Yearly Archives: 2016

By Liza Veale, KALW/Crosscurrents Next week, San Francisco voters will decide if they want to give the Board of Supervisors control over how much affordable housing private developers are required to build — thereby enabling the supervisors’ plan to hike up the requirement higher than that of any other city in the country. Right now, […]

By Laurel Rosenhall, CALmatters The eight-page document reads like a contract, asking candidates seeking a seat in the Legislature to pledge support for workers organizing unions. It lists priority issues – including health care, immigration and retirement benefits – and asks if the candidate will be a “supporter,” “champion” or “partner” as the union pursues […]

By Ninna Gaensler-Debs, KALW Crosscurrents Willie L. Brown Jr. Middle School is the only noncharter public middle school in Bayview-Hunters Point. Sixty percent of the kids in the school’s inaugural sixth grade class live in the neighborhood. For a long time, the odds have been stacked against these kids. Data from Bayview clinics from 2013 […]

By Peter Schurmann, New America Media “Choice” and “control” aren’t exactly the first things that come to mind when the utility bill arrives, especially for low-income households. If anything, it’s the contrary. But Allen Fernandez Smith, manager of Low-Income Programs and Strategies for Pacific Gas and Electric Co., is working to change that. “I see […]

By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix It’s been awhile — weeks, at least — since San Francisco has seen a dust-up over gentrification and the rise of techies, hipsters, bros, post-hipsters, steam punks and nouveau grungesters who are remaking the city in their own image. Or images. The wait for the next contretemps is over. […]

By Andrea Kissack, KQED News Fix/KQED Science What region leads the nation in electric car sales? Here’s a hint, one of the city mayors drives a plug-in hybrid and Tesla Motors is located there. Well, that was kind of a big hint. Yes, the No. 1 market for electric vehicle adoption is the San Francisco […]

By Kristen Lepore, KQED News Fix/The California Report It’s no secret that California has low voter turnout. What will it take to bring people to the polls? KPCC and KQED came together in San Francisco Tuesday night to chat with community members and political analysts about what’s holding Californians back in the weeks leading up […]

By Rachael Myrow, KQED News Fix/KQED Arts “Cheers,” said one partygoer to another. “To the beginning of the end.” The party — a warehouse rave for about 2,000 people — was called Terminus. It was a farewell party — a Baby Burning Man to mark the end of something special at Building 180 on Treasure […]

By Jane Meredith Adams, EdSource As schools across the nation work, often for the first time, to ensure a welcoming environment for students who are transgender, California has lessons to share, according to educators, advocates and students. The first is, in the words of Eric Guthertz, principal of Mission High School in San Francisco, “there […]