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For the past week some AC Transit buses have been taking longer than usual to show up. Much longer. More than 200 drivers have called in sick every day for over a week. They’re protesting a new contract the bus agency imposed...
Occasionally, getting people to the polls is a glamorous job. After all, P. Diddy, Justin Timberlake, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson all rocked the vote back in their day. But usually, voter outreach is a rough business. Of the 13,000 people you might call to encourage to vote, you'll talk...
San Quentin is the state’s oldest prison, and it is also the only one that still provides free college-level education to inmates. UC Berkeley graduate student Robert Rogers takes us inside the prison gates to explore the impact of the Prison University Project.
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In keeping with the Grant family’s appeal for calm, many people took a stand for justice and peace on the evening of the Mehserle verdict. Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY) along with city agencies, violence prevention, faith-based, and youth groups and others comprising Oaklanders for...
If you were to judge Oakland by the news coverage of the past week, the East Bay's largest city would appear to be spinning out of control. Eighty police officers were laid off after the Oakland Police Officer's Association rejected a city council proposal to pay nine percent of their salaries into...
Yesterday, we took a look at the college demographic called the Millennial Generation and their place in our economy. Right now, Millenials, who are between the ages of 10 and 28, are graduating from college to the worst job market in ages.
Lynne Lancaster is co-author of the new book, The M-...
Move over boomers and X-ers, there's a new generation in town: the so-called “millennial generation”. It’s made up of people born between 1982 and 2000, and it's poised to rival the baby boomers as the largest generation in history, some 80 million people.
As they’ve begun trickling into the...
Election-talk usually doesn’t attract our attention until after Labor Day, but there have been some notable developments recently on the topic of marijuana.
Proposition 19, the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act, is on everyone’s list of Most Divisive Issues for November. If passed, adults...
The first peek at how the federal Secure Communities initiative will impact San Francisco came at Wednesday night’s Police Commission meeting.
Secure Communities is a program that sends fingerprints from local jails to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to see if those arrested are subject...
In Episode #2, Dr. Joe Marshall, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco, discusses the program’s 150 college graduates, hosting the Street Soldiers radio show, helping young people stay “alive and free,” bridging the gap between the police and the community, and...
Carletta Sue Kay
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