Anona Lee, a tenant at Thomas Paine Square Apartments, making public comment in front the Board of Supervisors on April 22. Photo by Xueer Lu. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a ...

In his pamphlet “Common Sense,” published in Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Paine wrote, “Absolute governments, (tho’ the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are ...