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Eight projects in the cities of Oakland and Santa Cruz, and the counties of Marin, Monterey and Santa Cruz will receive nearly $55 million in state funds to help unsheltered homeless people move from encampments into housing.
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Several East Bay municipalities are facing almost 400 hundred thousand dollars in fines for releasing untreated sewage into the San Francisco Bay.
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We continue airing a month of stories from Nancy, a groundbreaking LGBTQ podcast from WNYC that ended in 2020.
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Carlos Quinteros III is a poet with an occasional stutter, stumbling through language, living in San Francisco/the ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone People. He is the managing editor and one of the poetry editors for The Ana, a literary magazine based in the Bay area.
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A new CalMatters investigation finds that governments, nonprofits, and businesses are increasingly hiring private guards to patrol homeless shelters and street encampments.
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Children of Ukraine, a Frontline documentary, examines how thousands of Ukrainian children have been taken and held in Russian-controlled territory.
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Earlier this week, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ask for the state’s help preventing the closure of one of the region's only trauma centers.
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UC-Berkeley undergraduate student Cecilia Lunaparra is leading the race for Berkeley City Council's District 7 seat, which has been vacant since January following the resignation of Rigel Robinson, who stepped down after a community-led recall campaign and alleged threats.
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A looming operating budget deficit could spell layoffs for the City of Oakland, which may include the Oakland Police Department.
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The fourth of four episodes airing this week from We Are San Francisco, a podcast hosted by Ben Kaplan, who talks with local leaders and thinkers about how, together, we can tackle the city’s biggest challenges.
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Your CallDavid Mas Masumoto's new book tells the story of his aunt, who was taken as a "ward of the state" in 1942. Seventy years later, Masumoto finds out his aunt is alive.
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CrosscurrentsIn January, the university closed People's Park so they could start building a dorm, but a court case, and a very committed group of protectors, are preventing Cal from breaking ground. This begs the question: Is this the end of the park, or just another chapter in its story?