SFBG ›

Politics Blog

Censored by Facebook and I don't know why

05.29.13 - 11:54 am | Steven T. Jones |
(25)

UPDATED Today I got banned from posting on Facebook and I don’t know why, but it has left me feeling very unsettled about this brave new world we find ourselves in, one where a few large technology corporations have ever more power over our lives and liberties.Read more »

Short cuts

05.29.13 - 10:51 am | Johnny Angel Wendell |
(2)

Lots of stuff in news worth looking at today.Read more »

Guardian event on Plan Bay Area

05.29.13 - 10:31 am | Tim Redmond |
(64)

There's going to be profound change in San Francisco over the next 25 years. If regional planners have their way, we're talking 280,000 more people -- and massive displacement of existing populations. Is that ok? What should we do about it? Is there any alternative, a better way to plan for growth?Read more »

I agree with a three-star General

05.29.13 - 9:55 am | Tim Redmond |
(14)

I don't find myself in agreement with military leaders that often, but Lt. General Karl Eikenberry and historian David M. Kennedy have a fascinating piece in the New York Times that I have to say makes a lot of sense.Read more »

For your information

05.29.13 - 9:42 am | Johnny Angel Wendell |
(103)


ATTENTION

 Read more »

Hasta La Vista, Michele Bachmann

05.29.13 - 6:26 am | Johnny Angel Wendell |
(5)

Michele Bachmann, unsuccessful 2012 presidential candidate, subject of FBI inquiry, Congressman and wife of "Pray The Gay Away (Except For Mine)" Marcus Bachmann, has decided to call it a day.Not seeking re-election in 2014. Read more »

Sarah Palin = REO Speedwagon

05.28.13 - 2:20 pm | Johnny Angel Wendell |
(37)

One of the more remarkable components of the so-called "Right Wing Entertainment Complex" (Fox/AM Radio/a gazillion reactionary websites) is the agonizing and complete predictability of its content. Read more »

Lawyer who flipped Greenlining for Mercury considers run for office

05.28.13 - 1:19 pm | Steven T. Jones |
(0)

When Mercury Insurance last year failed in its second attempt to fool voters into allowing the industry to raise rates on drivers that don’t maintain continuous car insurance coverage, resulting in the failure of Prop. 33, it enlisted the unlikely support of the Greenlining Institute, the Berkeley-based social and environmental justice nonprofit that had opposed Mercury’s similar effort two years earlier.Read more »

Obamacare works -- up to a point

05.28.13 - 1:15 pm | Tim Redmond |
(22)

The good news, as supporters of the president have been happy to point out, is that the insurance figures the state has released for the Obamacare benefits plans aren't really that awful. The naysayers were wrong; the Affordable Care Act almost seems .... Read more »

Former planning director explains 8 Washington lies

05.28.13 - 11:45 am | Tim Redmond |
(17)

Nice oped piece in the Examiner by former City Planning Director Allan Jacobs about the lies behind the campaign to save 8 Washington from ignominous ballot-box defeat. Jacobs, who knows what he's talking about, explains the problem with spot-zoning, which is pretty common now in San Francisco.:Read more »