Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Matt Smith, Bay Citizen San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, his police chief, Greg Suhr, and his top political fundraiser, Silicon Valley investor Ron Conway, announced plans to develop a mobile phone application to make it possible for police officers to file reports from the field, allowing them to spend more time on the streets […]

The state may have failed to recover up to $20.8 million lost to waste, fraud and other problems, according to data provided by the California state auditor. The money represents a tiny fraction of California’s $91.3 billion budget. But given the state’s financial straits, government watchdogs say officials should do more to collect the funds. […]

By Grace Rubenstein, California Watch English and Spanish alternate seamlessly in the classrooms at the Mission Education Center in San Francisco. Decorative signs identify objects that in other schools would seem too basic to name: “clock” and “door.” This public elementary school has for 40 years served children who have just arrived from Latin America […]

By Erica Perez, Bay Citizen One of the agencies that accredits San Francisco’s California Culinary Academy is questioning the veracity of the college’s reported job placement rates – ordering the school’s parent company to provide audited placement data by September in order to maintain its accreditation status. The Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges […]

By Hadley Robinson, KALW News You don’t have to be outside for long to realize that here in the Bay Area, we are surrounded by wildlife. Long before houses and roads and cities popped up, wild animals reigned supreme. As we negotiate our relationship to the remaining members of that wildlife, there’s bound to be […]

By Rigoberto Hernandez, Mission Local Eduardo Reyes realized a longtime dream back in 2001 when he bought a Guatemalan restaurant on Mission Street. Now, after 11 years in business, Reyes, the owner of Acaxutla, will close his Mission Street restaurant at the end of the month after failing to negotiate a new lease with his […]

By KQED News Staff, KQED News Fix If your morning commute included a trip across San Francisco Bay on BART, you probably had to make alternate plans on June 14. An early morning fire at a building near the West Oakland station crippled service at the point where four BART lines enter the Transbay Tube. […]

By Paul Barrett and Casey Mills, California Northern  In early 2008, faced with a $16 billion state budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed an unprecedented closure of 48 state parks. Schwarzenegger promised months later that all state parks would remain open, though with further reduced staff, hours and maintenance. In May of 2011, Governor Edmund […]

By Jon Brooks, KQED News Fix Statement from the University of San Francisco: “The Federal Communications Commission today approved the sale of radio station KUSF to Classical Public Radio Network (CPRN). The sale will be finalized immediately. “A consent decree between the FCC, the University of San Francisco and CPRN allowed the sale to move […]

By Jamie Goldberg, Mission Local The Mission Housing Development Corporation has helped low-income Mission District residents find affordable housing for more than 40 years. But when the San Francisco supervisorial districts were redrawn 10 years ago, the nonprofit organization’s office at 16th and Valencia streets was outside of the Mission’s boundaries. “It’s like they cut […]