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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‘Misleading Statements, Otherwise Known as a Lie’
How ICE and Trump spun a false narrative about the Oakland mayor and the raids. Read the full story.
9 min
902
Warriors: ‘They Bounce the Ball in Oakland’
The Golden State Warriors have not always been the golden team. Oakland fans have 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,
10 min
903
‘Money Flows North, the Green Goes South’
Huedell Freeman was hauling 47 pounds of marijuana from a farm in Mendocino County to a medical dispensary in Los Angeles when two Rohnert Park police officers pulled him over. They took his weed, gave him a citation and let him go.
10 min
904
San Francisco: 2. Big Tobacco: 0
Flavored tobacco gets booted out of San Francisco. On Tuesday, voters passed Proposition E with 69 percent of the vote, making the city the first in the nation to pass such a comprehensive ordinance banning all flavored tobacco products from every stor...
10 min
905
Total Recall: Judge Aaron Persky Voted Out
#TBT on The Bay: Sixty percent of voters decided to remove Aaron Persky from his judgeship in Santa Clara County. He's the judge who handed a six-month sentence to former Stanford athlete Brock Turner after Turner was convicted of sexually assaulting a...
9 min
906
Inside the KQED Newsroom on Election Night
Find full primary election coverage at kqed.org/elections.
10 min
907
Your Identity, Your Vote
The three top candidates running for mayor in San Francisco will have the chance to be the city's "first" in some way. But does a candidate's identity sway people's votes? And how does a voter's identity play a role at the polls?
10 min
908
Fire Inspections Go Undone: An Investigation by...
Read the full story Burned Out: How overwhelmed fire inspectors fail to protect us by the Bay Area News Group.
9 min
909
From ‘Just Say No’ to ‘Delay, Delay, Delay’
Read Carrie Feibel's story about talking to kids about marijuana here: https://www.kqed.org/stateofhealth/363545/in-the-land-of-legal-weed-drug-education-moves-from-dont-to-delay
9 min
910
Waiting For BART in Antioch
Antioch has waited decades for a BART station. The city has seen a population boom led by the Bay Area's housing crisis, which has pushed people farther and farther out. Last weekend, BART officially began train service to Antioch.
6 min
911
Ranked-Choice Voting Explained
If you’re voting in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley or San Leandro ... you get three votes! Kind of. Today, we explain how ranked-choice voting works, why some people like it, why some people hate it, and how politicians can win even if they come in s...
10 min
912
Reasonable vs. Necessary: What Keeps the S.F. D...
Two deaths by police. Zero charges. San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said Thursday that his hands are tied and he won't be prosecuting the officers who killed two men of color in high-profile cases.
12 min
913
East Bay Candidates Get A Little Woo-Woo
District 15 isn’t your normal district. At a forum in Berkeley, East Bay candidates for State Assembly are asked to do something they almost never do on the campaign trail: validate their opponent's point of view. - Guest: Guy Marzorati,
11 min
914
Journalists in Carpools Talking Bridge Tolls
We jump into a stranger's car on the Bay Bridge in the "casual carpool lane" to talk about raising bridge tolls. Our carpool driver and rider join in on a discussion about Regional Measure 3, which voters will decide in the June 5 primary election that...
11 min
915
‘A Severe Inability to Pay’ Criminal Processing...
The costs of processing crime in San Francisco has left the city’s convicted criminals with millions of dollars in unpaid debt. Many people can’t afford to pay the extra administrative fees that accompany the criminal court fines.
8 min
916
Can Cultural Districts in San Francisco Really ...
Calle 24. Japantown. The Leather District. These are all neighborhoods in San Francisco that the city has formally recognized as cultural districts. Not so much for tourism as an attempt to save them from gentrification. But will it work? -
10 min
917
Oakland Loses Battle With Developer Phil Tagami...
Oakland has lost a battle with coal. A judge ruled Tuesday to uphold a contract that lets a developer ship coal through an Oakland port. Developer Phil Tagami had sued the city after the council had voted to ban the shipment of coal. -
6 min
918
Hunter’s Point Gets a Hearing at SF City Hall
San Francisco supervisors were not happy with answers they got on Monday from the company accused of falsifying soil data at Hunters Point. In recent weeks, we learned two pleaded guilty to faking reports, and there is suspicion about whether the parce...
9 min
919
Oakland’s Response to #GrillingWhileBlack: Elec...
Oakland’s Lake Merritt is supposed to be a public space for everyone. But it doesn't feel that way when white residents complain about the way black residents use the park. So how did people respond when a white woman recently called the cops on two bl...
10 min
920
The Toxic Site in Our Backyard
Read more of Chris Roberts’ reporting on Hunters Point Shipyard and follow him on Twitter @cbloggy.
14 min
921
Black Women Who Code and the Culture That Eats ...
There are few women in tech. There are even fewer women of color in tech, which can be isolating. At a women's mixer in Mountain View for Google partners, two black women connect over their career experiences.
9 min
922
What’s So Wrong With Recalling Judges?
Judge Aaron Persky is facing a recall election in June after sentencing a former Stanford student-athlete Brock Turner to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious and intoxicated woman back in 2015.
9 min
923
What Does One UC Berkeley Gardener Make?
Thousands of University of California union employees are on strike this week amid failed contract negotiations. Among them are gardeners, janitors, nurses aides and food service workers who say the Bay Area's expensive costs demand higher wages.
8 min
924
Renaming Julius Kahn Playground
San Francisco named the Julius Kahn Playground located in the Presidio after the congressman who represented the city in the early 1900s. But his racist past as the politician who disparaged immigrants and advocated for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 188...
13 min
925
Fighting For 80 Square Feet In Chinatown
Chinatown is one of the few San Francisco neighborhoods where lower income residents can still afford to make rent. The tenants living in one Single Room Occupancy - where rooms are 80 square feet - are the latest to sue their landlords over what they ...
10 min