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Wren Farrell

San Francisco

Emergency Disaster and Preparedness Reporter at KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA)

@ucbsoj Local News Fellow; @kalw Emergency Disaster and Preparedness Reporter ; [email protected]

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  • 3 days ago | kalw.org | Wren Farrell

    “No cuts! No layoffs! No cuts! No layoffs! Defend! Public Services!”Last week, Mayor Lurie released his highly anticipated budget. Facing an almost 800 million dollar budget deficit, he wants to cut almost 200 million dollars worth of contracts with non-profits over the next two years. He’s also proposing to eliminate almost 1400 city jobs. “ I take no joy in this.

  • 3 days ago | kalw.org | Wren Farrell

    An independent consulting group has been working for more than a year to identify the staffing needs of Oakland’s Police Department. However, the city doesn’t have a centralized database tracking its cases, and there was limited data on 911 calls after 2022. Due to these issues the report stated that its information “cannot be individually guaranteed to be accurate.”OPD, like many police departments across the country, is struggling to recruit and retain police officers.

  • 1 week ago | kalw.org | Wren Farrell

    San Francisco wants to reach net zero emissions by 2040. Currently, transportation in private vehicles is San Francisco’s largest source of pollution. The department wants to increase access to public transportation, walking, and biking to reduce transportation-related emissions. Buildings are the city’s second largest source of pollution. To meet its net-zero goals, the department says the city will need to eliminate fossil fuels in new construction and in existing buildings.

  • 3 weeks ago | kalw.org | Wren Farrell

    Mayor Daniel Lurie said he was going to use a “common sense” approach to deal with San Francisco’s drug crisis. So far, that’s meant rolling back harm reduction policies and arresting drug users. But some, like Supervisor Jackie Fielder, don’t think his strategy is working. “Despite continued enforcement, the number of people struggling with addiction and dying from it has gone up, not down.”Overdose deaths have increased in San Francisco by almost 50 percent this year.

  • 1 month ago | kalw.org | Wren Farrell

    Assemblymember Matt Haney joined small business owners and members of the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce to condemn President Trump’s 145 percent tariff on Chinese imports. “Sometimes these tariffs are framed as being about targeting foreign governments or foreign economies, but this is devastating our economy.”Magan Li and her son, Lucas Li, sell religious products at their store Lion Trading. They say almost one hundred percent of their inventory is imported from China.

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