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SF Carnaval: How it began and what it looks like 37 years later

Caitlin Donohue - May 19, 2016

Carnaval in the Mission is next weekend (May 28-29). The yearly parade and street festival has been around long enough that it's become an institution to...

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Bernie comes to SF to support hotel workers

Tim Redmond - May 18, 2016

Bernie Sanders showed up today to support the hotel workers boycotting the Le Meridien, and while it was supposed to be a surprise, by...

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Why allowing more housing makes property more expensive

Tim Redmond - May 18, 2016

Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, director of the Housing Rights Committee, stood on the steps of City Hall yesterday morning and explained why allowing the free market...

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A regional-planning coup

Zelda Bronstein - May 16, 2016

In late April the year-long power struggle between our region’s land use and transportation planning agencies, respectively the Association of Bay Area Governments and...

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A real answer to the mayor’s (latest) bogus housing plan

Calvin Welch - May 16, 2016

Market based “solutions” to our housing affordability crisis come and go like spring fashions; only the crisis persists. Eight years ago, it was removing maximum...

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The Agenda, May 16-22: Big, ugly luxury housing projects in the Mission and the Tenderloin….

Tim Redmond - May 15, 2016

The local news media made a big deal of the legal thrashing that Federal Judge Charles Breyer gave to an SF police officer who,...

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SFPD’s Rap Sheet: More than 25 scandals since 2015

Sana Saleem - May 14, 2016

Most of the anger directed at the San Francisco police department, and the calls to fire Chief Greg Suhr, involves the four recent shootings...

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Airbnb, tech execs fund nasty DCCC attack piece

Tim Redmond - May 12, 2016

A committee funded in large part by Airbnb and tech executives has unleashed a remarkable hit piece that targets almost entirely women of color...

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The Frisco 5 are back: ‘This is a community-driven fight and we will keep fighting’

Sana Saleem - May 12, 2016

In their first appearance since they were taken to the hospital on Friday, May 6th, the Frisco 5 – except Maria Cristina Gutierrez –...

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Why Chief Suhr will soon step down

Tim Redmond - May 12, 2016

Police Chief Greg Suhr will be stepping down in a matter of weeks. That’s my prediction, based on the fact that he has lost the...

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