SF’s London Breed: America’s Housing Mayor

Posted April 30, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Breed Outdoes Other Big-City Mayors In Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, I describe how San Francisco became the national poster child for unaffordability. I also explain its shift to a pro-housing direction under
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Bay Area Book Festival Ignores Housing Books

Posted April 30, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Book Festival Excludes Bay Area’s Top Problem Rising housing costs have long afflicted the Bay Area. In a March 2019 Bay Area News Group poll, 7 in 10 respondents cited “the high cost of housing and living, traffic congestion and
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Marching Veterans Over the Precipice of Privatization by Suzanne Gordon

Posted April 30, 2019 by Suzanne Gordon

Over the past year, with the aide of many in Congress, the Trump administration has moved inexorably toward the privatization of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). This update is a status report on how the nine million patients who depend
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Reviews From The 2019 Silent Film Festival

Posted April 30, 2019 by Peter Wong

Legendary director Ernst Lubitsch shows in his silent satirical slapstick comedy “The Oyster Princess” that the follies of the rich make for excellent comic fodder. Insanely rich heiress Ossi is the spoiled titular princess. Her father Quaker is the incredibly
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Wrap-up Reviews From The 62nd SFFILM Festival

Posted April 30, 2019 by Peter Wong

What does it mean on an everyday level that America has gone from being the world’s greatest manufacturer to being yet another source of cheap labor? Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s documentary “American Factory” offers some disconcerting answers. The new
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Will Newsom Back SB50?

Posted April 23, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Passage of SB50 is Key to Governor’s First Year Goals California Governor Gavin Newsom pledged during his 2018 campaign to build 3,500,000 new homes in the state. He modified this post-election to say he would quadruple housing construction by adding
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Supes’ Hold Hearing on Tenderloin Drug Dealing

Posted April 23, 2019 by Randy Shaw

Will SF Finally Do Right by the Tenderloin? Supervisor Matt Haney has scheduled an April 25 10:00am hearing to address open drug dealing in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Mid-Market and Sixth Street. It’s not clear whether Chief Scott—the person with the
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D.C. Bike Advocate’s Death Highlights Slow Progress Toward Safe Streets

Posted April 23, 2019 by Angie Schmitt

Looking back, D.C. bike advocate Dave Salovesh’s writing — about the need for better safety protections for cyclists in D.C. — seems almost prophetic. Before he was killed Friday by the driver of a stolen van on an unprotected stretch
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