By Ryan Levi, KQED News Fix The blows keep coming for San Francisco’s struggling taxi industry. The city’s largest taxi company, the bankrupt Yellow Cab Cooperative, is up for sale. A series of large personal injury lawsuits against the company combined with the growing popularity of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft pushed Yellow Cab […]
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Undocumented Students Fear Returning to Shadows Under Trump
By Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED News Fix/The California Report Mitzia Martinez felt so shellshocked after the presidential election that the 19-year-old UC Berkeley student holed up in her apartment for days, away from her friends and her classes. Martinez needed to make sense of the massive changes her life could face under a Trump administration. […]
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San Francisco’s Homeless Czar Talks Encampment Strategy
By Laura Wenus and Laura Waxmann, Mission Local Still in its infancy, San Francisco’s 5-month-old Department of Homelessness is developing new methods for moving an estimated 800 individuals living in 78 encampments around the city off the streets, according to Jeff Kositsky, who directs the new department that will eventually have some 110 people under […]
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Record Number of S.F. Voters Cast Ballots
More people voted in this election than in 2008, when Barack Obama was elected president.
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Mapping Bay Area’s Resegregation: What You See May Surprise You
By Devin Katayama, KQED News Fix As Bay Area cities scramble to find housing solutions to prevent displacement, a new report warns that the region is resegregating by race and class. Urban Habitat, a nonprofit located in Oakland that focuses on equity issues, released a report this week that takes a closer look at where […]
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S.F. Vote Counters Pushing to Finish by Thanksgiving
With San Franciscans still focused on President-elect Trump as Thanksgiving approaches, city officials continue to feverishly tabulate tens of thousands of ballots from the Nov. 8 election.
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Threats to Freedom of the Press Are Real
Journalists across the country are wringing their hands about how they might have enabled, or at least tolerated, the rise of an impulsive, would-be strongman in Washington. Donald Trump has plainly pledged to sue journalists for offending him, blacklist reporters from access to government sources and public records, break up media companies that question his […]
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Unfunded or Undone: A Trump Presidency Eyes California Policies
By the CALmatters Team, CALmatters As a state bluer than Lake Tahoe in sunlight, California has adopted a slew of progressive policies that drive Donald Trump nuts. They combat climate change, protect undocumented immigrants, evangelize for Obamacare and more. So this week — as candidate Trump morphed into President-elect Trump — uncertainty swept the state. […]
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Notes of Post-Election Empathy Adorn BART Station Walls
By Laura Wenus, Mission Local Amidst the morning rush, commuters are stopping at the 16th and Mission BART plaza to leave messages of empathy and mutual support for one another in the wake of a turbulent election season that saw Donald Trump clinch the presidency. Muriel MacDonald is one of the organizers of the “Wall […]
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S.F. ‘Google Bus’ Program Making Progress, Says Report
By Ryan Levi, KQED News Fix San Francisco transportation officials are touting the success of a city program that seeks to regulate the big shuttle buses that move tech workers from San Francisco to their jobs in Silicon Valley. A report released last week showed a 91 percent decrease in the number of shuttles operating […]