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Central SOMA Exposes SF’s Political Identity Crisis

Posted March 13, 2018 by Randy Shaw

YIMBYs Lead Effort to Protect Tenants from Central SOMA Plan For the first time since San Francisco’s 1970’s downtown highrise boom, activists are demanding that new office space—-in this case in Central SOMA— be balanced by new housing. This concern Read More »

SF’s 2017 Political Outlook

Posted January 3, 2017 by Randy Shaw

A new year has just begun and many cannot wait for it—and the next three years—to end. San Franciscans are ready to protect the city against Trump policies and we’ll soon know what that entails. Meanwhile, cities can still act Read More »

Are SF Politics More Divisive?

Posted October 31, 2016 by Randy Shaw

Election Day’s approach has increased testiness and anger in San Francisco’s political scene. The Kim-Wiener race went negative after Kim’s surprising first place June finish, and the tone has only gotten worse. Negative campaigning is in all of the contested Read More »

Are SF’s Key Races Tightening?

Posted October 17, 2016 by Randy Shaw

As absentee voting has begun and Election Day nears, some key San Francisco races may be tightening. Unfortunately, the tightness of these contests have led to increasingly negative campaigning. This is particularly true in the D9 and D11 supervisor races Read More »

Stopping SF’s Illegal Airbnb Rentals

Posted January 19, 2016 by Randy Shaw

Regular readers know that I favor solving problems over talking about them. That’s why it’s frustrating to read stories about abuse of San Francisco’s short-term rental law when at least 75% of illegal rentals could be stopped with a single Read More »

San Francisco 2015: The Year in Review

Posted December 17, 2015 by Randy Shaw

In the past two decades, San Francisco politics has seen five very politically significant years: In 1995, Willie Brown’s rescued the city from the far too conservative accidental mayor Frank Jordan; In 2000, district elections brought grassroots progressives like Chris Read More »

Our Local Heroes of 2015

Posted November 24, 2015 by Randy Shaw

Beyond Chron has a Thanksgiving tradition of honoring a few of the many whose dedicated service rendered them our local heroes for San Francisco in the past year. Here’s our choices for this year, whose weight toward housing activism reflects Read More »

Mayor Lee’s Second Term Agenda

Posted November 7, 2015 by Randy Shaw

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee begins a second term after a 2015 campaign season in which the mayor’s promotion of Julie Christensen in District 3 and the ongoing housing crisis subjected him to more criticism than ever before. The mayor Read More »