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Angela Hart

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Covers:  mental health, environment, real estate, san francisco, bay area, politics, public policy, health care, oakland, california
Senior correspondent for @KFFHealthNews | Previously: Politico, Sacramento Bee, Santa Rosa Press Democrat | angelah@kff.org
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Planners Claim Reduction in Car Pollution, But Details Show Overall Increase

Planners Claim Reduction in Car Pollution, But Details Show Overall Increase

sfpublicpress.org — But what they rarely mention publicly is that their goal, a 15 percent per capita reduction of carbon dioxide from cars and light trucks by 2035, actually represents an overall emissions increase. Essentially, it's a math trick: The per capita figure hides a predicted regional population growth of 28 percent. That means total passenger vehicle emissions regionwide would actually rise by 9.1 percent - an indication that regional planning is not helping California's efforts to become a model in combating climate change.
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City's health plan risks reverting to safety net for poor

City's health plan risks reverting to safety net for poor

sfpublicpress.org — This story appears in the Spring 2012 print edition of the San Francisco Public Press. San Francisco's experiment in universal health care, which grew over the last five years to cover an estimated 85 percent of the city's uninsured, may need to partly return to its origin as a network of safety net clinics and hospitals for the poor as national reforms syphon off middle-class patients. Healthy San Francisco, the universal health care program that now provides medical services to more than 50,000 city residents, has received praise as a national model for offering inexpensive access to higher-income residents who lack insurance, and the longer-term promise of cost containment.
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Medical records supporting San Francisco's universal care add millions to official cost | San Fra...

Medical records supporting San Francisco's universal care add millions to official cost | San Fra...

sfpublicpress.org — An incomplete survey of technology costs borne by the clinics themselves this year reveals spending of at least $15 million in addition to what was budgeted for the whole program, adding at least 8.5 percent to the total cost. But that sum is likely millions higher, since eight clinics could not or would not say how much they spent or were planning to spend integrating their patient records.
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Millions in savings unclaimed; after audits, Muni revealed $20 million excess overtime

Millions in savings unclaimed; after audits, Muni revealed $20 million excess overtime

sfpublicpress.org — UPDATE 8/19/11: Hear reporter Angela Hart discuss her story with KQED News, a Public Press reporting partner (fast-forward to second item) San Francisco could have saved at least $33.5 million over the last two years' budgets if departments, commissions and contractors had acted on advice from regular audits pointing out government waste and inefficiencies. The savings, much of it coming out of transit and police employee overtime, could have reduced the need to cut some vital services this summer as local government agencies faced $380 million in projected deficits over the next year.
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Harder to Chronicle: fewer reporters cover more territory as Hearst, Media News reduce coverage o...

Harder to Chronicle: fewer reporters cover more territory as Hearst, Media News reduce coverage o...

sfpublicpress.org — BYGONE BUREAUS: 8 of 9 local offices of the San Francisco Chronicle shuttered in last decade Most days, before his alarm clock goes off at 5 a.m., Henry K. Lee's Blackberry wakes him, dinging with texts and email breaking-news alerts. As one of two remaining San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area bureau reporters, he has his work cut out for him. Lee quickly switches on three TVs in his house in Oakland, scans a few websites and flips through local newspapers for crime tidbits. He rarely has time for breakfast.
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Mid-Market mogul: How Urban Realty quietly cornered San Francisco's troubled main drag

Mid-Market mogul: How Urban Realty quietly cornered San Francisco's troubled main drag

sfpublicpress.org — Update: Urban Realty is currently taking bids from prospective tenants for CityPlace, the mid-level retail mall that will be located on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets­- after the San Francisco Planning Commission voted 5-2 in favor of the project late last week. The vote came after a seven-year saga of garnering public approval from neighborhood groups, area businesses and citywide activists by the project's developer, Urban Realty. The two dissenting votes came from Commissioners Kathrin Moore and Hisashi Sugaya. David Rhoades surveys his 2,500-square-foot retail space behind the boarded-up storefront at 925 Market St., on the mostly abandoned block just west of Fifth.
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Run down? Pay up - a list of San Francisco blighted properties

Run down? Pay up - a list of San Francisco blighted properties

sfpublicpress.org — More than half a year after the Department of Building Inspection launched an ambitious effort to catalog unused and blighted properties in the city - a process that ultimately could bring in millions of dollars in property and transfer taxes and developer fees - the effort has been hobbled by layoffs in the department. The Board of Supervisors passed an anti-blight law unanimously in November 2009. It requires property owners whose buildings are vacant or abandoned to register them with the city and fix up their dilapidated exteriors. The law is intended to reduce crime, clean up neighborhood blight and stimulate economic and social activity.
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Medi-Cal Expansion Opens Doors to Care for Transgender Patients

Medi-Cal Expansion Opens Doors to Care for Transgender Patients

KQED — Medi-Cal Expansion Opens Doors to Care for Transgender Patients By Angela Hart Among those estimated to enroll in the expansion of Medi-Cal, some of those most likely to benefit are among the most stigmatized in health care - transgender patients. Darryl Avery, 48, is one of them. Avery was born female, but identifies as a man. Several years ago, he began his transition. He moved to San Francisco where he sought medical care, stable housing, culinary schooling, and eventually, sex reassignment surgery. "I've seen so many trans people with mental health problems, they get access to treatment, and it's like you've flipped a light switch on."
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Future of Healthy San Francisco Unclear in Face of Obamacare

Future of Healthy San Francisco Unclear in Face of Obamacare

KQED — Future of Healthy San Francisco Unclear in Face of Obamacare By Angela Hart San Francisco is scrambling to figure out how the Affordable Care Act will impact the city's own landmark universal health legislation, less than three months before the full rollout of Obamacare. Barbara Garcia, who runs the Department of Public Health, is leading a task force of health experts, business groups and labor leaders who have until the end of November to decipher what health experts are calling confusing and complex details in both the local and national health laws. "How do you make these two laws correspond?"
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