Category: News

By Larry Gordon, EdSource Alarmed by the relatively low numbers of undocumented students applying for next year’s California Dream Act grants, California legislative and education leaders are urging students not to fear that filling out the college aid forms could trigger their deportation. With a week left before the deadline, the number of applications for […]

By Jessica Calefati, CALmatters The $300 state grant Devon Graves got his senior year at Cal Poly Pomona was only enough for gas and groceries — it didn’t make his $20,000 in student loans any easier to manage. Still, it meant a lot to the teen from Murrieta, a commuter town on the edge of […]

By Marissa Ortega-Welch, KALW/Crosscurrents Kris Gambardella is visiting the doctor  in order to get a new driver’s license. Kris is 26 and does social work in San Francisco. Like a lot of transgender people, he has yet to legally change his name and what’s called the “gender marker” on his legal documents. “I am not […]

By Alex Emslie, KQED News Fix San Francisco police officers Kenneth Cha and Colin Patino didn’t know what they were walking into when they arrived at 515 Capitol Ave. before dawn on Jan. 6 and attempted to contact Sean Moore about a complaint from his neighbor. The encounter with Moore escalated into the Police Department’s […]

By Guy Marzorati, KQED News Fix/The California Report With only a few days left until members of Congress return home for a weeklong recess in their districts, many California representatives are being pressured by groups opposing President  Trump to hold town hall meetings with their constituents. But despite the mounting agitation, dozens of California Congress […]

By Larry Gordon, EdSource Undocumented students in California are lagging far behind last year’s numbers in applying for state-funded financial aid for college, apparently because of fears that information on the forms could be used to possibly deport the young people and their families, officials say. The election of Donald J. Trump as president has […]

By Eli Wirtschafter, KALW/Crosscurrents Rod Diridon Sr. says his favorite song is “Ol’ Man River.” The song is “about persevering against great odds, when the deck was stacked against you,” says the former Santa Clara County supervisor. “And wanting to be like that old man river that just keeps rolling along.” Diridon, who recently turned […]

By Queena Sook Kim and Liz Gannes, KQED News Fix Silicon Valley may want to change the world, but traditionally it has stayed out of the realm of politics to do it. So how to explain the sudden explosion of political protest against President Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order on immigration? Tony Xu’s metamorphosis provides […]

By Ben Christopher, CALmatters The burgeoning political standoff between California and the Trump administration took another step into unprecedented terrain this week when, on a pre-Superbowl televised interview, the president denounced California as “out of control” and contemplated cutting its federal funding. The threat came in response to moves by the Democratic-controlled Legislature toward providing […]