Mark Fiore
KQED Public Media
San Francisco, CA, United States
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SFUSD Says IOU
Hundreds of teachers have had to contend with missing pay, bounced checks and other payment problems as the San Francisco Unified School District struggles to implement a new accounting system. → Read More
Everything Under the Sun ...
Solar energy is at a crossroads in California, with big utility companies pushing to reduce solar incentives in the name of equity as solar installers and some ratepayers cry foul. → Read More
Not in My (Mountain Lion's) Backyard
Mountain lions are why the planning department of Woodside — a town of multimillion-dollar homes set among redwood trees — said it cannot comply with a state law designed to increase housing stock. → Read More
Weather Whiplash May Bring Drought Do-Over
After a record-dry January, it's not looking good for the Sierra snowpack that millions of Californians rely on for water. → Read More
San Francisco's Unfolding Web of Corruption: A Cartoon Interactive
Learn about everyone involved (that we know of so far), and how they're all connected, in the still-unfolding San Francisco corruption investigation. → Read More
Commercial Whaling's Last Holdout: The Bay Area?
The Richmond-based Del Monte Fishing Co. had a quota to kill and process 75 sperm whales in 1971, the last year the practice was legal. → Read More
The United States of Tech
In another expansion move that is NOT in the Bay Area, Google announced plans for a $1 billion office complex in New York City. → Read More
Texting Tax? 'OMG!' Says Wireless Industry
The wireless industry is definitely not happy about California regulators' plan for a texting fee to help poor people get phones. → Read More
Rage for PG&E
After a rage-filled public comment period, the California Public Utilities Commission ordered PG&E to enact safety improvements. → Read More
Meet the Programmers of San Quentin
Behind the walls of San Quentin State Prison, a select few inmates are developing websites, software and apps for technology clients in the Bay Area and beyond. → Read More
Happy Bike to Work Day
Thursday is Bike to Work Day, when bicycling advocates around the Bay Area urge people to ride their bikes to work. → Read More
Live Drawing: Mark Zuckerberg Testifies Before Congress
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees. Here are some sketches from the hearing. → Read More
Good Grief
Wildfire burned the home of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz. His widow Jean Schulz escaped before flames burned the house to the ground. → Read More
Three Ways Trump Is Helping the Affordable Care Act Explode
How can the Trump administration undermine Obamacare? And what can California do to resist? → Read More
Life on the Hook: Sausalito’s Floating ‘Homeless’
After seeing an old 1970s trailer floating on a barge ("barge" is being generous) on the water off Sausalito a few years back, I became curious about anchor-outs."Anchor-outs" are what they c → Read More
Cartoon: Trump’s ultimate sacrifice
x Vimeo Video In order to keep up with the flurry of Trump stories, satire now needs to happen in real time. It’s been a busy week for Donald ... → Read More
Cartoon: The Kremlin convention
What sounded like a wild conspiracy theory about, oh, three seconds ago, now sounds like a plausible explanation. Every time you think this presidential race can’t get any weirder, it does. It now sounds increasingly likely that the Russians hacked the DNC’s email, then helped release what they found to the world on the eve of the Democratic convention. Trump bounces between denying any… → Read More
Cartoon: Make America Crazy Again
x Vimeo Video It’s hard to keep up with the parade of craziness coming out of the Republican convention in Cleveland. Leading up to the ... → Read More
Cartoon: The Amazing Non-binary Brain
x Vimeo Video Even before the recent racially-charged ... → Read More
Cartoon: Journey to Planet JupitEarth
x Vimeo Video Now that the Juno spacecraft is orbiting ... → Read More