By Daniel Hirsch, Mission Local Real estate agents and investors with plans of visiting an open house at a stately Edwardian on Folsom Street were greeted Tuesday afternoon with a somewhat unexpected scene – a motley crew of Mission activists and neighborhood characters holding signs and singing, “If you buy this house, you will have […]
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California Water-Saving Targets Are All Over the Map
By Craig Miller, KQED Science/News Fix This week local water officials and consumers around California will get the final version of new emergency drought rules ordered by Governor Jerry Brown in early April. The statewide water restrictions go into effect on June 1. Local water agencies are racing to get programs in place to cut […]
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911 Grapples With Call Increase and Delays Haunt Neighbors
By Laura Wenus, Mission Local Lindsey Hoshaw, who lives near Treat and 24th, woke up in the early morning of March 11 to the sound of a woman screaming for help. She called 911. A recording told her to wait for a call taker. She did, for what she estimates was 30 seconds. Frustrated, Hoshaw […]
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Body Cameras Will Not Be Cheap
San Francisco has become the latest of many cities nationwide where leaders are deciding that the benefits of outfitting police with body cameras outweigh the myriad costs.
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Violence Causes Ripple Effects for Thousands of Oakland Students
By Zaidee Stavely, KQED News Fix Oakland’s first homicide victim of 2014 was a boy named Lee Weathersby III. He was shot on New Year’s Eve and died early the next morning. Police say it appears he was not the intended target of the shooting. Lee would have turned 14 that year. His death hit […]
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Once Working Class, the Mission Continues to Shift
By Andrew Beckerman and Laura Wenus, Mission Local In several recent meetings, activists have shouted down developers over the changes in the Mission and the displacement of low-income communities of color. Census data show how profound those changes have been. Long a working class neighborhood, the Mission has seen average earnings rise steadily since 2000, […]
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New Lawsuit Seeks to Force San Francisco to Drain, Restore Hetch Hetchy
By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix Activists have launched a new round in their long-running campaign to restore Yosemite National Park’s Hetch Hetchy Valley to its natural condition by draining the reservoir that serves San Francisco and most of the Peninsula. In a lawsuit filed last week in Tuolumne County, the group Restore Hetch Hetchy […]
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5/5 Event on Long-Range Sea Level Rise Planning for Bay Area Waterfront Development
What: Rising Tides: Climate Challenges and Solutions for the Bay Area Waterfront When: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Where: Impact Hub, 925 Mission St., San Francisco RSVP: Reserve tickets via eventbrite Join us for a discussion about long-range planning and waterfront development around the Bay Area, and preview of our cover […]
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San Francisco Public Press Wins Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting
The Society of Professional Journalists has honored the San Francisco Public Press with a 2014 Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting. SPJ recognized “Public Schools, Private Money” by lead writer and project editor Jeremy Adam Smith and the staff of the San Francisco Public Press as the winning entry for investigative […]
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Rideshare Companies Face Tighter Screening Rules in Many States
Crashes, assaults and other incidents involving drivers for rideshare companies have spurred members of Congress to demand that executives beef up their screening methods. Many states have already imposed heightened regulations, but California lags behind.