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January 17, 2014 By Richard Marcantonio In my last blog, I talked about planning as an important form of law-making. Here, I turn to the question of why it’s also an important frontier in today’s [...]

December 16, 2013 By Richard Marcantonio I’ve been asked more than once why, as a civil rights lawyer, I spend so much time working with community groups to affect the outcome and implementation [...]

November 19, 2013 By Sam Tepperman-Gelfant Someday soon, you’ll be able to take the Route 1 bus from West Dayton, Ohio to the Fairfield Commons Mall in nearby Beavercreek. Now, Public Advocates [...]

November 12, 2013 By Richard Marcantonio  Civil rights and environmental justice laws ensure that low-income communities and minority populations share fairly in the benefits of public policy and [...]

October 29, 2013 By John Affeldt So much for the Democrats’ insistence on “a clean CR”—a budget resolution that would keep the lights on for now and defer momentous policy decisions for another [...]

October 28, 2013 By Sam Tepperman-Gelfant Skyrocketing rents in core Bay Area neighborhoods are once again forcing long-time residents from their homes. This displacement not only uproots [...]

August 9, 2013 By Sam Tepperman-Gelfant This week, the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) — a self-appointed “watchdog organization that litigates for limited government” — sued to block Plan Bay [...]

July 11, 2013 By Richard Marcantonio  Judging by the avalanche of news reports and tweets about the BART strike last week, you might think that transportation woes only affect commuters trying to [...]

June 14, 2013 By John Affeldt The Legislature has passed the budget and the trailer bill encompassing the LCFF funding reform proposal. It only awaits the governor’s inevitable signature to [...]

June 5, 2013 By Rigel Massaro Last Thursday, Public Advocates testified before the U.S. Department of Education at a San Francisco regional hearing on the need for regulations supporting [...]