Stories about San Francisco
Tom’s Town: Harvey Milk (or Dianne Feinstein) at the airport
By Tom Temprano
I managed to squeeze in a rare out-of-states trip to Mexico this past week and found myself doing my finest 6am zombie...
Sacramento control: How the state could keep City College under its thumb for years to come
By Ann Clark
On January 4, 2014, the news media in San Francisco reported the threat of closing City College of San Francisco is temporarily...
From the New Deal to the New Steal: The Food-Stamp-Cuts-to-Prison Pipeline
Corporate welfare already stole our taxes on the real
From Politricksters to lying lawyers,
social workers to akademik researchers-
EVERYONE is eating
from this poor people's...
City beat: Mayor Ed Lee’s “road to Sacramento” and the impact of Google buses
By Tim Redmond
Mayor Ed Lee agreed Tuesday that the way speculators are using the Ellis Act in San Francisco is "unacceptable." He said some...
Should San Francisco build a new jail? It’s not an easy question
Inside the county jail at San Bruno
By Tim Redmond
The first thing you notice about the San Francisco County jail in San Bruno is how...
The renters’ lament: A neighborhood, a community, and a wave of TICs
Theresa Flandrich holds up a map of TICS in North Beach
By Tim Redmond
You could see the pain that so many communities are suffering on...
Politics on Tuesday: Private phones, public business
By Tim Redmond
There’s been a lot of fallout from the Chris Christie scandal, but one of the most interesting elements to me was the...
City Beat: Serial Ellis Evictors and mid-Market community benefits (or not)
A map of all the no-fault evictions in the city (antievictionmap.squarespace.com)
By Tim Redmond
I'm not a church-going sort, but at least once a year I...
San Francisco’s War on Poor People
By Tim Redmond
The federal War on Poverty is 50 years old, and a lot of the news media reports are calling it a failure:...
Tenants planning 2014 agenda
Tenants packed the LGBT center to talk about how to fight back
By Tim Redmond
There had to be 250 people at the Castro Tenants Convention...