Max Harrison-Caldwell
Audio Academy Fellow, Summer '23Max Harrison-Caldwell is a summer intern at KALW and a student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he is studying audio reporting and photojournalism. Before going back to school, he covered streets and public space for The Frisc. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Thrasher Magazine.
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A package of bills from Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers aims to expedite infrastructure projects. -
A new housing fee reform plan aims to expedite the construction of homes in San Francisco. -
California senators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla announced Monday that California will receive nearly $2 billion to expand internet access. -
A civil grand jury report released June 15 reveals that nearly a quarter of teachers in the San Francisco Unified School District do not have full teaching credentials. -
A statewide study released Tuesday concludes that high housing costs are at the root of California’s homelessness crisis. The study is the largest survey of homeless adults in California since 1996. -
The sheriff of Alameda County — which stretches from Fremont to Albany — introduced an ordinance Tuesday that would make it a crime to spectate at a sideshow. It’s the latest in a series of efforts to crack down on sideshows — gatherings where crowds cheer on cars doing stunts — in the Bay Area. -
California state legislators announced a plan Sunday that could stave off service cuts in mass transit. The plan would reverse major proposed cuts to transportation projects and allocate more than one billion dollars to transit agencies over the next three years. -
San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday not to landmark the seats in the Castro Theatre, which its new operator wants to remove. A live events company took over operations at the theater last year and plans to convert it into an event venue — much to the dismay of some moviegoers. -
An Oakland police accountability group issued a letter on Friday calling for the chair of the city’s Police Commission to step down. -
CrosscurrentsThere’s a new spa in the Bay Area, and it’s in a kind of unexpected place: a shoreline lot in Richmond, between an abandoned wine processing plant and a shipping container that holds a ceramics studio. The project is called Good Hot and is the brainchild of two architecture grads who wanted to put their ideas of design for intimate, communal space into practice.
