The San Francisco Public Press is pleased to announce an exciting $25,000 challenge grant from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. The foundation also made a gift of $25,000 in unrestricted funding. To trigger the match, the Public Press must raise $25,000 in new contributions. The goal is to draw support from new members. But if you’re […]
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Innovative High School for New Immigrant Students a Model in California
By Theresa Harrington/EdSource Today For 11 years, students from all over the world have gathered at Oakland International High to learn English and math, as they also learn to navigate new lives far from where they were born. Chanthavy, 16, who left Cambodia in 2009 and learned English in Malaysia before arriving in the U.S. […]
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Data-Driven Questions for the Mayoral Candidates
Exclusive: The San Francisco Public Press partnered with faculty at the University of California, Davis, to produce a unique questionnaire — inspired by an analysis of the key political issues that have come before the city’s legislators.
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Checking the Math on Cap and Trade, Some Experts Say It’s Not Adding Up
By Julie Cart, CALmatters As California accelerates its efforts to reduce greenhouses gases over the next decade, experts are pointing to vulnerabilities in its celebrated cap-and-trade system, weaknesses that could make the state’s goals difficult — even impossible — to reach. Cap and trade, featuring a market where permission to pollute is bought and sold, […]
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Forget the IRS — Independent Contractors Also Have to Pay Taxes to the City of San Francisco
By Jeremy Dalmas, KALW/Crosscurrents April 15 just passed and you, hopefully, finished paying the IRS. But if you’re an independent contractor in San Francisco, your taxes to the city are due next on May 31. This is separate from the money you pay to the IRS or the state of California. Confused? You’re not alone. […]
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What $500,000 Buys You Around California — and How It Shapes Where We Move
By Matt Levin, CALmatters The median price of a California single-family home is now well over half a million dollars. That’s more than double what the average house costs in the rest of the U.S. Put a more nauseating way, you could buy two “average” non-California houses for the price of one California house. Can’t […]
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GOP Mayoral Candidate Greenberg Aims to Bring ‘More Centrist Viewpoint’ to S.F. City Hall
Once a Democrat, Richie Greenberg realized he was “in the wrong party” after failing in his 2015 bid for District 1 supervisor. Today, in a city where just 7 percent of registered voters are Republicans, he’s the odd man out in the mayor’s race as the only GOP candidate. “We don’t need activists leading this city,” he said. “We need leaders.” Fifth in a series analyzing the mayoral candidates’ records and pledges on housing and homelessness.
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S.F. City Attorney Sues Couple for Turning Home Into Illegal Hotel
By Charlotte Silver, Mission Local San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is using a gunfight that surprised a sleepy street in Bernal Heights last October as part of his salvo against property owners who illegally rent out their homes on short-term rental sites like Airbnb. On Wednesday, Herrera announced that his office had filed a […]
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Activist Weiss Focuses Her Mayoral Campaign on Housing and Homelessness
Amy Farah Weiss, founder of Saint Francis Homelessness Challenge, is an extra-long longshot to be elected the city’s 44th mayor. In her second bid for City Hall, what she is doing is putting forward a detailed and wonky set of proposals for tackling core issues — and trying to impart a sense of urgency. Fourth in a series analyzing the mayoral candidates’ records and pledges on housing and homelessness.
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Will One-Time Cash Infusion Be Enough to Fix the University of California?
By Felicia Mello, CALmatters The message popped into UC Berkeley sophomore Varsha Sarveshwar’s inbox a few days before the start of her Introduction to General Astronomy course last fall. It contained the usual details about class times and textbooks. But then there was something surprising: a plea from the professor to skip the first day […]