By Laura Waxmann, Mission Local Following a letter to California Attorney General Kamala Harris last week, Public Defender Jeff Adachi vowed to continue demanding a state investigation into the practices of the San Francisco Police Department, which he said are plagued by racial bias, use-of-force violations and a lack of transparency. “People are dying on […]
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Board of Supervisors Establishes SoMa as a Filipino Cultural Heritage District
By Ericka Cruz Guevarra, KQED News Fix The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan Tuesday to designate a Filipino cultural heritage district in the South of Market neighborhood that community leaders hope will not only recognize the Filipino presence there but also preserve it. SoMa Pilipinas will encompass the historic I-Hotel, Gran […]
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Investigation on Segregation in Schools Nominated for State and National Awards
The San Francisco Public Press has been named a finalist in the Education Writers Association’s 2015 National Awards for Education Reporting and in the California Teachers Associaion’s 2015 John Swett Awards for Media Excellence. The Public Press is a finalist for the teachers association’s award for Continuous Coverage of Schools/Education Issues for the “Choice is […]
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$3,000 Grant from Strong Foundation for Environmental Values
The San Francisco Public Press has received a $3,000 grant from the Strong Foundation for Environmental Values for an investigative reporting project exposing the various ways that climate change will negatively affect residents of new and planned real estate projects throughout the Bay Area — and how local governments and urban planners can best respond […]
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Traffic Amnesty Program Helps Some, Leaves Others Behind
By Sukey Lewis, KQED News Fix A study released on April 11 finds that black and Latino drivers in California have their licenses suspended at about five times the rate of their white counterparts. The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights compiled DMV and census data, which show how license suspensions keep minorities and low-income people […]
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Jerry Brown on Subsidiarity, Meritocracy and Fads in Education
By Judy Lin, CALmatters Having witnessed teaching “fads” since the 1950s and running charter schools as Oakland mayor, Gov. Jerry Brown doesn’t expect his own key education policy — called the Local Control Funding Formula — to close the academic performance gap between African Americans and Latinos and other student groups. Brown hopes the formula […]
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Wastewater Becomes a Resource in Silicon Valley
By Tara Lohan, Water Deeply/KQED News Fix/KQED Science Despite a much wetter winter than the last several, California is still mired in drought, according to scientists and policymakers. But if you ask architect Bill Worthen of Urban Fabrick, there is plenty of water in the state of California. “It’s just not where we want it, when […]
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San Francisco, Oakland Working to Put Soda Tax Before Voters
By Lisa Aliferis, KQED News Fix/State of Health Berkeley was the trend setter in 2014 when voters there approved the first a soda tax in the U.S. with a resounding 75 percent of the vote. That same year San Francisco voters rejected a soda tax. But supporters were not deterred. Now, new efforts have resumed […]
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What Will California Do With Too Much Solar?
By Lauren Sommer, KQED News Fix/Science Solar energy records are falling left and right in California these days, as the state steams ahead toward its ambitious renewable energy goals. But the success of solar has brought about a hidden downside: On some perfectly sunny days, solar farms are being told to turn off. Read the […]
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Tenant Advocates Denounce Startup Offering Buyout Services
By Laura Waxmann, Mission Local Rent Masters, a startup offering to help tenants willing to move out of rent-controlled housing figure out what they would be owed in buyout money, came under fire this month by the city’s housing rights community. In a buyout, a tenant agrees to vacate a unit in exchange for a […]