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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.

Prop. 1 Passes...Barely

16 mins; March 25, 2024

A New Pro Women’s Soccer Team Kicks Off

17 mins; March 22, 2024

Defending Against Deportation in Contra Costa County

20 mins; March 20, 2024

At This Women’s Prison in Dublin, Sexual Abuse is Pervasive

20 mins; March 18, 2024

US Navy Acknowledges Toxic Groundwater Threat in Bayview-Hunters Point

23 mins; March 15, 2024

A Roundup of Local Alameda County Election Results

24 mins; March 13, 2024

San Francisco Moderates Win Big

18 mins; March 11, 2024

Rep. Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey Advance in U.S. Senate Race

23 mins; March 08, 2024

Most People Don’t Vote in Primaries. How Can We Change That?

19 mins; March 06, 2024

Call Us: Are You Voting in the March Primary? Why Or Why Not?

51 secs; March 05, 2024

Breaking Down Napa County’s Board of Supervisors Election

18 mins; March 04, 2024

How the Racial Justice Act Could Shake Up California’s Criminal Court System

23 mins; March 01, 2024

February News Roundup: A Silicon Valley Assembly Race, Oscar Grant’s Mother Gets His Phones Back, and Fast Food Politics

17 mins; February 28, 2024

A Growing ‘Right to Repair’ Culture

18 mins; February 26, 2024

Will S.F. Voters Expand Police Powers in This Election?

23 mins; February 23, 2024

‘I Feel Like the Palestinian Issue is a Queer Issue”

14 mins; February 21, 2024

How AI Could Threaten Our Elections

22 mins; February 19, 2024

A ‘Decisive Victory’ for Cutting Air Pollution

17 mins; February 16, 2024

Loving and Losing a Mural in the Mission

18 mins; February 14, 2024

Bay Curious Breaks Down Proposition 1

21 mins; February 12, 2024

Let's Go Niners!

23 mins; February 09, 2024

Why Were There So Many Power Outages?

20 mins; February 07, 2024

Were You Affected By the Storms? Call Us.

37 secs; February 05, 2024

How San Francisco Counts Unhoused Residents

19 mins; February 05, 2024

How Oakland’s Marquee Gun Violence Prevention Program Broke Down

20 mins; February 02, 2024

January News Roundup: Tech’s Role in Media Layoffs, San Mateo County Criminalizes Camping, SF’s District Attorney Race

18 mins; January 31, 2024

What to Know About California’s Senate Race

22 mins; January 29, 2024

How a Mass Shooting Changed Half Moon Bay, One Year Later

22 mins; January 26, 2024

In California, Anti-Abortion Centers Outnumber Abortion Clinics

21 mins; January 24, 2024

After Cruise’s Implosion, What’s Next for Robotaxis?

17 mins; January 22, 2024

California Forever Unveils Ballot Measure Plans for Its New City

22 mins; January 19, 2024

A Safety Net Under the Golden Gate Bridge

16 mins; January 17, 2024

Rightnowish: Boots Riley on Art, Oakland, and Labor Movements

24 mins; January 15, 2024

San Francisco Approves Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution

21 mins; January 12, 2024

Will UC Berkeley Finally Win the Battle Over People’s Park?

23 mins; January 10, 2024

What’s Next in the Recall of Progressive DA Pamela Price

19 mins; January 08, 2024

With Climate Change, What is the Future of Bay Area Fog?

18 mins; January 05, 2024

Forum: Reclaiming Our Relationship With Time in 2024

19 mins; January 03, 2024

Best of 2023: A Queer Elder’s Reflection on SF Pride

19 mins; January 01, 2024

Best of 2023: A Music Class is Helping Farmworkers Heal in Half Moon Bay

20 mins; December 29, 2023

Best of 2023: Finding Community in Pickleball

18 mins; December 27, 2023

The Couple Who Helped Overturn California’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban

17 mins; December 22, 2023

Connecting Climbers with the Native History of Indian and Mortar Rocks

21 mins; December 20, 2023

Housing or Wetlands? Newark Faces a Difficult Choice

17 mins; December 18, 2023

When Disaster Strikes in English Only

16 mins; December 15, 2023

How We Grieve a Changing California

16 mins; December 13, 2023

An Interview with the CEO of PG&E

25 mins; December 11, 2023

Cal State Faculty Hold a Series of One-Day Strikes

18 mins; December 08, 2023

Inside Oakland's Largest Housing Megaproject

21 mins; December 06, 2023

Can Silicon Valley Investors Win Over Solano County?

22 mins; December 04, 2023

San Francisco Bans Vending Along Mission Street

19 mins; December 01, 2023

November News Roundup: Transit Funding, Prison Wages, and Tupac Shakur Way

19 mins; November 29, 2023

Why Your PG&E Bill is About to Go Up

15 mins; November 27, 2023

Public Libraries Are Sacred Spaces

22 mins; November 24, 2023

What It Takes to Give Land Back

23 mins; November 22, 2023

A Personal Story from Ericka

27 mins; November 20, 2023

Here’s Where Bay Area Electeds Stand on Israel’s Siege of Gaza

24 mins; November 17, 2023

A Music Class is Helping Farmworkers Heal in Half Moon Bay

18 mins; November 15, 2023

Sold Out: The Oakland Block That’s Ditching Natural Gas

25 mins; November 13, 2023

How APEC Will Affect Daily Life in San Francisco

19 mins; November 10, 2023

South Bay Conservatives Are Trying to Gain a Foothold on Local School Boards

21 mins; November 08, 2023

A Palestinian-American Elected Official Speaks Out

21 mins; November 06, 2023

California Lifts Decades-Old Ban on Lowrider Cruising

18 mins; November 03, 2023

Should Some Drug Dealers Be Charged With Murder?

16 mins; November 01, 2023

KQED Live: Listening to Young Elected Leaders

37 mins; October 30, 2023

The Bay’s October News Roundup: Richmond Stands With Palestine, Cruise Suspended in SF, A Win For Child Care Workers

20 mins; October 27, 2023

Can the State Force Vallejo PD to Change?

17 mins; October 25, 2023

On X, Misinformation About the Israel-Hamas War is Spreading

19 mins; October 23, 2023

100 Years of Mystery at the Winchester House in San Jose

22 mins; October 20, 2023

Sorrow, Fear, and Rage: Local Reactions to the Israel-Hamas War

15 mins; October 18, 2023

Are We Burning Enough ‘Good Fires’?

17 mins; October 16, 2023

Most People Seriously Injured, Killed by San José Police are Mentally Ill or Intoxicated

12 mins; October 13, 2023

The Untold Story of Richard Oakes’ Killing, Part 2

27 mins; October 11, 2023

The Untold Story of Richard Oakes' Killing, Part 1

24 mins; October 09, 2023

More Than 22,000 Bay Area Kaiser Permanente Workers Are On Strike

15 mins; October 06, 2023

Hyphy Kids Got Trauma

22 mins; October 04, 2023

Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco Legacy

24 mins; October 02, 2023

Distrust in Martinez, Decriminalizing Psychedelics, and a New WNBA Team

20 mins; September 29, 2023

Should Farmworkers Be Allowed to Pick Wine Grapes in Wildfire Evacuation Zones?

26 mins; September 27, 2023

Theft and Vigilante Justice in the Oakland Estuary

16 mins; September 25, 2023

Saving SF’s Ferry Building from the Sea

16 mins; September 22, 2023

A New Home for La Pulga?

21 mins; September 20, 2023

California is On the Verge of Banning Caste Discrimination

28 mins; September 18, 2023

California is On the Verge of Banning Caste Discrimination

28 mins; September 16, 2023

BART’s Plan to Win Us Over

21 mins; September 15, 2023

Tell Us How You Feel About BART

2 mins; September 13, 2023

Nancy Pelosi is Running Again. Should She Step Aside?

21 mins; September 13, 2023

How Santa Clara County is Fighting Wage Theft

16 mins; September 11, 2023

You’re Not Imagining It: COVID Cases Are Up Again

15 mins; September 08, 2023

‘I Think of Him Every Day’: A Conversation With Banko Brown's Trans Family

24 mins; September 06, 2023

Are the Redwood Trees OK?

20 mins; September 04, 2023

A Group of Tech Billionaires Want to Build a New City in Solano County

21 mins; September 01, 2023

S.F.’s Encampment Sweep Debate

19 mins; August 30, 2023

Belmont Students Honor Classmate’s Life After Fentanyl Overdose

18 mins; August 28, 2023

Our August News Roundup

20 mins; August 25, 2023

How Silicon Valley Ate Hollywood

19 mins; August 23, 2023

‘All That’s Old is New Again’: OPD’s Long Road to Reform

19 mins; August 21, 2023

How a Coffee Boycott Helped End a Civil War

19 mins; August 18, 2023

Get Ready For More Robotaxis in S.F.

21 mins; August 16, 2023

College-Bound Californians Prepare For Abortion Bans Out of State

20 mins; August 14, 2023

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