Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED News Fix If you wanted to buy a soda at work but couldn’t, would you drink more or less of the sugary liquid when away from the office? Preliminary results from what researchers are calling a first-of-its-kind study suggest that limiting access to sugar-sweetened beverages at the workplace can help […]

By Ben Adler, Capital Public Radio/The California Report Americans will decide more than 150 state ballot measures on Tuesday — up slightly from two years ago. That puts a lot of pressure on voters to study up on everything from marijuana legalization to gun control to the death penalty. Californians in particular have a lot […]

By Sarah Tan, KALW/Crosscurrents It’s just about a week before the big election, and a small group of Libertarians have gathered on a corner in the Castro to canvas for presidential candidate Gary Johnson. Starchild is leading the group, banging a drum. He’s an out and proud bisexual sex worker who is also the unofficial […]

By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix State Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, an outspoken BART critic and Measure RR opponent, filed a complaint Oct. 16 with the state Fair Political Practices Commission that cited a pair of agency emails sent earlier that month. Glazer’s complaint notes the emails — sent out with the subject lines “Get […]

By Ryan Levi, KQED News Fix There were 499 reported cases of human trafficking in San Francisco last year, according to a report by the Mayor’s Task Force on Anti-Human Trafficking released Friday. “Human trafficking is happening here in San Francisco,” said Minouche Kandel, the director of women’s policy at the San Francisco Department on […]

By Queena Sook Kim, KQED News Fix Peter Thiel’s recent $1.25 million donation to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is igniting a conversation about “implicit bias” in parts of Silicon Valley. Thiel is both a legendary and controversial figure in Silicon Valley. He is the co-founder of PayPal. He was an early investor and sits […]

By Matt Weiser, Water Deeply/KQED News Fix Hydropower dams are generally thought to be a clean source of electricity. By moving water through turbines, dams can generate large amounts of electricity almost continuously and without causing air pollution. It’s partly for these reasons that more than 3,700 hydroelectric dams are currently proposed or under construction […]

By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix The BART Board of Directors is probably the most influential elected body in the Bay Area that most people seem to know nearly nothing about. The nine members of the BART board play a huge part in the lives of the hundreds of thousands of individual passengers who ride […]

By Eric Simons, Bay Nature Ian Shive grew up in central New Jersey working as an assistant to his photographer father — meaning, he says, “I didn’t want anything to do with photography.” But after leaving the East Coast for college in Montana, Shive picked up the camera, and found that he loved the power […]

By Sonner Kehrt, Mission Local In the small, bright patch of sunlight that filters down between the buildings, a woman in a pink shirt pauses to admire a mural. It’s bold, with brightly colored shapes that are accentuated by the nearby flowers and another colorful painting on an opposite wall. In the small alleyway between […]