Kim-Mai Cutler
Partner at @initialized. Contributor at @techcrunch. When life hands me lemons, I make tarte au citron.
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San Francisco’s $9 billion question
Working for the president of the Board of Supervisors, I spend my days deep in the weeds on San Francisco’s major policy issues. And there’s no better place to start than The City’s $9 billion question. When you work in City Hall, you hear it often:...
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Kim-Mai Cutler
@andrewchen After all those setasides and the enterprise depts, the city’s legislative body, the Board of Supervisors, only has discretion over something like $20M of that budget
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SF examines impacts of its many budget set-asides
San Francisco lawmakers are beginning to take a hard look at the long-term consequences of the city's abundant use of budget set-asides - voter-approved ballot measures that mandate how the government spends money on specific projects.
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Kim-Mai Cutler
@andrewchen Sf has the most voter mandated set asides of any city in the state. 30% of its general fund is already pre-allocated according to various initiatives that have been passed over the years.
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Paneez Kosarian could've used her platform for good. Instead, she cast every homeless person as a mentally ill, drug-addicted menace.
t’s a damn shame that Paneez Kosarian, a young SoMa condo-dweller, was last week accosted and physically attacked by an apparently homeless man outside
The Costly Burden of Day Care and Preschool
A YouGov online survey created in collaboration with NYT Parenting found that some parents are going into debt to pay for child care.
How Stephen Miller Rode an Anti-Immigration Wave to the White House
Behind Mr. Miller’s singular grip on the Trump anti-immigrant agenda are forces far bigger than his own hostility toward the foreign-born.
Getting shot by police is a leading cause of death for black men in America
About 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in America can expect to die at the hands of police. That risk is 2.5 times higher than for white men, new research shows.
CA High Speed Rail recommends a route through San Jose
Despite the governor’s confusing comments in the State of the State address earlier this year, California High Speed Rail is moving forward with plans to connect the Central Valley backbone with the Peninsula. In its latest open house Thursday,...
Transamerica Pyramid, a San Francisco landmark, up for sale
The 853-foot building, the tallest in San Francisco when it was built in 1972 and now the second tallest, is being marketed for sale for the first time.
Joseph Kennedy III Said to Be Eying Edward Markey’s Massachusetts Senate Seat
Mr. Kennedy, the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, paid for a poll last month to test his prospects against Mr. Markey, a Democratic official said.
A City Planner Makes a Case for Rethinking Public Consultation
Warren Logan, a Bay Area transportation planner, has new ideas about how to truly engage diverse communities in city planning. Hint: It starts with listening.
Kim-Mai Cutler
.@warrenmobility on Oakland's approach to scooters: "A lot of the people that we were seeing on the scooters were young black and brown people.... Why would we take that away now?" citylab.com/transportation… pic.twitter.com/G62EmLB0tF
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With Trump as President, the World Is Spiraling Into Chaos
Trump torched America’s foreign policy infrastructure. The results are becoming clear.
Kim-Mai Cutler
@eriktorenberg Why do authoritarian or democratically backsliding countries feel more emboldened to do these kinds of things? How crass is framing erosion of democratic self-governance as "M&A"?
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As Housing Crisis Worsens, SF Supervisors Play Politics
SF Supervisors are still playing politics around the city's worsening housing crisis
Kim-Mai Cutler
Reminder that the city’s Board of Supervisors just killed @londonbreed’s attempt to remove discretionary review for 100% affordable housing by replacing it with a weaker measure.
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'They're getting it done': What SF can learn from Seattle on housing, homelessness
San Francisco and Seattle are practically twin cities — except when it comes to getting housing and homeless shelters built. Mayor London Breed is now looking north for guidance.
As Politics Creep Into Philanthropy, Beneficiaries Come Under Fire
Charitable organizations can find themselves targets of protests caused by the actions of their benefactors.
Statement from NLIHC President & CEO Diane Yentel on HUD’s Implementation of the Disparate-Impact Rule
Washington, DC - On Monday, August 19, HUD will formally publish its disparate impact proposed rule, the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to gut civil rights and fair housing protections.
'Bees, not refugees': the environmentalist roots of anti-immigrant bigotry
Recent mass shootings have been linked to ‘eco-xenophobia’ – part of a tradition that dates to America’s first conservationists
Amazon.com: The Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the Failure of Politics eBook: Alex Schafran: Kindle Store
The Road to Resegregation: Northern California and the Failure of Politics - Kindle edition by Alex Schafran. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while...
Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech
Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.