Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman
Features Reporter @ KQED
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- Bad Bunny deflected questions at a press conference in San Francisco today about what to expect in his upcoming halftime show, as speculation swirls about whether he will use his platform to denounce the Trump administrations immigration agenda. www.kqed.org/arts/1398633...
- Football fans of teams from across the NFL are HYPED about the upcoming Super Bowl, even if their teams aren’t playing. The party lasts all week leading up to the big game on Sunday, and things kicked off last night in San Jose. www.kqed.org/news/12071931
- It begins…Super Bowl coverage this week starting tonight with opening ceremony
- The internet can be a fun place. youtu.be/OC9RI8_QYmw
- Transit officials and members of the public had some choice words for Cubic, the contractor responsible for Clipper, over the ongoing glitchy rollout of a new version of the fare payment system. www.kqed.org/news/12071026
- Boots are hitting the ground today in a campaign to save Bay Area public transit agencies from precipitous fiscal cliffs and severe service cuts that would all but cripple regional transit. All this while the loan to float agencies in short term is still up in the air. www.kqed.org/news/1207068...
- John Grubb, CEO of Bay Area Council, representing the Bay Area business community says: “Our roads are already full. You don’t have to ride transit to depend on it.”
- Automated Speed Cameras in Oakland began issuing $0 warning citations today, with real citations to come in a matter of months: www.kqed.org/news/12069838
- Bay Area lawmakers are pushing for Congress to reassert its war powers. Votes are expected in the House and Senate this week on a resolution which would require congressional approval for future military action in Venezuela. www.kqed.org/news/12068657
- Right now on AC Transit, people who pay with cash to ride the bus pay more than people who use Clipper or contactless bank cards. This means people with the least resources often pay the most to ride the bus. More from Oakland’s Eastmont Transit Center: www.kqed.org/news/12067737
- Taking Caltrain this morning from SF to report on BART extension construction progress in San Jose. Public transit is cool.
- Even as Oakland transit officials and advocates are hopeful that new speed cameras will help reduce speeding, they acknowledge more needs to be done to make Oakland streets safer. www.kqed.org/news/12065712
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- Big updates coming for Clipper, the Bay Area’s transit agency payment system….here‘s how to get signed up. www.kqed.org/news/1206571...
- Sizeable protest at entrance to coast guard island. Eyewitnesses report federal agents running over a persons ankle and shooting someone with a pepper ball earlier this AM, as CBP arrives at facility. @kqednews.kqed.org @radiobwatt.bsky.social
- We’re live in about 20 minutes!
- “ I’ve been waiting years for this and it’s been better than I ever dreamed it would be,” said Carissa Perkins of Oakland, who has followed the WNBA for six years. Reporting from the Valkyries’ home playoff debut last night. www.kqed.org/news/1205656...
- Workers at some of the Bay Area’s most popular rock climbing gyms have voted to unionize, joining colleagues at five gyms in Southern California that are in contract negotiations with their employer, Touchstone Climbing. www.kqed.org/news/12055450
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- A "Kindness Crawl" took to Market Street yesterday, leaving a wake of stunned, smiling people holding flowers and a contagious good vibe. As the Grateful Dead prepares to play a 3 day show in SF this week, it seemed like a serendipitous return of flower power. www.kqed.org/news/1205010...
- Starting Tuesday, SF's 33 automated speed enforcement cameras will begin giving out citations. Until now, they've been giving out $0 warnings. Officials say the cameras have already helped reduce speeding on problem streets. www.kqed.org/news/1205025...
- It's been a year since California's #righttorepair law went into effect, but a recent report shows that some companies compliance with the law needs a little fixing. www.kqed.org/news/1204960...
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- The Trump administration is naming names of the groups it intends to go after in its crusade to root out what it calls pervasive antisemitism on college campuses. Students for Justice in Palestine, Middle East Studies centers, etc. UC Berkeley Chancellor testifies. www.kqed.org/news/1204725...
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- Major League Cricket’s debut at the Oakland Coliseum was a slugfest - and fans were stoked. www.kqed.org/news/1204430...
- The Oakland Coliseum is getting ready for its Major League Cricket debut tomorrow. More to come on @kqednews.kqed.org
- SF Immigration Court is closed for the day after activists picketed the entrance this afternoon. This follows arrests of at least two people by ICE earlier today at the courthouse. Activists say they plan to picket again if ICE attempts more arrests at court. www.kqed.org/news/12043596
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- Bacon wrapped hot dogs are perhaps the bay's most popular street food. But where do they come from? What's it like to do this work? And why do some local businesses and gvmt's oppose the vendors who sell them? Listen on the Bay Curious podcast! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
- Newsom didn't include additional funding for mass transit in his state budget revision today. A separate push by Bay Area lawmakers is seeking to get public transit a new business model. If it fails, BART could eliminate 2 entire lines starting in 2027. www.kqed.org/news/1203939...
- Yes
- One business owner I spoke to said that if the tariffs continue for much longer she would be forced to close. www.kqed.org/news/1203693...
- Got 420 plans this weekend? If you're heading to Hippie Hill in SF, things might look a little different than you're expecting. Check out this guide for more on that, alternative events, plus some tips on where it's a better idea NOT to smoke. www.kqed.org/news/1203254...
- Tariffs are creating a mini sales boom for Bay Area bike shops like The New Wheel, but a crisis is looming in 2-3 months when domestic stock gets used up. www.kqed.org/news/12035335
- A city of Oakland program that has long provided free meals to thousands of children during the summer will not be offered this year due to “severe city budget constraints,” officials confirmed this week. www.kqed.org/news/12034895
- One person who worked for a third party vendor of the A's got $1500 for 15 years of service, or $100 per year. Some got nothing at all from the Oakland Coliseum Vendor Assistance Fund. For KQEDs’s The Bay podcast: 👂 www.kqed.org/news/1203460...
- When the A’s left Oakland, they stood up a $1 million fund to help some workers with the financial hardship caused by the teams exit. Some workers told me they were denied from the fund, and not for reasons listed on the application. @kqednews.kqed.org www.kqed.org/news/1203309...
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- Reposted by Azul Dahlstrom-EckmanNEW: The federal hiring freeze has left a vital Bay Area aviation weather unit with just one meteorologist, risking flight delays/disruptions. The unit oversees a vast airspace, ensuring the safe landing of over a million flights yearly. I reported a radio story on this today for @kqednews.kqed.org
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- New: SF 420 Celebration Cancelled for a second year in a row @kqednews.kqed.org www.kqed.org/news/12032246
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- Sloat and Junipero Serra. Allen said he has waited at that light for seven minutes 💀 Also fun fact I learned: MUNI drivers toggle turn signals using a foot pedal.
- POP QUIZ: What’s the longest traffic light in SF? This MUNI operator told me the answer. I’ll post the answer, according to him, later today… www.kqed.org/news/12031268
- POP QUIZ: What’s the longest traffic light in SF? This MUNI operator told me the answer. I’ll post the answer, according to him, later today… www.kqed.org/news/12031268
- What’s the chances this thing gets tagged?
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- As SF rushes to paint curbs red in order to begin enforcing the states new daylighting parking law, city agencies are going to encounter a longstanding problem: People in SF who paint curbs themselves. Here's the data behind SF's illegal painted curb problem. www.kqed.org/news/1202884...
- CALLOUT: I'm looking to speak to people TODAY who have had issues with fake curbs (red, white, gray, or any other colors) being painted in their neighborhoods by people other than city employees, and have reported these problems to their government. SF or otherwise. DM me!
- www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/v... In a November 2022 community outreach survey by SFMTA – which polled 618 people – between 13% and 17% supported the center-running bike lane design.
