PATRIOT Act Debate Still Rages
 Two years ago, the nation was still reeling from the events of September 11th and facing a terrifying series of anthrax attacks. In that atmosphere, Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act with little debate. Since then, however, dissent has been brisk around the country.
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Learn Patriot Act Basics
In the weeks after 9/11, Congress stood tough and passed a hefty new law to fight terrorism. It’s called the Patriot Act, and its hundreds of pages have inflamed protest and debate ever since.
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Mayoral Hopeful Tom Ammiano Profiled
SF County Supervisor Tom Ammiano discusses his platform, as part of KRON's indepth interview series with SF mayoral candidates.
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Are We Desensitized to Sex Harassment?
Sex harassment and abuse charges against Arnold Schwarzenegger caused outrage to many women, but barely affected his popularity. Has the public become desensitized to what is considered a federal crime?
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Learn Candidates' Environmental Stands
Voters have just days left to make up their minds about the recall, and the candidates are racing to get their messages across. We take a look at how the leading contenders stand on three major environmental issues.
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Church Also Teaches Money Lessons
A group of African-American church leaders is taking a very different approach to spirituality. Disturbed by dwindling attendance, they hope to keep people coming back by preaching about God and money.
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Burn Victim Overcomes Challenges
Every year 120,000 Americans are severely burned in accidents. What happens to those burn survivors? We follow up on one survivor we hadn't seen for 15 years.
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College Aid Warning
This is the time of year when college-bound students start hunting for loans and scholarships. Unfortunately, it's also the time many fall prey to unscrupulous companies.
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Vets Concerned by VA Reorganization
Local veterans could be among the victims of a reorganization plan by the veterans administration. The veterans hospital in Livermore is one of seven nationally targeted for closure in five to seven years.
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Road Map to Mideast Peace Discussed
At Worldlink TV in San Francisco the US-Brokered Middle East peace plan known as the "Road Map" is discussed by people who know the Middle East because they come from or live there.
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Is Colorblind Initiative Naive?
The fight over race has always been a heated topic across the world and now it will be fought here in California. Prop 54 is generating its own thunderclouds in an already stormy election.
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No Green Cards for Gay Immigrants
Every year, an untold number of gay and lesbian couples are forced to either break up their relationships or move out of the US. When one of them is a non-citizen there is no chance for permanent residency because of immigration law.
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Sec of State Answers Recall Questions
California's Secretary of State, Kevin Shelley, answered questions surrounding the upcoming recall election.
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Latino Votes Important in Recall
Governor Davis not only has to keep from being terminated by Arnold Schwarzenegger, but a key group of supporters - the latino vote - could now evaporate.
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Napa Farmworkers Get New Housing
The harvest of Napa Valley grapes is just weeks away. Tonight, there's some good news. For the first time in many years farmworkers will have new housing. It is housing that is desperately needed.
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Gov't Pot Patient Fights for Legalization
Seven years after California passed prop 215, the State and the federal government are still fighting over the use of marijuana as medicine. It may surprise you to learn about one woman who gets her pot from the federal government.
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Program Teaches Youth to Make Art
It looks like a job. It's run like a job. And to 15 teenagers every year, it is a job. But this job pays young people to learn how art is made, and in the process, to learn a little bit about life and themselves.
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Cafe Helps Mentally Ill Get to Work
A new San Francisco restaurant, named for a legendary bird that rose from the ashes, is where some mentally ill workers are getting a new lease on life.
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20 Years of AIDS Ward at SF General
This week, San Francisco General Hospital is marking an anniversary: for 20 years, the hospital has been recognized worldwide for its leading-edge work in the AIDS epidemic.
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Formerly Homeless Man Writes Book
Most of us will never know what if feels like to stand on the roadside begging for money. But for one Bay Area man, panhandling became his reality when he lost his job and faced the prospect of losing his house.
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300k Local Jobs Lost in Last Two Years
300,000 people in the Bay Area have lost their jobs since those heady dot.com boom days of just two years ago. Those numbers are shocking, to even people who compile them for a living.
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War in Liberia Dividing Local Family
The war in Liberia is a 20-year conflict that has created tens of thousands of refugees. Maphata Roberts-Huntsman was 19 when she left Liberia for college in New York. But war broke out and she never went home.
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Bay Plan Could End Mosquito Infestation
Wildlife agencies want to let San Francisco Bay take back nearly 3,000 acres of salt ponds near Redwood City and the people whose job is to control mosquitoes are applauding.
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Oakland Youths Learn Style from Pros
Fubu, Roca Wear, Baby Phat and Sean John are a handful of successful African-American fashion names. It's an industry with a growing talent pool that may someday come from the East Bay, where some Oakland youths are getting a chance to become fashionistas.
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Web Site Promotes Online Activism
Hundreds of thousands of voters turned out for the first on-line Democratic Presidential primary. A nd the winner, according to www.moveon.org, is Vermont Senator Howard Dean. Dennis Kucinich and John Kerry were a distant second and third. And the rest each earned 2% of the vote.
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Latest Mission to Mars Launches Sat.
The planets are lining up, the countdown clock is running and the rover is ready. Target? The planet Mars.
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Berkeley Makes Bio-Diesel Conversion
The city of Berkeley is celebrating a national first: the East Bay city claims to be the first city of its size to convert nearly all of its diesel vehicles to run on something called 'bio-diesel'.
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New Pressures Weigh on Small Farms
There may have been a time when an 800-acre farm in west Marin County could provide a comfortable living. That time is all but gone. Today, farmers there are struggling against economic and environmental forces that leave little margin for error.
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Group Crafts Message for Future Humans
In a time when time itself seems to have speeded up, a group in San Francisco has set a goal of thinking long-term. They are trying to create objects that will tell people 10,000 years from now what we were like and how we thought.
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Marin's 1st Black Teacher Retires
Shirley Hasley was hired in the midst of the civil rights struggle, and she's seen public education change drastically over the years. She's tough and sets high standards, and she makes no apologies for that.
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Local Singer, 82, Cuts First-Ever CD
He was known as the "Chinese Frank Sinatra" of his time, the swinging 1940's and 1950's, one of the featured acts at the most famous Chinese nightclub in San Francisco.
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Exposing Historic Musical Racism
The history of the Chinese in America has been laced with conflict and prejudice, especially here on the West Coast.
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Red Tape Blocks SJ Woman's Dying Wish
A San Jose woman’s dying wish is to see her sister one last time. But red tape and “intransigence” of bureaucrats is making it near impossible.
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Black Bear Seen in Marin, 1st Since 1868
Black bears are common in much of rural California. But until last week, no one had seen a bear on the Point Reyes peninsula in Marin County for more than one hundred years.
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Hip New Fad: Mouth Jewelry
They're gold, platinum and studded with diamonds or other stones. “Whatever shines the hardest," says one big fan. But this are no ordinary jewelry. It's worn right on the teeth!
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Peterson Case Fuels Abortion Debate
The Laci Peterson story is a tragedy that has suddenly taken a political right turn as the case collides right up against the abortion debate.
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Book Grant Benefits Ailing Libraries
First Lady Laura Bush is championing the cause of literacy in America, and now a foundation she launched has awarded $5,000 grants to two dilapidated Bay Area school libraries.
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State Cuts Could Impact Watchtowers
All along, the watchtowers run by the California Department of Forestry have protected our state from wildland fires. But now, budget cuts are threatening this critical first line of defense.
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Cruise Ships a Hazard for Monterey
One of the newest ports of call for the cruise industry is right in our own backyard, Monterey Bay. The ships are bringing money, people and pollution to Monterey.
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Old Bones and New Clues in Murder Case
Marin County Investigators, hoping to generate new leads in an old case of a missing or murdered child have turned to the victim's bones and the unusual artistry of a forensic sculptor.
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Kids Forced From Foster Care at 18
Turning 18 is supposed to be a happy occasion, but for thousands of teens each year it's a time to quickly make the transition from childhood to independence. That's the age when kids are ushered out of foster care.
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What's Next for NASA?
So what's next for NASA? It's down to three aging space shuttles, still doesn't know exactly what went wrong with Columbia and can't say when it'll return to manned spaceflight.
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Is Missing Person Coverage Biased?
Every day, 27,000 people are reported missing in California but only a few get national media attention. Why? Some critics say it's because of racial and class bias. "If Laci Peterson had been black, it wouldn't have been an important case,"said one.
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Birds Nesting in "Mothball Fleet"
Two hundred species of birds live in the Suisun Marsh near Fairfield. But now, dozens of them are actually building their nests in a surprising place: on 90 navy ships docked outside Benicia.
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Man, 71, Fired Month Before Retirement
A 71-year-old airport employee is out of a job one month before qualifying for full Social Security benefits, because he cannot place himself for 5 months out of the last 10 years.
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