Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Paul Kleyman, New America Media Amid all of the scoreboard coverage of the Republicans’ American Health Care Act—they have the Senate votes, they don’t have the votes, how many millions will be stranded without insurance—few lines of type have delved beneath the partisan debates as sharply as Christy Ford Chapin did in her New […]

By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix/The California Report Flex alert: The California Independent System Operator, or Cal ISO for short, has declared a flex alert for Tuesday because of high demand on the state’s electrical grid as the heat wave continues. A flex alert is a voluntary conservation program under which consumers are asked to […]

By Ashley Hopkinson, EdSource Today The budget approved Thursday by the state Legislature responds to a long-sought demand from child care advocates that California raise the income eligibility limit so more low-income families qualify for subsidized child care. The budget for the coming fiscal year requires the Department of Finance to calculate income eligibility for […]

By Johanna Varner and Olivia Allen-Price, KQED News Fix In 2015, Steven Horowitz was watching one of the summer’s big blockbuster action flicks, “San Andreas.” In the movie, the San Andreas Fault shifts, triggering a magnitude 9.6 earthquake in San Francisco. Disaster ensues — and for the rest of the movie we watch as all […]

By Ryan Levi, KQED News Fix The Indivisible Guide has become a 26-page must-read for people looking to oppose President Trump’s agenda. The guide — which has been viewed or downloaded more than 2 million times, according to the organization — also offers a supplemental section on how to demand copies of Trump’s tax returns. […]

By Allen Young, KQED News Fix Junior Castañeda spent most of the past decade addicted to methamphetamines and suffering through stints of homelessness. After racking up five misdemeanors, including three DUIs, he cleaned up a couple of years ago and entered community college with dreams of attaining an advanced degree in business. To finance his […]

By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix Along the Big Sur coast, residents coexist with certain facts of life: a landscape of unparalleled beauty, tourist traffic, spotty cellphone and Internet service — and slides that will shut down Highway 1. “The only question we ever have is where it’s going to close, when and for how […]

By Holly McDede, KALW/Crosscurrents Since the early 1960s, a big chunk of San Francisco’s criminal justice system has been living inside the Hall of Justice. With its faulty elevators and occasional flooding, the building already has a bad reputation for employees who work there. Then there are the people who have no choice but to […]

By Laurel Rosenhall, CALmatters The day after Democrats in the California Senate passed a proposal for a universal health care system, RoseAnn DeMoro took to Twitter to call out those who voted against it. Her tweet read: “23 CA senators stood up for guaranteed healthcare, 17 did not – some of whom are Dem. Check […]

By Khalil Abdullah, New America Media African American and Latino parents see a lack of funding as the biggest cause of racial disparities in education, according to a newly released poll by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. While the poll’s findings are not new, they also speak to the high aspirations that black […]