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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.

‘The Bay Area Was Hip-Hop Before There Was Hip-Hop’

27 mins; August 11, 2023

San Jose City Workers Are About to Go on Strike

16 mins; August 09, 2023

In Martinez, More Residents Want to Hold the Refinery Accountable

19 mins; August 07, 2023

Why California’s Salmon Season Was Canceled

23 mins; August 04, 2023

A Campaign to Recall Alameda County’s Progressive DA Kicks Off

25 mins; August 02, 2023

Bay Listeners, We Want to Hear From You!

3 mins; July 14, 2023

Baycation: It’s Time For Our July Break

3 mins; July 03, 2023

California Now Has a Reparations Proposal

22 mins; June 30, 2023

A Queer Elder’s Reflections on SF Pride

20 mins; June 28, 2023

Growing Up With Gun Violence

20 mins; June 26, 2023

Saving Downtown San Francisco

18 mins; June 23, 2023

Mayors Want to Get Unhoused People Off the Streets Faster

24 mins; June 21, 2023

South Berkeley’s Black History Walking Tour

20 mins; June 19, 2023

Oakland Event Series Aimed at Gun Violence Prevention Returns for Summer 2023

17 mins; June 16, 2023

Armed Security Guards Are Taking On More Responsibility. California Wants to Train Them Better

23 mins; June 14, 2023

Finding Community in the Oakland Pickleball Scene

16 mins; June 12, 2023

One Neighborhood’s Strategy For Curbing Homelessness? Turn Off the Library Wi-Fi

18 mins; June 09, 2023

The Ethics of Photographing Addiction in the Tenderloin

22 mins; June 07, 2023

Caste Has Hit a Nerve in South Asian Communities

29 mins; June 05, 2023

The Headache of Catalytic Converter Thefts

23 mins; June 02, 2023

San Francisco Prepares to Roll Out CARE Court

17 mins; May 31, 2023

Rightnowish: Protecting Sacred Land in the South Bay

20 mins; May 29, 2023

The A’s Are One Step Closer to Leaving Oakland

19 mins; May 26, 2023

Workers Accuse an East Oakland Popeye’s of Child Labor Violations

21 mins; May 24, 2023

East San Jose is Ready to ‘Welcome the Stranger’

18 mins; May 22, 2023

Sean Moore’s Mother Waits for Justice

17 mins; May 19, 2023

The End of the Oakland Teacher Strike

12 mins; May 17, 2023

Child Care is Getting More Affordable in S.F.

20 mins; May 15, 2023

Banko Brown's Killing is 'a Tragedy of San Francisco's Making'

20 mins; May 12, 2023

The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Turns 100. How Will Climate Change Affect Its Future?

17 mins; May 10, 2023

Living with Long COVID

18 mins; May 08, 2023

Oakland Public School Teachers Go On Strike

16 mins; May 05, 2023

San José Plans to Build More Temporary Housing Sites. But Housed Neighbors Are Pushing Back

20 mins; May 03, 2023

BART Director Lateefah Simon is Running for Congress

27 mins; May 01, 2023

The End of Alameda County’s Eviction Moratorium

22 mins; April 28, 2023

One of the Nation’s First Asian American Bookstores is Closing

20 mins; April 26, 2023

How an Antisemitic Propaganda Group Started in the Bay

25 mins; April 24, 2023

‘I Need to Feel Safe More Than I Need Forever’: Poet Antmen Pimentel Mendoza

17 mins; April 21, 2023

Call The Bay! We Want to Hear Your Thoughts About the Oakland A’s

3 mins; April 20, 2023

'I've Been Contributing': The Push to Extend Unemployment Insurance to Undocumented Workers

17 mins; April 19, 2023

The Antioch Police Department's Racist Text Messages

21 mins; April 17, 2023

Sactown vs. The Bay

23 mins; April 14, 2023

A New Bill Could Help Get Teens Closer to Recovering From Addiction

21 mins; April 12, 2023

‘I’m Literally Not Going to be Able to Eat:' CalFresh’s Pandemic Benefits Expire This Month

15 mins; April 10, 2023

The Oakland Program Helping Khmer Rouge Survivors Heal

23 mins; April 07, 2023

An End of an Era for Oakland's Wood Street Commons

21 mins; April 05, 2023

Tech Boom? What About A Carbon Removal Boom?

23 mins; April 03, 2023

S.F’s Iconic Castro Theatre is in Limbo

22 mins; March 31, 2023

As a Therapist, I See the Damage of Anti-Trans Hate Firsthand

18 mins; March 29, 2023

These Proven Schizophrenia Treatments Work. Why Won't Insurance Companies Cover Them?

31 mins; March 27, 2023

We Don’t Know Whether Most of the Bay’s Levees Are Safe

17 mins; March 24, 2023

These Affordable Housing Projects Are Affected by Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse

18 mins; March 22, 2023

In East San Jose, One District is Seeing Success with Universal Preschool

21 mins; March 20, 2023

Alameda County’s Answer to Black Maternal Mortality is Working

20 mins; March 17, 2023

In Monterey County, the Town of Pajaro Has Flooded

18 mins; March 15, 2023

The Success of S.F’s Mobile Opioid Treatment Clinics

19 mins; March 13, 2023

The Oakland Tech Girls Basketball Team’s ‘Mini Dynasty’

20 mins; March 10, 2023

Bay Area Men Sentenced for Plot to Blow Up Democratic Party HQ

24 mins; March 08, 2023

Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco Roots

25 mins; March 06, 2023

BART is Staring Down a Fiscal Cliff

23 mins; March 03, 2023

How Alameda Became the First Bay Area City to Set Its State Housing Goals

22 mins; March 01, 2023

Getting Ready for the Big One

16 mins; February 27, 2023

An Uphill Battle to Unionize at One of the Bay’s Oldest Nonprofits

23 mins; February 24, 2023

California’s COVID Emergency Ends Feb. 28

19 mins; February 22, 2023

Tracing Hip Hop’s Beginnings in the Bay With Davey D

24 mins; February 20, 2023

In Deep Blue California, Anti-Abortion Centers Outnumber Abortion Clinics

22 mins; February 17, 2023

Brooke Jenkins Plans to Drop Charges Against SFPD Officer Who Killed Keita O’Neil

21 mins; February 15, 2023

Did Chevron Fire Workers in Richmond for Going on Strike?

19 mins; February 13, 2023

After 6 Years, South Berkeley's Here/There Encampment Closes

20 mins; February 10, 2023

Oakland’s Police Chief and the Long Road to Police Reform

20 mins; February 08, 2023

Her Murder Conviction Was Overturned. ICE Still Wants to Deport Her.

32 mins; February 06, 2023

‘Under the Radar’: Half Moon Bay and the Vulnerability of Farmworkers

23 mins; February 03, 2023

A Layoff Spree At Bay Area Tech Companies

16 mins; February 01, 2023

Why Sewage Flooded the Bay

18 mins; January 30, 2023

Oakland's Lunar New Year Parade

18 mins; January 27, 2023

7 Farmworkers Killed in Half Moon Bay Mass Shooting

15 mins; January 25, 2023

The Great Soaking is Over. What Now?

19 mins; January 23, 2023

Alameda County’s New DA Wants to Shake Things Up

22 mins; January 20, 2023

‘You’re Taking On A Lot of Risk’: Rain and Recovery in the Santa Cruz Mountains

18 mins; January 18, 2023

Blues Town: Remembering Russell City

25 mins; January 16, 2023

A ‘Rare’ Archive of Angela Davis’ Life On Display At OMCA

21 mins; January 13, 2023

Rain and Eviction Loom Over Oakland’s Wood Street Encampment

23 mins; January 11, 2023

Oakland Swears in Mayor Sheng Thao

26 mins; January 09, 2023

Storms Pummel the Bay Area With More to Come

19 mins; January 06, 2023

Matt Mahan Begins His First Year As San Jose’s New Mayor

23 mins; January 04, 2023

The Bay’s Favorite Episodes of 2022

27 mins; December 16, 2022

Is Vallejo Rushing Its Police Oversight Commission?

17 mins; December 14, 2022

tbh: The Problem With The 'Clean Girl Aesthetic'

28 mins; December 12, 2022

When the Tenderloin's Addiction Crisis Goes Viral

23 mins; December 09, 2022

Will Casual Carpool Ever Come Back?

19 mins; December 07, 2022

A Frantic Job Hunt for H-1B Visa Holders in Tech

20 mins; December 05, 2022

In the Bay, Hundreds Are Coming Out to Support Chinese Protesters

21 mins; December 02, 2022

Got Climate Anxiety? Here’s How to Deal With It

17 mins; November 30, 2022

Oakland Plans to Return 5 Acres to East Bay Ohlone

26 mins; November 28, 2022

Thousands of UC Academic Workers Are on Strike

18 mins; November 18, 2022

Twitter's Implosion is Hurting Local Charities

16 mins; November 16, 2022

A Settlement in the Vallejo Police Killing of Angel Ramos

32 mins; November 14, 2022

How California Voted on the 7 Statewide Ballot Measures

24 mins; November 11, 2022

Election Night in the Bay

28 mins; November 09, 2022

Oakland's Measure S Would Open the Door to Noncitizen Voting in School Board Elections

19 mins; November 07, 2022

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