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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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11:07

Hunter’s Point Gets a Hearing at SF City Hall

The Bay ·

2018/05/16

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 parcel where people now live is safe. Today, an update on how San Francisco supervisors are pressing the Navy, the EPA and the clean-up contractor to retest the area. Guest: Erika Aguilar, KQED producer

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12:57

Oakland’s Response to #GrillingWhileBlack: Electric...

The Bay ·

2018/05/15

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 black men grilling? They threw a party at the lake. Guest: Sandhya Dirks, KQED race and equity reporter

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16:41

The Toxic Site in Our Backyard

The Bay ·

2018/05/11

For a housing starved San Francisco, Hunters Point might look like a developers dreamland. The area has large plots of land, a waterfront and beautiful vistas. But the land has been making headlines lately with news of pollution, botched tests and radioactive waste. The latest is that the newly developed residential area called "Parcel A" may be more dangerous than previously thought. And residents are mad and suing. Guest: Chris Roberts, investigative reporter

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11:54

Black Women Who Code and the Culture That Eats Strategy

The Bay ·

2018/05/10

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. They've seen how corporate culture gets in the way of workforce diversity strategies. Guest: Tonya Mosley, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief for KQED

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11:03

What’s So Wrong With Recalling Judges?

The Bay ·

2018/05/09

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. The Santa Clara County Superior Court judge has remained mostly quiet. But on Tuesday the Judge Persky called a news conference at a private peninsula residence. Today, what are the consequences of recalling a judge? Guest: Jessica Levinson, elections law professor at Loyola Law

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10:43

What Does One UC Berkeley Gardener Make?

The Bay ·

2018/05/08

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. Today, how a UC Berkeley gardener making $23 an hour gets along. Guest: Ivan Casanova, gardener for the University of California at Berkeley and Vanessa Rancano, KQED education reporter

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15:35

Renaming Julius Kahn Playground

The Bay ·

2018/05/04

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 1882 has San Francisco supervisors interested in renaming the park. We revisit the country's anti-Chinese past and hear how those racist laws oppressed Chinese Americans in San Francisco. Guests: Allan Low, real estate attorney and vice-president of the

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12:04

Fighting For 80 Square Feet In Chinatown

The Bay ·

2018/05/03

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 say are attempts to push them out, including fines for hanging laundry out of windows to dry. Guest: Jessamyn Edra, staff attorney with Advancing Justice Asian Law Caucus

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9:44

The ABCs of California’s Gig Economy

The Bay ·

2018/05/02

Working without a boss has its perks. But many gig workers, like those who drive for Uber and Lyft, say they're treated more like employees than contract workers. The California supreme court ruled this week that misclassifying workers as independent contractors rather than employees is a "very serious problem." And the ruling could have big implications for the Bay Area where many gig workers live and work and could potentially be categorized as real employees. Guest: Sam Harnett, KQED Silicon

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12:22

Can You Find the Cameras Above Street Lights? They...

The Bay ·

2018/05/01

There are license plate readers all over the Bay Area that law enforcement can use to track vehicles coming in and out of a particular area. Many of these devices have hung above street lights for a few years, but now some East Bay cities are beginning to limit what surveillance data is being collected from them and regulate how that data can be used. Guest: Cyrus Farivar: Ars Technica, senior technology policy reporter and author of Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech

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12:16

Costa Hawkins: The Housing Law That Renters Hate

The Bay ·

2018/04/27

The debate over rent control is at a new crossroads. Tenant advocates say they've collected enough signatures to ask voters in November to repeal Costa Hawkins, a state law that curbs rent control polices in some cities. We ask ... what exactly is Costa Hawkins, again? Guest: Jessica Placzek, reporter for Bay Curious at KQED

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10:01

Golden State Killer Suspect Is Arrested Near Sacramento

The Bay ·

2018/04/26

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

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11:12

Teens Get Personal About the Crazy, Rich Bay Area

The Bay ·

2018/04/25

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

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10:58

Straws Upon Request

The Bay ·

2018/04/24

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

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8:20

BONUS EPISODE: Elmwood Cafe Closes

The Bay ·

2018/04/21

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

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12:29

Race and Coffee

The Bay ·

2018/04/20

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?

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8:21

The Big (Hayward) One

The Bay ·

2018/04/19

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

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13:52

NSFSchool

The Bay ·

2018/04/18

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 Subscribe to The Bay

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10:20

Silicon Valley Meets Motor City

The Bay ·

2018/04/17

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 Subscribe to The Bay

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10:17

Locked Out

The Bay ·

2018/04/13

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

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