Sacramento
By Alexandra Muller on Dec 13 2011 - 10:46am
Newly-elected mayor Ed Lee wants to eliminate homelessness in San Francisco, and he says the magic number to do it is three million -- dollars, that is. $500,000 of those dollars come from a Dave Matthews Band fundraising concert in 2005...
65% of California adults support Governor Jerry Brown's...
By Rina Palta on Dec 12 2011 - 5:08pm
It’s been a significant year for criminal justice in the Bay Area, but many of the challenges have come late in the year.
In October, Oakland lost Police Chief Anthony Batts, who resigned saying he couldn’t work in the current political climate. Days later, Oakland’s police department plunged into...
By Julie Caine on Dec 5 2011 - 6:52pm
While BART managers are trying to bring the Bay Area’s rail system into the future, state officials are trying to bring a new train system into existence. High-speed rail is supposed to whisk passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in just two and a half hours. It’s a controversial project,...
By Terria Smith on Dec 5 2011 - 6:34pm
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the public debut of a man called Ishi. Ishi was Native American, a Yana from the Deer Creek area, about 150 miles northeast of Berkeley. And for the past century he’s been known as “the last wild Indian in North America.”
In some ways, he...
By Lindsey Lee Keel on Nov 17 2011 - 5:19pm
Tired of potholes? The residents who live along Lichau sure are. Road Warrior, a Sonoma County transportation blog, holds a poll each year for the worst of the roads. This year’s winner? Yep, Lichau. We sent KALW’s Lindsey Lee Keel for a drive.
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By Julie Caine on Nov 17 2011 - 4:51pm
Earlier this week, two Caltrans workers were fired for allegedly falsifying test results on various projects around the state, and neglecting proper testing procedures of the new span on the Bay Bridge. The news comes from an investigative report published Sunday in the Sacramento Bee. The two...
By Joaquin Palomino on Nov 17 2011 - 9:03am
Early this morning at UC Berkeley, police clearned an Occupy Cal encampment which had been set up for a second time Tuesday night on Sproul Plaza. Almost all campers left voluntarily, except for two who were arrested.
This the latest in a lot of action that has taken place at the campus this week:...
By Rina Palta on Nov 9 2011 - 5:32pm
On October 1, 2011, California experienced a major change to its criminal justice system. After the Supreme Court ordered the state to drastically reduce its prison population, the Legislature decided to shift responsibility for a wide variety of offenders to the local level. KALW’s criminal...
By Holly McDede on Nov 3 2011 - 5:52pm
BAY AREA BOOK WORLD BREAKING NEWS
Given the growing Occupy Wall Street movement, it’s easy to say, “I’m done with reading! No more Charles Dickens. No more Shakespeare, or Ozzie Osbourne. I’m headed to the streets!” But wait. If you must put your current books down, pick up another book. Perhaps a...
By Sara Bernard on Nov 3 2011 - 9:55am
Although Occupy Oakland’s general strike on Wednesday was primarily peaceful with thousands of protesters marching from Frank Ogawa Plaza to the Port of Oakland and halting port activity for the day, it culminated in violence after midnight. A few hundred protesters in masks smashed windows, set...
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