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News Pix: Outside Lands, Sir Paul and Remembering Robin Williams
An Instagram photo that comedian and actor Robin Williams posted on his last birthday, July 21. Williams died Monday at age 63. A Marin County forensic investigation found that Williams hanged...
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Candlestick Park’s Next Featured Event: The Demolition
A portion of the upper deck and Candlestick Park. Stadium is due for demolition early next year. (Dan Brekke/KQED) The last few Paul McCartney fans are probably still making their way home from last...
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News Pix: Drought, More Drought, Harvest Season and a Touch of BART
Dominic Pitigliano walks through an almond orchard in Tulare County as the nut harvest gets underway. KQED’s The California Report traveled to the Central Valley to hear how its farmers, ranchers and...
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News Pix: South Napa Earthquake, Frying Pan Fire, and the Castro Theatre Organ
A worker looks at a pile of wine bottles that were thrown from the shelves at Van’s Liquors following a 6.0 earthquake on Sunday in Napa. The 3:20 a.m. quake caused damage to buildings and sent over...
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News Pix: Governor’s Debate, Mission Fire, and Front Yard Art
Gov. Jerry Brown and Neel Kashkari faced off in a debate in Sacramento. The first — and apparently only — debate between the Governor and his Republican challenger was fast-paced and, at times, feisty....
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News Pix: Shadow Cliffs Goes Dry, Fighting the Next Global Pandemic, and the...
The Happy Camp Complex fire burns in Siskiyou County earlier this week. (Kari Greer via Flickr and California Interagency Incident Management Team 1) The Happy Camp Complex Fire in the Klamath National...
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News Pix: California Wildfires, Drag Queens vs. Facebook, Dissident Art on...
The Boles Fire ran through Weed, destroying more than 150 buildings. The small town near Mount Shasta lost an entire neighborhood of houses and two churches. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) A massive...
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News Pix: Surfers Celebrate Ruling, Oakland’s Climate Rally and a BART Bike...
A firefighter on the line of the King Fire, outside the El Dorado County town of Pollock Pines. The fire slowed dramatically this week as the first significant rain of the season swept over the...
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News Pix: S.J. Mayoral Debate, Free Speech Anniversary, Another Black and...
City Councilman Sam Liccardo (left) faced off against Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese in a San Jose mayoral debate at eBay. (Michael Ridola/KQED) A rally at the campus of UC Berkeley marked...
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News Pix: Giants, Honda-Khanna and October Wildfires
Rep. Mike Honda and challenger Ro Khanna at their debate on Monday night. The two Democrats are vying to represent the 17th Congressional District, which runs between Santa Clara and Alameda counties....
View ArticleExplaining Tim Sbranti’s Giant-Sized World Series Ad Buy
During Wednesday night’s broadcast of Game Two of the World Series on KTVU, after the Giants finally got out of that awful bottom of the sixth inning, viewers around the Bay Area saw this: With...
View ArticleEnforcement Issues Remain as San Francisco’s Airbnb Law Takes Effect
As San Francisco begins formal regulation of the burgeoning short-term rental industry, questions remain over how the city can regulate the thousands of listings available on sites like Airbnb....
View ArticleSan Francisco Moves to Tighten Airbnb Law
Update, April 30th: Share Better San Francisco filed a ballot measure on Wednesday to tighten restrictions on short-term rental platforms and hosts. Next month , the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’...
View ArticleSan Francisco Supervisors Postpone Action on Airbnb Law
Update Tuesday 6:20 p.m. A majority of San Francisco supervisors voted to postpone action on two competing measures aimed at strengthening short-term rental regulation in the city — but an unhappy...
View ArticleNorth Bay Democrats Set to Square Off in 2016 State Senate Race
Assemblyman Bill Dodd, a Napa Democrat elected to the Legislature’s lower house just last year, announced a run for the state Senate on Monday. That sets up a race in the 3rd Senate District that could...
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Salinas Valley Tries to Position Itself as Hub of Ag Tech Boom
The new Taylor Farms building anchors downtown Salinas. It’s a company built on three generations of farming, a fixture in the Salinas Valley, but perhaps just as important to the future of this region...
View ArticleBill Looks to Put State Lobbying Laws on Par With Local Rules
Our California Political Muscle series has recently explored both the hidden elements of how businesses lobby to win state government contracts and who employs lobbyists in Sacramento. A bill moving...
View ArticleSan Francisco Group Focuses on Mideast’s LGBT Refugees
As hundreds of thousands of migrants flee the Middle East and make their way through Europe, a San Francisco organization is focusing on aiding LGBT people escaping persecution. In the past three...
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On Airbnb Rentals, Some California Cities Tax First and Regulate Later
Despite the defeat of Proposition F and its stricter rules on short-term rentals, San Francisco is still legislative light-years ahead of other California cities in regulating rental platforms like...
View ArticleCalifornia Teacher’s Supreme Court Case Challenges Union Power
The U.S. Supreme Court takes up a case Monday that could significantly change the landscape of political power in California and beyond. Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association centers on the...
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