Yearly Archives: 2016

By Joe Rivano Barros, Mission Local The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a measure Tuesday that requires the city to build six more so-called Navigation Centers in the next two years to get more homeless residents off the streets. The vote follows the success of the nationally lauded 75-bed Navigation Center located on Mission Street […]

By Jessica Placzek, KQED News Fix As part of our series Bay Curious, we’re answering questions from KQED listeners and readers. This question comes from Emily Shumway, who was working late one night and came home to a raccoon in the middle of her living room. Now she wants to know: What happens to raccoons […]

By Lester Rowntree, Bay Nature While many people feel this winter was a bit of disappointment — a betrayal even, since we didn’t get a record-busting Godzilla-like 1982-83 and 1997-98 — I’m not one of them. Remember back in your science classes when you learned that scientists are just as interested in being wrong as […]

By Andrew Stelzer, KQED News Fix If you’ve got kids, or are expecting one, you’ve probably been warned a million times: Child care is expensive. But just how expensive is it here in the Bay Area? About $1,800 a month and up for an infant, according to Kim Kruckel with the Child Care Law Center […]

By Katie Orr, KQED News Fix Turnout for the California primary, which some expected to be pumped up by a surge in registrations among younger voters, fell short of analysts’ expectations. One major factor in that lower-than-anticipated turnout: For the most part, an analysis of vote-by-mail ballots suggests that those younger voters simply didn’t participate. […]

By Laura Wenus, Mission Local San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday approved legislation that requires short-term rental platforms like Airbnb to list only rentals that have undergone the required registration process with the city. The legislation places the onus on Airbnb, HomeAway and other hosting platforms to make sure that hosts who want to rent out […]

By Holly McDede, KALW/Crosscurrents Last month, Jessica Williams, a 29-year-old black woman, was shot and killed by a single bullet fired by a police sergeant in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood. Williams’ death reportedly marked the 21st fatal officer-involved shooting under former S.F. Police Chief Greg Suhr’s watch. Just hours later, Mayor Ed Lee called for […]

By Brian Joseph, Fair Warning On Valentine’s Day in Silicon Valley, one of Google’s experimental, self-driving cars sideswiped a city bus at 2 mph. The incident marked the first time an autonomous car contributed to an accident on a public road, but did nothing to diminish the Obama administration’s enthusiasm for driverless vehicles. A month […]

Reporter Angela Woodall appears in a panel to discuss the Public Press’ recent special report, which characterizes in detail how expensive San Francisco has become.