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KQED to Slash Workforce by 15%, Cutting Dozens of Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs
The Bay Area media nonprofit is laying off staff for the third time in five years. It comes as the Trump administration aims to cut off federal funding for public media.

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How Immigrant Communities are Bracing for ICE Expansion
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A Brand-New Disability Cultural Center Opens in San Francisco
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Judge Says Immigration Agents Must Stop ‘Roving Patrols’ That Have Upended Southern California
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Bay Area Organizer Gets Temporary Reprieve from ICE Detention
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How Can We Save Bay Area Theater From Collapse? 11 Local Experts Weigh In
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Kapwa Gardens to Close With Final Ube Event
A Brand-New Disability Cultural Center Opens in San Francisco
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‘Severance’ Leads Emmy Nominees With 27, ‘The Studio’ Tops Comedies
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Housing Affordability

He Relentlessly Drove 30,000 Miles, Asking One Question: ‘Do You Want Help?’

In Orange County, where the local CARE Court refuses to force people with psychosis into treatment, one social worker drove 30,000 miles last year searching for unhoused clients with schizophrenia — asking if they want help, again and again and again.

California, Epicenter of the Nation’s Housing Crisis, Is Finally Getting a Housing Agency

Aside from giving housing and homelessness its own box atop Gov. Gavin Newsom’s organizational chart, the reorg is supposed to simplify the state’s snarled affordable housing financing system.

Oakland Built a Shelter for Unhoused Residents of Wood Street. Now, It’s Evicting Them

While some left the site and found permanent housing, others remain and could face either arrest or a return to street homelessness.

‘Please Just Let Us Be’: San Francisco RV Crackdown Advances Despite Families’ Pleas

A key city committee gave the green light to Mayor Daniel Lurie’s proposal to limit RV parking to two hours, after years of strife over the large vehicles and those who live in them.

Immigration

Judge Says Immigration Agents Must Stop ‘Roving Patrols’ That Have Upended Southern California

A court ruling Friday orders a halt to a chaotic and relentless 36-day immigration crackdown that’s upended life across Southern California.

Bay Area Organizer Gets Temporary Reprieve from ICE Detention

Bay Area immigrant and community organizer Guillermo Medina Reyes wins a temporary reprieve from ICE detention as a federal judge reviews his case amid increased immigration enforcement and protests in San Francisco.

California Sues Trump Administration Again, This Time Over Withheld School Funds

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing the Trump administration over nearly $6 billion in withheld federal education funding, marking the state’s latest legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s policies.

Nowhere to Go: Bay Area Afghans, Allies Condemn Trump’s End of Protections

Today’s cutoff of temporary protected status thrusts thousands of Afghans into legal limbo and revives accusations that the U.S. is abandoning its wartime allies.
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How Immigrant Communities are Bracing for ICE Expansion

KQED to Slash Workforce by 15%, Cutting Dozens of Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs

The Bay Area media nonprofit is laying off staff for the third time in five years. It comes as the Trump administration aims to cut off federal funding for public media.
Three people in orange and yellow construction gear and helmets stand in front of a construction site with scaffolding and concrete

A Brand-New Disability Cultural Center Opens in San Francisco

The first public center of its kind will host events, support groups and classes adjacent to City Hall.

Judge Says Immigration Agents Must Stop ‘Roving Patrols’ That Have Upended Southern California

A court ruling Friday orders a halt to a chaotic and relentless 36-day immigration crackdown that’s upended life across Southern California.

Bay Area Organizer Gets Temporary Reprieve from ICE Detention

Bay Area immigrant and community organizer Guillermo Medina Reyes wins a temporary reprieve from ICE detention as a federal judge reviews his case amid increased immigration enforcement and protests in San Francisco.

How Can We Save Bay Area Theater From Collapse? 11 Local Experts Weigh In

Amid dire circumstances for local theater companies, 11 directors, playwrights and actors offer a remedy.

Will Congress Cut Funds to NPR/PBS and Foreign Aid This Week?

The Senate will vote this week on the Trump administration's request to claw back federal funding for public media and foreign assistance programs. Some GOP senators have raised concerns about the impact of the cuts on public radio and television stations in their states.
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