Tag: News

By JoeBill Muñoz, Mission Local On an already gloomy and rainy day in San Francisco, Salvadorans with temporary protected status in the city learned that they may be forced to leave the country by Sept. 2019, Trump’s administration announced Monday. The Temporary Protected Status  program allowed Salvadorans to live and work in the United States […]

EdSource The University of California System, the California State University System, community colleges and private colleges are sticking with their prohibition against marijuana  on university grounds or in campus buildings, even though pot is now legal in California for adults. Dispensaries began selling cannabis to recreational users last week, but students and employees caught with marijuana […]

Last fall’s wildfires in the North Bay and Southern California continue to take a toll in the form of difficulties in getting insurance, housing shortages and rent hikes. 

EdSource As housing costs keep rising in California and elsewhere, more young people are now homeless, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts. Among those homeless, one group has it especially tough: young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Read the story at EdSource. 

By Kim Todd, Bay Nature One night a little more than a year ago coyote 02M took off into the dark. He had been born in the Presidio, San Francisco, likely a year and a half before, in an earth den dug under a log and hidden by English ivy or in the pit left […]

KQED News Fix/The California Report Some local health professionals are saying that the effect of police violence should be studied and dealt with as a public health issue. Advocates say people of color are the most at risk, yet the responsibility for providing healing resources has fallen on community members to take care of their […]

KQED News Fix Perhaps as many as 15,000 or 20,000 times every weekday, BART riders skip paying fares, and these scofflaws cost BART, according to its estimates,  $15 million to $25 million a year. In the wake of such losses, the agency has decided to try to do a better job of persuading riders that […]

By Erika Aguilar, KQED News Fix Nearly half of more than 296,000 home loans issued in California in 2015 went to white homebuyers, while African-Americans secured just 3 percent, according to federal mortgage data analyzed by a Bay Area policy group focused on diversity and equity. The report by the Greenlining Institute, based in Oakland, […]

By Joe Eskenazi, Mission Local Caroline Ayres just wanted to hear about her kids’ school system. What she got was the hybrid of a political rally and a revival meeting. “It was,” she recalls, “an attempt at conversion via emotional outreach.” It happened earlier this month on Mission Street, in a Sons of Italy outpost […]

By Jessica Placzek, Ryan Levi and Eli Wirtschafter, KQED News Fix On Jan. 1, it will become legal for adults 21 and older to buy and sell recreational marijuana in California. In anticipation, Bay Curious is answering a bunch of your questions about commercially available marijuana. Read the complete story at KQED News Fix.