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News + Politics

Preston seeks to end Muni ‘price gouging’

Tim Redmond - April 22, 2020

Sup. Dean Preston, who helped spearhead opposition to a Muni fare hike, took a new and novel approach today: He asked the city attorney to...

Housing

Breed administration says it’s ‘not fiscally prudent’ to get homeless off the streets

Tim Redmond - April 5, 2020

A lot of people apparently have been sending emails to Trent Rhorer, the director of the Human Services Agency, because he has an auto-reply...

COVID

For taxi drivers, COVID is a brutal dilemma

Garrett Leahy - April 3, 2020

“I can’t even afford to go to work,” said taxi driver Colin Marcoux, who has been driving a cab for over two decades. COVID has...

COVID

Density, neoliberalism, and COVID

Calvin Welch - March 31, 2020

"There is a density level in NYC that is destructive. It has to stop and it has to stop now. NYC must develop an...

News + Politics

Chinatown building becomes battleground for community’s future

Tim Redmond - February 20, 2020

A real-estate investor with a history of attempting to evict vulnerable low-income seniors in Chinatown is now in the middle of a controversy over...

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent: Reaction to coronavirus is overblown

Reese Erlich - February 14, 2020

A new and deadly virus from China is coming to get you. Cancel your travel plans, quarantine your grandparents, and don’t let a Chinese...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: Get in the van!

Dennis Harvey - February 11, 2020

This Friday, we’re already getting commercial releases of movies that premiered at Sundance just the other week. Two got a mixed reception there: Downhill...

Housing

Forget SB 50 — San Francisco needs a bold plan for social housing

Steven Hill - January 9, 2020

State Senator Scott Wiener has reintroduced his housing bill, SB 50, which seeks to alleviate the housing crisis by forcing more density around transit corridors. But...

News + Politics

Our top stories of 2019

Marke B. - December 28, 2019

From the election of Chesa Boudin and Dean Preston to a renewed spirit of arts and culture in the face of displacement, the 48...

News + Politics

Should a developer lawyer be on the Planning Commission?

Tim Redmond - November 17, 2019

For the first time in at least my 37 years of covering city politics – and possibly much longer – a lawyer who has...

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