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Ethics Commission rejects plan to eliminate spending caps

Tim Redmond - February 18, 2019

The San Francisco Ethics Commission decided Friday not to propose rules that would have in effect abolished spending caps for local campaigns. The proposal from...

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The Sierra Club and the luxury-housing developer

Zelda Bronstein - February 17, 2019

Are you a Sierra Club member who lives in Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville, Alameda, Piedmont or San Leandro? If so, you fall under the aegis...

Movies

What we saw at Sundance, part 2: Documentaries

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - February 14, 2019

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports from the Sundance Film Festival: See part 1 here and part 3 here! SUNDANCE 2019 The Documentary categories are often the best...

Arts + Culture

Cross-bay institution Black Choreographers Festival celebrates its first 15 years

Caitlin Donohue - February 14, 2019

“A courageous/ambitious idea,” is how co-founder Laura Ellis characterizes the birth of her and fellow choreographer Kendra Barnes’ enduring yearly event, the Black Choreographers...

News + Politics

Supes put dark money measure on November ballot

Tim Redmond - February 12, 2019

Supervisor Gordon Mar and eight of his colleagues have filed to place a measure on the November, 2019 ballot that would close some of...

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Police-reform advocates push Assembly bill to restrict shootings

Haley Keizur - February 12, 2019

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...

Movies

What we saw at Sundance, Part 1

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - February 12, 2019

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2019 With more than 14,000 submissions from more than 150 countries, the Sundance Film Festival (which celebrated its 35th Anniversary) narrowed down...

News + Politics

Will the state Democratic Party support public power?

Tim Redmond - February 10, 2019

The collapse of Pacific Gas and Electric Company is leading to serious efforts on both the statewide and the local level to replace the...

News + Politics

Chilly reception for the new Monster in the Mission plan

Tim Redmond - February 8, 2019

Outside the packed Planning Commission hearing on the Monster in the Mission Thursday evening, I saw Tim Colen, senior advisor to the pro-development Housing...

Foreign Correspondent

Venezuela: Democratic uprising or US coup?

Reese Erlich - February 8, 2019

Tens of thousands of angry people march in the streets to protest lack of democracy. Women bang on pots to raise alarm over the...

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