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Election Briefs from KALW News

20 Episodes

2 minutes | Oct 22, 2018
Oakland Proposition Y: Eviction Limitations Law
Oakland’s Measure Y is about just cause evictions. Under the city’s current ordinance, landlords are prohibited from evicting tenants without just cause.
2 minutes | Oct 17, 2018
Berkeley Proposition Q: Rent Stabilization Ordinance
Measure Q is Berkeley's response if Californians approve Proposition 10 this November, which would repeal the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act. Quick reminder: Costa Hawkins is a 1995 law that largely prevents cities and towns from having rent control.
2 minutes | Oct 17, 2018
Oakland Proposition AA: Early Childhood Education
Oakland’s Measure AA creates a 30-year parcel tax to fund early childhood education and college readiness programs.
2 minutes | Oct 17, 2018
Palo Alto Proposition F: Health Care Cost Initiative
Measure F limits how much hospitals, medical clinics and other health care providers in Palo Alto can charge patients and insurers for care. Under the measure, medical providers can’t charge more than 15 percent above the reasonable cost of care provided. What’s reasonable cost?
2 minutes | Oct 11, 2018
Berkeley Proposition O: Affordable Housing
The cost of rent is on the rise in Berkeley. This is making it hard for low and middle income residents to afford to stay in the city.
2 minutes | Oct 10, 2018
East Bay Proposition FF: Wildfire Protection
If you live in Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, Alameda, San Pablo, El Cerrito, Albany, Emeryville, Piedmont, El Sobrante, and Kensington, listen up. You’ll be voting on Measure FF this November.
2 minutes | Oct 9, 2018
Napa Proposition F: Hotel Tax for Affordable Housing
Affordable housing is on the ballot everywhere this election, and wine country is no exception.
2 minutes | Oct 9, 2018
Santa Clara County Proposition A: Sales Tax Measure
Measure A is about the renewal of a one-eighth cent sales tax increase in Santa Clara County, keeping most of the county’s total sales tax at 9% .
2 minutes | Oct 4, 2018
San Mateo County Proposition W: Transportation Sales Tax
In the upcoming November election San Mateo County will consider a half-cent transportation sales tax, also known as Measure W.
2 minutes | Oct 4, 2018
Oakland Proposition W: Vacant Property Tax
Measure W is a vacant property tax in Oakland, aimed at reducing homelessness and illegal dumping.
2 minutes | Oct 3, 2018
Oakland Proposition V: Cannabis Tax
Voters around California are weighing dozens of ballot measures that would impose taxes on marijuana businesses in different cities and counties. Oakland’s Measure V is unique, however, because it could lead to lower tax rates for marijuana businesses.
2 minutes | Oct 1, 2018
San Francisco Proposition E: Hotel Tax for Cultural Purposes
San Francisco’s Proposition E would redirect a fraction of the city’s hotel taxes to support the arts . The Board of Supervisors unanimously put this measure on the ballot, and it wouldn’t require a tax increase.
2 minutes | Sep 27, 2018
San Francisco Proposition D: Tax Increase on Cannabis Businesses
Proposition D is known as the Marijuana Business Tax Increase. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors put the measure on the ballot to add another tax onto cannabis businesses operating in the city.
2 minutes | Sep 26, 2018
San Francisco Proposition B: City Privacy Guidelines
There's been a lot of debate recently about how tech companies should handle our data, and whose job it is to regulate it. San Francisco's Proposition B , also called the Privacy First Policy, is one approach to the problem. It aims to protect people from having their personal information abused by companies.
2 minutes | Sep 26, 2018
San Francisco Proposition C: Business Tax to Fund Homeless Services
Proposition C would create an additional tax on San Francisco businesses with gross receipts, or revenue, of more than $50 million a year to fund homeless services.
2 minutes | Sep 24, 2018
San Francisco Proposition A: Embarcadero Seawall Improvement
If you were asked to name a piece of San Francisco infrastructure that’s still in use after over a hundred years, what would you guess? The Golden Gate Bridge? Coit Tower? Nope! But if you guessed the Embarcadero Seawall, you’d be correct!
2 minutes | Sep 20, 2018
California Proposition 12: Farm Animal Confinement Initiative
Proposition 12 has to do with the caging of farm animals.
2 minutes | Sep 19, 2018
California Proposition 11: Ambulance Employees Paid On-Call Breaks
Alright, let’s say you are a paramedic and you work for an ambulance company. When you take a lunch break, are you still on-call? Can your company make you respond to an emergency?
2 minutes | Sep 19, 2018
California Proposition 10: Repeal Costa Hawkins
This proposition would allow cities to expand their rent control ordinances by repealing the 1995 law known as Costa Hawkins.
2 minutes | Sep 18, 2018
California Proposition 8: Dialysis Clinics
The country’s two biggest dialysis companies collect about 3 billion dollars a year from California dialysis clinics. Dialysis is the medical process that basically does what your kidneys should be doing, cleaning out toxins in the blood . Not only does the treatment cost about 90,000 dollars a year, but it can be a particularly grueling process for patients, who need the lengthy routine procedure.
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