Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Sean Greene, Bay Nature When the first live eastern oysters came to the Bay Area by train in the late 1800s, Victorian-era foodies lined up to buy them by the box at four dollars for 200. Capitalizing on San Franciscans and their love of trendy food, would-be oyster farmers followed, hoping to raise their imported shellfish […]

By Peter Schurmann, New America Media There are a quarter-million Muslims living in the Bay Area, and nearly half of them are under the age of 35. Many describe an intense personal and spiritual struggle as they look to reconcile their faith with the mainstream of American society. These young Muslims are the face of […]

By Bryan Goebel, KQED News Fix The Metropolitan Transportation Commission is considering the expansion of the Bay Area Bike Share program to Oakland, Berkeley and Emeryville. The commission will vote on funding for the additional locations at its meeting next Wednesday. Commision staff have also recommended that additional locations be analyzed for further expansion. The […]

By Josh Wolf, Shareable While the tech community continues to be demonized across San Francisco, nearly 100 mostly tech workers acted as angels last weekend by donating their expertise to a dozen nonprofit organizations that help the homeless. In a format similar to a hackathon, where small teams form to develop software programs overnight, ReAllocate’s […]

By KQED News Staff and Wires, KQED News Fix Google played a lot of April Fools’ Day jokes Tuesday, but this was not one of them. Protesters decked out in colorful outfits, some walking on stilts, handed out fake “Gmuni” passes as they blocked a Google commuter bus in the city’s Mission District Tuesday morning. […]

By Melanie Young, KALW In San Francisco’s Tenderloin, getting healthy fare often is not an option. Without a full-service grocery store in the neighborhood, residents rely on corner stores, and the district has the city’s highest concentration of convenience stores. Tenderloin resident Steve Tennis says what they sell is often, “Poison, it’s just poison. Mothers […]

By Rachel Dornhelm, KQED, The California Report Officials with California’s health insurance exchange are adamant they are not extending the March 31 deadline to sign up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Still, they announced Wednesday that there will be some leeway for those who start an application by this Monday at midnight. Read […]

By the Editorial Team, Oakland Local  Bay Area residents can have their taxes done for free through United Way’s Earn It! Keep It! Save It! program, available at more that 200 locations in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Solano counties. The service is available to households that earned less than $52,000 in […]

By Bryan Goebel, KQED News Fix San Francisco supervisors have begun considering a proposal that would allow landlords to voluntarily legalize in-law units, or secondary apartments, that make up a shadow housing market where some of the city’s most vulnerable tenants live, sometimes in substandard conditions. The measure by Supervisor David Chiu is an effort […]

By Ben Trefny and Charlotte Silver, KALW Crosscurrents The sharing economy in San Francisco is humming. Companies like Airbnb have figured out how to make a lot of money by using existing housing stock to meet consumer demand, which in Airbnb’s case is coming from tourists. Fast Company magazine declared AirBnB will soon become “the […]