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Editorial: SF supervisors failing to muster a majority for affordable housing
Editorial: SF supervisors failing to muster a majority for affordable housing
Chronicle Editorial Board
In a city where the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment recently hit $3,700 and homelessness surged 17% over the past two years, the most appropriate question about Mayor London Breed’s plan to speed ... -
Editorial: Yes, law should require FBI notification of foreign...
Last Word: Sarah Huckabee Sanders traded political spin for...
Trump’s outgoing press secretary killed the White House press briefing after rendering it pointless.
Last Word: So Long, Twitter tax break
The Twitter tax break is dead as the SF Board of Supervisors realizes the tech companies have gotten rich while mid-Market still looks like a distressed drug den
Last Word: Pelosi crosses the line with ‘prison’ comment
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democratic leaders behind closed doors that she did not want to see President Trump impeached, “I want to see him in prison.” Such rhetoric may play well in her caucus, ...
Open Forum: California can put the brakes on unscrupulous...
The state’s air pollution watchdog should pick up the emissions cheating investigation abandoned by the Trump administration.
Open Forum: How SF is sabotaging its own bike-rental program
Permitting dockless competitors will undermine the system and its workers.
Open Forum: California considers an excessive scooter crackdown
The Legislature should fix a bill that would unfairly single out the popular conveyances for unnecessary regulation.
Open Forum: Exaggerating California crime to protect their...
Law enforcement interests are propagating the myth that justice system reforms are making the state more dangerous.
Letters to the Editor: Foreign influence isn’t in best...
Pardoning President Trump when he leaves office, Karl the Fog and expensive housing are the hottest topics.
Letters to the Editor: Name theme park after Marvel’s...
Marvel’s new theme park should be named after its most famous comic creator.
Letters to the Editor: Corporations need to pay their fair share
Alternatives to single-use plastics, age bias in the workplace and sick days for teachers are the hottest topics.
John Diaz: Who says dads can’t dance, dress or tell a joke?
A Father’s Day essay: Since when did the word “dad” become pejorative? Dad jokes. Dad bod. Dad dancing. The list goes on and on about “dad things,” as if the essence of being a dad is being uncool.
Random lessons of kindness — how we can learn to care
A Stanford professor who taught a class on “Becoming Kinder” notes that people are becoming less and less empathetic. The good news is that kindness can be taught; it’s not necessarily an innate trait.
Trump policies undermine reproductive, LGBTQ rights
The Trump administration has all but given the green light for discrimination in medical care based on religious grounds. This is a serious problem even in states with laws that otherwise protect ...
Editorials on homelessness and housing
SF homeless problem: A civic disgrace
It persists on the streets of San Francisco through boom times and downturns. It is alternately an incubator and a destroyer of political will, as elected representatives eventually discover that their ...
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Editorial: SF supervisors failing to muster a majority for affordable housing
Editorial: SF supervisors failing to muster a majority for affordable housing
Chronicle Editorial Board
In a city where the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment recently hit $3,700 and homelessness surged 17% over the past two years, the most appropriate question about Mayor London Breed’s plan to speed ... -
Editorial: Yes, law should require FBI notification of foreign...
Last Word: Sarah Huckabee Sanders traded political spin for...
Trump’s outgoing press secretary killed the White House press briefing after rendering it pointless.
Last Word: So Long, Twitter tax break
The Twitter tax break is dead as the SF Board of Supervisors realizes the tech companies have gotten rich while mid-Market still looks like a distressed drug den
Last Word: Pelosi crosses the line with ‘prison’ comment
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democratic leaders behind closed doors that she did not want to see President Trump impeached, “I want to see him in prison.” Such rhetoric may play well in her caucus, ...
Editorial Board
SF police try to suppress the press with a sledgehammer
Bryan Carmody was perhaps a less-than-ideal poster child for press freedom. But the raid on his house by San Francisco p olice was heavy-handed and likely illegal — and the ...
Who says dads can’t dance, dress or tell a joke?
A Father’s Day essay: Since when did the word “dad” become pejorative? Dad jokes. Dad bod. Dad dancing. The list goes on and on about “dad things,” as if the essence of ...
SF’s cutest employees munch down fire hazards
Summertime in California is a constant reminder of the possible destruction with which we cheerfully live. The baked hillsides, the relentlessly clear skies, the casually bunched ...
Can Gavin Newsom deliver all those big ideas?
Sacramento is getting a look at what San Francisco has long known. Gavin Newsom is a geyser of ideas, a walking TED Talk podcast who can dazzle and provoke. But he’ll need to ...
Under Trump’s strange spell
Early in the presidential campaign, when Donald Trump told a rally, “I know words — I have the best words,” wordsmiths across the country delighted in the irony: an assertion ...
Juvenile justice: next steps for reform
While incarceration has dropped dramatically over the last two decades, probation remains a major issue. There are more than 39,000 youths in California’s probation system.
Featured Columnists
Robert Reich: How to deal with an American dictator
Three judicial rulings against President Trump confirm that the American system of government is still working, Trump notwithstanding.
Jonah Goldberg: The flaw in trying to paint Biden as another
George W. Bush offered a referendum on the incumbent president and it worked. This is pretty much Biden’s campaign message
Josiah Royce, a great California observer and thinker
Josiah Royce was a great California thinker at the turn of the 20th century whose observations about the Golden State still define the way we think of ourselves.