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A previously unsuccessful effort to lower the voting age to 16 in the city of San Francisco is once again underway -- led mainly by youth who aim to increase civic engagement and representation.
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Supporters of the effort to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price are taking every opportunity to pressure the county Board of Supervisors to call a special election as soon as possible.
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The third of three investigative stories airing this week from CIVIC, a podcast produced by SF Public Press.
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Today, the Oakland based Kenneth Rainin Foundation announced this year’s group of fellows. One of them is Dr. Ayodele “WordSlanger” Nzinga. Today, we bring you our piece from 2021 about her appointment as the first Poet Laureate of Oakland, a title she still holds today.
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Carlos Quinteros III is a poet with an occasional stutter, stumbling through language, living in San Francisco/the ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone People. He is the managing editor and one of the poetry editors for The Ana, a literary magazine based in the Bay area.
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On the next edition of Your Call, we're gearing up for Independent Bookstore Day, the biggest bookstore celebration of the year.
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The peregrine falcons nested atop UC Berkeley’s Campanile Tower hatched their fourth and final egg of the season on Wednesday.
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Today, the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new 911 dispatch center.
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Tesla is set to lay off some 3,300 workers in California in June, with the majority of jobs being lost coming from the Bay Area.
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The second of three investigative stories airing this week from CIVIC, a podcast produced by SF Public Press.
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Your CallDr. Uché Blackstock's new book is "as much about my work and awakening as a physician as it is a call to reimagine who we are as a country."
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On Tuesday morning, more than 50 tents were pitched outside of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley, with students and organizers there asking that the university meet a number of demands – including divesting from Israel’s war on Palestine.
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Nepal’s constitution protects sexual minorities. Most recently after a long struggle Nepal registered its first same sex marriage, something India next door has refused to do. And now Nepal’s tourism industry is set to cash in.