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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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Apr 26, 2018 • 10min
Golden State Killer Suspect Is Arrested Near Sacramento
The so-called Golden State Killer raped more than 50 women and murdered a dozen people. Law enforcement officials said Wednesday that they'd arrested Joseph James DeAngelo, the man suspected of terrorizing parts of the Bay Area, Southern California and Sacramento for more than a decade.
Guest: Alex Emslie, KQED criminal justice reporte Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 25, 2018 • 11min
Teens Get Personal About the Crazy, Rich Bay Area
What's it like to be a teenager living through the Bay Area's affordability crisis? Today, as part of KQED's Youth Takeover week -- when we hand the mic to the generation that will save us all -- the team asks San Francisco high schoolers about going out with friends when a cup of coffee costs $6.
Guests: Elke Janssen and Gabriel Alves de Lima Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 24, 2018 • 11min
Straws Upon Request
Some Bay Area cities want plastic straws out. Oakland and Berkeley are both considering ordinances on Tuesday that would force people to request plastic straws at restaurants. How Bay Area is that?
Guest: Jeremy Siegel, KQED reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 21, 2018 • 8min
BONUS EPISODE: Elmwood Cafe Closes
We published an episode on Friday featuring comedian and CNN host W. Kamau Bell who told us about a racist incident he suffered in 2015 when he was told to leave a Berkeley cafe for being black. Early on Friday morning that restaurant -- Elmwood Cafe -- unexpectedly closed its doors. Here's an update.
Guest: Caroline Champlin, reporter for KQED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 20, 2018 • 12min
Race and Coffee
Comedian W. Kamau Bell knows what it feels like to be on the receiving end of some racism. His experience at Berkeley's Elmwood Cafe in 2015 is a prelude to what we saw last week, with the arrest of two black men at a Starbucks in Philadelphia. The coffee company will close all U.S. stores next month for a one day training. We ask Kamau: Can you solve racism in one day? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 19, 2018 • 8min
The Big (Hayward) One
The Hayward Fault -- geologists warn this Bay Area fault line that runs through several East Bay cities could unbuckle an earthquake more dangerous, more destructive than the widely-feared San Andreas Fault. The U.S. Geological Survey released a report this week that estimates the damage a 7.0 magnitude earthquake could do along the Hayward Fault.
Guest: Danielle Venton, Science Editor for KQED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 18, 2018 • 14min
NSFSchool
Some parents in Fremont don't want comprehensive sex ed to be taught to their fourth and fifth graders in schools. They've flooded school board meetings to say the curriculum does not respect their parental and cultural choices around sex.
Guest: Sandhya Dirks, KQED race and equity reporter
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Apr 17, 2018 • 10min
Silicon Valley Meets Motor City
Long hours, lots of injuries: That's the story some Tesla workers tell about a factory in Fremont. Elon Musk's electric car company says it's fixed its problem and improved worker safety. But a new story by Reveal from The Center For Investigative Reporting questions the accuracy of Tesla's latest injury numbers. What happens when new tech intersects with old manufacturing?
Guest: Alyssa Jeong Perry, KQED reporter
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Apr 13, 2018 • 10min
Locked Out
Buying a house while black or brown is tough, especially in Vallejo. Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting found that white people are more likely than black people to be approved for a conventional home loan when all else is equal -- 50 years after the Fair Housing Act was passed. Guest: Emmanuel Martinez, data reporter at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 12, 2018 • 11min
Where Were You Last Time?
A San Francisco doctor grabbed headlines right after the YouTube shooting last week. Trauma surgeon Andre Campbell took the press to task for showing up that day but not for other shootings in the community.
Guest: Laura Klivans, KQED heath reporter
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