Category: News

By Serginho Roosblad, Mission Local More than two dozen people came to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union’s office at 1980 Mission St. on Saturday to start the process of having certain nonviolent felonies removed from their criminal records. The event was organized by the union, which represents more than a million workers […]

By Stephanie Martin Taylor, KQED News Fix Kyle Gamboa’s iPhone 5S still sits, fully charged, next to his parents’ living room sofa. Every few months, the phone lights up with a text from one of his friends. “I love you brother,” reads one message, dated June 2, 2016. “I really don’t know what happened. I […]

By Craig Miller, KQED Science/News Fix When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed California’s landmark climate strategy into law in 2006, he laid out the mission succinctly. “We simply must do everything we can that is in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late,” he declared at the Sept. 27 signing ceremony.  […]

By Laura Waxmann, Mission Local As of Monday, all patrolling officers at Mission Police Station will be outfitted with body cameras. Mission Station has received 150 to 160 cameras, according to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Carlos Manfredi. A total of 112 patrol officers, 23 sergeants and five lieutenants are now mandated to wear the […]

By Queena Sook Kim, KQED News Fix When we talk about the economy, we spend a lot of time talking about jobs — how to create more of them and how to replace the ones being lost. But what if we’re entering an automated future where there won’t be enough jobs for the people who […]

By Sam Harnett, KQED News Fix Over the last few years, investors have poured money into gig companies like Uber and TaskRabbit that rely on armies of contract workers. Now, some smaller gig companies are changing course and doing what most businesses do. They’re actually hiring their workers. For some companies ditching the gig model, […]

By Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times With the stroke of a pen in 1999, California Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation that gave prison guards, park rangers, Cal State professors and other state employees the kind of retirement security normally reserved for the wealthy. More than 200,000 civil servants became eligible to retire at 55 — […]

By Joe Sciarrillo, Mission Local As a fourth-generation Bay Area resident, I grew up hearing stories about the changes in San Francisco from family who grew up in the Mission, the Marina and the Richmond districts. Seeing drastic changes in San Francisco over the past decade, I’ve set out during my lunch breaks where I […]

By Laura Waxmann, Mission Local Community members and homeless advocates frustrated about the dozens of tents that have popped up in the Mission District shouted down city and police officials on Wednesday during a discussion of a new plan to tackle homeless encampments in the neighborhood. “We had encampments catch on fire right on my […]

By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix Cell service could be coming soon to one of the last places in the truly civilized world that still lacks it: San Francisco Muni’s tunnels and underground stations. That’s the bottom line of a proposal announced Wednesday under which BART, which finished installing cell service in its tunnels and […]