March 2025 - Beyond Chron

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Despite Support for Abundance, New Housing Falls Short

Posted March 31, 2025 by Randy Shaw

Housing Economics Must Change Seven years before Abundance swept the nation I released a book arguing that the housing policies of progressive, “blue” cities failed to provide affordability for the working and middle-class (See Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Read More »

Cesar Chavez Day and the Power of Activism

Posted March 31, 2025 by Randy Shaw

UFW Founder Offers Lessons for Activists, Movements Today’s Cesar Chavez Day comes 59 years after Chavez’s historic 300-mile march from Delano to Sacramento. The journey put Chavez and the farmworkers’ movement on the national stage. The past six decades has Read More »

Trump Comes After the Lawyers

Posted March 31, 2025 by Stephen Kaus

The Week in Trump Law Donald Trump’s recent Executive Orders seeking to bring several large law firms to heel or put them out of business are full-bore authoritarianism. A failure to fight here will write off the courts as a Read More »

Cinequest 2025 Reviews

Posted March 31, 2025 by Peter Wong

The music short “Chappell Roan – ‘Casual’” happens to be a story-based music video. Director Hadley Hillel sets the short tale in a small seaside town whose beach is terrorized by attacks from a siren (MIka Lesha). Roan (playing herself) Read More »

Which Way Oakland?

Posted March 24, 2025 by Randy Shaw

Lee v. Taylor: Voters Face Clear Choice Oakland faces a mayoral election on April 15. The top two candidates are former Congress member Barbara Lee and former Council member Loren Taylor. They represent two distinct political coalitions with very different Read More »

The Key to Tenderloin’s Revival

Posted March 24, 2025 by Randy Shaw

Resurgent Tourism Can Drive Tenderloin Economy Tourism. I have a long history opposing new tourist hotels in the Tenderloin. I joined with residents in seeing tourists as ignoring community needs. We saw tourist hotels as converting neighborhood-serving retail spaces into Read More »

Judge Unloads on Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Plus, This Week in Trump Law

Posted March 24, 2025 by Stephen Kaus

Huge Legal Battle Over Transgender Ban “… a policy that bans transgender persons from military service—individuals who have served honorably and ‘made American safer’—should result from study at least comparable to one that bans paper straws.” Washington D.C. federal Judge Read More »

Why Parents Should Give SFUSD a Chance

Posted March 24, 2025 by Maya Keshavan

Positive Change is Happening It’s enrollment season at the San Francisco Unified School district (SFUSD). Families have received their assignments and are making decisions. Some people will decide not to bother at all and leave the city. Others will stick Read More »