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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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.
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How a Schoolteacher’s Letter Led to the Creatio...
Check out some of the letters between Glickman and Schulz here.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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 .
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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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