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Feds Award $30 Million to Remake S.F. Housing Project
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What do you do with a housing project of 256 dilapidated units, tucked into a little-seen corner of town? Tear it down — but not before you build it back better. That's the plan for San Francisco's Alice Griffith Public … Continue reading
Bayview Shooting: Explaining the Discrepancy Between SFPD Guns and Bullet Found in Kenneth Harding
UPDATE, 1:13 PM: Another possibility in this matter is that sometimes officers carry backup weapons on the job, with the approval of their departments. This would be, perhaps, a firearm purchased personally that can be carried on one's person while … Continue reading
SFPD Chief Suhr Walks Out of Chaotic Bayview Town Hall; Video, Interview With Suhr Afterward
I'm just finishing up my radio report on tonight's town hall meeting at the Bayview Opera House in San Francisco's Bayview district, organized in response to Saturday's police shooting of 19-year-old parolee Kenneth Harding. The standing-room-only event degenerated into chaos … Continue reading
Inside the San Francisco taping of "Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me!"
If you've only ever heard "Wait, Wait… Don't Tell Me!", then you really don't know the show at all. You literally have to see it to believe it. We may have been the largest audience ever at San Francisco's War … Continue reading
Pelican Bay Prisoners Reportedly on Hunger Strike
You could call it a "prison within a prison": a supermax facility so isolating that some inmates say they haven't seen the night sky in years. Prison reform advocates say that inmates at the Security Housing Unit of California's Pelican … Continue reading
KQED-FM's First Manager: Launching NPR "Took A Lot of Doing"
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Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of NPR. But if the U.S. military had killed Osama bin Laden back then, many NPR stations would not have been able to bring you live coverage. In fact, they'd have had to wait for … Continue reading
Future of SF's Eagle Tavern Uncertain; Fans Rally to Stop Shutdown
We're awaiting word from the owner of property on which the Eagle Tavern stands, to learn more about the future of this historic San Francisco bar. It's known as a hub for the leather community, a source for charitable fundraising, and … Continue reading
Bay Area Connections to the Civil War
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Tuesday marks 150 years since the Civil War began when Confederates in Charleston, S.C., opened their bombardment of Fort Sumter. You might think of it as a years-long fight of North and South, but as it turns out the West … Continue reading
Half Moon Bay Prepares to Dissolve Police Department
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Since it incorporated in 1959, the City of Half Moon Bay has had a police force. Now, after 52 years in service and an ongoing fiscal crisis, the department is going away to save just over a half million dollars … Continue reading
