Deerfield Community Center volunteers (from left) Russ Peacock, Greg Frutiger and Phil Montalto recently help pack food pantry Christmas baskets.Karyn Saemann
A deepening web of Covid-19 stressors may now be tipping more people toward mental health crisis, say local organizations that offer help with everyday needs and local counselors whose job is to assess how weâre doing psychologically.
As 2020 ends, financial ruin is everywhere: job losses, surging reliance on food pantries and meal sites, housing loss, business failures and mounting unpaid utility, medical and other bills.
People remain isolated. Many are grieving. Others are angry about the national election, still reeling from summer racial equity protests, and devastated by the cancellation of travel and holiday celebrations.
(male announcer) live from the kron 4 news station, this is the kron 4 news. happy birthday america! the fourth of july in the bay area. picnics. parades independence freedom patriotism good evening, i m pam moore. happy 4th of july. preparations for the fireworks celebrations are getting underway right now. kron-4 reporters are stationed across the bay area. here are live pictures from the marin county fair, milpitas and pleasant hill. we ll bring you the fireworks from all these locations. live later tonight. now at eight we start our special 4th of july coverage charles clifford. reporter: eddie money just performed. thousands of people just got here what the fair has to offer. this year s marin county features the usual attractions, carnivals. attractions. carnival rides.. a midway. lots of food. along with nightly concerts.. but there is a controversy here. several weeks ago the marin county board of supervisors passed an ordance that would prevent anyone wearing o
movement in contact talks today and the negotiations now. we are here watching what is talks i will be back with an update at 5:30. live in oakland justine waldman kron 4 news. reporter: it has been 4- days withoutwork for bart s union employeesa the strike continuesa pair of atu- local-1555 union members tell me there is growing concern for the impact on their families you take those four days away i worry for my brothers and sisters, my union brothers and sisters being able to pay their rent reporter: as contract negotiations continue, there are some who say that the union employees are just being greedy no we re not being greedy reporter: hear more of what she has to say coming up on kron4news at 6.in oakland haaziq madyun kron4news pam: developing tonight a san francisco police officer is being called a hero. after breaking into a burning building and saving an elderly woman as she slept. it happened early this afternoon on pine street. kron 4 s dan ke
dump, romney s tax dodges and what it all means for the election we re joined by deborah sullivan, report are for bloomberg and john cassidy a writer for the new yorker. deborah, let me begin with you here. why does it matter, why should we care what s in the bain documents, what s in romney s tax returns? i mean at this point they say we ve given you two years, isn t that sufficient? why should we be trying to piece it together? i think it matters for a few reasons. first of all, he s had an op-ed saying bain is the reason he would be a great commander in chief. what the documents made clear is yes, he s made a lot of money as a successful businessman but he invested in the private equity funds not open to ordinary investors and ordinary americans. and he d used these funds have used some pretty shady tax-dodging schemes to avoid paying income taxes. one of the funds says specifically the reason it was set up was to avoid paying income taxes in the u.s. that flies in the face of w
a shining moment like america had opened a new chapter in its difficult and frequently shameful history with race. but it wasn t true. even as obama took that oath, researchers were going back through the 2008 election, running through the numbers, running through the polls and finding that far from being a post-racial election, it was an usually racial election. seth stevens davidowitz a researcher at harvard tested this in a very interesting way. first he ranked areas of the country based on how often they entered racist search terms into google. then compared obama s share of the vote in those areas with john kerry s share of the vote from the 04 election. just an election cycle ago. the result? he found that obama had lost 3% to 5% of the popular vote compared to what you would have expected from kerry s results. or, as he put it, obama s race, quote, gave his opponent the equivalent of a home-state advantage countrywide. the racialization of politics continued after the