Housing Advocates Must Act Now!

Posted July 31, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Seizing the Political Momentum on Housing Zane Selvans is among urban America’s most insightful housing advocates. When I interviewed him in 2017 for my upcoming book, Generation Priced Out, he was optimistic that his city of Boulder, Colorado would build
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The Tenderloin’s Problem is Drug Dealers, Not Trash

Posted July 31, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Wanted: A D6 Supervisor to Prioritize Public Safety Based on candidate’s responses at last week’s D6 candidate’s debate, the Tenderloin’s three biggest problems are trash, poop and pee on sidewalks. As the SF Weekly put it, “D6 Debate Features Poop,
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The Pacific Film Archive Celebrates Jacques Becker

Posted July 31, 2018 by Peter Wong

Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive is currently celebrating the great French director Jacques Becker with a month-and-a-half long retrospective. The occasion for the Becker celebration is the Archive’s theatrical screenings of the charming Bertrand Tavernier documentary “My Journey Through French Cinema”
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San Francisco Must Legalize Apartments

Posted July 24, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Homeowners Should Embrace Mr. Rogers’ Support for Welcoming Neighbors San Francisco is a tenant town. Yet its zoning laws largely bar new apartments. It’s time for the city to legalize such housing as an essential strategy for increasing inclusion and
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C.W. Nevius Opens One Person Show in the Tenderloin

Posted July 24, 2018 by Randy Shaw

No journalist in the past decade did more to promote San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood than onetime SF Chronicle columnist Chuck Nevius (aka C.W.). So it was only fitting that when Nevius decided to do a one-person stand up show he
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A Topsy-Turvy Week for Charter Schools and School-Choice Tax Credits

Posted July 24, 2018 by Bill Raden

This piece first appeared in Capital and Main California’s public school and community college teachers got good news Friday when the now-$223.8 billion California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) posted a nine percent return for the 2017-18 fiscal year, beating
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SF’s Stellar District 6 Race

Posted July 17, 2018 by Randy Shaw

Ranked Choice Voting May Prove Decisive On July 18, 2017, I wrote “Who Will Replace Kim in D6?” A year later the answer is no less clear but we now know the field: Matt Haney, Christine Johnson and Sonja Trauss.
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Learning Curves: New Column Reports on the Education Wars Wars

Posted July 17, 2018 by Bill Raden

This piece first appeared in Capital and Main. If privatization is making American education the Wild West for those wishing to profit off children using public dollars, then Los Angeles Unified is its Tombstone. We wanted the launch of Learning
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