Monthly Archives: October 2017

SF’s Choice: A Chain Store or Housing?

Posted October 31, 2017 by

New Test for SF’s Pro-Housing Direction 1600 Jackson Street along San Francisco’s Polk Gulch is the perfect housing site. It’s a choice corner location on a transit and retail corridor a short walk from shopping.  The project’s residents would increase<br> Read More »

Will Voters Repeal Costa-Hawkins in 2018?

Posted October 26, 2017 by

Activists Plan Repeal Measure for November ’18 Ballot Liam Dillon’s October 23 Los Angeles Times story broke the news:  activists are moving forward toward placing an initiative repealing California’s Costa-Hawkins law  on the November 2018 ballot. I recall that dark<br> Read More »

Is Dry Cleaning About to Get Wetter, Safer and Greener?

Posted October 26, 2017 by Jessica Goodheart

This piece first appeared in Capital and Main. Faced with the planned phase-out of a dangerous solvent, California’s dry cleaners have the chance to break with a toxic past. When Sung Park’s landlord found contamination from a dry cleaning solvent<br> Read More »

Why Is Liberal SF Blocking Cannabis?

Posted October 24, 2017 by

City’s Double Standard Over Exposing Kids to Drugs As I entered City Hall last Thursday I confronted a large crowd creating a huge line in front of the metal detectors. All were Asian and wore white baseball caps. I asked<br> Read More »