Criminalizing Mental Illness: How the country’s jails have become our default mental health treatment centers.
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For Chronic Alcoholics, ‘Wet Houses’ Offer a Home: "Shelters have kind of been the same way they are for over 100 years."
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Librarians on the Line: Evaluating Children’s Books About Police: In a post Black Lives Matter world, children's literature hasn't necessarily kept up with the times.
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Could Free Eviction Attorneys Help Stem San Francisco’s Housing Crisis?: Proposition F is a milestone in the growing "Right to Counsel" movement
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Athletes chase competitive advantage by cutting weight: Losing 15-20 pounds in 48 hours is par for the course.
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How does Burning Man leave the desert squeaky clean?: “Burning Man has become a master in how to clean up a site after a large event like this.”
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For Alcoholic Residents at Dann’s House, ‘It Feels Like Home’: This summer morning, like every day, the case manager went on a beer run around 9 a.m.
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Is this crime-fighting technique invading your privacy?: ShotSpotter straddles the fine line technology walks between public good and privacy bad.
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My Dad Hasn’t Had Anything to Eat or Drink in 2 years: How a seemingly horrible medical situation can lead to a new lease on life.
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Teaching medicine with fake cadavers that bleed, blink and breathe: Synthetic Cadavers and 3D Printed Kidneys could signal the future of medicine.
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Oakland Bio-Hackers Try to Make their Own Insulin: A ragtag group of non-scientists is trying to break up the big pharma monopoly on insulin.
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Legendary Squatter Takes Possession of His Home: Can the narrow legal strategy of squatting to take posession of a home help stem gentrification?
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Will the Berkeley Flea Market Survive a Changing Neighborhood?: Will gentrification squeeze out this historically African-American gathering place?
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To find the good stuff at Goodwill, go online: The king of Thriftshops is remaking its image, and wants customers to bid for items on ebay.
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Efforts to deploy drones for humanitarian purposes are hampered by public fears: Bureaucracy is keeping aid from reaching war-torn Syrians towns
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Rock Paper Scissors Is Priced Out: End of an Era for Oakland Art Scene: A seminal art gallery is the latest victim of Oakland's "coolness" -- success that it helped create.
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Low-Power Radio Station Fights AIDS in New Orleans: WHIV is on the air and trying to change public perceptions.
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Commuter Cops: Should police have to live in the city where they work?
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Porchfest!–Musicians Take over the Streets of Napa: A year after a significant earthquake, the best of Napa was on display in their version of what's become a national phenomenon:
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5 Years After BP: In Conversation With Antonia Juhasz: One of the foremost experts on the oil industry says five years after the BP disaster, the Gulf of Mexico is struggling to recover, and the oil companies appear to have learned very little.
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California Cities Debate Militarization of Local Police Departments: Does a community with fewer than 100,000 people need tanks and grenade launchers?
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Battle Over a Sliver of Land in Changing Oakland Neighborhood: A Porta-Potty encapsulates the pressures of gentrification.
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African Immigrants Suffer Fallout of Ebola Epidemic: African immigrant-owned businesses face Ebola stigma across the bay area.
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Turfin: Women Dance Their Way Into a Male-Dominated Scene: Female street dancers getting some shine in a male dominated scene.
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Skateboarders Try to Legalize Skatepark: Can a renegade skatepark go legit?
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The People vs. Syngenta: Jackson County, OR bans GMO crops: A rural Oregon county takes on big Ag.
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Low Power Radio Stations Vie for FCC Licenses: Small communities across the country have a historic opportunity to create their own community radio station.
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4th Graders Want Deported Classmate Back in USA: Jefferson elementary students want to "Bring Rodrigo Home!"
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Immigration Reform Would Look Different for Africans And Afro-Caribbeans: Asylum, refugees, TPS...the issues are different than for many other immigrants.
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WIll Richmond Become The First City to Tax Soda?: The soda industry is spending more than $2 million to try and defeat measure N.
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The Fight Over Gang Injunctions: An in depth look at the battle both inside and outside the courtroom, over this controversial crime fighting tool.
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Small-Town Resistance to Migrant housing: What happens if farm workers are made to feel unwelcome in Northern Michigan?
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Protesters target Wells Fargo shareholder meeting in San Francisco: Can shareholder activism alter the financial giant's policies?
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May Day Protests Bring Together Immigrants and Occupy: Can Occupy work together with labor and immigrants rights activists to build a broader movement?
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‘Popuphood’ aims to bring new business to Old Oakland: Taking the pop-up concept to the next level
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Ecstatic Dance Builds a Following: Some are calling it 'the new yoga'.
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Immigrants Fleeing to Florida in Wake of Alabama Immigration Law: Immigrant families fleeing Alabama are finding overwhelmed social services in Florida.
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Police Crack Down on Occupy Oakland for 2nd Time in Street Clash: Police use tear gas on demonstrations against a raid on Occupy Oakland.
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Awash in Foreclosure: In Detroit, an unpaid water bill can mean the loss of a child, or your home.
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I Shouldn’t Have a Choice: A afternoon outside the only abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi.
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Inside a Halliburton Job Fair: Army recuitment may be down, but economic hardship keeps the troops of Halliburton at high levels
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Supercop: Kind of like Robocop gone wrong.
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Grandma’s Last Days: Grandma is dying, and no one can hear her, except me.
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My Truck: Think you love your truck? Not as much as this guy....
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Felons Want Their Voting Rights Restored: 2nd Place-Best Feature: 2004 Mid Florida Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism awards.
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Civil Rights Legend James Lawson: An interview with the Rev. James Lawson, one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s co-strategists during the civil rights movement.
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Breaking Through the Blue Wall of Silence: A look at the ongoing battle between the people and the police – and the debate over who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong.
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Saving Cypress Forests from Becoming Garden Mulch: Hurricane damage on the Gulf Coast stems in part due to the unscrupulous clearing of precious swampland.
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Burning Man’s Gift Economy: There's no money exchanged at Burning Man. Find out how it works.
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Egypt’s Cartoon Revolution: For these young political cartoonists in Cairo, every issue of their newspaper is a sophisticated dance with the Egyptian governments' limits of free speech and censorship.
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State of Fear: Arizona’s Immigrant Crackdown: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio turns the Phoenix, AZ area into ground zero in the battle over immigration.
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