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News & Analysis
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Your CallIf Donald Trump wins the election, JD Vance is one step away from the White House. He entered politics as the Senator of Ohio just two years ago. -
CrosscurrentsMike Madrid, a co-founder of the Lincoln Project and author of “The Latino Century,” recently took part in a live discussion at KALW on what Latino voters care most about today. -
tbhIn 2023 alone, lawmakers introduced 42 bills that restrict discussions about gender and sexuality in K-12 schools. In this story, tbh producer Amaya Dorman Mackenzie shares her story growing up in a school district that supported LGBTQ+ students. She shows what can happen when educators, lawmakers, and community members listen to youth. -
Your CallScientists are warning that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense as a result of climate change. -
CrosscurrentsThe 'call to action' of a campaign led by young people in Richmond makes their appeal to apathetic voters very simple and personal. -
Your CallSasha Abramsky writes about how polarization threatened to break apart two American communities and how one found a way back while the other splintered. -
Your CallNew York Times global economics correspondent Peter Goodman discusses how monopolistic industries exploited the COVID-19 crisis and what's really driving inflation. -
Your CallIn his new book, Yale professor of philosophy Jason Stanley exposes the danger of the authoritarian right’s attacks on education and efforts to erase history. -
CrosscurrentsKALW’s Executive Producer Ben Trefny speaks with Oaklandside's arts, culture and community reporter Azucena Rasilla about what’s most pressing for the people living in Oakland’s District 5. -
State of the BayState of the Bay talks to Deputy Secretary for Forest and Wildfire Resilience Lisa Lien-Mager. And we hear from both sides of Prop D which aims to eliminate half of San Francisco's city commissions. Plus, local author Caroline Paul discusses her new book "Tough Broads".
Gimme My Props
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Berkeley’s Measure Z — also known as the soda tax — is an initiative that aims to extend the 2014 ballot measure to continue the tax on sugar sweetened beverages. -
Oakland’s Measure OO is a new initiative to change the structure of the Oakland Public Ethics Commission. -
Oakland’s Measure NN is a new proposal aimed at funding public safety through a tax on property owners. -
Oakland Measure MM is a new initiative that aims to fund wildfire prevention in parts of the city with high fire risk. -
Richmond’s Measure J and Measure L both focus on election reform. -
Proposition O would strengthen access to abortions in San Francisco. -
Proposition N would create a fund to help police officers, firefighters, paramedics, sheriffs, nurses and 911 dispatchers employed by the city pay off their student loan debt. -
SF Prop M would overhaul SF Business Tax System . The city would rely less on taxing a company’s payroll for staff working here, and more on revenue that businesses earn within the city. -
Proposition L would tax ride-hail companies, including those that operate self-driving cars. -
Proposition K would start a process that could permanently close part of San Francisco’s Great Highway to traffic.
Bay Area Headlines
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The results of the election have had a polarizing effect on communities across the country. KALW asked San Franciscans about how they were moving forward. -
Monday was the last day for California voters to register by mail or online for the November 5 election. -
Continued San Francisco Unified School District travails, an Oakland election explainer, Bay Area voter outreach to swing states. -
A group of business and community leaders held a press conference in Oakland’s Chinatown today to speak out against the campaign to recall Mayor Sheng Thao. -
San Francisco Mayor London Breed did not appear for a mayoral forum last night that was hosted by the San Francisco League of Women Voters. -
A Bay Area-based nonprofit polled 900 Latinos from across the state on their election concerns. -
The first week back for 50,000 students in San Francisco’s public schools was capped with an unexpected change of leadership on the school board last Friday. -
Amid campaigns to recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, a group of recall opponents gathered in East Oakland to push back. -
While a huge showing of California delegates are at the Democratic National Convention to support Kamala Harris, not all in attendance are there to root for her. -
The San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association — or SPUR — is a public policy think tank that aims to develop solutions to the problems facing Bay Area cities. The nonprofit released a 44-page report that details the inefficiencies it sees in San Francisco’s government.
