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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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....
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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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Lake County Hit By Wildfire 4th Straight Year
More than a thousand people have evacuated their homes because of the Pawnee Fire in Lake County. The wildfire that started Saturday has destroyed at least 22 buildings. It's a reoccurring nightmare; wildfires have burned through Lake County year after...
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Richmond Asks How It Should Alert Residents in ...
The fire that ignited at the Sims Metal Management scrap yard site in January alarmed a lot of people who live in the city of Richmond. It got them thinking: How do residents get told when there's a big fire or other emergency?
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Trump v. California Over Sanctuary Policy
The Trump administration's fight against sanctuary policies is now being litigated in federal court. The first hearing was Wednesday in Sacramento. And the consequences of the court case affects sanctuary policies,
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Leaving the Bay Area: Where People Are Going an...
More than 200 people wrote in to tell KQED about their plans to leave the Bay Area and California. Read about where they're going and why.
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When Oil Refineries Flare, What Happens To The ...
On May 5th, 2017 the power went out at the Valero oil refinery in Benicia. Above the refinery, flares blazed and released thick clouds of black smoke. The surrounding areas were evacuated and nearby schools were ordered to shelter-in-place.
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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.
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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,
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‘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.
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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...
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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...
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Inside the KQED Newsroom on Election Night
Find full primary election coverage at kqed.org/elections.
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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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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,
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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...
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‘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.
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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? -
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