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News & Analysis
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More than $5 million in donations has poured into campaigns for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors races so far, with even more money expected before this November’s elections. -
Your CallProject 2025 paves the way for mass family separation, eliminates family-based immigration and DACA, allows immigration raids on schools and hospitals, and more. -
J.D. Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate and former venture capitalist, returns to Silicon Valley today to bolster campaign funds through his network of tech moguls and conservatives. -
Your CallAs the climate crisis fuels more extreme weather events, the US presidential election will have huge consequences for the planet and climate policy around the globe. -
Your CallAccording to ProPublica, a network of ultrawealthy Christians are spending nearly $12 million to purge swing state voters from the rolls and tilt the election in favor of Donald Trump. -
State of the BayOne-on-one with San Francisco mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie. Dr. Peter Chin-Hong on SFDPH's new mask recommendation. Art of the Incarcerated from Empowerment Ave. -
Your CallThe assault on Gaza has killed over 39,000 Palestinians. Will Vice President Kamala Harris continue President Biden's full backing for the assault or change policies? -
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted four-to-one on Tuesday to approve the final agreement for Measure QQ. This would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in Oakland and Berkeley school board elections. But, it’s unclear if it will make it onto the November ballot. -
Your CallWe continue our Project 2025 series by focusing on the plan’s authoritarian promise #1: Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.
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Your Legal RightsThe presidential election is a contest for the most powerful office on earth. It should be a competition between the best of the best; with the changes we’ve all gone through the past few weeks, can anyone say “the best of the best” truly describes what each party has nominated?What just happened? What is coming up next? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?Sitting in for YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, tonight's Guest Host, Dean Johnson, is joined by politcal writer Mark Simon, politcal activist Brent Turner, Bob Marks a former political consultant and John Flaherty, once Chief of Staff to Secretary of Transportation Norm Mineta.Questions for Dean and his guests? Please call, toll free, at (866) 798-8255.
Gimme My Props
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If passed, California Proposition 36 would enforce harsher penalties for certain crimes to address concerns about shoplifting and drug possession. -
If passed, California Proposition 35 would require the state to use money from a tax on health insurance plans towards payments to doctors who serve Medi-Cal patients. -
If passed, California Proposition 34 would require some California health providers to use profits from prescription drug sales to directly fund patient care. -
If passed, California Proposition 33 would let cities remove current limits on rent control. -
If passed, California Proposition 32 would mandate a higher statewide minimum wage. -
If passed, Proposition 6 would end California’s practice of forcing incarcerated people to work. -
California Proposition 5 would lower the threshold of voter support required to pass certain local bond measures. -
California Proposition 4 would fund projects across the state to pay for climate and environmental projects. -
If passed, Proposition 3 would enshrine the right to same-sex marriage in the California constitution. -
If California Proposition 2 passes, it would pay for repairs and upgrades at thousands of K-12 schools and community colleges across California.
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.
