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Carnaval Brings Colorful Costumes and Latin Dancing to San Francisco's Mission District
44+ min ago (291+ words) Follow the key races and measures across the nine Bay Area counties. Huge crowds flocked to San Francisco's Mission District to celebrate the culture and diversity of the Latin American diaspora at the city's annual Carnaval festival and parade. The…...
East Bay Residents Push Back as Caltrans Studies Lifting I-580 Truck Ban
1+ day, 49+ min ago (570+ words) Follow the key races and measures across the nine Bay Area counties. Dozens of residents expressed frustration for almost three hours at a Saturday listening session in Oakland, overwhelmingly telling representatives from Caltrans, the Bay Area Air District and others…...
Feels Like Erasure: Why Native American Students May Be Undercounted by 90% in California Schools
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (874+ words) Follow the key races and measures across the nine Bay Area counties. When Celestina Castillo filled out the ethnicity forms at her children's school, she'd always check Latino and Native American. After all, the family is proud of both its…...
Chad Bianco Wants to Slash Taxes and Regulations
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (95+ words) KQED Follow the key races and measures across the nine Bay Area counties. Riverside County Sheriff "Chad Bianco" promises that if elected governor, he will cut taxes, shrink government and root out fraud. At a KQED town hall earlier this…...
Emma's Must-Sees
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (435+ words) Follow the key races and measures across the nine Bay Area counties. Become a member to sustain public media and the television programming you love. As a benefit, you'll get access to Passport so you can stream KQED programming on…...
Advocates Demand Investigation After Women Say SF Jail Deputies Recorded Strip Searches
6+ mon, 1+ hour ago (480+ words) More than a dozen women held at the San Francisco County Jail on Seventh Street say they were strip-searched in front of male deputies who recorded them and taunted them....
20 Women Sue SF Sheriff's Office Over Alleged Mass Strip Search
2+ day, 2+ min ago (639+ words) Follow the key races and measures across the nine Bay Area counties. Twenty women incarcerated in San Francisco sued the city and sheriff over alleged civil rights violations Friday, one year after they were allegedly forced to participate in a…...
Forum from the Archives: What Does It Take to Be a "Good Woman?
2+ day, 46+ min ago (1283+ words) Follow the key races and measures across the nine Bay Area counties. Savala Nolan, executive director, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, Berkeley Law; author, "Good Woman: A Reckoning," "Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and…...
Guide to San Francisco's Ballot: Dueling Tax Measures, Sunset District Supervisor, Race to Replace Pelosi
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (144+ words) Follow the key races and measures across the nine Bay Area counties. Marisa, Guy and KQED's Sydney Johnson crack open San Francisco's ballot and dig into the competing business-tax measures Proposition D and Proposition C, the Sunset District supervisor's race…...
California Steps Closer to Ban on Engineered Stone After Silicosis Surge
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (656+ words) Follow the key races and measures across the nine Bay Area counties. California regulators voted Thursday to take a key step toward banning a popular countertop material linked to a surging lung disease that is disabling and killing hundreds of…...