Tag: News

KQED News Fix San Francisco held a grand opening last week for Five 88 Apartments, the city’s latest affordable housing project, in Mission Bay.  “It’s a very beautiful neighborhood. The view is nice,” said Carlos Poot, 36, as he pushed his 1-year-old daughter in a stroller, his two other children skipping ahead with his wife. Read the […]

KQED News Fix/The California Report In 2016, San Francisco began to use an algorithm to evaluate if a person accused of a crime and awaiting trial could be safely released from jail. Now, prosecutors say the risk assessment tool seems to work: According to information provided to KQED by the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, […]

Mission Local The San Francisco Police Commission heard from two national experts on police training about whether to equip city police officers with Tasers. Both experts agreed that these electroshock weapons belonged on an officer’s tool belt and, most important, training was crucial to using Tasers effectively. Sue Rahr, the director of the Washington state […]

By Matt Weiser, KQED News Fix/Water Deeply Mountain meadows are starting to get some respect. For over a century, meadows were the first alpine environments targeted for development, grazing and farming, because they tend to be flat and packed with rich soil and nutritious plants. But we’re starting to understand that meadows have a much […]

By Alexis Terrazas, El Tecolote The end of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) announced earlier this month has sent shockwaves of fear and confusion through the undocumented and immigrant rights communities, but it’s also prompted massive counter campaigns both to legally challenge the administration and to properly inform people of their rights. Currently, multiple […]

By Dana Cronin, KQED News Fix San Francisco and Oakland announced Wednesday that they are suing five big oil companies for costs associated with climate change mitigation. Each city filed its own suit against Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, BP and Royal Dutch Shell, asking the court to hold the companies responsible for the cost of […]

By Eric Simons, Bay Nature They saw the heat coming for Northern California several weeks before it arrived. By mid-August forecasters and weather followers predicted that a hot blanket would smother the Western United States the first week in September. Every long and then medium-range forecast model painted the West Coast red. A week before […]

By Ana Tintocalis, KQED News Fix Hasmig Minassian has been teaching history at Berkeley High School for nearly two decades. She’s covered many topics over the years, but after the violence in Charlottesville, Va., this past summer, Minassian decided to scrap her regular lesson plans and develop something entirely new. Read the complete story at […]

By Laurel Rosenhall, CALmatters The 2017 legislative session now wrapping up began with a rhetorical punch in the face to Donald Trump. Democrats who rule California’s Legislature passed a winter resolution urging the newly elected Republican president not to pursue mass deportations, and denouncing “bigoted, racist, or misinformed descriptions of the immigrant community.” They went […]