Assembly member Phil Ting represents District 19, having been elected to that seat in 2012.
Category: News
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, News, Transportation, Utilities
Experts Flag Transparency, Accountability Concerns With Commission’s Ride-Hailing Regulations
In January, the San Francisco Public Press published an investigation showing just how much we don’t know about the safety record of the ride-hailing industry. The Public Press recently hosted an event at which journalist Seth Rosenfeld offered the latest developments in the story
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Elections, Government & Politics, News, San Francisco March 2020 Nonpartisan Election Guide
Republican Business Tax Attorney Seeks State Assembly Seat
John McDonnell is a business and tax attorney born and raised in San Francisco. He’s running to challenge State Assemblyman Phil Ting for the seat for District 19, which covers western San Francisco.
Posted inFrom the Newsroom, News
A Free Press Is Taking Root in South Korea
Corruption of national leaders. A fragile democracy teetering between constitutional order and authoritarianism. A desperate populace leaning on journalists to hold the powerful to account. While those patterns resonate in many countries — and the news cycle suggests the United States in early 2020 — it’s encouraging to know that journalists across the globe are […]
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Elections, Government & Politics, News, San Francisco March 2020 Nonpartisan Election Guide
State Sen. Scott Wiener: “I Push the Envelope” on Housing, Criminal Justice, LGBT Rights
In the final episode in our series of interviews with the candidates running for state senate, current State Senator Scott Wiener discusses his legislative record.
Posted inData Privacy, Data Privacy, News
Consumer Reporting Firms Fought for a Year to Exempt Data From California Privacy Law
Even though federally regulated consumer reports were already exempted from California’s ambitious new privacy law, the companies that sell them spent much of the last year engaged in an as yet unsuccessful lobbying effort to prevent individuals from opting out of sharing their own data from the firms’ databases. That’s in part because they have diversified beyond consumer reports and credit scores and into the creation of personal profiles based on online information that is less well regulated and critics of the industry call intrusive.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Housing, Land use, News, Social Justice
Regional Leaders Want to Use CA Fair Housing Law to Undo Segregation
Decades of explicitly and implicitly racist policies have left the Bay Area not just unaffordable, but also deeply segregated, panelists told a conference in San Francisco last week.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, News
The FBI Arrested a Top City Employee. What Does This Mean for S.F.?
A San Francisco department head was arrested and charged by the FBI this week.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Elections, News
How to Vote in the Primary in the March 3 Election
The upcoming March 3 vote will be a primary election, the first since 2018 when a new law moved California primaries from June to March.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Economy & Business, News, Social Justice
Santa Clara County Floats Universal Basic Income Proposal for Foster Youth
A Santa Clara County Supervisor has put forward a proposal, currently under development, for a pilot program in which the county would give each youth transitioning out of foster care $1,000 a month.