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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...

Featured

Election night: High turnout, nasty ads … and has the mayor killed his own homeless measures?

Tim Redmond - November 8, 2016

My polling place was crowded this morning, and I saw crowds at precincts all over the Mission. And when I voted this morning, a...

News + Politics

The Agenda: Rose Pak, the devastation of the Eastern Neighborhoods ….

Tim Redmond - September 18, 2016

Gordon Chin, a founder and former director of the Chinatown Community Development Center, notes in his book Building Community, Chinatown Style, that for Rose...

News + Politics

The agenda, Aug. 29-Sept 4: What if Ed Lee decides to step down …

Tim Redmond - August 28, 2016

It's the week before Labor Day, and the fall campaigns are moving into high speed, and I look around at the state of San...

News + Politics

Sorting out the DCCC fallout

Tim Redmond - August 19, 2016

We are all still sorting through the backroom (and frontroom) deals that went on at the DCCC last night; the panel had to sort...

News + Politics

The Agenda, July 11-17: Why bad committee appointments matter …

Tim Redmond - July 10, 2016

Pretty much everyone agrees that elected officials should be judged on their records in office, and typically that means legislation introduced, votes on difficult...

News + Politics

Homelessness: the media’s big problem

Tim Redmond - June 29, 2016

These are some of the headlines we saw in the San Francisco Chronicle this past year: “San Francisco’s summer of urine and drug-addicted homeless.” “Amid rising...

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