San Francisco Ballot Initiative Would Tax Ridesharing Companies, Internet Sales, and Robot Cars
City Supervisor Aaron Peskin is on a quest to tax everything good about the 21st century.
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Sessions' Escalating Drug War Causing Cold Feet Over Safe Injection Centers
San Francisco was supposed to have sites up and running this month. It does not.
Is This the Summer of Snitches?
Meet Burrito Bob, Permit Patty, and other vigilante informants
San Francisco Delays Building 4 Years in the Making Because New Apartments Will Cast Shadows?!
The owner of a "historic" laundromat has been thwarted at every turn in his bid to build apartments in a city in the midst of a housing crisis.
Federal Judge Dismisses Climate Change Damage Lawsuits Against Big Oil
Is it really fair for we who benefited from fossil fuels to blame for global warming on those who supplied what we demanded?
Bans on E-Cigarette Flavors Can't Be Justified by the 'Wildfire Spread' of Adolescent Vaping, Which Seems to Be Declining
Bans like San Francisco's hurt smokers by making the potentially lifesaving switch to vaping less attractive.
San Francisco's Next Mayor Might Not Be the Person With the Most Votes
Golden Gate City voters ranked their choices for top office. And now the outcome is getting a little messy.
San Francisco Voters Choose Between a 1000 Percent Tax Increase and a 500 Percent Tax Increase
The city's "moderates" and "progressives" fight over whether to raise taxes or raise taxes.
San Francisco Demands E-Scooters Be Removed from City Streets
Bay City bureaucrats are uncomfortable with permissionless innovation.
Rent Control Feeds Inequality in San Francisco
San Francisco is famously America's most expensive city.
Beset By Homelessness, Rising Rents, Nightmarish Traffic, San Francisco Cracks Down on Dockless Scooters
Bay City residents, politicians should be more chill about electric scooters.
Some California Cities Are Making It Harder to Quit Smoking
Bans of flavored tobacco products end up leaving smokers with few options for kicking the habit, and do little to improve public health.
Affordable Housing Proponents Critical of Permit Streamlining Law Use Permit Streamlining Law to Build Critical Affordable Housing
A flawed law has nonetheless improved San Francisco's absurd building approval process.
Concerns Over Historic Sidewalks, Endangered Garter Snakes Hold Up Construction of San Francisco Home
Troy Kashanipour's experience trying to erect a code-compliant home on his own property shows how stacked San Francisco's approval process is against builders.
Shocker! Rent Control Makes Housing Scarcer and More Expensive
San Francisco rent control reduced affected rental housing by 15 percent while boosting citywide rents by 5 percent.
San Francisco Man Has Spent 4 Years and $1 Million Trying to Get Approval to Turn His Own Laundromat Into an Apartment Building
Now the city wants the laundromat studied to see if it is a historic resource.
San Francisco Fines Landlord $2 Million For Renting Out Dwellings to Low-Income Veterans that Violated Zoning Codes
Many of Judy Wu's tenants remain at risk of eviction.
San Francisco to Open Safe Drug Injection Sites by Summer
They will be privately funded and operated by nonprofits.
Starting Today, San Francisco Is Erasing Everybody's Misdemeanor Pot Convictions
Retroactivity is a powerful tool we don't use often enough.
California Bill Cutting Back Zoning Could Increase Access to Housing and Jobs for Millions
By greatly reducing zoning restrictions on housing construction, Bill 827 could massively expand opportunity for large numbers of people.
NIMBYism in San Francisco Reaches New Heights With Shorter Buildings
Neighborhood residents demand a proposed affordable housing complex be five stories, not seven, to preserve "neighborhood character."
Is The TSA More Chill About Weed Than San Francisco?
While the rest of California embraces recreational marijuana, San Francisco is strangling the nascent industry.
San Francisco Politicians Want to Quash a Right-Wing 'Freedom Rally'
A litany of bay-area politicians have come out swinging against the First Amendment.
San Francisco Demands That Landlord Dismantle Veterans' Housing
The move would likely put at-risk tenants out on the street.
San Francisco Officials Continue Attacks on Uber
City tax collector wants to post home addresses of drivers online.
Minimum Wage Increases Make Restaurants More Likely to Fail
Every $1 increase in minimum wage makes mid-level restaurants 14 percent more likely to fail, Harvard economists say. Workers, business owners, consumers lose.
Police Reform Spotlight Shines on the Local Level
Some argue the election will send reform back to where it really belongs: the local level.
Yes In My Backyard
San Francisco activists push for more construction in Baghdad by the Bay.
Bay Area Politicians Strangling the Region's Key Industry
San Francisco lawmakers want to put the squeeze on tech companies.
San Francisco's Threat to AirBnb a Threat to the Entire Sharing Economy
New law could jail employees of Airbnb for actions of users.
Build More Housing
San Francisco's YIMBY movement is pushing the city to build its way out of the housing crisis.
Judge Won't Halt San Francisco's Forced Nanny State Soda Warnings
Did you know sugar helps make you fat? Of course you did.
San Francisco Tries to Square Progressivism with Housing Progress
The only solution is more housing. But people want the city the way it is: unaffordable.
Pro-Palestinian Activists Shout Down Jerusalem Mayor's Speech at San Francisco State University
Respect for free expression goes out the window when it comes to Israel/Palestine issues on college campuses.
San Francisco Politicians Don't Like the Deal They Made to Host the Super Bowl and Want to Blame the NFL
Politicians who voted to bring the Super Bowl to the Bay Area now want the NFL to pay for it.
San Francisco's Horrible Anti-Airbnb Initiative Rejected
Proposition F would have been a lawsuit factory for NIMBY neighbors.
Rand Paul's Anti-Sanctuary City Bill Values Arbitrary Government Rules Over Liberty
Wanting tougher immigration law to prevent possible crimes is like wanting tougher gun laws to prevent possible crimes.
Hillary's Dirty Dance with Trump on Sanctuary Cities
She was right the first time when she opposed a federal crackdown on these cities
On Sanctuary Cities, Hillary Clinton Joins Hands With Donald Trump
The San Francisco woman's shooting death by an undocumented immigrant triggers bipartisan hypocrisy
San Francisco Vs. Soft Drinks
An elected official is trying to protect you from unsavory hucksters peddling empty illusions to profit from your gullibility. Maybe it takes one to know one.
San Francisco's Dangerously Intrusive Gun Storage Rule
The Supreme Court misses an opportunity to defend the Second Amendment.
The Dark Side of Police Reform
Gay rights, black neighborhoods, and how reformers paved the way for Eric Garner
VID: Meet the Man Building Elon Musk's 760MPH Hyperloop
Can he really build a supersonic tube transport system, which could go from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes?
San Francisco Minimum Wage Law Claims Scalp of Great Science Fiction/Fantasy Specialty Bookstore
Yes, a higher minimum wage can kill small businesses.
