Yearly Archives: 2016

By Ericka Cruz Guevarra, KQED News Fix The hardest thing about being homeless for George Perez was acting like he wasn’t homeless. During the day, Perez would study at school, go to class or clean up in the campus gym. At night, the 39-year-old sophomore at City College of San Francisco was downtown, sleeping at […]

By Laura Wenus, Mission Local San Francisco Supervisors David Campos and Jane Kim on Tuesday introduced legislation intended to protect tenants in the event of a fire by requiring that landlords keep the city informed of safety standards within their buildings. The legislation would also require that all buildings be outfitted with smoke detectors and […]

By Stephanie Martin Taylor, KQED News Fix/The California Report A group of Democratic state lawmakers wants to tackle the California housing crisis by using money from this year’s state budget surplus. Bay Area Assembly Democrats David Chiu of San Francisco and Tony Thurmond of Richmond unveiled the $1.3 billion plan at a news conference in […]

By Anna Challet, New America Media In California, “juvenile court schools” – the schools for kids detained in the juvenile justice system – are failing at the job of educating young people in detention, according to a new study. At a time when national attention is locked on education reform, the education system has turned […]

By Ted Trautman, Bay Nature “Everything we’re doing here is illegal, infeasible, and unfundable,” Jeremy Lowe tells me with a rakish grin, as we watch a couple dozen volunteers, including several small children in galoshes, planting grasses in the mud. They’re working on an experimental levee near the bay’s edge in San Lorenzo, just west […]

By Guy Marzorati, KQED News Fix/The California Report Three bills to increase inspection of tour buses in California, inspired by a high-profile bus crash in San Francisco’s Union Square last November, are advancing in the state Legislature. The Assembly Committee on Transportation approved AB 1677 on Monday, after its author, Assemblyman Phil Ting of San […]

By Laura Wenus, Mission Local The Pacific Felt Factory, the Mission’s most recently activated arts space, celebrated its first birthday one Sunday night with a small backyard barbecue. It was a modest celebration for a determined little studio in a city and neighborhood where its larger, weightier cousins are being swallowed whole. “Three or four years […]

By Laura Wenus, Mission Local As the city rolls out changes — and a red carpet for buses — along Mission Street, negative feedback has flooded the office of Supervisor David Campos and may prompt the transit agency to put the brakes on some of its plans. “Most people working by, living on, and driving […]

By Ted Goldberg, KQED News Fix Leaders of several groups representing San Francisco firefighters say that more than a year after a no-confidence vote in Chief Joanne Hayes-White, morale continues to ebb amid concerns over staffing, operational problems and what’s widely described as the chief’s unresponsiveness to rank-and-file concerns. But Hayes-White says she believes the […]