Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Tom Carter, Mark Hedin and Geoff Link, Central City Extra/New America Media When the Twitter tax break was signed, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s office had high hopes that the expanding technology boom would explode with local hiring and that the incoming Internet companies could help make his dream of 2,500 new tech jobs […]

By KQED and Bay City News, KQED News Fix In a lawsuit that could go to trial next month, attorneys for San Francisco and a regional accrediting commission argued at a hearing Wednesday over whether City College of San Francisco has wrongly faced the loss of its accreditation. City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued the commission […]

By Melanie Young, KALW Crosscurrents At the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center, two dozen residents of North Beach come on a recent Tuesday night to hear from neighbors who have experienced evictions. The state’s Ellis Act allows landlords to withdraw from the rental market and evict their tenants. North Beach has one of San Francisco’s highest […]

By Emily Green, KQED News Fix Undocumented immigrants comprise a whopping 10 percent of California’s workforce. These workers are particularly vulnerable to wage theft and other mistreatment by their employers, according to one national study. This year, several California laws went into effect to give undocumented immigrants greater protections in the workplace. Additionally, the state Supreme […]

By Joe Rivano Barros, Mission Local On any given morning in the Mission’s northeast corridor, the homeless have set up multicolored REI tents in encampments that stretch entire blocks. On streets like Shotwell between 16th and 17th, the tents remain all day. On others, like Folsom between 18th and 19th or Treat between 17th and […]

By Susan Frey, EdSource Lilie Hau, 18, of San Francisco, will be the first in her family to go to college this fall. And thanks to an intensive, two-week summer bridge program at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, she feels ready. Summer bridge programs and other support during the summer after high school graduation can […]

By Laura Wenus, Mission Local The S.F. Municipal Transit Agency’s 25 cent fare increase rolled out this week, leaving riders on Tuesday fumbling for an extra quarter as they boarded. And while for some the extra quarter was a nuisance, some were mad as hell. “F*** them. I’m on a low income. I’m stretched at […]

By Todd Whitney, KALW Crosscurrents In the late 1990s and early 2000s, San Francisco passed a variety of measures to help low-wage workers try to keep up with the rising cost of living. The city now has the highest minimum wage in the country, at $10.74  an hour. It also requires employers to either provide […]

By Laura Wenus, Mission Local BART and Muni records of catcalling, groping, rape and other types of sexual harassment on stations and vehicles indicate that this public nuisance is rare. Only 12 incidents have been recorded in the past two years. BART’s numbers are even more impressive, with no incidents whatsoever in the Mission since […]

By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu, Mission Local If San Francisco city planners had known more about the former thriving North Beach Latino neighborhood near Guadalupe Church, they would have done more to minimize the negative impact of the Broadway Tunnel, which ultimately displaced the community in the early 1950s. Now, a team of scholars working with the […]