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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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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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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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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Small-Town Resistance to Migrant housing: What happens if farm workers are made to feel unwelcome in Northern Michigan?
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Can a 1-day Ceasefire Bring Peace to Oakland?: East Oakland Organizers Plan A Day Without Violence
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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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The Anonymous Artist: A true story about the fickle word of art world fame.
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Movement to End Mexico’s Drug War — 1 Year in, Any Progress?: A year after the killing of Juan Francisco Sicilia, senseless death continues in Mexico.
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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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Al-Jazeera English Shunned by Cable TV: A visit to Burlington Vermont, the first city to carry the controversial station.
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Press Freedom on the Front Lines: Reporters in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Honduras, and the Gaza Strip talk about the difficulties and dangers they face in order to do their jobs.
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Farmworkers Win Fight For Pay Raise From Burger King: A series of print and radio stories about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
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San Franciscans Debate Making Sitting on Sidewalk Illegal: Proposition L was accused of targeting the homeless and the poor.
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What Housing Crisis? Foreclosure Auctions are Big Business.: A visit to the surreal world of foreclosure acutions.
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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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California’s Prop 19-The end of the War on Marijuana?: How the failed legalization measure could signal changes for America's long-standing policy on marijuana prohibition.
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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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La Tanda-A Grassroots Savings Scheme: Immigrant communities bring a new way to save money to the US.
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A Unicycle Basketball Rivalry: Puerto Rico and Berkeley California square off in the North American championships.
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A Conversation With Burning Man Founder Larry Harvey: Interview with Burning Man Founder Larry Harvey on Gift Economies
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Citizen Air Quality Monitoring in San Francisco: Art meets science in this neighborhood experiment, where San Franciscans set out to find out whats in the air they breathe.
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Cleaning up Egypt’s White Desert: A week-long trip picking up trash in the magical landscape of the Eastern Sahara.
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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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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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