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kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Riley Cooke
Apr 18Failed to save articlePlease try againOakland City Hall in downtown Oakland on Aug. 2, 2023. The Oakland Public Ethics Commission’s executive director announced his resignation months after the agency’s chief investigator quit, citing a severe lack of resources.
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Apr 17Failed to save articlePlease try againThe dormitory at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center at the corner of Embarcadero and Beale Street in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2020. San Francisco plans to expand a program pairing shelter beds at the Adante Hotel on Geary Street in Lower Nob Hill with access to addiction treatment, to intervene in the city’s drug crisis.
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kqed.org | Riley Cooke
Apr 11Failed to save articlePlease try againThe Press Democrat’s former printing facility in Rohnert Park on April 11, 2025. A vote by union journalists at the North Bay newspaper clears the last major hurdle in a sale to San Francisco Chronicle owner, Hearst. Union members say their options were less than ideal.
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Failed to save articlePlease try againCommunity members help restore Emily Fromm’s 60-foot mural at Judah Street and the Great Highway after it was vandalized with graffiti in March. On Wednesday, San Francisco’s parks commission chose from a list of five finalists to name the park on a now-closed section of the Upper Great Highway.
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kqed.org | Riley Cooke
Failed to save articlePlease try againCommunity members help restore Emily Fromm’s 60-foot mural at Judah Street and the Great Highway after it was vandalized with graffiti in March. On Wednesday, the San Francisco’s parks commission will choose from a list of five finalists to name the new park on a now-closed section of the Upper Great Highway.
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kqed.org | Riley Cooke
Mar 22Failed to save articlePlease try againProtestors chant along with organizers during a protest against Israel's breaking of a ceasefire agreement in San Francisco on March 18, 2025. (Aryk Copley/KQED)Gregory did not respond to multiple requests for comment, but JCRC spokesperson Jeremy Russell said he hopes “any organization would want to distance itself from explicit calls to violence.”Other organizers of Tuesday’s protest have also come to AROC’s defense.
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kqed.org | Riley Cooke
Mar 20Failed to save articlePlease try againUla Taylor, professor of African American studies, speaks during a rally in Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley on March 19, 2025, to protest the Trump administration's scrutiny of campus protests and curriculum nationwide. The demonstration comes amid broader concerns over federal funding cuts and actions perceived as threats to academic freedom.
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flipboard.com | Riley Cooke
1 day agoHamas 'impractical' in hostage talks, Trump envoy saysWASHINGTON − President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, issued a statement Friday saying Hamas was making “impractical” demands rather than agreeing to extend a ceasefire in the Gaza war and release hostage Edan Alexander immediately.
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kqed.org | Riley Cooke
Mar 15Failed to save articlePlease try againPro-Palestinian protesters set up a tent encampment in front of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus on April 22, 2024, in Berkeley, California. This week, students held two major campus protests in response to the arrest and detention of a former Columbia University student who organized pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus last year.
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kqed.org | Riley Cooke
Mar 7Failed to save articlePlease try againPro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto on April 25, 2024. The Santa Clara County DA said Thursday that he won’t pursue charges against Dilan Gohill, who was arrested nine months ago while covering a pro-Palestinian protest. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)Press freedom advocates have condemned Gohill’s arrest since it happened, saying that he was doing his job as a reporter.
