Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Samantha Clark, KQED News Fix Monday, India wrapped up six weeks of voting in its parliamentary elections. Some 551 million people — 66.4 percent of the more than 800 million eligible voters — went to the polls to choose 543 members of India’s lower house of Parliament. It has been been described as the […]

By Susan Frey, EdSource Today/New America Media Under the new school finance system, the state will soon be sending districts lists of their foster students so schools can direct more resources to them. Although the students will benefit, they fear their personal lives may be widely exposed and they may be stigmatized if educators do […]

By Adam Grossberg and Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix The Guardian — you know, that Brit source of news and information — is out this week with something it calls the “Guardian Cities Global Brand Survey.” It purports to be a meaningful ranking of “the most powerful city brands” worldwide. (Oh, good — we’ve been […]

By Adam Grossberg, KQED News Fix A campaign on college campuses across the country aimed at stopping climate change received a big boost yesterday with the announcement that Stanford University will stop investing in coal companies. The resolution, passed by Stanford’s Board of Trustees, states the school will no longer directly invest in approximately 100 […]

By Daniel Hirsch, Mission Local In the offices of the Mission start-up DoubleDutch, a fairly typical Silicon Valley scene unfolded recently: People were pitching ideas for mobile apps. But conducting these marketing presentations were a not-so-typical contingent: teenage girls. As part of Technovation, a global entrepreneurship program dedicated to getting more young women inspired to […]

By Grace Rubenstein, KQED News Fix  UC Berkeley students have provoked policy reforms and sparked a federal investigation into their university’s handling of sexual assault cases on campus — and they are still pressing for further change. They are part of a growing movement of students at universities across the country, and they are getting […]

By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix The latest salvo in San Francisco’s continuing Google Bus War: A coalition of community and housing activists and a union representing public employees filed suit Thursday to stop San Francisco officials from going ahead with a pilot project to regulate private commuter buses. The complaint, filed in San Francisco […]

By Ben Trefny, KALW Crosscurrents With rental housing being such a contentious topic in San Francisco, we thought it could be helpful to talk with the person who might know more about rent laws than anybody else in the city, the Executive Director of the San Francisco Rent Board. Delene Wolf oversees a staff of […]

By Bryan Goebel, KQED News Fix Getting home on public transit in the wee hours after work or a night out on the town can be a challenge in San Francisco, especially if you live outside the city. Bay Area residents have long complained about the lack of 24-hour BART service, and the Muni Owl […]

By Christian L. Frock, KQED News Fix/KQED Arts Last week, San Francisco Art Institute President Charles Desmarais sent an email to part-time and temporary faculty about a forthcoming vote over joining the Service Employees International Union. The union is most widely known for organizing labor unions for healthcare workers, facilities workers and public services workers; […]