48 Hills
48 Hills is an independent news and culture website for San Francisco and the Bay Area, created by ex-editors and publishers of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Founded in 2013 by Tim Redmond, this platform is updated every day and now attracts around 30,000 readers each week. It features a wide range of topics, including news, politics, arts, music, nightlife, and various aspects of culture.
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3 days ago |
48hills.org | Tim Redmond
The Yimby movement is backing a bill in the state Legislature that would make it more difficult for local government to raise real-estate transfer taxes—a key source of revenue for affordable housing. AB 698, by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks of Berkeley, would do exactly what the Yimbys and their allies complain about: Add a “constraint” to passing taxes on high-end real-estate transactions. Transfer taxes are fees collected by local government based on the sales price of real estate.
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5 days ago |
48hills.org | Emily Wilson
Technology is a tool, and how we use it matters. That’s one of the ideas driving Co-Founders (through July 6 at ACT’s Strand Theater), says Anthony Veneziale, the play’s creative producer. He’s convinced that tech can create a more equitable future—but that for it to do so, things will have to change.
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5 days ago |
48hills.org | Tim Redmond
It will be a while before anyone drills down into the details of the mayor’s budget plan. It’s 343 pages, and most reporters so far have just outlined the press statements. But the patterns that will shape this document, and Lurie’s legacy, are pretty clear. A budget is a statement of policy priorities. Here’s what this budget does—and what the Lurie Administration has made its top priority:—It pours money into public safety, particularly law enforcement.
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1 week ago |
48hills.org | Tim Redmond
In 1983, when I was a young reporter just starting out at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein signed a law strictly limiting the possession of handguns in the city. A self-described Marxist-Leninist group called the White Panthers, whose members argued that the left should be well armed, immediately launched an effort to recall the mayor.
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48hills.org | Emily Wilson
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Pacific Overtures (which runs Fri/30-June 13 at Brava) is based on an unlikely subject for a musical: the forcible opening of Japan to the Western world in 1853. Despite his background in musicals and traditional Japanese theater, director Nick Ishimaru wasn’t well-versed the show—which hasn’t been performed in the Bay Area in decades—but the more he learned about it, the more he loved the production.
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