Civic
Civic is the flagship audio program from the San Francisco Public Press, a nonprofit news institution, covering important local issues and the unique experiences of living and working in San Francisco. The radio program airs Tuesdays and Thursdays on KSFP -LP 102.5 FM in San Francisco.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 569
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Regional homelessness activist group turns 15
In 2005, a group of advocacy groups working on homelessness formed a coalition to collaborate across cities and states and advance national policy. They called it WRAP, the Western Regional Advocacy …
00:29:30 |
Wed 02 Dec 2020
Youth organizers mobilizing for voting rights confront “adultist” attitudes
In November, voters in Oakland approved Measure QQ, which gives 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in school board elections. Meanwhile, voters in San Francisco rejected Proposition G, which wou…
00:34:30 |
Wed 02 Dec 2020
Muni, hit hard by pandemic, carries on with core services and construction
Public transportation has been transformed by the coronavirus pandemic. Light rail is shut down, and bus service is concentrated on core lines. While the indefinitely extended shelter-in-place order …
00:33:20 |
Tue 01 Dec 2020
S.F. immigration defense unit represents immigrants statewide through pandemic
San Francisco’s office of the public defender has a unit dedicated to defending immigrants in court. In most states, they often have no representation because there is no right to counsel in immigrat…
00:29:30 |
Wed 25 Nov 2020
Journalist: Money poured into SF elections failed to shift outcomes
Every odd-numbered San Francisco supervisorial district had an election in November. One race was extremely close and several were targeted by big independent expenditure money. But Joe Eskenazi, man…
00:29:29 |
Tue 24 Nov 2020
Cities’ uses of this herbicide differ, like conflicting research on its health impacts
Read Kristi's reporting here.
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Sat 21 Nov 2020
How two vehicle dwellers' living situations diverged during the pandemic
Read the full series "Driving Home: Surviving the Housing Crisis" here.
00:29:30 |
Fri 20 Nov 2020
Mail workers renew calls for critical postal service funding
Postal workers nationwide rallied on Tuesday to demand Congress approve $25 billion in emergency funding for the Postal Service to ensure its continued operation, and reverse workflow changes made by…
00:23:40 |
Wed 18 Nov 2020
BART takes cost-cutting measures while making COVID safety and infrastructure improvements
BART ridership was about 13% of pre-pandemic levels in October, which meant a drop in revenue for the system. Despite taking a financial hit, BART immediately responded to the pandemic with new proto…
00:29:29 |
Tue 17 Nov 2020
Voters approved Proposition B. How will its reforms be implemented?
More than 61 percent of San Francisco voters approved Proposition B, a charter amendment to split the Department of Public Works in two and add oversight commissions to both departments as part of an…
00:29:30 |
Sat 14 Nov 2020
Swords to Plowshares continues helping veterans in person through pandemic lockdown
Despite the pandemic shutting down most in-person gatherings and services, staff and volunteers with the veterans services group Swords to Plowshares are still on the ground. In the streets and in dr…
00:29:30 |
Thu 12 Nov 2020
Responding to homelessness with law enforcement is ineffective, researchers say
Researchers at the Urban Institute have been looking into how effective various responses to homelessness are. In a series of blog posts, they issue a warning against a punitive response to homelessn…
00:29:30 |
Wed 11 Nov 2020
Immigration attorney: Rapid deportations are a new facet of an old policy
In October, the US government began implementing an expansion of rapid deportations, in which undocumented immigrants may be removed from the country without a hearing before an immigration judge. Wh…
00:29:29 |
Tue 10 Nov 2020
Election recap: Bond, tax, and law enforcement reform measures win
San Francisco voters have approved a crucial bond measure and several tax measures by wide margins and voted in favor of propositions removing a mandatory minimum staffing level for the police depart…
00:31:56 |
Sat 07 Nov 2020
Mapping the S.F. vote, precinct by precinct
Find Chris Arvin's election maps at electionmapsf.com.
00:29:29 |
Thu 05 Nov 2020
Bay Area organizers prepare to mobilize if election results aren't honored
Activist groups have been hosting trainings and developing plans to mobilize residents, elected leaders and businesses to demand the results of the November 3 presidential election be recognized. Dem…
00:29:30 |
Wed 04 Nov 2020
Can the Ballot Be Used to Hold Local Government Accountable?
San Francisco has faced many scandals in which public officials abused their power for personal, political or organizational gain. On the November, 2020 ballot, Proposition B has been proposed as a w…
00:30:50 |
Mon 02 Nov 2020
Lessons From S.F. Mime Troupe’s Move From Live Events to Radio Plays
The San Francisco Mime Troupe has been performing socially conscious and often very funny productions in Bay Area parks since 1959 but the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to take their plays to the air…
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Fri 30 Oct 2020
Nurses in S.F. Department of Health Demand Thousands of Hours in Overtime Pay
During the pandemic, nurses have been given a lot of praise for the vital, frontline work they do, but some nurses working for San Francisco’s Department of Public Health would like to be paid the ov…
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Thu 29 Oct 2020
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