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Tenants on Market Street Fight Major Ellis Act Eviction

05.12.2016
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By Lucas Waldron, KQED News Fix
Ronnie Johnson, 49, doesn’t know what she will do if she is evicted from her rent-controlled loft in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood. She’s thinking about moving in with her parents in Washington state or trying to start over in a new city. In February, Johnson, along with the 22 other residential tenants in her building, received an Ellis Act eviction notice from her landlord, known as 1049 Market St. LLC. Read the complete story at KQED News Fix.

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Some S.F. Supervisors Say It’s Time to Search for New Police Chief

05.11.2016
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By Don Clyde, Tara Siler and Alex Helmick, KQED News Fix
San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim today called on Mayor Ed Lee and the San Francisco Police Commission to launch a comprehensive search for a new police chief. Supervisors John Avalos and David Campos said they backed the search. Supervisor Eric Mar also supported the search for a new chief, according to the San Francisco Examiner. Read the complete story at KQED News Fix. 

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Must California’s Special Ed Students Be Vaccinated? State Won’t Say

05.10.2016
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By Jane Meredith Adams, EdSource/KQED News Fix
Let the courts decide. That appears to be the stance of the California Department of Education as state regulators have so far declined to answer pleas from school districts to clarify what California’s new vaccination law means for the 700,000 students who receive special education services. Read the complete story at EdSource/KQED News Fix.

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Hello, White House, How About Obamacare for California’s Undocumented?

05.09.2016
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By Pauline Bartolone, CALmatters
As the presidential election generates a heated national debate about immigration, California is ploughing ahead with policies to integrate undocumented immigrants, most recently, by expanding health care access. “It’s one of the most dramatic turnarounds in California political history,” said Daniel Zingale, senior vice president of the California Endowment, a nonprofit health foundation, about undocumented kids being covered for a full range of health services through Medi-Cal starting May 16. Currently, Medi-Cal covers emergency medical services for undocumented children and adults. Read the complete story at CALmatters.

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The Public Press Is Going on the Road — Where Should We Go?

05.06.2016
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“San Francisco, Downtown,” by Flickr user Davide D’Amico. Used under CC license. Earlier this year, the Public Press received an INNovation Fund grant from Institute for Nonprofit News and the Knight Foundation to forge new relationships with community groups. Building on the success of our past outreach programs, which focused on in-person conversation on the street, this spring we hope to connect with neighborhood leaders where they already are. In short presentations to at least 40 neighborhood, professional, religious and political groups, we plan to host discussions about San Francisco civic issues that are often overlooked in the press and on broadcast news.

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S.F. Police Do Some Retraining, but Experts Say More Is Needed

05.05.2016
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By Laura Wenus, Mission Local
Among those who work in and around the San Francisco Police Department, several say Police Chief Greg Suhr — whom five hunger strikers camped out at Mission Station want to unseat — is trying to retrain officers and reduce the use of deadly force. But they agree that more needs to be done, and one of the experts involved in retraining was sharply critical of the Luis Gongora shooting, which occurred after the retraining. “I think that he’s in a position where he has got to act and he’s gotta do something more than what he’s doing now. And I think he realizes that,” said Public Defender Jeff Adachi. “He’s got to reach the point where he’s got to be able to tell people, ‘Mario Woods’ shooting never should have happened.’ And from my talks with him, I think he believes that – I think if he was there and he got called to the scene, he’d be like, ‘No!

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Oakland City Council Puts Soda Tax on November Ballot

05.04.2016
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By Lisa Aliferis, KQED News Fix/State of Health
Oakland’s City Council voted unanimously to place a soda tax on the November ballot. If approved, Oakland would become the second city in the nation, after Berkeley, where a fee is charged on sugar-sweetened beverages. Councilwoman Annie Campbell Washington sponsored the measure and expects big pushback from the beverage industry. 
Read the complete story at KQED News Fix/State of Health.

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$2 Billion Bail Bond Industry Threatened by Lawsuit Against San Francisco

05.03.2016
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By Sukey Lewis, KQED News Fix
Last year, Carlos Valiente found himself in a place he had never been before: San Francisco’s county jail. “Oh man, it was crazy in there,” Valiente said. “They were dragging this one person out of his cell, ’cause he started screaming. He was banging his head on the walls. I was like, man, I am not trying to stay here.”
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San Francisco’s ‘Benchmarking’ Was First in California; State Will Follow

05.02.2016
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By Julie Cart, CALmatters.org
Barry Hooper’s co-workers can be forgiven if they try to avoid him in the office. No one wants to be fingered as an energy hog. Hooper manages San Francisco’s 5-year-old building-efficiency ordinance, created to measure wasted energy in the city’s largest structures, give them a score the public can see and prod owners to lower the lights and the thermostats. Actually, the program is going so well that the soft-spoken bureaucrat rarely needs to raise his voice. “There’s no energy police,” Hooper said, laughing.