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The new Warriors site has made everybody happy. It also takes away the driving issue that critics of Mayor Ed Lee hoped to use against him in 2015. Until the April 21 announcement that the Warriors were moving their new<br> Read More »

Advocates applaud reported movement on enforcement practices and priorities from Homeland Security head, but caution any memo outlining changes needs to be strictly enforced, unlike others that have failed to change practices by agents in the field. DREAMers have been<br> Read More »

On April 22nd, over 50 seniors and people with disabilities demonstrated in front of the San Francisco Association of Realtors offices to protest the group’s opposition to state Ellis Act reform. The demonstration, organized by Senior and Disability Action, highlighted<br> Read More »

In 2014, progressives hope to take down the GOP gubernatorial class of 2010 Prospects look grim for congressional Democrats this fall. Political forecasters are predicting that the party will fail to wrest control of the House from the GOP and<br> Read More »

San Francisco is about to get a new museum that aims to educate the world about its least understood neighborhood. On Monday, April 21 Randy Shaw, Executive Director of Uptown Tenderloin, Inc. (and editor of Beyond Chron told the gathered<br> Read More »

Despite dot-com booms, housing bubbles, and the post 2011 tech-driven economy, new investment avoided the Tenderloin. But in 2014, confidence in the neighborhood’s future has finally returned. In 1994, Tenderloin stakeholders identified disinvestment as the neighborhood’s top economic problem. This<br> Read More »

The Field polling organization occasionally asks voters how they feel about the balance of government services versus taxes. And in the most recent such poll, by a 54% to 35% margin, most California voters say they prefer lower taxes and<br> Read More »

Last week, Supervisor David Chiu introduced legislation to stop the illegal renting of apartments to tourists. Chiu sponsored and enacted a similarly highly touted bill in 2012 that failed to solve the problem, and city laws passed in the 1980’s<br> Read More »