By Vinnee Tong, The California Report On Friday, undocumented immigrants in California can reclaim a long-lost privilege: the right to stand in line at the DMV. It is the first day that immigrants living in California illegally can apply for a license. That right was recently secured in 2013, when state lawmakers passed AB60. Read […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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Prospective State Public Utilities Chief Says PG&E Focuses Too Much on Bay Area
By Ted Goldberg/KQED News Fix Michael Picker, appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to become the new president of the California Public Utilities Commission, told KQED he is not concerned about the close ties the agency has had with PG&E. He also said he thinks the large regulatory agency is too focused on the Bay Area. […]
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Ten Years After Indian Ocean Tsunami, California Is Better Prepared
By Marissa Ortega-Welch, The California Report/KQED Science The day after Christmas marks the 10th anniversary of the deadliest tsunami on record. An underwater earthquake measuring 9.1 in magnitude formed waves up to 65 feet high that crashed into the Indian subcontinent. More than 230,000 lives were lost, with the greatest fatalities in Indonesia, Sri Lanka […]
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Despite Bay Area Boom, Widespread Need for Food Aid as Holidays Approach
By Lisa Pickoff-White, KQED News Fix With just two days to go until Christmas, local food banks are still looking for donations. Kathy Jackson, CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, says that the organization is short of its end-of-year goals by $6 million in monetary donations, 25 percent […]
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San Francisco Homeless Veterans Get Permanent Place to Live
By Katie Brigham, KQED News Fix/The California Report At 58 years old, Clarence Cook finally has a place of his own to call home. Living on the streets of San Francisco since 1997, the Army veteran has been in and out of jail for more than three decades while battling a heroin addiction. Today, Cook […]
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As Neighbors Decry Spread of Homeless Encampments, One Mission Resident Opens Her Home Instead
Potrero Hill and Mission District residents complain about nearby homeless encampments, which have grown in sheltered areas as winter approaches. Police and city officials say the problem is too big to solve. One resident took matters into her own hands. Part of a special report on homelessness and mental health in San Francisco in the fall 2014 print edition.
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Schools at the Front Line of Asthma Fight
By Katrina Schwartz, The California Report/State of Health California’s network of 230 school-based health clinics are set to incubate a new education program meant to address the environmental factors that trigger asthma attacks. The Environmental Protection Agency awarded a $600,000 grant to the Oakland-based Public Health Institute’s Regional Asthma Management & Prevention program. The program […]
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The Whys of Anti-Muslim Ads on S.F. Public Buses
By Liza Veale, KALW Crosscurrents Earlier this fall, San Francisco Muni buses displayed an ad that may have upset you. Or angered you. Or made you feel threatened. The Muni ad was part of an anti-Islam campaign calling itself the American Freedom Defense Initiative. It was not the first time the campaign’s ads ran on […]
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Despite New Federal Rules, California Likely to Stay With Healthy School Lunches
By Jane Meredith Adams, EdSource/The California Report California’s enthusiasm for healthy school lunches appears unlikely to change under a congressional budget bill headed to President Barack Obama for signature that would allow states to weaken new federal school nutrition requirements. The changes to the regulations for the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 — part […]
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It’s Raining — So How Do Those Reservoirs Look?
By Dan Brekke, The California Report It’s raining again, and if you believe weather forecasters and the computer models on which they rely, we’re in for wet weather for most of this week. That comes on top of an outlandish volume of water that fell across the state last week, variously computed as between 17 […]