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London Breed has quickly ascended San Francisco’s political ladder. She was elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2012, became its president in 2015 and, after the abrupt death of Ed Lee in December, became acting mayor — briefly, thanks to her colleagues. » Read more
For the special mayoral election, the San Francisco Public Press tried something for the first time: In partnership with faculty at the University of California, Davis, we assembled a data-driven questionnaire for the eight candidates.
Only three completed it: Michelle Bravo, Amy Farah Weiss and Ellen Lee Zhou. » Read more
By David Gorn, CALmatters
A battle is escalating between the dialysis industry and an influential union in California, with allegations on one side of shoddy practices in the treatment of kidney patients and accusations of political bullying on the other. With a growing number of Californians on dialysis, the union has teed up an initiative for the November ballot that would rein in profits at 555 privately owned clinics where patients receive life-sustaining treatment. The measure would cap profits at 15 percent after most clinical costs. Read the complete story at CALmatters.
So many candidates, so many propositions and so little time left to figure it all out (Election day is June 5). Here’s what some of the San Francisco mayoral hopefuls are saying:
Ellen Lee Zhou, a public health worker, has a plan to end the city’s homelessness crisis. » Read more
By Alyssa Jeong Perry and Levi Bridges, KQED News/The California Report
In the winter of 1990, a private plane carrying a small group of passengers crashed on the high-altitude plateau of central Mexico. For Maria Mendoza, the accident started a chain of events that sent her on a northward journey all the way to Oakland and eventually, years later, back to the small town in the Mexican state of Hidalgo where she was born. Read the complete story at KQED News/The California Report.
San Francisco mayoral candidate Michelle Bravo wants to win, but that is not her first priority.
A political neophyte, the holistic-health practitioner admits she has much to learn — in fact, her main reason for entering the race was to get a crash course in the local issues. » Read more
The San Francisco Public Press is pleased to announce an exciting $25,000 challenge grant from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. The foundation also made a gift of $25,000 in unrestricted funding.
To trigger the match, the Public Press must raise $25,000 in new contributions. The goal is to draw support from new members. But if you’re already a member, you can still help! Increased contributions from existing supporters qualify, too.
By Theresa Harrington/EdSource Today
For 11 years, students from all over the world have gathered at Oakland International High to learn English and math, as they also learn to navigate new lives far from where they were born. Chanthavy, 16, who left Cambodia in 2009 and learned English in Malaysia before arriving in the U.S. in 2014 with her mother and extended family, said she appreciates the school because it is immigrant friendly and has partnered with a local food bank to occasionally offer nutritious items students can take home to their families. Read the complete story at EdSource Today.
As part of our coverage of the June 5 election, the San Francisco Public Press has partnered with faculty at the University of California, Davis, to create a data-driven questionnaire that was sent to all eight mayoral candidates.
So far, only three candidates have completed it: Michelle Bravo, Amy Weiss and Ellen Lee Zhou. » Read more
By Julie Cart, CALmatters
As California accelerates its efforts to reduce greenhouses gases over the next decade, experts are pointing to vulnerabilities in its celebrated cap-and-trade system, weaknesses that could make the state’s goals difficult — even impossible — to reach. Cap and trade, featuring a market where permission to pollute is bought and sold, is a key mechanism California uses to lower the volume of harmful discharges by industries that are subject to state emissions caps. But as the California Air Resources Board ponders a major retrofitting of the highly complex program, state analysts say that in a little over a decade emissions could soar much higher than the legally binding level. Read the complete story at CALmatters.
For more information on cap and trade, read the Public Press special report on climate change issues.