Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Libby Leyden, KQED News Fix Two portable bathrooms stand surrounded by flower pots and a white picket fence in one of the dirty and run-down alleys in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. A large van decorated with LED lights is parked nearby, stocked with clothes, home-cooked food and hot coffee. This is the mobile City […]

By Ted Goldberg, KQED News Fix BART needs to stop “tap dancing” around and quickly install surveillance cameras on all of its trains, the chairman of the Bay Area’s regional transit planning agency said after learning that the system was moving slowly in putting the devices in place. “I don’t know what’s taking so long,” […]

By Laura Waxmann, Mission Local Community efforts raised $140,000 to help 67 individuals displaced by a five-alarm fire at 29th and Mission streets last month get back on their feet. The Mission Economic Development Agency dispersed some of that money Friday night at the Salvation Army Community Center at 1156 Valencia St. near 23rd St. […]

By Alex Emslie and Nicole Reinert, KQED News Fix The San Francisco Police Department has minimized the extent to which a sexual exploitation crisis rocking several East Bay law enforcement agencies has touched its side of the Bay Bridge, but a KQED analysis of current and former department officers’ Facebook accounts shows that the 18-year-old […]

By Elena Shore, New America Media Leticia Urrutia’s DACA renewal is coming up in October, a month before the presidential elections. “I was like, ‘What am I going to do?’ ” the 23-year-old native of Mexico said at a recent media roundtable in San Francisco. Urrutia is a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), […]

By Sukey Lewis, KQED News Fix A man’s weathered face peers out from inside a green-and-gray tent on Treat Avenue in San Francisco’s Mission District. Pop tunes pour out of a portable radio next to him, as I introduce myself and shake his hand. He tells me his name: Willy Colon. He says he’s been […]

By John Upton, KQED News Fix/Climate Central A persistent wash of warm waters off the West Coast, which caused wildlife die-offs and blocked drought-quenching storms from reaching California last year, was caused by the happenstance interplay of natural ocean cycles, research findings published Monday show. The findings also suggested that while the drought and the […]

By Julie Cart, Calmatters Assemblyman Brian Jones leaned in to the microphone with a tight smile. It was May, and legislators were debating whether to request an audit of the California Air Resources Board. Frustrated that the agency was not more forthcoming about aspects of the cap-and-trade program it runs, Jones fixed his gaze on […]

 By Angela Johnston, KALW/Crosscurrents The California ballot will be crowded this November. Last week, the Secretary of State put out a list of the official initiatives — all 17 of them. We’ll be voting on whether the state should legalize marijuana, lower the cost of pharmaceuticals, repeal the death penalty, require condoms in porn and […]

By Laura Wenus, Mission Local The San Francisco Department of Building Inspections released a report this month showing that the majority of housing code violations reported in the Mission District between 2014 and 2015 were corrected. Between July 2014 and June 2015, 215 notices were issued that cited some 1,564 code violations were in the […]