Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Stephanie Martin Taylor, KQED News Fix When Jane Kim first ran for San Francisco Supervisor in 2010, she made the creation of more affordable housing her top priority. “But I don’t think at that time, when we were at the bottom of a recession, I could have predicted the affordability crisis,” Kim said. Kim’s […]

By Hana Baba, KALW Crosscurrents Note: The San Francisco Unified School District owns KALW’s broadcast license. San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Richard Carranza has headed San Francisco’s schools for the past two years. He came to San Francisco from Las Vegas where he was a superintendent. Before that, he was a high school principal. […]

By Lisa Aliferis/The California Report/State of Health When it comes to the 2014 election, the Bay Area is ground zero on a fight being watched across the country. Both Berkeley and San Francisco voters are considering soda taxes. They are not the first cities to try to slap a tax on sugary beverages. In California […]

by Rachel Diaz-Bastin, Bay Nature  Just two years ago, Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, San Francisco’s only state park, was slated for closure. Vandals had caused $15,000 in damage to a community garden on site. It seemed that this rare example of an urban California state park was falling by the wayside. But Candlestick Point […]

By Amanda Stupi, KQED News Fix San Francisco Supervisors David Chiu and David Campos faced off on KQED’s Forum today. The city leaders are in a tight race to win the right to represent District 17 in the state Assembly. The exchange, while polite, featured lots of tension and jabs between the two candidates. They […]

By Holly McDede, KALW Crosscurrents So you want to open a bookstore? Excellent news. Here’s your guide to survival: No. 1: Stock what your customers want. If someone wants “Pigeon Lofts of North America,” have it. No. 2: Stock what your customers don’t know they want. And show it to them. No. 3: Don’t just […]

By Viji Sundaram, New America Media The lack of Asian-language materials on health care exchanges has left hundreds of thousands of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders uninsured, according to a report released last month by Action for Health Justice. “Sixty percent of our population are foreign-born and face language barriers and are in […]

By Liza Veale, KALW Crosscurrents When we say “affordable housing,” we are actually using a precisely defined concept. “Affordable,” in this context, means housing that costs no more than 30 percent of a household’s income. Here in the Bay Area, almost half of us are living in housing we cannot, by this definition, “afford.” It […]

By Sandhya Dirks, KALW Crosscurrents For the past eight years, one weekend in late summer brings first responders from across the country and around the world — firemen, medics, SWAT teams and police officers — to Alameda County for Urban Shield, one of the largest law enforcement training exercises in the country. Urban Shield throws […]

By Jimmy Tobias, Bay Nature Captain John Muir sails the Grace Quan into a small basin in South San Francisco, as spectators gather on shore to watch the wooden boat slice through the choppy waters. Muir, who is not directly related to the famous naturalist with whom he shares a name, smiles as he tacks […]