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California Leads on Climate Policy … But Also in Greenhouse Gases

11.30.2015
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By Kate Galbraith, CALMatters/KQED News Fix
When Gov. Jerry Brown arrives in Paris for a major international conference on climate change, he will showcase one of the world’s most sweeping programs to cut greenhouse gas emissions. California has perhaps the most comprehensive cap-and-trade program in the world, setting a limit and a price for pollution from factories, utilities and transportation fuels. The state’s 2030 goals of getting half of its electricity from renewable sources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels are also among the most ambitious anywhere. Read the complete story at CALMatters/KQED News Fix. For more information on climate change, read the special report on California’s cap-and-trade program, by the San Francisco Public Press in collaboration with Earth Island Journal and Bay Nature magazine. 
 
 
 
A special report on California’s cap-and-trade program, in collaboration with Earth Island Journal and Bay Nature magazine.

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‘Humanely Raised’ Turkeys Treated Cruelly, Animal Rights Activists Say

11.25.2015
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By Laura Waxmann, Mission Local
Whole Foods shoppers can expect to see animal rights activists in stores across the country accusing the grocery chain of perpetuating animal cruelty and consumer fraud in the coming week, with protests expected to stretch far beyond Thanksgiving. This was the announcement made by Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE, in front of Whole Foods’ 2001 Market St. location on Nov. 23. The international grassroots animal rights action network held a press conference on the steps of the popular eco-minded grocery store, which in recent advertisement campaigns has taken pride in ensuring that the meat it sells comes from animals that are treated humanely.

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With Rising Number of Highway Deaths, California Bucks National Trend

11.24.2015
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By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix
Federal highway safety data released Tuesday show the traffic death toll in California continues to trend upward even as the number of people who die on roads nationwide holds steady. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that 32,675 people — vehicle drivers, their passengers, pedestrians and cyclists — died in collisions in 2014. On the one hand, that’s terrible, the equivalent of erasing the entire population of Menlo Park in the course of a year. 
Read the complete story at KQED News Fix. 

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S.F. Muni Goes Mobile With First Ticketing App

11.23.2015
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By Laura Waxmann, Mission Local
Christina Ochoa uses her smartphone to order take-out, pay bills, and for commuting to her job in the Mission District. She believes that adding a transit application to this list could improve her daily life. “I’m in the service industry, and when I get off work late, I want to get home quickly,” said Ochoa. She usually orders a ride through Uber or Lyft, two mobile car-sharing services. “All I have to do is hop in when the car arrives and I’m on my way.”
Read the complete story at Mission Local. 
 

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Many Ways to Give

11.20.2015
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Dear members and friends,
Thank you for all the support and encouragement you’ve given us this year. With your help, the San Francisco Public Press continues to do in-depth reporting on important local issues and investigate the effects of public policy decisions in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. 
This year, we produced reports on increasing segregation in San Francisco’s public schools, the lack of planning for sea level rise in new waterfront development all around the bay and a nonpartisan voter guide covering all the candidates and propositions for San Francisco’s Nov. 3 election. Coming soon: A comprehensive analysis of the rising cost of living. (Front page sneak peek at right.)
As a small, nonprofit news organization, the Public Press depends on the generosity of readers like you — people who value independent public media — to produce award-winning public-interest journalism.

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San Francisco State Forgoes Millions as It Drops Plans for Big Soda Contract

11.19.2015
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By Jon Brooks, KQED News Fix
It is looking more and more like the Bay Area is not going to produce the next Pepsi Generation. Nor do locals seem inclined to buy the world a Coke, despite Don Draper’s input. We say this on the heels of today’s announcement from San Francisco State University President Les Wong that the school is dropping plans to pursue a “pouring rights” contract with soda companies. Read the complete story at KQED News Fix. 
 

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‘Tech Buses’ Will Operate in S.F. Permanently

11.18.2015
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By Noah Arroyo, Mission Local
At a public meeting on Tuesday, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s Board of Directors decided to make permanent City Hall’s 18-month pilot program regulating private shuttle companies, many of which carry tech-sector workers from their fog city doorsteps to their desks in Silicon Valley. The board’s decision was unanimous, despite widespread criticism from the meeting’s attendees. The agency’s staff are still tweaking the program in an effort to cut down on how much the shuttles impede public transit, cyclists and pedestrians, officials said. 
Read the complete story at Mission Local. 

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S.F. to Favor Local Residents in Affordable Housing Lottery

11.17.2015
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By Joe Rivano Barros, Mission Local
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 today to favor local residents in affordable housing lotteries for the first time in city history. The new legislation would make it easier for residents of districts in which affordable housing projects are built to live in those projects. Currently, residents hoping to live in affordable housing projects administered by the city must win a lottery. Preference already exists for residents displaced by redevelopment in the 1970s and those evicted under the Ellis Act, but today’s legislation creates a third category for those those who live near the housing project to which they are applying. 
Read the complete story at Mission Local. 

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New California Data on Ride Services Reveal Rise in Collisions and Incidents

11.16.2015
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By Bryan Goebel, KQED News Fix
State regulators have analyzed and released a tiny glimpse of data submitted by Uber, Lyft and other companies — information the firms have carefully guarded because they claim it would reveal trade secrets. A report on some of the data was presented at a Nov. 5 meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission. While the analysis does not size up how transportation network companies are complying with state regulations overall, it does provide a snapshot of the volume of trips and growth of ride services over the past two years. Read the complete story at KQED News Fix. 
 

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S.F. Pulls Plug on Controversial Bayview Homeless Shelter

11.12.2015
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By Ted Goldberg, KQED News Fix
San Francisco has dropped a divisive plan to build a shelter in a neighborhood that has the second-highest homeless population in the city. City officials have withdrawn an application for state funding to help construct a 100-bed shelter in the Bayview-Hunters Point district. Read the complete story at KQED News Fix.