Feb 11 Watch San Francisco's last working-class neighborhood gets left behind in boom times By PBS News Hour As a new wave of tech enterprises gentrify San Francisco’s older, modest neighborhoods, an area known as the Tenderloin, populated by the city’s poorer residents, remains in the grips of drugs and crime. Special correspondent Spencer Michels explores the dilemma… Continue watching
Feb 08 Watch Cities in financial straits weigh bankruptcy By PBS News Hour A wave of bankruptcies is moving across the country as cities try to manage crushing debt from pension obligations. NewsHour Weekend reports from Vallejo, Calif., with a cautionary tale for cities that are looking to bankruptcy as the solution. Continue watching
Feb 05 Watch Language barrier, immigration status keep some Latinos from health care enrollment By PBS News Hour As the largest uninsured ethnic group in the country, Latino Americans are considered key to the success of the Affordable Care Act. In California, enrollment numbers continue to lag despite tens of millions of dollars spent to reach Latinos, who… Continue watching
Jan 31 Watch News Wrap: California to cut off state-supplied water due to drought By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 24 Watch 9:03 In wealthy Orange County, a campaign to waste less to help feed hungry kids By Hari Sreenivasan, Jason Kane Continue watching
Jan 23 Watch The tortoise and the flare: Calif. solar power projects confront habitat impact By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 22 Watch 2:50 Calif. calls for water conservation in response to record drought By PBS News Hour, Jeffrey Brown A dry spell that has been building for three years has become a full-on emergency in California. Gov. Jerry Brown called it the worst drought on record and has asked everyone across the state to conserve water. Jeffrey Brown reports… Continue watching
Jan 22 Watch California's drought could mean bad news at the grocery store By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 17 California governor declares drought emergency By Alexis Cox California Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency. Continue reading
Jan 17 Watch News Wrap: Miss. man pleads guilty to sending poisoned letters to politicians By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, James Everett Dutschke of Mississippi pleaded guilty to sending letters laced with the toxic substance ricin to the president, a U.S. senator and a judge. Also, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency in… Continue watching