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Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian. He is the founder of 48hills.

I picked up a copy of Joanna L. Dyl’s excellent 2019 book, Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco’s 1906 Earthquake, purely by chance, while I was doing some research in the ongoing ...

I first learned about Malcolm Harris’ new book, Palo Alto, when I read a review by Gary Kamiya in The New York Times. Kamiya trashes the book, deriding it for being what it is: A Marxist ...

Mist swirls through soaring Monterey pine trees, threatening to envelop the gated enclosure below. A steep embankment protects a community garden from the wind and fog, offering sanctuary to hundreds ...

48hills.org is the official publication of the non-profit San Francisco Progressive Media Center.