Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Ryan Levi, KQED News Fix The blows keep coming for San Francisco’s struggling taxi industry. The city’s largest taxi company, the bankrupt Yellow Cab Cooperative, is up for sale. A series of large personal injury lawsuits against the company combined with the growing popularity of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft pushed Yellow Cab […]

By Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED News Fix/The California Report Mitzia Martinez felt so shellshocked after the presidential election that the 19-year-old UC Berkeley student holed up in her apartment for days, away from her friends and her classes. Martinez needed to make sense of the massive changes her life could face under a Trump administration. […]

By Laura Wenus and Laura Waxmann, Mission Local Still in its infancy, San Francisco’s 5-month-old Department of Homelessness is developing new methods for moving an estimated 800 individuals living in 78 encampments around the city off the streets, according to Jeff Kositsky, who directs the new department that will eventually have some 110 people under […]

By Devin Katayama, KQED News Fix As Bay Area cities scramble to find housing solutions to prevent displacement, a new report warns that the region is resegregating by race and class. Urban Habitat, a nonprofit located in Oakland that focuses on equity issues, released a report this week that takes a closer look at where […]

By the CALmatters Team, CALmatters As a state bluer than Lake Tahoe in sunlight, California has adopted a slew of progressive policies that drive Donald Trump nuts. They combat climate change, protect undocumented immigrants, evangelize for Obamacare and more. So this week — as candidate Trump morphed into President-elect Trump — uncertainty swept the state. […]

By Laura Wenus, Mission Local Amidst the morning rush, commuters are stopping at the 16th and Mission BART plaza to leave messages of empathy and mutual support for one another in the wake of a turbulent election season that saw Donald Trump clinch the presidency. Muriel MacDonald is one of the organizers of the “Wall […]

By Ryan Levi, KQED News Fix San Francisco transportation officials are touting the success of a city program that seeks to regulate the big shuttle buses that move tech workers from San Francisco to their jobs in Silicon Valley. A report released last week showed a 91 percent decrease in the number of shuttles operating […]

By Joe Rivano Barros, Mission Local In San Francisco’s Mission District, the city’s Latino neighborhood, the ascendancy of Donald Trump to the White House was met with a mixture of fear, resolve and a come-what-may attitude. “What happens will happen,” said Miguel Gustan, a worker who emigrated from Mexico. If immigrants are allowed to stay […]

By Andrea Thompson, KQED News/Climate Central The election of Donald Trump as the nation’s next president spurred celebration in some quarters and dismay in others, including among those concerned about the steady warming of the planet. The unrestrained emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases have altered the Earth’s climate, raising sea levels, impacting ecosystems and increasingly the […]

By Lauren Sommer, KQED News/KQED Science California’s fire season hasn’t turned out to be as bad as some feared this year. In fact, forest managers say that certain kinds of fires — the “good” fires — were sorely lacking. Sierra Nevada forests are adapted to low-intensity fires that clear the underbrush and prevent trees from […]