Category: News

By Gabriela Aleman, El Tecolote San Francisco, like many Bay Area cities, has for decades been a “sanctuary city” with policies in place that limit federal immigration officials from searching and detaining undocumented immigrants. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed that within his first 100 days in office he will block all federal funding to sanctuary […]

By Liza Veale, KALW/Crosscurrents January 11 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. While trafficking might seem like an issue we’re all on the same side of, when it comes to how we should go about combating the problem, people don’t always agree. For the past three years, Alameda County has been waging a campaign against […]

By Marissa Ortega-Welch, KALW/Crosscurrents Doctors, nurses and medical students stood outside of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital this week in their lab coats and scrubs, holding signs that said “Protect our patients” and “Keep America covered.” They joined with health care providers across the country to demonstrate their support for the Affordable Care Act — […]

By Holly McDede/KALW Crosscurrents When you think of school, you might not think of prison. But in 2014, approximately 47,600 young people in California  attended school inside juvenile hall. Those schools are called “court schools.” And as the number of incarcerated young people in the state continues to decline, class sizes inside these court schools […]

By Ted Goldberg, KQED News Fix Ridership on Caltrain is slowing down. For more than six years, the average number of people riding trains on weekdays between San Francisco and Santa Clara County increased each month compared to the month the previous year. The agency credited the boom in Silicon Valley for a series of […]

By Laura Wenus, Mission Local Fire Department members, a tenant lawyer and Building Inspection officials on Tuesday night offered fire-safety tips and encouraged tenants and landlords of live-work spaces to file complaints about safety concerns with the proper authority, be it the Department of Building Inspection, the Planning Department or the Fire Department. “If you […]

By Nailah Morgan, KQED News Fix Launched by the Oakland Unified School District in 2010, the African American Male Achievement program wrapped up its first semester at Mission High School in San Francisco recently. According to the school district website, the program’s stated goal is to “stop the epidemic failure of African American male students” […]

By Julie Cart, CALmatters.org Salmon — made possible by the rivers they run in and the forest canopy above them — are the lifeblood of the Yurok Tribe. The native word for salmon, Ney-puy, means “that which is eaten,” and the iconic fish and its habitat sustain California’s largest tribe in ways that are both […]

By Laura Wenus and Brian Rinker, Mission Local In the wake of the tragic fire in Oakland that claimed 36 lives and the city crackdowns that resulted, the founder of a Mission District arts space will bring together firefighters with managers of both underground and above-board arts spaces to help improve fire safety. Spike Kahn, […]

By Sarah Tan, KQED News Fix Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is three years into his second big investment in education reform, after his first investment of $100 million in Newark public schools was widely criticized as being a waste of money. He’s given $120 million to invest in Bay Area schools, but this time he’s […]