SF Moves to Keep Teachers in City

Posted October 23, 2015 by Randy Shaw

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee unveiled a plan on October 21 to address one of the city’s most vexing problems: how to keep teachers living in the city when they cannot afford rents on vacant apartments or the purchase price
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Wiener Makes Case for No on B

Posted October 27, 2014 by Randy Shaw

As I have noted in prior pieces, San Francisco’s Prop B  guarantees the SFMTA $22 million a year by raiding funding from other city programs. It gives SFMTA this money on top of the additional nearly $8 million in automatic
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Mayors Unite Behind Fred Ross Sr.

Posted August 21, 2014 by Randy Shaw

The Giants and Dodgers are bitter rivals, but that did not stop San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti from organizing a Big City Mayors campaign in support of legendary organizer Fred Ross Sr. The campaign
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