Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Seung Y. Lee, KQED News Fix/Berkeleyside As the co-owner of San Francisco-based Waterloo Beverages, Camilo Malaver enjoyed doing business in Berkeley. But he did not want anything to do with Berkeley after voters adopted a soda tax in November. In January, when the tax was implemented, Malaver decided to stop restocking his supply of […]

By Joshua Chin, Bay Nature From the top of San Bruno Mountain, a mile south of San Francisco, the neighborhoods below look insignificant. David Schooley, an environmentalist who has spent most of his adult life fighting to protect the mountain from development, points toward rows of tiny houses built on land once piled with trash. […]

By Liza Veale, KALW Crosscurrents Beginning next fall, all San Francisco public schools will offer a class called Ethnic Studies. It is a look at American history and culture from the perspective of people who are not white. It is also a chance to break down race in the classroom and deal with tough concepts, […]

By Marisa Lagos, KQED News Fix/The California Report  The leader of the state Assembly is unveiling an ambitious affordable housing proposal, one that could pump more than $600 million a year into  development at the local level. Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) was joined Wednesday afternoon by a wide range of prominent Democrats in Los […]

By Viji Sundaram, New America Media Between his full-time job as a paid caregiver and being a parent, Sonny Villar has little time for anything else, especially because of the hours he spends commuting to and from work by bus. “It’s very, very tiring,” the Filipino native said. Now, Villar is going online late at night […]

By Bryan Goebel, KQED News Fix For the first time in a decade, San Francisco transportation officials have a road map to improve late-night and early-morning travel for the tens of thousands of graveyard shift workers and night owls who currently have limited transportation options unless they drive. In a 27-page report, city officials, nightlife […]

By Julie Small/The California Report/State of Health Medi-Cal — the public health insurance program for low-income Californians — is growing faster under federal health care reform than the state expected. Twelve million residents — nearly a third of the state’s population — now rely on Medi-Cal, and that’s increased pressure to find more doctors willing […]

By Jen Chien/KALW Crosscurrents Mary Bartholomew is a senior citizen. A couple years ago, she did not know much about computers or how to use the Internet. One day, she found herself in a bit of a pickle. “I was trying to find somebody that had asked me years ago for some pictures. Very special […]

By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix California has been a famously diverse place ever since its doors swung open to the world at the beginning of the Gold Rush. In addition to the flood of Americans from the Eastern states, crowds flocked here from China, Hawaii, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, England, […]

By Craig Miller, KQED Science/The California Report This month, Congressman Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) introduced — for at least the third time — a bill to set aside more than 350,000 acres north of the Bay Area as California’s newest national monument. Only this time, the footprint of the proposed Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Monument is […]