Author Archives: Public Press staff

By David Gorn, CALmatters Rob Lyman of Redwood City didn’t know what to do. He was helping his aunt, Sharron Evans, who had early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and needed constant supervision. A former teacher, she had run out of money and had no income. She qualified for government health care assistance, but it appeared she would […]

By Katie Orr, KQED News/The California Report A potential expansion to California’s Proposition 13 would likely mean increased home sales and higher revenues for realtors. But there’s disagreement on how the measure could affect the state’s finances. Proposition 13 limits annual property tax increases on California homes. Since voters passed the proposition in 1978, the […]

By KQED News Staff and Wires, KQED News/The California Report Your ability to watch and use your favorite apps and services could start to change — though not right away — following the official demise Monday of Obama-era internet protections. Any changes are likely to happen slowly, as companies assess how much consumers will tolerate. […]

By Vanessa Rancaño, KALW/Crosscurrents Sadia Kahn ended up at UC Berkeley because of a look her dad gave her. When she was in middle school, she told him she wanted to go to Berkeley because she had noticed adults perked up when they heard the word, but in this case it backfired. “He had the […]

By Eli Wirtschafter, KALW/Crosscurrents Last December, James Smith’s car was towed as a consequence of unpaid parking violations. Smith was homeless, and the car was his only shelter. Now, Smith filing suit against San Francisco, arguing that towing for debt-collection is unconstitutional. James Smith, a 64-year-old San Franciscan, used to volunteer for the Coalition on Homelessness. […]

By Joe Eskenazi, Mission Local The United States Supreme Court on Monday sided with a Colorado baker who claimed his First Amendment religious freedoms were impinged by a same-sex couple hoping he would bake them a wedding cake. Locally, bakers in San Francisco and, specifically, the Mission told Mission Local that they’re not itching to […]

By Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED/CALmatters On a wet sidewalk in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Michael Cameron approached a middle-aged man snorting a white powder cupped in his hands. Cameron, a 65-year-old volunteer in the neighborhood, asked the drug user to move across the street. He knew hundreds of schoolchildren soon would be walking by. “Guys were […]

By Antoinette Siu, CALmatters With just 11 days to go until the federal government intends to roll back net neutrality, California’s Senate has stepped into the void by advancing a bill that aims to maintain equal internet access for all its citizens. This fight over who pays for the internet and how it should be […]

By David Gorn, CALmatters A battle is escalating between the dialysis industry and an influential union in California, with allegations on one side of shoddy practices in the treatment of kidney patients and accusations of political bullying on the other. With a growing number of Californians on dialysis, the union has teed up an initiative […]

By Alyssa Jeong Perry and Levi Bridges, KQED News/The California Report In the winter of 1990, a private plane carrying a small group of passengers crashed on the high-altitude plateau of central Mexico. For Maria Mendoza, the accident started a chain of events that sent her on a northward journey all the way to Oakland  […]