The Board of Supervisors will vote to move forward with more robust warnings about releases of hazardous materials from Contra Costa County’s four fuel refineries.| www.kqed.org
KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California.| www.kqed.org
Fairfield's Mychal Threets is a superstar librarian, who readily professes the importance of childhood literacy, library access, and mental health. Because of that, he's amassed a social media following that rivals your favorite artists and entertainers.| www.kqed.org
Discover the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature, cultural commentary, and criticism through KQED's daily in-depth coverage.| www.kqed.org
The popular Bay Area librarian will step into LaVar Burton's role as host when the series relaunches.| www.kqed.org
The popular Bay Area librarian will step into LaVar Burton's role as host when the series relaunches.| www.kqed.org
State Sens. Wiener and Arreguín say the Newsom administration has told lawmakers it will not finalize a loan in time to prevent steep service cuts for Bay Area transit agencies.| www.kqed.org
BART resumed all service after trains were shut down for hours on Friday morning due to a computer issue following an overnight network upgrade, the Bay Area transit agency said.| www.kqed.org
Mallika Kaur, director of the Domestic Violence & Gender-Based Violence Practicum at UC Berkeley Law, said that cultural expectations play a major role in keeping survivors silent.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
We talk to Wade Crowfoot, California’s Secretary of Natural Resources, about the next stages of the state’s environmental leadership.| www.kqed.org
The new policy requires that one- to four-unit buildings undergo upgrades that reduce planet-warming emissions around the time a structure is sold.| www.kqed.org
The utility giant paid the firm nearly $3.5 million, roughly one-third of which was initially billed to ratepayers. Environmental and ratepayer advocates say SoCalGas consistently uses underhanded tactics to fight state and local electrification efforts.| www.kqed.org
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday on if it's lawful for local governments to criminalize sleeping outside when shelter space is insufficient, potentially impacting urban policies on homeless encampments.| www.kqed.org
Two Bay Area lawmakers had urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to include $2 billion in emergency transit funding in his revised budget proposal. He declined, but the Legislature could still add it.| www.kqed.org
State Sens. Scott Wiener of San Francisco and Jesse Arreguín of Berkeley are seeking $2 billion to help Muni, BART and others avoid drastic service cuts before a planned tax measure can go before voters.| www.kqed.org
Originally approved in 2020 as a mixed-income development, one of San Francisco’s largest affordable housing projects in years is breaking ground in Potrero Hill.| www.kqed.org
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“Philz appears loaded up on debt and preferred shares. So, for whatever price they’re being potentially sold to the private equity holder — and that could be either through a kind of merger and acquisition transaction or it could be through asset sale,” Professor Prasad Krishnamurthy said. “Either way, after the debt holders get paid off and after the preferred shareholders get paid up, there doesn’t seem to be any money left over for the common shareholders.”| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
The Department of Justice is pressuring San Francisco and other major California cities to release personal data on canceled voter registrations, raising legal and privacy questions.| www.kqed.org
When the world feels upside-down, it might seem counterintuitive to turn inward to create change. But that's exactly what meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg says we should do.| www.kqed.org
Scientific research on how to teach critical thinking contradicts education trends.| www.kqed.org
The courts are pushing back against the White House and affirming that everyone is entitled to due process and habeas corpus — regardless of immigration status.| www.kqed.org
The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.| www.kqed.org
COVID-19 is likely to remain a threat for the foreseeable future, a particularly frightening prospect for millions of disabled, immunocompromised people.| www.kqed.org
Experts are worried about students who miss big chunks of the school year, but a new NPR/Ipsos poll shows parents don't have a grasp on the problem.| www.kqed.org
When single-family zoning got its start, it was about more than separating homes from apartments, it was about separating white families from everyone else.| www.kqed.org
