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The city dropped a surprise on Oakland voters regarding the budget deficit that is projected at $43 million and growing. The city administrator announced a real property parcel tax and an increase of the city’s utility user fee tax from 7.5 to 8%. The City Administrator claimed that...
Earthquakes are teaching us how useful new technology can be. After January’s earthquake in Haiti, one reporter used a first aid app to treat his own injuries. He also used his iPhone to take pictures of the quake, and its alarm to keep himself awake.
At the University of California,...
Since news struck of the possible closure of NUMMI, the plant's workers have been protesting, picketing, and organizing to resist closure. Now that it's become a reality, they are turning their efforts to figuring out what they will do next.
A few days ago, KALW’s Hana Baba dropped by NUMMI’s re-...
While transportation issues attract attention in the Bay Area and healthcare reform tops the federal agenda, another political storm is brewing in the nation’s capital. Tens of thousands of Americans are expected to gather in Washington D.C. this Sunday, in the "March for America: Reform...
Before the masses of high school and college students arrived at Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland Thursday, a much more varied crowd was gathering there for the March 4 Day of Action to Defend Education: 20-year-olds to 70-year-olds, elementary school teachers, political activists, concerned...
Senator Mark Leno of San Francisco is introducing new legislation that would require insurance companies to disclose the reasons behind rate hikes or coverage denials. But for years, Senator Leno has been promoting his single-payer health care bill, SB 810, which passed the California Senate last...
Four schools in East Oakland will be offering something new to their student populations - psychological therapy.
The Fruitvale-San Antonio Mental Health Cooperative says it will provide the students with professional help, so the students could avoid a path of drugs, guns, and violence. It's a way...
While budget cuts continue in California and the Bay Area, there is some good news out of Sacramento. Yesterday, State Controller John Chiang announced that California collected $1.28 billion more in January than expected.
Still, the state has a projected deficit of nearly $20 billion to...
If you go towards downtown San Francisco to Market Street and the Tenderloin, one sight you’re likely to see is the city’s homeless population roaming the streets. Many of them are chronically homeless; and chronically mentally ill. And they get their mental healthcare at one main place: San...
Today, we’re bringing you the final installment in our three-part series about immigration court. In the first two reports, we heard about how immigrants’ need for free legal services exceeds what local non profits can provide. And even those who can afford to hire private attorneys sometimes fall...
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