Ben Trefny
While census workers and non-profits are working overtime to reach hard-to-count communities like San Francisco's Latinos, some other minority groups are clamoring for more attention.
Most ethnic groups are not listed on the census form. That’s a point of concern for San Francisco Supervisor Ross...
Here's some additional audio of our interview with Chris Poland, Chairman and CEO of the structural engineering firm Degenkolb. Here, he talks with KALW's Ben Trefny about how Bay Area earthquakes from 1906 to Loma Prieta have helped structural engineers design safer buildings, and what San...
Officials are still surveying damage caused by the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck yesterday near Mexicali, on Mexico's Baja Peninsula. While only two deaths have been reported so far, the damage is extensive in places like the California border town of Calexico. Officials there have declared...
Author Michael Lewis discusses Berkeley investors who sold the crashing bond market short with KALW's Ben Trefny.
It took just a couple of years for America’s subprime mortgage market to collapse. Best-selling author Michael Lewis thinks steps should have been taken to ease the crash that helped cause a global financial crisis.
MICHAEL LEWIS: You look at this story and you say, “That world was insane, it...
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...
Children, parents, and teachers today marched to San Francisco's Civic Center plaza, and elsewhere around the state, marking a Day of Action to Defend Education.
It's the culmination of a day of rallies, walkouts, strikes, sit-ins and speak-outs. A central issue is the package of budget cuts...
Although it is notorious for its crime rates, the city of Richmond has actually seen a decline in its crime rate in the past couple of years. According to one source, the city was the seventh most dangerous in the country in 2006; last year, it dropped to 14th.Some say the credit should go to...
A new style of living is becoming increasingly popular in the Bay Area, and across the country. It’s called cohousing, and it’s sort of like dorm-style living for adults -- only instead of a room, you get a house. The concept originated in Denmark. Its growth in the United States is thanks in large...
One person who’s been thinking deeply about budget cuts to higher education is Bob Samuels. He’s a writing teacher at UCLA and president of the University Council, a teachers union. It represents more than 4 thousand lecturers and librarians employed by the UC system. In his work as...
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