Yearly Archives: 2015

By Ted Goldberg, KQED News Fix The fire that injured a family of five in San Francisco’s Mission District this week has exposed a potentially dangerous side of the city’s housing crisis. When firefighters arrived at 24th Street and Treat Avenue early Wednesday morning, they found two people trapped inside a liquor store on the […]

By Liz Pfeffer, KALW Crosscurrents Alyssa Arian has worked in San Francisco restaurants for a decade and, like most servers, she got into it for the tips. “Some nights you leave with $80 or $90,” she says. “$100 is kind of the average mark for what you want as a server, sort of anywhere in this […]

New projections reveal that a major proposed housing and retail project could be underwater by the year 2100.

By Zaidee Stavely, KQED News Fix/The California Report It’s a well-known fact at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School in San Francisco that the toughest time to teach is right after lunch. Kids are tired, and trouble that starts at lunch can sometimes carry into the classroom. Today, the academic counselor is trying […]

By John Myers, KQED News Fix/Faultlines The campaign with the bigger bank account often has the advantage in California ballot measure fights, but in 2014, that advantage was insurmountable. A new analysis shows that the side that spent the most got its way all four times last year with the passage of Proposition 47 and […]

Other California cities are following San Francisco’s example to compel owners of vulnerable apartment buildings to make them earthquake safe.

By Jon Brooks, The California Report/State of Health Covered California, the state’s Obamacare exchange, has released its latest numbers for 2015 enrollment to date. Among the highlights: Through Feb. 22, the end of open enrollment, 495,073 newly enrolled in a Covered California plan. More than 780,000 new enrollees in Medi-Cal As of Dec. 14, 2014, […]