Category: News

By Ryan Levi, KQED News Fix There were 499 reported cases of human trafficking in San Francisco last year, according to a report by the Mayor’s Task Force on Anti-Human Trafficking released Friday. “Human trafficking is happening here in San Francisco,” said Minouche Kandel, the director of women’s policy at the San Francisco Department on […]

By Queena Sook Kim, KQED News Fix Peter Thiel’s recent $1.25 million donation to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is igniting a conversation about “implicit bias” in parts of Silicon Valley. Thiel is both a legendary and controversial figure in Silicon Valley. He is the co-founder of PayPal. He was an early investor and sits […]

By Matt Weiser, Water Deeply/KQED News Fix Hydropower dams are generally thought to be a clean source of electricity. By moving water through turbines, dams can generate large amounts of electricity almost continuously and without causing air pollution. It’s partly for these reasons that more than 3,700 hydroelectric dams are currently proposed or under construction […]

By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix The BART Board of Directors is probably the most influential elected body in the Bay Area that most people seem to know nearly nothing about. The nine members of the BART board play a huge part in the lives of the hundreds of thousands of individual passengers who ride […]

By Eric Simons, Bay Nature Ian Shive grew up in central New Jersey working as an assistant to his photographer father — meaning, he says, “I didn’t want anything to do with photography.” But after leaving the East Coast for college in Montana, Shive picked up the camera, and found that he loved the power […]

By Sonner Kehrt, Mission Local In the small, bright patch of sunlight that filters down between the buildings, a woman in a pink shirt pauses to admire a mural. It’s bold, with brightly colored shapes that are accentuated by the nearby flowers and another colorful painting on an opposite wall. In the small alleyway between […]

By Jeremy Dalmas, KALW/Crosscurrents Harbir Batth isn’t having a good day. Not many fares. “It’s been terrible,” he tells me. Then finally, some hope appears: A doorman for the Parc 55 Hotel in Union Square hails the cab over. They hop in and we’re headed to North Beach. Batth is originally from Northern India, but […]

By Zach St. George, Bay Nature The gums are mottled tan and brown like chicken bones, crowded together, the spaces between them choked with brush and hung with streamers of bark. Along with the sweet medicine smell of the trees, there is the warm scent of sawdust and a sour hint of exhaust. I’m with […]

By Steven Cuevas, KQED News/The California Report Billy Cunningham has been eligible to cast a ballot almost as long as he’s lived in San Francisco. “I’ve been here overs 40 years. I came to San Francisco about 10 or 11,” says Cunningham, sitting in an office at the nonprofit Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco. […]