Author Archives: Public Press staff

By  Liz Mak, KALW Crosscurrents San Francisco currently has the third-lowest unemployment rate of all California’s counties. But while that is good news, it does not mean that much if you are one of the more than 23,000 San Franciscans still finding it difficult to get work. Inside the unemployment center on Turk Street in […]

 By Zdenek Kratochvil, New America Media Editor’s Note: Protests in Ukraine sparked by former President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to reject a trade deal with the European Union have now evolved into a larger regional crisis. Concerns are growing over the possible breakup of the former Soviet Union country. Moscow’s growing military involvement, meanwhile, has leaders in […]

KQED News Staff and Wires, KQED News Fix San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and other city officials announced  that Google is donating $6.8 million to fund the next two years of the city’s “Free Muni for Youth” program. According to the city, the gift is “one of the largest private contributions towards direct city services […]

By Grace Rubenstein, KQED News Fix We’d prefer that our city by the bay be known as the home of brilliant tech innovation, counterculture trends and culinary delights. But a recent report from the Brookings Institution confirms that San Francisco also is earning its other, less desirable reputation as a kind of ground zero for […]

By Erica Hellerstein, Mission Local On an enviably sunny Saturday, a small crowd huddles around a table inside a popular Mission District building. Despite the nice weather, they have been inside for the better portion of the morning, examining an assortment of computers and other equipment. “How much does that one cost?” a man in […]

By Mark Andrew Boyer, KQED News Fix Oakland artist and designer Gregory Kloehn was thrust into the national spotlight in 2011, when he famously transformed a Dumpster into a home. Kloehn is again working with tiny structures, but now he is building them from found materials, and he is donating the finished structures to homeless […]

By Elizabeth Devitt, Bay Nature Cara Gallagher spends a lot of time on the Golden Gate Bridge, scanning the cold waters below for evidence to solve a really challenging math problem. Gallagher knows the bay’s porpoise population is rebounding, from zero as recently as a decade ago to at least 600. Although all those porpoises […]

By Andra Cernavskis, Mission Local Anthony Velez, 13, is tired of trudging around the Tenderloin with his family to find something to eat that will not give him a stomachache. He misses his mom’s home cooking. “I’m used to having a refrigerator,” said the eighth-grader at Everett Middle School. He is at a diner across […]

By Hana Baba, KALW Crosscurrents You may have walked by the beautiful green plants growing outside the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on Polk Street and not thought much about them. But these plants get their nourishment from our waste. Along the outer perimeter of the building, there are rectangular planters that are irrigated by […]

By Olivia Hubert-Allen, KQED News Fix Rising numbers of pedestrian fatalities in San Francisco and San Jose are drawing attention to what many walking and cycling advocates say is a longtime problem. There were 21 pedestrian fatalities in San Francisco last year. It was also a particularly deadly year in San Jose, with 26 fatal […]