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Yeily Mendez

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An illustration showing the month of February with a gator on leap day. (Bryan Chavez / Golden Gate Xpress)

The science behind leap day

Yeily Mendez, Staff Reporter Mar 1, 2024

February is the shortest month of the year with only 28 days. But every four years, an extra day is added to the calendar year at the end of the month — leap day. We are taught that there are 24 hours...

An illustration of ballots being insterted into drop boxes. (Illustration by Jenna Mandarano / Golden Gate Xpress)

Una guía de votación de propuestas de San Francisco para las elecciones generales

Yeily Mendez and Emily Calix Nov 4, 2022

San Francisco tiene 14 propuestas para votar este noviembre, que van desde viviendas asequibles, impuestos sobre las ventas, medidas departamentales y de comisiones y más. Esto es lo que debe saber...

A student enters a Muni bus in front of SF State on Aug. 24, 2022. The Clipper BayPass launched its two-year pilot program for free Bay area public transportation for 9,000 SF State students. (Ashley Hayes-Stone/Golden Gate Xpress)

SF State begins pilot program to make Bay Area transit free for 9,000 students

Yeily Mendez, Staff Reporter Aug 24, 2022

Exploring the Bay Area may get more exciting for 9,000 SF State students with the two-year roll out of the Clipper BayPass.  While this program has not officially launched yet, students were randomly...

Vlog: Receiving the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine

Vlog: Receiving the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine

Yeily Mendez, Staff Reporter Mar 19, 2021

Trigger Warning: This video story include needles A year into the pandemic, the COVID-19 vaccine has started to become more available, which widens the opportunity for more people within the Bay...

Looking back on a year of quarantine birthdays

Looking back on a year of quarantine birthdays

Celebrating a landmark birthday is one of the most quintessential life events one could have; but what happens when those plans are brought down by a pandemic? The hustle to host was put indefinitely...

Recordando a Nuestros Seres Queridos

Recordando a Nuestros Seres Queridos

https://youtu.be/xLLU-Ot0qg8 In episode two of  “Recordando a Nuestros Seres Queridos,” Lin-Yu Diaz and Luis Gutierrez share how they celebrate Día de los Muertos in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lin-Yu...

“If [Proposition 22] passes, drivers are powerless,” said Michael Gumora, founder of the website Rideshare Report and a ride share driver for 8 years. (Sean Reyes / Golden Gate Xpress)

Los resultados de las propuestas de California favorecen a la legislación financiada por empresas, derechos de voto para personas en libertad condicional

Yeily Mendez and shaylyn martos Nov 9, 2020

Read in English   Los votantes de California escogieron restaurar los derechos para votar a más de 57,000 individuos previamente encarcelados, y votaron por categorizar a los choferes de aplicaciones...

Members of The Bay Area Freedom Project observe five minutes of silence for the people killed by the 'Fatal 14,' outside Vallejo Police Department, in Solano County, Calif., on Nov. 3, 2020. Fatal 14 are the 14 VPD officers involved in the fatal shootings of citizens. The latest of the shootings took place in the early hours of Jun. 3, when Officer Jarrett Tonn shot Sean Monterrosa in his neck. (Harika Maddala / Golden Gate Xpress)

Election night protest stays focused on police brutality

Yeily Mendez and Paul Kelly Nov 6, 2020

Election night has been elongated into something interminable, with its feelings of anticipation, apprehension and fear preceding far before the first night of this purgatorius election week.  Businesses...

Rasheed Lockheart (pictured hugging on the right) hugs his recently released colleague, Mike Gonzalez, a former firehouse dispatcher for the San Quentin State Prison in front of the East gate at San Quentin State Prison on Sept. 15, 2020. (Emily Curiel / Golden Gate Xpress)

Incarcerated firefighter shares experiences as a first responder at San Quentin State Prison

Yeily Mendez, Staff Reporter Nov 6, 2020

  On the night of Sept. 14, Rasheed Lockheart, 42, prepared for his first time back at San Quentin State Prison since his release in January, where he served 18 years of a 24-year sentence.  He...

Vallejo

Harika Maddala, Yeily Mendez, and Paul Kelly Nov 6, 2020

Xpress Podcasts · Election night in Vallejo

The Xpress 2020 California Ballot Measure Voting Guide (Con Traducción) (Sa Pagsasalin) (翻译)

The Xpress 2020 California Ballot Measure Voting Guide (Con Traducción) (Sa Pagsasalin) (翻译)

Californians will have the option to vote on 12 statewide ballot measures this November. A handful of these deal with longly contested topics, such as affirmative action and rent control. In order for...

An Aztec dancer looks above the trees on 24th street, during a walk towards 24th and Folsom streets on Nov. 1, 2020. (Sebastian Mino-Bucheli / Golden Gate Xpress)

The Bay Area celebrates Día de Los Muertos

Yeily Mendez, Staff Reporter Nov 3, 2020

 Many Latin American countries welcome November with Dia de Los Muertos, a 3,000 year-old annual celebration of remembrance for deceased family members and friends where family members visit the graves...

Miguel Sanchez rolls his cart into his van in San Rafael, Calif., after finishing up a four-hour work day on Oct. 17, 2020. (Ricardo Olivares / Golden Gate Xpress)

Marin County eloteros cannot stop working

Yeily Mendez, Staff Reporter Oct 29, 2020

Eloteros, otherwise known as street corn vendors, are among the working class who do not have the option to perform their work remotely from home during the pandemic. The streets of Canal are regularly...

Guía Sobre Medidas Electorales de California 2020 para Xpress

Guía Sobre Medidas Electorales de California 2020 para Xpress

Andres Velasquez and Yeily Mendez Oct 14, 2020

Los residentes de California tienen la opción de votar para 12 medidas electorales en el mes de noviembre. Algunas de las medidas se tratan de temas que han sido popularmente debatidos , como acción...

Logan Carrington casts his vote at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters in San Jose, Calif., on Oct. 7, 2020. The former Virginian says, "I want to control the narrative of my vote," explaining why he chose to vote in person and not mail in his ballot.  (Harika Maddala / Xpress Media)

Early voting centers see an increase of in-person voters

Yeily Mendez and Harika Maddala Oct 12, 2020

With Election Day less than a month away, voting centers across California are beginning to open for early voting. The Voters Choice Act, passed in 2016, allows 15 counties in California including...

Castro was born and raised in Hanford, south of Fresno, and will be the first California native to serve as Chancellor of the CSU. (Photo courtesy of California State University)

CSU announces new chancellor to lead 23 campuses

Yeily Mendez, Staff Reporter Sep 23, 2020

The California State University announced on Wednesday that current Fresno State University President Joseph I. Castro would become the first Mexican-American person to serve as chancellor of the CSU. Castro,...

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