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KQED
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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Jul 12, 2018 • 14min
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 historically black and brown neighborhood, even as it gentrifies.
Guest: Tonya Mosley, KQED's Silicon Valley Bureau Chief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 11, 2018 • 12min
Get to Know London Breed, San Francisco’s New Mayor
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 10, 2018 • 11min
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. Tech is known for requiring workers to keep their names out of the press. But now the momentum to organize is growing in the era of the Trump administration.
Guest: Sam Harnett, KQED Silicon Valley reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 5, 2018 • 13min
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Why Some Oakland Fans Have a Complicated Relationship With the Warriors
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, some people in The Town feel left behind.
Guest: Lukas Brekke-Miesner, writer for the 38Notes blog and associate director of Oakland Kids First Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 4, 2018 • 13min
The History of the Oakland Sideshow (via Bay Curious)
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. New laws were introduced that criminalized sideshow spectators. That complicated the already tense relationship between police and the community. We get into the history and culture of the sideshow.
Guest: Sandhya Dirks, KQED equity and enterprise reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 3, 2018 • 10min
The People Who Work in America’s Most Famous Burrito Shop
The lines at La Taqueria in San Francisco’s Mission District are long. Business picked up after getting named the No. 1 burrito in the country back in 2014. But some workers say the company wasn’t properly compensating them even before the taqueria got popular. Now some women have come forward to force back pay and other benefits to all employees.
Guest: Jonathan Kauffman, food writer for the San Francisco Chronicle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 28, 2018 • 17min
Man on the Street: A Story of Homelessness in San Francisco
Homelessness in Bay Area has become a common sight; one we even try to avoid. When KQED reporter Dan Brekke interviewed one man named Perry Foster, he didn’t think it would lead him on a search for more details about who this person is, his accomplishments, his goals and the barriers he faced. As part of KQED’s SF Homeless Project, we learn today that everyone has a story.
Guest: Dan Brekke, KQED transportation editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 27, 2018 • 12min
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 year. Today, we hear from people who have had to flee their burning homes.
Guest: Sukey Lewis, KQED criminal justice reporter
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Jun 26, 2018 • 12min
Richmond Asks How It Should Alert Residents in Emergency
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? The city council meets Tuesday to discuss three proposals for how to alert residents in a disaster.
Guest: Ted Goldberg, KQED News assignment editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 21, 2018 • 10min
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, which were pioneered first by the city of Berkeley and later San Francisco before spreading to other places around the country.
Guest: Katie Orr, KQED politics and government reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices


