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What will the first 100 days of a Biden Administration look like? City Visions host Ethan Elkind speaks with Congresswoman Barbara Lee to get her…

The movement to defund police has forced Bay Area officials to take a hard look at their budgets in recent weeks. But radically transforming policing…

Was Machiavelli an unscrupulous theorist and advisor, or one of the most widely misunderstood political philosophers ever?Niccolò Machiavelli is best…

Hey Area is where we find answers to questions you ask. This one comes from New York staff writer Jelani Cobb. He asks, “How did there get to be an entirely separate city inside of Oakland?”

City College of San Francisco recently eliminated more than 300 class offerings -- without consulting academic chairs, students or city leaders. Those…

What will life be like when every road you travel, every device you own, every building you enter is connected to the internet?Smart TVs, refrigerators,…

Prop A would let City College of San Francisco borrow up to $845 million by issuing bonds. The money would go to buy or construct new buildings and fix up…

The first thing you should know: This has nothing to do with the Prop 13 most Californians have heard about: That’s the measure that capped property taxes…

Can we still lead productive, meaningful lives if the demand for human labor disappears? Work: a lot lot of people do it, and a lot of people don’t seem…

Governor Gavin Newsom released his proposed budget in early January. It’s his second since he took office and, just like the first one, it focuses on…