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Proposition L, a tax measure on the November ballot, is intended to give businesses incentive to change their pay structure to bring executive compensation more in line with workers’. Revenue from the measure, if passed, is expected to range from $60 million to $140 million a year. Sarah Anderson, who directs the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and researches Wall Street...

Talbot will be speaking at an Institute on Aging event Monday, Oct. 5 at 5:30 p.m.

In this conversation about the regional sales tax to fund Caltrain, Measure RR, Adina Levin, executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Caltrain and co-founder and advocacy director of the nonprofit Seamless Bay Area, explains how Measure RR got on the ballot and what it would enable Caltrain to do.

In this discussion about the regional tax proposal to fund Caltrain, Measure RR, Eric Garris, a San Francisco resident who submitted the official opposition to the measure, lays out his argument against it.

Read the original story and follow-up reporting in Mission Local.

The documentary “The First Angry Man” turns its lens back on the moment when Proposition 13, which dramatically restricted property taxes, was passed and examines the social and political context of the time. The filmmakers, Camille Servan-Schreiber and Jason Andrew Cohn, make the case that Howard Jarvis, the public face of Proposition 13, helped usher in an era of nationwide tax revolt and distru...

Barbara Hale, assistant manager for power with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, responds to some of these concerns raised by Treasure Island resident Barklee Sanders about disruptive power outages, and outlines the various responsibilities for the island's power supply and how those were assigned. Check out our podcast feed for an interview with Barklee Sanders illustrating the impac...

Residents on Treasure Island live with frequent and recurring power outages, in part because the infrastructure is quite old. Barklee Sanders, an island resident who has been researching and advocating for improvements to the grid, illustrates the scope of the problem and just how disruptive the outages are to residents. Check our podcast feed for another interview on this topic in which the San F...

At the top of the list of local ballot measures going before voters in November is Proposition A, billed as the “Health and Recovery Bond.” Several initiatives would be funded by this $487.5 million bond, including the development of behavioral health and substance abuse services, expansion of shelters and temporary housing, renovating or developing parks and repairs to infrastructure like roads....

Hear WORD for WORDcast on KSFP 102.5 FM Saturdays at 6 p.m. and Sundays at 5 p.m.

Proposition K on the November ballot represents an attempt to allow the city to create new low-rent housing units, like public housing but at the municipal level. Unlike other affordable housing being built in the city, these units would be created by the local government, not nonprofits or private developers. The city must obtain voter approval to build such housing because of an article in the C...

Tens of thousands of people are facing evacuation orders and threats to their safety as fires continue to blaze across the Western United States. These disastrous fires are one of the effects of climate change that scientists predicted, says climate activist Laura Neish, executive director of 350 Bay Area and 350 Bay Area Action. We discuss how to talk about climate change amid these disasters, an...

Read Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano's writing here .

CalMatters reporter Ben Christopher explains what it means for California to have an "almost" all vote-by-mail election and what to expect from ballots, polling places, and vote tallying this November.

With an infusion of $25 billion to help the postal service weather the coronavirus pandemic still in limbo awaiting consideration by the Senate, local mail workers continue to work extended hours under difficult conditions to beat back delays in mail delivery. APWU Local 2 President Cindy Datangel says postal workers are also grappling with absences as coronavirus spreads to and among staff.

Corrections: An earlier version of this podcast misstated the status of Jacob Blake, whom Kenosha, Wis. police officers shot and gravely injured. The podcast was further updated to clarify a reference to police use-of-force data.

Nonprofits in the Bay Area are facing the challenge of carrying out their missions during a pandemic and maintaining their funding so they can continue to serve once the crisis has passed. Reporter George Koster has been chronicling those changes on this new show "Voices of the Community" which premiers on our station KSFP.

When you tune your radio to 102.5 on the FM dial, you might get public radio-style talk programming, or you might hear music from local artists. That's because there are two radio stations on this frequency, KSFP — Civic's radio home — and KXSF, a project of San Francisco Community Radio. San Francisco Public Press Publisher Lila LaHood talked with two KXSF DJs about the station partnership and ke...

In response to the disproportionate law enforcement violence against people with mental illness and amid ongoing calls to defund or reform police, activists with the Anti Police-Terror Project on Friday night will launch an initiative in Oakland designed to offer an alternative to calling the police in mental health crises. The initiative, called M.H. First Oakland, will begin operations as a hotl...

San Francisco Press Conference. Beginning on Sept. 1, many gyms, hair salons and barber shops in San Francisco will be allowed to serve customers if they can find a way to do so outdoors.

Performances as part of ACT’s InterACT at Home initiative will be livestreamed Sept. 4-12 and will be available on demand Sept. 18-25. Details at ACT-sf.org

Uber and Lyft are battling in the California courts and on the November ballot to avoid having their drivers classified as full employees, The companies have threatened to shut down operations in California if they lose. We speak with the Taxi Workers Alliance about how the companies have changed the ride-hailing industry, what happens if Uber and Lyft leave California and the gig work economy.

Treasure Island resident and organizer Hope Williams has worked for years to get resources for the island. When the pandemic hit, she kicked her efforts into even higher gear. Hear why she’s still working to get residents heard:

Californians were hit with power shut-offs last weekend and were told to conserve energy by minimizing use as power needs could exceed availability. But some energy experts, including former CPUC president Loretta Lynch, are doubtful that unusually high demand led to the shutdowns, alleging mismanagement on the part of the state’s energy grid operator. A spokesperson for the Independent System Ope...

Uber and Lyft were expected to shut down service at 11:59 p.m. tonight as a court ruling forcing them to reclassify drivers as employees was set to go into effect. With just hours to spare, an appeals court judge granted the companies a reprieve. We talked with two rideshare drivers who have been organizing for employee status.