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News & Analysis
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CrosscurrentsOver 60 percent of voters between 18 and 34 view climate change as a serious threat. But what about people who are too young to vote? tbh producer Antara Gangwal, a senior at Leland High School, says education is the first step in being involved in advocacy. -
State of the BayProp K would permanently close the Great Highway to cars and make Ocean Beach a park; A new street drug called "soap"; Music writer Michael Goldberg's images of rock legends in Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023. -
Your CallLast Tuesday, armed officers appeared at the homes of at least six Latino activists who register people to vote in Texas. They took cellphones, laptops, and documents. -
Your CallProject 2025 will enable discrimination across society, set polluters loose, undo climate action, make education unaffordable, and more, according to Democracy Forward. -
CrosscurrentsBerkeley voters are facing a long ballot this November. To better understand the choices ahead, we talk to Berkeleyside’s Associate Editor and City Hall Reporter Nico Savidge. -
CrosscurrentsIn Alameda County, an anti-recall movement is gaining momentum. Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and District Attorney Pamela Price are both facing recalls this November. We speak with Oaklandside reporter Roselyn Romero who has been following this story. -
Your CallUnder Project 2025, four million people could lose overtime protections, 40 million could have their food assistance reduced, and 220,000 jobs could be lost. -
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. -
Your CallThis week, The Democratic Party's convention featured speeches on critical issues, including reproductive rights and Trump's Project 2025 agenda. -
A public conversation about the ballot measure to permanently close San Francisco's Upper Great Highway to car traffic and turn it into a park. It's Proposition K on the November ballot.
Gimme My Props
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Proposition J would create an oversight body to monitor city government spending on programs helping children and young people. -
Proposition I would improve retirement packages for 9-1-1 dispatchers, as well as nurses who transition from temporary to full-time roles. -
Proposition H would lower the retirement age for San Francisco firefighters from 58 to 55. -
Proposition G would reduce rent in hundreds of units serving extremely low-income seniors, families and people with disabilities. -
Proposition F allows retirement eligible police officers to stay on the job while receiving both their salary and pension for up to five years. -
Proposition E would create a five member task force to assess San Francisco’s many commissions and recommend whether any should be altered or eliminated to improve local governance. -
Proposition D would dramatically alter governance in San Francisco, slashing City Hall commissions from the current 130 to a maximum of 65, retaining 20 major commissions. -
Proposition C aims to fight corruption in the San Francisco government by creating an inspector general to investigate fraud, waste and abuse. -
Proposition B would let San Francisco borrow up to $390 million to build new infrastructure and upgrade existing buildings, roads, and public spaces. -
Proposition A would let the San Francisco Unified School District borrow up to 790 million dollars to upgrade, repair and retrofit its properties.
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. -
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. -
Some residents in the Bay Area have been receiving text messages regarding their voter registration status in a possible scam to get their personal information.
