Author Archives: Public Press staff

By Eric Simons, Bay Nature Jonathan Young, a San Francisco State graduate student in biology and ecological restoration intern at the Presidio Trust, has the job of trying to restore some semblance of native life to Mountain Lake, in San Francisco’s Presidio. But as this sequence of photos shows, the native three-spined sticklebacks and Pacific […]

By Maria Antonieta Mejia, New America Media Cecilia, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, never anticipated that her life in the United States would turn into a real-world telenovela, the popular Spanish-language dramas. A few years ago, she married a U.S. citizen who soon started to mistreat her. He later filed for divorce without telling her, but then the […]

By KQED News Staff and Wires, KQED News Fix With the deadline to sign up for health insurance through Medi-Cal or Covered California approaching rapidly, Bay Area residents are being offered some face-to-face assistance in getting enrolled. The Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West, a health care workers union with 150,000 members, is offering […]

By Rachel Wong, KALW Crosscurrents Dejon Lewis was 11 years old when child protective services arrived to take him and his twin sister away from their mother, whom he says is a drug addict. But instead of giving themselves over to the state, the two children made a run for it. Lewis says they stayed […]

By Liz Pfeffer, KALW Crosscurrents San Francisco’s real estate prices, rents and eviction rates are at an all-time high, causing real tension between tenants and landlords. Frequently we hear from renters about the struggles of living in the city, but it is  not often that we hear from the owners of their buildings. In San […]

By Isabel Angell, KALW Crosscurrents African Americans are leaving San Francisco at an alarming rate. They make up just 6 percent of the population, down from more than 13 percent in 1970, and have a higher unemployment rate than whites and other minorities. Meanwhile, San Francisco has the fastest-growing income gap in the country. In […]

By Kyung Jin Lee, KALW Crosscurrents On a breezy summer day at San Quentin State Prison, inmate Paul Stauffer reads his writing to a live audience. “My shoulders brush the sides of the wall and bunk as I pace the nine feet of my cell, between the sink and door. A scream echoed silently from […]

By Geoff Link, New America Media/Central City Extra News Report Three years ago this month, the Twitter tax break was signed into law, and the Tenderloin’s fate was sealed. Central City Extra and New America Media are using that historic moment as a jumping-off point to examine the effects of the central city’s transformation on […]

By Bryan Goebel, KQED News Fix  San Francisco transportation officials have unveiled a new round of street safety initiatives to curb pedestrian deaths and injuries by targeting the city’s most dangerous intersections for makeovers. While pedestrian advocates praised the measures, they remained concerned that the bulk of the plan lacked funding. “Any pedestrian death or […]

By Elizabeth Devitt, Bay Nature About 60 coastal bottlenose dolphins have been spotted traveling from Southern California to the waters off Bodega Bay, pushing the northern limit of their range and leaving the scientists who study them with a mystery: Long-distance migrations are not unusual for marine mammals, but these dolphins are not making seasonal […]