Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Sandy Close, New America Media This is one of an occasional series of New America Media interviews with UC President Janet Napolitano. New America Media: More students of color are graduating from California high schools than ever before who want to go to college. That’s good news. Is UC able to accommodate the demand? Janet […]

By Amanda Stupi, KQED News Fix Gentrification, housing crisis, displacement — whatever term one uses, the gist is the same: The high cost of housing is pushing residents out of San Francisco. Theories on who is culpable for the cost increase abound, ranging from tech workers to tech buses to NIMBY activists to Airbnb. So […]

By Patricia Yollin and Bryan Goebel, KQED News Fix Bay Area transportation officials have approved a contract to expand Bay Area Bike Share from a pilot of 700 bikes to a permanent program of 7,000 bikes, which will make it the second-largest bike-share system in the United States. “In just an incredible blink of an […]

By Katherine Ellison and Louis Freedberg, EdSource Fueling concerns about a teacher shortage that many educators have been worrying about for years, the number of credentials issued to new teachers trained in California has decreased for the 10th consecutive year, according to the latest figures from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. In the 2013-14 […]

By Alex Emslie, The California Report Increasing national attention on issues of use of force, transparency and inequity in the criminal justice system has not been lost on California state legislators, who are pushing dozens of bills aimed at enhancing law enforcement accountability. The California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union is following and […]

By Rachael Myrow, KQED News Fix Caltrain, the commuter rail service that runs between Santa Clara County and San Francisco, does not lead the nation or even the state for suicides on its tracks, but the numbers are troubling enough. There have been 10 suicides already this year. The average for an entire year is […]

By Sam Harnett, KQED News Fix One night Darcel Jackson was lying in bed at a homeless shelter, wondering what local tech companies could do for the poor. How could they help people like him get jobs and find housing? Then it hit him — an idea so simple and cheap you probably assumed someone […]

By Eric Simons, Bay Nature The Mission blue butterfly takes its name from San Francisco — the original population was discovered on Twin Peaks, at the time considered part of the Mission — and is the city’s only endangered butterfly. It probably never was widespread, but in the modern era it is incredibly rare. When […]

By Daniel Hirsch, Mission Local A new report by the Budget and Legislative Analyst Office states what many have long been arguing about Airbnb and other short-term rental sites. They are decreasing the amount of available permanent housing in San Francisco. The independent agency’s report also recommends several policy options to restrict short-term rental companies’ […]

By J.J. Barrow, Mission Local/KQED News Fix The appropriateness of Sutter Health’s plan to open an affiliate medical center on the corner of 20th and Valencia streets was the subject of a lengthy and at times tense meeting on Monday night. The talk, hosted by the Liberty Hill Neighborhood Association, brought together 25 concerned Mission District […]