Category: News

By Cesar Saldaña, KQED News Fix/The California Report The Golden Gate Restaurant Association is vowing to protect undocumented immigrant restaurant workers and their customers in San Francisco. Joined by immigration lawyers and Assemblyman David Chiu last week, the association announced the Sanctuary Restaurant Program, their addition to a movement of the same name. Read the […]

By Laurel Rosenhall, CALmatters With President Trump alleging serious voter fraud in California, and the state’s top election official calling his claim untrue, how much voter fraud is actually under investigation in the Golden State? Not much — certainly not enough to sway the election, in which California voters chose Hillary Clinton over Trump by […]

By Lisa Pickoff-White and Julie Small, KQED News Fix/The California Report When his three young children woke up in their small house in Oakland one morning a few weeks ago, Maguiber was not home. That was not so unusual. The 27-year-old dad worked long hours, juggling three different jobs cleaning in two hotels and a […]

By Laura Wenus, Mission Local With immigration enforcement rapidly becoming more aggressive, immigrants have a lot of questions and concerns, but they should be cautious about who they turn to for help, warns one immigration lawyer. “There’s just people out there who are willing to scam or take advantage of the fear that people are […]

By Laura Wenus, Mission Local Immigration nonprofits have sprung into action to respond to President Donald Trump’s threats to increase deportations and are now offering a 24-hour hotline in English, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese. Anyone who sees Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in San Francisco can call (415) 200-1548 at any time. A call to […]

By Sam Harnett, KQED News Fix/The California Report Only one time before has CEO Andy Ruben seen his co-workers so distracted by the news, and that was a very different situation: 9/11. Ruben is CEO of Yerdle, a San Francisco company that helps retailers resell used products. Since the election of Donald Trump and subsequent […]

By Liza Veale, KALW/Crosscurrents Cheap rental housing can feel like a vanishing resource in San Francisco. Property owners are selling buildings for multiples of what they originally bought them for, and who can blame them? But the consequence is almost all the units are getting fixed up and turned into luxury housing. It’s the way […]

By Liza Veale, KALW/Crosscurrents Eva Castillo [name was changed to protect her employment status] thinks of herself as a strong person. She was raised in the Sunnydale projects in San Francisco, sharing a bedroom with three brothers. Now she works in construction — often as the only woman on the job. But when she was […]

By Lauren Sommer, KQED Science/KQED News Fix Many Californians are still in disbelief that after five years of too little water during the drought, now the problem is too much water. Heavy winter storms have done more than cause problems at Oroville Dam, where thousands of people were evacuated after erosion of a critical spillway. […]