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 headlines, with help from the people who know it best. New episodes drop Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings.
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Verizon Squeezes the Internet Hose on Firefight...
Read Jon Brodkin's full story here. Plus, an update about what Verizon is doing since the story came out.
9 min
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‘Cover the Important Bits’: Alameda Schools Cha...
Read Jill Tucker's story on Alameda's new dress code. - And please take a few minutes to help us make The Bay better by taking our short survey.
10 min
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Fight for Water Makes Strange Bedfellows: Farme...
Green bins, blue bins, black bins. San Francisco is known for being super progressive when it comes to the environment. But some say the city's behind the curve on this one thing: water. This week state water officials discuss a revolutionary new plan ...
8 min
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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Is What A Lot of People Hav...
Read Ricky's article here: Asian-Americans Are Cultural Orphans (aka I hope Crazy Rich Asians isn’t a flop).
10 min
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Back to the Future: SF’s New Transbay Terminal
Dan's reporting on San Francisco's new transit terminal can be found here . To see a video of the new terminal click here .
9 min
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A Lesson in How to Die
There will be a screening of A Dance With Death at the Clay Theatre Wednesday, Aug. 15.
13 min
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These Fires Break All the Old Rules
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11 min
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One Bay Area City Preps for More Rent Control; ...
If California voters approve Prop. 10 in November, the debate over rent control will continue. Read more from Guy Marzorati on that debate in the Bay Area.
10 min
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How the DMV Got Worse
Read Bryan Anderson's full story on the DMV here. Also check out the Capitol Alert newsletter. Finally, thanks to the Sacramento Bee for letting us use audio for this story.
8 min
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Are Democratic Socialists a Thing Now?
Read more of Julian Mark's coverage of the Democratic Socialists growth in the Bay Area and his coverage of the local fundraiser for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
11 min
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How a Schoolteacher’s Letter Led to the Creatio...
Check out some of the letters between Glickman and Schulz here.
7 min
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The Conflicted Capitalist: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
Can big tech companies call themselves progressive? One of Silicon Valley's biggest CEOs says he has identified as progressive. Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he felt conflicted once about whether to charge people to use the company's platform.
9 min
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The Orwellian Take on San Francisco’s Informal ...
Does San Francisco have an informal caste system fueled by tech? Read Wired writer Antonio García Martínez's piece on what are the four levels he sees.
11 min
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How Bay Area Activists Harness the Power of Whi...
No one knows how to run a protest like Bay Area activists. In fact, faith leaders and Black Lives Matter activists from the Bay brought their strategies to the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego to protest family separation at a detention facility for p...
11 min
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Fire Clean-Up Mostly Done, but Now It’s Time to...
Read Sukey's story, Cleaning Up: Inside the Wildfire Debris Removal Job That Cost Taxpayers $1.3 Billion .
11 min
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Oakland Is Having a Moment at the Movies
Oakland is having a moment on the big screen. This weekend Blindspotting will be released, the third movie this year featuring the city that is drawing national attention. It follows the releases of Black Panther and Sorry to Bother You earlier in 2018...
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A Bay Area Newspaper Publisher Uses the N-Word ...
Former East Bay Express reporter Azucena Rasilla wrote about quitting her job at the alternative weekly after her stories were retracted by the publisher for being racially provocative. That publisher then resigned.
12 min
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Raising Sam: A Story of Seizures, Marijuana and...
Sam Vogelstein was having as many as 100 seizures a day. His parents tried more than 20 different medications. Then they stumbled on research showing the benefits of a marijuana-based drug. After trying to buy and make the CBD (cannabidiol) drug underg...
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East Palo Alto: Bank Desert
There are no banks in East Palo Alto – a city surrounded by some of the wealthiest communities in the Bay Area. There is one lone ATM, though. We’ll take you there and meet some people who say being ignored by banks is a long-standing problem in this h...
12 min
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Get to Know London Breed, San Francisco’s New M...
Learn more about London Breed and how she became the person and politician she is today by reading Jamilah King's article in Mother Jones.
9 min
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Is This the Beginning of a Tech Worker Revolution?
A standing room-only crowd of tech workers from the most iconic Silicon Valley companies met last week in the Mission District of San Francisco. They were there to talk about how to organize against the very companies that're paying their paychecks.
8 min
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FROM THE ARCHIVE: Why Some Oakland Fans Have a ...
The Golden State Warriors have not always been the golden team. Oakland fans supported the Warriors through decades of losing seasons and rode the high toward three NBA Championships. Now as the team plans to move across the bay to The City,
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The History of the Oakland Sideshow (via Bay Cu...
The original sideshows were pop-up parties -- part car show, part block party. They first bubbled up in mall parking lots of Deep East Oakland in the 1980s. Over time the sideshows began to change and the Oakland Police Department began to take notice....
11 min
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The People Who Work in America’s Most Famous Bu...
The beloved La Taqueria restaurant in the Mission was fined last year for labor violations. Read the full story from the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Man on the Street: A Story of Homelessness in S...
KQED is airing and publishing stories about housing affordability and homelessness this week as part of the SF Homeless Project collaboration with other Bay Area news organizations to draw attention to the conditions people endure.
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