Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Vinnee Tong, KQED News/The California Report Yank Sing’s location in a shiny downtown San Francisco high-rise, its dramatic ceiling-to-floor water fountain and its crisp white tablecloths set it apart from other Chinese restaurants. That’s one reason the announcement last fall seemed so jarring to patrons and the public: Hourly workers at Yank Sing were […]

By Joe Rivano Barros, Mission Local Looking back on decades-long struggles for housing, longtime Mission resident Tony Levine has been through the neighborhood’s earlier existential crises. We are walking and talking on a Tuesday morning because Levine is interested in a wedge of a block Mission Local chronicled for “Good Morning Mission,” an inexplicably residential […]

By Melanie Hess, Bay Nature  San Francisco’s Presidio has undergone major landscape changes in the last few centuries, from dunes and scrub to military base to today’s mix of forests and wildlife, family picnics and community events. It has also, of course, been home to a major highway, the Doyle Drive connector leading to the […]

By Bryan Goebel, KQED News Fix The captain of the San Francisco Police Department’s Park Station is planning a crackdown on bike riders who roll through stop signs on some of the city’s most popular bike routes, saying “protection of life” is his highest priority. But bike advocates say police should focus traffic enforcement on […]

By Dan Brekke and Ted Goldberg, KQED News Fix San Francisco Fire Department officials are disputing the characterization of 300 or so open fire investigations as a “backlog,” with the department spokeswoman saying most of the inquiries are, in fact, complete. KQED News first reported on the open cases, which stretch back about four years, […]

By Emma Neiman, Mission Local The Mission District Housing Moratorium, which calls for an 18-month-long pause on the development of luxury housing in the Mission, received enough signatures to be put on the ballot in November, the San Francisco Department of Elections confirmed on Tuesday. The petition, which received 15,006 signatures by the July 6 […]

By Beth Willon, KQED News Fix In East San Jose’s Mayfair Neighborhood, a young Cesar Chavez first started mobilizing farmworkers to get them better wages and working conditions. The area was then known as Sal Si Puedes, meaning “get out if you can.” It was the 1950s, and Chavez often drove a bus to the […]

By Lydia Chávez, Mission Local You could say that Chris Hickey’s 36,000-square-foot building on Folsom  Street was an experiment in flood control – one that offered a template for a change in a city ordinance that District Supervisor David Campos will introduce on Tuesday at the Board of Supervisors. It is a change – a […]

By Angela Johnston, KALW Crosscurrents It’s the last week of school at Bessie Carmichael Elementary on Seventh and Harrison in the South of Market neighborhood. Photographer Janet Delaney and I are here to see someone we’ve been trying to get in touch with for months — Bobbie Washington. “Bobbie Washington was a long-term, longtime resident […]

By Demond Meagley and Nanette Thompson, KQED News Fix/Youth Radio If you go by location alone, Treasure Island, California is a prime piece of real estate. Situated in the bay between Oakland and San Francisco, the island boasts some of the area’s most spectacular views; the island’s annual two-day music festival draws more than 15,000 […]