Thank you for contributing to our year-end campaign on this global day of giving. Your support today will help the Public Press produce in-depth investigations in 2016. Our reporters are already digging into stories on campaign finance, the rampant sale of personal data, and how current social and economic trends are reshaping San Francisco. Here […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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California Leads on Climate Policy … But Also in Greenhouse Gases
By Kate Galbraith, CALMatters/KQED News Fix When Gov. Jerry Brown arrives in Paris for a major international conference on climate change, he will showcase one of the world’s most sweeping programs to cut greenhouse gas emissions. California has perhaps the most comprehensive cap-and-trade program in the world, setting a limit and a price for pollution […]
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‘Humanely Raised’ Turkeys Treated Cruelly, Animal Rights Activists Say
By Laura Waxmann, Mission Local Whole Foods shoppers can expect to see animal rights activists in stores across the country accusing the grocery chain of perpetuating animal cruelty and consumer fraud in the coming week, with protests expected to stretch far beyond Thanksgiving. This was the announcement made by Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE, in […]
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With Rising Number of Highway Deaths, California Bucks National Trend
By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix Federal highway safety data released Tuesday show the traffic death toll in California continues to trend upward even as the number of people who die on roads nationwide holds steady. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that 32,675 people — vehicle drivers, their passengers, pedestrians and cyclists — […]
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S.F. Muni Goes Mobile With First Ticketing App
By Laura Waxmann, Mission Local Christina Ochoa uses her smartphone to order take-out, pay bills, and for commuting to her job in the Mission District. She believes that adding a transit application to this list could improve her daily life. “I’m in the service industry, and when I get off work late, I want to […]
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Dear members and friends, Thank you for all the support and encouragement you’ve given us this year. With your help, the San Francisco Public Press continues to do in-depth reporting on important local issues and investigate the effects of public policy decisions in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. This year, we produced reports on increasing segregation in […]
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San Francisco State Forgoes Millions as It Drops Plans for Big Soda Contract
By Jon Brooks, KQED News Fix It is looking more and more like the Bay Area is not going to produce the next Pepsi Generation. Nor do locals seem inclined to buy the world a Coke, despite Don Draper’s input. We say this on the heels of today’s announcement from San Francisco State University President […]
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‘Tech Buses’ Will Operate in S.F. Permanently
By Noah Arroyo, Mission Local At a public meeting on Tuesday, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s Board of Directors decided to make permanent City Hall’s 18-month pilot program regulating private shuttle companies, many of which carry tech-sector workers from their fog city doorsteps to their desks in Silicon Valley. The board’s decision was unanimous, […]
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S.F. to Favor Local Residents in Affordable Housing Lottery
By Joe Rivano Barros, Mission Local The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 today to favor local residents in affordable housing lotteries for the first time in city history. The new legislation would make it easier for residents of districts in which affordable housing projects are built to live in those projects. Currently, residents […]
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New California Data on Ride Services Reveal Rise in Collisions and Incidents
By Bryan Goebel, KQED News Fix State regulators have analyzed and released a tiny glimpse of data submitted by Uber, Lyft and other companies — information the firms have carefully guarded because they claim it would reveal trade secrets. A report on some of the data was presented at a Nov. 5 meeting of the […]