle between the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments got a lot more complicated over the past week. Since...

Landlord forces lie to Richmond voters

People gathering signatures for rent-control repeal say they are working to improve rent control By Tim Redmond SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 – Some of the people gathering...

The case against Junipero Serra

Native Americans and their allies meet to discuss the disaster of making a colonizing killer into a saint By Tiny  AUGUST 18, 2015 -- The screams...

Lydia Lunch: “I’m still the enemy within”

No Wave pioneer brings her band RETROVIRUS -- and 38 years of music -- to DNA Lounge, Wed/29.  By Marke B. ALL EARS It's a perverse thrill...

Displacement policy at risk in quiet power struggle

Two regional agencies battling over the future of Bay Area planning -- with social justice in the balance By Zelda Bronstein JULY 21, 2015 --At a...

At the Conference of Mayors, gun control and Airbnb

The people who run our cities are awfully cautious about calling for controls on handguns. But oh, some of them love Aibnb By Tim Redmond JUNE...

Special Trustee skips City College hearing

But supes learn that he commutes to his $216K job from Lake Tahoe in a City College car, works less than full time on...

Remembering two Ellis Act victims

Two San Franciscans who faced Ellis evictions died recently -- a reminder, perhaps, of the health consequences of threatening vulnerable seniors with displacement By Tony...

A chance for undocumented Californians to get health care coverage

SB 4 would expand Medi-Cal to all residents, including those who are left out of Obamacare By Viji Sundaram APRIL 22, 2015 – Painful ulcers on his...

The Agenda, April 20-April 26: Will the Planning Commission side with Airbnb?

And why is City College moving so quickly to turn public property over to a private developer? By Tim Redmond APRIL 20, 2015 – I thought...