Neighborhood businesses threatened by upzoning and speculators

Neighborhood businesses threatened by upzoning and speculators

Peskin plan would slow down the displacement of longtime commercial tenants as Breed’s proposal starts to fuel evictions. By TIM REDMOND AUGUST 26, 2024 (48hills.org) The first signs of a potentially massive problem with Mayor London Breed’s plan to upzone commercial corridors for more housing emerged this week, as Laura Waxman… Continue reading

District 9 forum: Trevor Chandler splits from rivals on Gaza ceasefire, rent control

by OSCAR PALMA AUGUST 27, 2024 (MissionLocal.org) Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere.Sign up Leer en español About 100 people dropped by City College’s Mission campus on Monday night for a District 9 candidates forum organized by the San Francisco… Continue reading

To Defeat Trump, Sunrise Mobilizes to Reach 1.5M Young Voters in Swing States

Sunrise Movement campaigners protest near Vice President Kamala Harris’ home in Brentwood, California in April 2024.  (Photo: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) “Young climate voters could decide this election,” a leader of Sunrise said. EDWARD CARVER Aug 27, 2024 (CommonDreams.org) The Sunrise Movement on Tuesday launched a campaign program in support of… Continue reading

JEC Report Details ‘Radical’ Project 2025 Plan to Crush Climate, Education, and Healthcare

Democratic National Convention attendees hold anti-Project 2025 signs at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 19, 2024.  (Photo: Robyn Beck//AFP via Getty Images) “If Republicans get their way, low-income children will go hungry, seniors will be forced to choose between lifesaving medication and putting food on the table,… Continue reading

Blasting US ‘Recklessness,’ Mexico Pauses Embassy Relations Over Judicial Reform Meddling

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks at a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City on June 14, 2024.  (Photo: Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/LightRocket via Getty Images) “They have to learn to respect Mexico’s sovereignty,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said of the U.S. and Canada after… Continue reading

Bernie Sanders: ‘No, Kamala Harris Is Not More Progressive Than I Am’

Then-Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris chat during a debate in Atlanta, Georgia on November 20, 2019.  (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) In a note to supporters, the Vermont senator rebutted former President Donald Trump’s claim that the Democratic nominee was the country’s “most liberal senator.” JAKE… Continue reading

After Immunity Ruling, Trump Indicted Again for Trying to Reverse 2020 Election

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, appears during the National Guard Association of the United States’ 146th General Conference and Exhibition at Huntington Place Convention Center in Detroit on August 26, 2024.  (Photo: Emily Elconin/Getty Images) “Congratulations to Donald Trump on being the historic first-ever major party presidential… Continue reading