KALW Investigates
In January, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced his goal to reduce the number of homeless people on San Francisco’s streets by 50% and the city’s overall homeless count by 30% by the end of 2010. And he vowed not to leave office before his goals were met. Newsom’s New Year’s resolution is an ambitious one...
The Governor's Department of Finance has revealed one of the sources of California's budget crisis: tax breaks. Its most recent estimate of credits, exemptions and deductions totals more than $40 billion for this budget year. Next year is projected to be even higher.
Some $30 billion of that is...
FROM CALIFORNIA WATCH:
The mortality rate of California women who die from causes directly related to pregnancy has nearly tripled in the past decade, prompting doctors to worry about the dangers of obesity in expectant mothers and about medical complications of cesarean sections.
For the...
Listening to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's State of the State speech to the people of California on January 6th, I was surprised to learn California spends more money on prisons than it does on higher education. In fact, Governor Schwarzenneger said he was so concerned about this that he was...
Across California, people are falling behind on their gas and electric bills. And last year, the numbers of shut-offs sky-rocketed, especially in Pacific Gas and Electric’s service area.
Is it the result of the recession? Or are utility companies at fault for these shut-offs, too?...
Last year, more than two million people got married in the United States…and about a million got divorced. Marriage creates a web of rights and obligations, and when two people break up, that doesn’t mean the relationship is over, at least the legal relationship. There's still the question of who...
Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency declared greenhouse gases are a threat to public health. After all the talk of global warming, and the attention on the Copenhagen climate summit, that may seem like an anticlimactic announcement... but it could make for some big changes here in...
Remember TARP, that 700 billion dollar bank bailout fund Congress approved last year? There was some public hesitation to plop down all that cash, but we were assured these institutions needed our help because they were “too big to fail.” Well now, a major bank here in San Francisco has...
Some residents of Richmond are concerned that federal stimulus dollars being spent in the community aren't making their way into local pockets. Mike Shen reports.
Michael Shen is a student reporter at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Since he reported this story, he discovered...
If you’ve ever gotten sick after eating at a local restaurant, you’ll appreciate this story. It’s about the people charged with making sure you’re safe when you eat out. In San Francisco, they work for the Department of Environmental Health. Budget cuts have reduced the...
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