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SF supervisors vote to legalize and regulate Airbnb’s short-term rentals
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors today approved controversial legislation to legalize and regulate short-term housing rentals to tourists, voting 7-4 on the package...
Big soda explodes on SF, gives $7.7 million to fight beverage tax
If the soda tax proponents brought a supersoaker to the November ballot showdown, the soda industry brought a tsunami. New campaign finance reports filed...
Chiu’s Airbnb legislation, still a controversial mess, moves to full board
Board of Supervisors President David Chiu’s reputation for forging decent compromises is being severely tested as his widely criticized legislation to legalize and regulate...
Now that Willie Brown is a lobbyist, will the SF Chronicle finally cut him loose?
Years ago, the San Francisco Chronicle handed Willie Brown a megaphone, but now that he's officially recognized as a paid lobbyist, isn't it time...
Guardian Intelligence: Sept. 24 – 30, 2014
MASONIC MOONWALKBeck brought his endlessly funky band to the new Masonic Sept. 19 for opening night, where they ran through melancholy new tunes from...
Airbnb says it will collect and pay local taxes in SF. Really.
In the wake of this week’s contentious hearing on legislation to legalize and regulate short-term housing rentals in San Francisco, where Airbnb was chastised...
Still not sharing
Airbnb slammed at city hearing for not paying taxing or cooperating with proposed regulations
Silicon-centric proposal to split California fails to make ballot
While we at the Bay Guardian have long been intrigued by the possibilities of splitting California up into several states — the Bay Area...
Lee and UC Berkeley institute take on income inequality
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) and U.C. Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society are teaming up today in Washington DC to...
Deal reached in Transbay Tower tax district showdown
The deal almost sounds too good to be true. After threats of lawsuits, frantic backdoor dealmaking and a very harried week for the Board of...
To the classrooms, Baby Boomers
OPINION As long as I've been substitute teaching, people have asked what I thought we could do to improve public schools. With all of...
Developers lobby hard to slash payments promised to Transbay Terminal and high-speed rail
Will the San Francisco Board of Supervisors let developers of the biggest office towers proposed for San Francisco renege on promises to help pay...
Voters still in the dark on campaign funding
A legislative attempt to shed light on major funders of political campaign ads died in Sacramento last week, and the politics surrounding its demise...
Norquist, tech titans, and whether Burning Man is positively affecting society
Is Burning Man really making Bay Area technology titans, right-wing ideologues, and other uber-capitalists more community-minded? Do they really come back from the desert...
Get to work
EDITORIAL The San Francisco Board of Supervisors returned to work this week after a month-long summer recess. While it may be too much to...
Burning Man jumps the shark
How a high-minded countercultural experiment ended up on everyone's bucket list
Paul McCartney bids Candlestick a fiery goodbye
My earliest memories of Candlestick are formative ones. Like any Bay Area kid who cut her baseball teeth on Giants games at the notoriously...
Wanted: more huddled masses
CAREERS + ED Tech companies lobby for more immigrant work visas, bypassing US residents and creating a labor force bound by golden handcuffs
Chiu’s proposed Airbnb regulations clear Planning Commission
Board President David Chiu’s proposed legislation regulating short-term rentals facilitated by tech companies Airbnb and VRBO won approval from the San Francisco Planning Commission...
Arguments against minimum wage increase are out of touch
EDITORIAL"Will the SF minimum wage hike kill our restaurants?" Zagat SF tweeted last week.No, Chicken Little, it won't. Not even if you tweet it.Two...
Tenants target Airbnb rentals before hearings on regulatory legislation
As the San Francisco Planning Commission prepares for an Aug. 7 hearing on Sup. David Chiu’s widely watched legislation to legalize and regulate short-term...