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Man vs Tammany in classic musical ‘Fiorello!’

Emily Wilson - February 27, 2019

ONSTAGE Here’s something you may not know: There’s a 60-year-old musical about Fiorello La Guardia, who went from being a lawyer to a congressman to...

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Save the Redstone Building!

Tim Redmond - February 19, 2019

My first job in San Francisco was in the Redstone Building, at 2940 16thStreet, near the 16thand Mission BART plaza. I worked as a...

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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...

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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...

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What the regional housing “compact” amounts to — so far

Zelda Bronstein - January 10, 2019

The first installment of my CASA story listed bills introduced in the state Legislature on December 3, most notably Scott Wiener’s do-over of his...

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Regional planners mount a quiet coup to promote developers and attack vulnerable communities

Zelda Bronstein - January 3, 2019

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission has been planning a coup. Not the putsch kind of coup, where armed insurgents overthrow a duly constituted government, but an...

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Statewide tenant group celebrates ten years of organizing

Tim Redmond - September 20, 2018

What began as an experiment is now the longest running statewide tenant organization in California history. Tenants Together, California’s statewide renters’ rights organization, is...

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The wolves of Wall Street, here in San Francisco

Jessica Lindquist - September 10, 2018

Nicole has resorted to storing her wages in an office desk drawer at her place of work after funds she was saving for a...

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A people’s climate summit

Martha Hawthorne, Michael Eisenscher, Lorraine Thiebaud, and Jonathan Kocher - August 29, 2018

This September, community, political, and business leaders from around the globe will be meeting in San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit to discuss...

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A terrible week at the Supreme Court — and it could get even worse

Tim Redmond - June 27, 2018

It’s been a very bad week at the US Supreme Court – and it could get a whole lot worse. Justice Anthony Kennedy was the...

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