Stop Big Tech sprawl
EDITORIAL The footprint of Big Tech companies and their employees continues to spread through San Francisco, gobbling up the vast majority of commercial office space this year, driving up rents, and...
View ArticleBeyond the bros
EDITORIALSan Francisco's rapid economic growth is increasingly being framed in reference to the Tale of Two Cities, and signs of its staggering wealth gap are ubiquitous. Luxury retailers are...
View ArticleAppealing to San Francisco values
EDITORIAL When lawyers become politicians, and when those politicians assume offices where they can exercise discretion about when to appeal judicial rulings, the decision to do nothing can be as big...
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Housing ballot measures would weaken city policy
With market-rate housing construction booming, Kim abandons effort to balance it with more affordability Mike KoozminEDITORIAL Under the misleading guise of encouraging the development of more...
View ArticleArguments 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 days earlier, the Board of Supervisors had...
View ArticleAirbnb must work with SF
EDITORIALAirbnb and other companies that facilitate illegal short-term apartment rentals to tourists visiting San Francisco need to engage in a more honest and direct dialogue with this city's...
View ArticleBurners and residents matter
EDITORIAL Burning Man and San Francisco have developed a close and symbiotic relationship in recent years, with members of the Board of Supervisors doing whirlwind VIP tours of the playa, burner...
View ArticleNo comment
EDITORIAL We've heard quite a bit of reader feedback to our decision last week to indefinitely suspend comments on our SFBG.com website (see "Troll no more," page 14), most of it positive. While the...
View ArticleGet 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 expect the supervisors to seriously tackle the many pressing...
View ArticleDefend the deal
EDITORIAL Creating a functional and equitable San Francisco for tomorrow requires political will and foresight today. Do our current political leaders have the requisite courage and commitment to the...
View ArticleBridge the housing-Muni divide
EDITORIAL One the most frustrating political conflicts in San Francisco this election season is the schism between sustainable transportation activists and affordable housing advocates, a split that...
View ArticleChanging the climate in SF
EDITORIAL As hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of New York City and other cities around the world for a Global Climate Convergence on Sept. 21, demanding that our political and...
View ArticleEnd mass incarceration
EDITORIAL We at the Bay Guardian wholeheartedly support the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and its call for the month of October to be "a month of resistance to mass incarceration, police terror,...
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Endorsements 2014
Vote to give Muni more money, raise the minimum wage, discourage real estate speculation, and send Campos to SacramentoWelcome to the November 2014 edition of a decades-long Bay Guardian tradition. As...
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