Randy Shaw

See Jane Kim Run -- to the Right

San Francisco's progressive Board of Supervisors now more moderate

As Interim Mayor of S.F., Ed Lee Can Shake Things Up

Labor Pains

A fight between two unions here could set the course of the U.S. labor movement.

Who Should Progressives Root for In World Cup?

If you were a true progressive, you'd pull for a World Cup outcome that'd help Lula hold onto power. You know this to be true. ​Last week we wrote about how the U.S. World Cup team's thrilling, last-minute victory over Algeria wasn't due to any kind innately American traits hard-wired into players ... More >>

Landlord Sues Blog, City-Funded Nonprofit That Runs Blog

www.beyondthefields.netRandy Shaw, activist, author, defendant​ BeyondChron.org -- the left-leaning online news source operated by Randy Shaw of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic -- was sued for defamation on Monday by a landlord who has a long-running legal history with Shaw and his tenant-friendly ... More >>

Progressive Apologists' Secret Meeting to Spin Daly's Move to 'Burbs -- Exclusive!

'Meeting time, guys.' The strangely nostalgic odor of stale beer wafts through the streets of Potrero Hill as a handful of familiar figures converge on a designated corner. It's the Progressive Apologists, a group of lefty media movers and shakers who have been summoned to a top secret meeting ... More >>

Eric 'Doc' Smith Tosses Hat Into Increasingly Crowded District 10 Ring

Eric "Doc" SmithEric "Doc" Smith -- a musician and environmental activist who those keeping track of such things have noticed showing up at an increasing number of politically important events and standing on the podium side of a growing tally of City Hall demonstrations -- told SF Weekly this morni ... More >>

S.F. Supes Discover The Internet Is a Series of Tubes for Sending Pennies to Your Cronies

'We don't bid, or go in for these city contracts, and we don't intend to do it now.'If one attends any meeting, at any time of day or night, at San Francisco's City Hall, one's likely to find buzz-cut shutterbug Luke Thomas taking photographs for his Web site Fogcityjournal.com. His 10,000 monthly r ... More >>

Turning the Chronicle into the Bay Guardian Won't Save It

In the months since Hearst announced it might sell or close the Chronicle, I've read one hundred different reasons explaining why the paper is on the brink of collapse. The dumbest "analysis," though, has to be that the Chron is suffering because it's not "progressive" enough. That line has been p ... More >>

Chron Death Watch: Panel of Journalists Talking to Audience of Journalists and Covered by Journalists Express Concerns

Could this guy have fit all the panelists and audience in his truck?In some cases, you really can tell how a story is going to end by the way the stage is set, and this was one of them. Picture this: The Society of Professional Journalists hosts a community discussion about the potential death of ... More >>

The Failed Experiment

The Class of 2000 made San Francisco its political petri dish.

Far Left Turn

A new power broker emerges after Daly smackdown.

Bring Out Your Dead: S.F.’s Swelled Voter Rolls Were Possibly Stuffed With Stiffs

Letters for the week of October 24-30, 2007

The Vice Hotel

One of the largest city-funded Care Not Cash hotels was allegedly run as a home for extortion, drug dealing, and other vices

New College of Weirdness

The stories coming out of the school point to a common S.F. malady — leaders expect everyone to drink the Kool-Aid

They Put Up a Parking Lot

Chris Daly made his rep getting arrested at a garage protest that somehow ended up creating a coffee kiosk

No Justice, No Peace ... Whatever

In the country’s putative activist capital, all the protests and rallies may do more to sow apathy than draw people to the cause.

The Politics of Cynicism

SEIU lobbies for nursing home chains. Clint Reilly vs. Jack Davis, redux. Kerry raises money for Reilly's wife. Fabulous. Absolutely Fabulous.

Save Bitchen Science!

Forget about cures for HIV and leukemia. Give us robo-warriors and high-tech Jesus boots.

The Place That Time Forgot

Why things never seem to get better in the Tenderloin, no matter how much money is thrown at it

You Don't Own Me

Touring the glamorous homes of the opponents of Prop. R, which would allow thousands of renters per year to buy their own apartments

Mission's End

The death of New Mission News editor Victor Miller throws the future of the paper into doubt

No Parking Zone

UC's Hastings College of the Law proposes a huge Tenderloin garage; most everyone else gags

Common Cause

Because she owns an apartment via tenancy in common, Sue Hestor is the perfect spokeswoman for homeownership

Letters to the Editor

I Jerk My Knee All on My Own, Thank You Very Much; But Tell Us What You Really Think; New Gold Rush Heroes?; God Wants You to Park Here; What? Only a Pinch of Substance?

Matt Smith

In a Galaxy Far Too Close to Home

Tender Box

Inflamed by crime, drugs, and rising rents, Tenderloin residents are now launching lawsuits to clean up the city's dumping ground

Block Party

Rose Tsai, Julie Lee, and the Neighbors' Association are set to tuck into a heaping helping of Willie Brown's majority

Queen of Sixth Street

Antoinetta Stadlman, a 200-pound transsexual on public assistance, dreams of controlling the multimillion-dollar redevelopment of Sixth Street. A misguided state law may just let her do it.

Weak Foundation

The post of homeless coordinator may be so much window dressing

Merchant of Redemption

During his first three decades on Sixth Street, Tom McKnight Sr. used his various businesses to educate his children and counsel them in the doctrine of social obligation. Now his son must balance the demands of activism against the realities of commerce

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Randy Shaw's Power Plays

Sixteen years ago, Randy Shaw started a housing clinic with $50 and a good idea: educating tenants. Now he's got more than $900,000 a year to spend -- and clout to match.

Dog Bites

The Last Tycoon (Part II)

Walter Shorenstein's skyscrapers shaped San Francisco. His cash configured City Hall. Publicly, he's pristine. But there's more than meets the eye to the man behind the megaliths.