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News + Politics

Ed Lee’s development legacy and the end of ‘balanced growth’

Calvin Welch - January 7, 2018

There is one defining fact about Ed Lee's years as mayor that has been missed in all that has been written about his legacy:...

News + Politics

What the new mayor’s race poll really shows

Tim Redmond - January 4, 2018

The first poll on the 2018 mayor’s race offers some surprises – and a lot of information that is really not surprising. I’ve obtained a...

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The next mayor may serve for 10 years. And candidates have 27 days to decide

Tim Redmond - December 12, 2017

It was very strange to go to the Board of Supes Question Time today and not see Ed Lee. I’ve concluded that under Lee, the...

News + Politics

Growing chorus agrees Gascon bungled the Zarate case

Tim Redmond - December 3, 2017

Nobody’s surprised that the rightwingosphere has gone batshit over the Garcia Zarate verdict. We knew this would happen. From the first day of jury...

News + Politics

The Tom and Tim Show: The political old guard is starting to retire …

Tim Redmond - May 7, 2017

News + Politics

Willie Brown and the problem with corruption

Tim Redmond - March 22, 2017

There is, at this point, no smoking gun to implicate Ed Lee in any illegal behavior related to the Shrimp Boy case. But the...

News + Politics

Whose waterfront is it, anyway?

Tim Redmond - March 1, 2017

There’s been a lot of press around the battle over a fairly small project on Pier 29. The Ex made it a cover story...

The Agenda

The Agenda: LGBT history, high insurance rates, the leaning tower of Soma …

Tim Redmond - January 30, 2017

Phil Burton, the legendary politician who created the Golden Gate National Recreation Era and helped define the modern US Congress, lost his first race...

Arts + Culture

Big shebang for Human Be-In’s 50th

Caitlin Donohue - January 12, 2017

A huge celebration Sat/14 marks the 50th anniversary of the Human Be-In, the Owsley-fueled convergence in Golden Gate Park that gathered ten of thousands of earnest...

News + Politics

The SF election: What happened?

Calvin Welch - December 2, 2016

The 2016 election may well be a turning point in our national and local politics. The problem is that it’s unclear what direction the...

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