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The Kartma Street Cafe, with homeless and formally homeless baristas, has a grand opening Tuesday that includes half-price drinks and a ribbon-cutting by Mayor Sam Liccardo and Councilman Raul Peralez.

#homelessness

How Demographics Rule the Global Economy

#population #economy

Why are so many kids with bright prospects killing themselves in Palo Alto?

#palo alto #student pressure #suicide #mental health #silicon valley

Whatever parochial differences once seemed to divide Northern and Southern California are increasingly trivial. It's time we all got over them.

#california #regionalism

California farmworkers suffer more heat deaths and illnesses than any other workers in outdoor industries

#farmworkers #labor

SANTA ANA – No one knows Santa Ana’s streets like the people who live there, and a group of local youth has used that knowledge in an unprecedented effort to get the city a $2.37 million grant for bike lanes on the roads they ride every day.

#youth #transportation #activism

Tone policing is a dangerous habit that has real psychosocial consequences. By telling people not to express their anger…

#defending our line #social justice

Darcel Jackson, who's lived on the street himself, wants to put technology in the hands of San Francisco’s homeless.

#technology #homelessness

Just 9 percent of San Francisco one-bedrooms rent for less than $2,000 a month.

#housing

For the first time in the city's history, anyone caught illegally dumping furniture or other trash on the street will face stiff new penalties, the City Council decided Tuesday, an aggressive effort to get a grip on a rapidly growing problem.

#san jose #material things #rules and regulations

This self-funded, homespun documentary on YouTube packs the insanity into 22 minutes and tells the harrowing tale through the eyes of the filmmakers, Michelle Joyce and Steve Fyffe, a married couple with two kids, who've been trying to buy a house in the Bay Area for five years.

Michelle said she and her husband, who worked as journalist before becoming a communications manager at Stanford University, decided to make the movie because, "The crazy housing situation in the Bay Area is all we talked about and all anyone we know talked about." [SFGate]

#housing

Aerospace giant Northrop Grumman Corp. won an intense four-year competition Tuesday to build the nation's new fleet of stealth bombers, a project likely to create thousands of jobs in Southern California.

#military expansion

The California State University system should institute tuition increases for California residents and out-of-state students, begin year-round academic schedules and provide campus funding based on graduation and other rates, a new panel suggests.

#csu system #tuition

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