The Bay
Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra talks with local journalists about what’s happening in the greatest region in the country. It’s the context and analysis you need to make sense of the news, with help from the people who know it best. New episodes drop Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings.
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Why Did Fresno Police Create an ‘Asian Gang Tas...
The task force’s formation has struck a nerve with many in Fresno’s Southeast Asian community.
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‘We Don’t Want Shelter, We Want Homes’
The fight over housing rights took a turn recently when two homeless moms occupied a vacant three-bedroom home in West Oakland with their children. Their group, Moms 4 Housing, wants the city to make it possible for people like them to lawfully occupy ...
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What Makes BART Such A Politicized Space?
Steven Foster was detained and cited by BART police for eating a sandwich on a train platform. This isn't the first time BART has been the backdrop of significant social and political conversations in the Bay Area.
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The Thinking Behind KQED’s Mass Shooting Coverage
Since the days of Columbine, America's reference point for mass shootings has shifted over and over again. These shootings have happened at schools, movie theaters and night clubs. But there are also the mass shootings that happen on the margins: In pe...
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‘Yes, Asians Go To Jail Too’
Jason Mai didn’t know why his father was taken to jail when he was 12 years old. As a kid growing up in the Bay Area, he was told by his Chinese family to avoid má fan, which meant burdening or inconveniencing others by sharing the family secret.
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Why San Francisco’s New District Attorney Chesa...
Chesa Boudin wants to shake up San Francisco's criminal justice system. Boudin comes from an unconventional background: His parents were jailed for participating in a robbery that led him to a career as a public defender. This week,
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From the Bay to the Supreme Court: A Doctor’s F...
Jirayut "New" Latthivongskorn immigrated to the United States with his family as a kid. They settled in the Bay Area, where they spent years living in the shadows as undocumented immigrants. They avoided visits to the doctor's and anything that would g...
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Who Owns Silicon Valley?
Stanford has more property value than Apple, Google and Intel combined. And right now in the Bay Area, everyone is watching how these big property owners choose to use their land. So what role should companies who aren’t in the development business pla...
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Let’s Talk About Race and the Orinda Shooting
Why has the "mass shooting" element of this tragedy been largely overlooked?
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Olympic Legends for Black Power Salute, Now Hal...
John Carlos and Tommie Smith were shunned after their infamous Black Power salute on the podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. The were kicked out of the Olympics and lost their track and field careers. Now, 50 years later,
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The Tiny Radio Station Relaying Critical Kincad...
In 2017, the world around Xulio Soriano's family was burning. His mother, who has high blood pressure and diabetes, couldn't get critical information about the fires burning in the North Bay, where she lived.
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How the 2017 North Bay Fires Prepared Sonoma Co...
It's been one week since the Kincade Fire started in Sonoma County, but this time residents say the county is more prepared.
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A Bay Farewell to Editor Erika Aguilar
Some bittersweet news from The Bay team: Our editor Erika Aguilar is leaving to head KQED’s new Housing and Affordability Desk. Erika is a founding member of The Bay and helped launch the podcast in March 2018. In this episode,
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Living Between Fires and Blackouts
PG&E said there were failures on one of its high-voltage transmission lines just minutes before the Kincaid Fire erupted in Sonoma County. It's renewed concern that PG&E equipment is implicated. This comes at a time when the utility has been turning o...
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San Francisco’s Car-Free Market Street Makeover
Starting in January, San Francisco will ban private cars from Market Street as part of a major overhaul to make the city’s main thoroughfare safer for pedestrians, cyclists and public transit. The plan has taken a decade to approve.
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Why the S.F. District Attorney’s Race Matters a...
This year’s race for San Francisco district attorney has been a doozy. The four-way race to replace George Gascón is wide-open. The Nov. 5 election took on some extra controversy this month when Gascón abruptly resigned. The next day,
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Shaky Shaky Shaky: How to Prepare for the Next ...
This week, the Bay Area felt a series of earthquakes in less than 24 hours. Thursday marked the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake. That prompted KQED Science reporter Peter Arcuni to come up with a disaster plan.
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‘We’re Still Here’: Canoe Journey to Alcatraz t...
On Monday, Native people from across the West Coast gathered in San Francisco for a ceremonial canoe journey to Alcatraz Island. Each canoe represented a territory, tribe, community or family. They paddled to celebrate culture and values on Indigenous ...
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KQED’s Podcast #Rightnowish Tackles How Art Sha...
Bay Area artists have a tendency to embed politics and messages for society into their creative work. KQED's newest podcast Rightnowish highlights those artists -- and how what they make is shapes (and has been shaped by) where we are.
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In Paradise, Power Shutoffs and PG&E’s Unreliab...
PG&E shut off the lights to 800,000 customers in Northern California, including 141,000 in the Bay Area. The utility company says the goal is to reduce the risk of wildfires. These latest shutdowns come almost a year after the deadly Camp Fire in Parad...
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Should San Francisco Force People With Mental I...
San Francisco is moving forward with a conservatorship program that would force people experiencing chronic homelessness, substance abuse and severe mental illness to get treatment even if they don't want to. A new state law allows San Francisco,
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How Nancy Pelosi’s Beginnings Prepared Her to L...
Although Nancy Pelosi didn’t run for elected office until she was 47, politics is in her blood. Born into a prominent Baltimore political family, Pelosi learned at a young age the chess-maneuvering of politics.
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How the Fair Pay to Play Act Could (Finally) Le...
Female athletes in the Bay Area are at a disadvantage when it comes to opportunities to play at the professional level. There are no professional women's sports teams in the Bay, compared to seven professional sports teams for men.
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What Boulders Say About San Francisco’s Inabili...
Residents with a place to live on Clinton Park, a street in San Francisco, pooled their money together to buy boulders for the neighborhood's sidewalks.* The residents have complained that people living in an encampment across the street were committin...
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Why Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto Is a Problem (For...
A new push to change the name of the North Berkeley neighborhood that for decades has been known as the "Gourmet Ghetto" has driven a wedge between some community members.
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