= Organizations endorsing candidate = Organizations endorsing others See all tracked endorsements Paul Henderson has served for the past five years as deputy chief of staff of public safety for Mayor Ed Lee. His job has been “to advise the Mayor on a variety of topics and to develop and implement policy across a broad […]
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Competing Visions of Bay Area’s Future at Core of Transit Race
By Peter Schurmann, New America Media In a turbulent election season, the race to fill seats on the governing body of the Bay Area’s major transit system isn’t exactly a headline grabber. Yet the race for who will represent one district on the BART board offers voters the most dramatic contrast between competing visions for the […]
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Why San Francisco Rarely Sends Youth Directly to Adult Court
By Laura Klivans, KQED News Fix/The California Report Direct file is a practice by which a district attorney — not a judge — can decide if a minor as young as 14 will go to adult court. The practice is used differently across California’s 58 counties. But whether direct file will continue to be used […]
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Bay Bridge East Span Bike Path: It’s Done, but Not Open Just Yet
By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix Cyclists and long-distance walkers, listen up: The bicycle and pedestrian path across the eastern span of the Bay Bridge is done. But hold on: The path from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island isn’t open yet — repeat, it’s not open — and won’t be until crews complete a few […]
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Board of Supervisors: District 11
Dist 11 Candidates:
Kim Alvarenga,
Magdalena de Guzman,
Berta Hernandez, Francisco Herrera, Ahsha Safa
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A Fight for the Soul of City College of San Francisco
By Peter Schurmann, New America Media This week a team from the Accreditation Commission for Community and Junior Colleges is visiting City College of San Francisco. The team is expected to produce a report that will help guide the commission in a decision that will determine the school’s fate. But under a new commission policy, the […]
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Virtual Landlord Unlocks Campaign Websites — for a Fee
By Laurel Rosenhall, CALmatters Andrew Naylor was working at a digital advertising firm in Silicon Valley when the “a-ha” moment struck. It was 2008, and money — more than $83 million — was gushing into the advertising world as Californians prepared to vote on Proposition 8, the measure to limit marriage to heterosexual couples (later […]
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Organizing the Homeless Vote Could Swing November’s Election
By Lucy Kang, KALW/Crosscurrents Lisa Galinas and Laura Sinai are sitting at a folding table with stacks of voter registration cards near the intersection of Turk and Hyde in San Francisco, registering people in the Tenderloin to vote. In this precinct, fewer than half of residents turned out to vote in the June primaries. That […]
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UC Forges New Partnership to Advance Student Diversity
By George White, New America Media In the wake of a two-year campaign that generated increases in the number of African Americans and other students of color on UC campuses, the University of California and the Boys & Girls Club of America have launched an outreach partnership that could become a new model for building additional […]
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The Evolution of California’s ‘College Promise,’ as Told Through 4 Students
By Ana Tintocalis, KQED News Fix/The California Report Does higher education in California still unlock economic opportunities for young people? I explored that question by looking at the cost of a college degree through the lives of four students at very different points in California’s history. Read the complete story at KQED News Fix/The California Report.