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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.

Who Will be Oakland’s Next Mayor?

23 mins; November 04, 2022

'It’s a Despicable Act’: Rep. Jackie Speier on the Attack on Paul Pelosi

16 mins; November 02, 2022

‘Making Something That’s Our Own’: Día de Los Muertos in the Bay

27 mins; October 31, 2022

For the First Time in 24 Years, Santa Clara County Will Have a New Sheriff

25 mins; October 28, 2022

A Sanctuary State for Gender Affirming Care

23 mins; October 26, 2022

California's Only Gubernatorial Debate

63 hours 40 mins; October 24, 2022

San Francisco’s District Attorney Race

27 mins; October 21, 2022

In Benicia’s City Council Race, Valero is on People’s Minds

23 mins; October 19, 2022

KQED Live: A San Jose Mayoral Candidates Forum

60 hours 45 mins; October 17, 2022

A Rise in Catalytic Converter Thefts

22 mins; October 14, 2022

‘Who Are We Here For? Iran!’

17 mins; October 12, 2022

Preventing Gun Violence Through Arts and Culture

19 mins; October 10, 2022

Prop. 31: Banning Flavored Tobacco

17 mins; October 07, 2022

Prop. 30: Green Infrastructure

17 mins; October 05, 2022

Prop. 29: Dialysis Clinics

17 mins; October 03, 2022

Prop. 28: Arts and Music Education Funding

18 mins; September 30, 2022

Props 26 and 27: Sports Betting

21 mins; September 28, 2022

Prop. 1: Reproductive Freedom

21 mins; September 26, 2022

Pushing to Make BART Safer for Women and Girls

18 mins; September 23, 2022

San Jose Sweeps One of Its Largest Homeless Encampments

19 mins; September 21, 2022

Black Women Are Changing California's Victim System

24 mins; September 19, 2022

Poetry, Burritos, and The Border: Meet Our Producer, Maria Esquinca!

25 mins; September 16, 2022

Last Week’s Historic Heat Wave

19 mins; September 14, 2022

'Welcome Black to the Land'

20 mins; September 12, 2022

Naatak Marks 100 Productions of Indian American Theater in the Bay Area

21 mins; September 09, 2022

In Sonoma County, Cities Are Banning New Gas Stations

18 mins; September 07, 2022

‘It’s an Unimaginable Number of Fish’

23 mins; September 02, 2022

How Safe Injection Sites Can Help Address Our Addiction Crisis

23 mins; August 31, 2022

Taking Your Eviction to Court

32 mins; August 29, 2022

California Will Phase Out New Gas-Powered Cars by 2035

12 mins; August 26, 2022

The Future of Street Vending at the 24th Street Mission BART Plaza

29 mins; August 24, 2022

S.F's Noncitizen Voting Law Was Struck Down. What's Next?

22 mins; August 22, 2022

How We Talk About Wildfires

19 mins; August 19, 2022

A Year Later, One Afghan Family’s Resettlement in the Bay

25 mins; August 17, 2022

High School in the Shadows of Silicon Valley

19 mins; August 15, 2022

SFUSD Teachers (Still) Haven’t Been Fully Paid

17 mins; August 12, 2022

Project Roomkey is Closing Its Doors

28 mins; August 10, 2022

Remembering Joy: A Personal Story from ECG

28 mins; August 08, 2022

A Standoff Over People’s Park in Berkeley

23 mins; August 05, 2022

What's Going On with Monkeypox?

23 mins; August 03, 2022

Why Cleaning Up Bayview-Hunters Point is an Issue of Reparations

25 mins; August 01, 2022

A Message From The Bay: We’re Taking July Off!

7 mins; July 01, 2022

‘We Will Continue to Be Here’: Accessing Abortion Services After Roe

18 mins; June 29, 2022

'I Knew It Was Coming, But I Still Can't Believe It'

22 mins; June 27, 2022

Black, Queer, and Searching for Safe Spaces

23 mins; June 24, 2022

The Story Behind the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco

15 mins; June 22, 2022

He Designed a Garden at UC Santa Cruz from Death Row. Now Students Want Him Free

26 mins; June 17, 2022

Dub Nation Against the World

19 mins; June 15, 2022

Organizing a Gun Buyback in San Mateo County

22 mins; June 13, 2022

Chesa Boudin Has Been Recalled. So What Does it Mean?

24 mins; June 10, 2022

We Need to Talk About Wage Theft

24 mins; June 08, 2022

Will ‘CARE Court’ Help People Dealing with Mental Illness and Homelessness?

23 mins; June 06, 2022

Attacks on Asians in SF Shook the Community and Went Viral. What Happened Next?

30 mins; June 03, 2022

San Jose is Choosing a New Mayor

29 mins; June 01, 2022

Solano County’s Race for District Attorney

20 mins; May 27, 2022

Mindshift: Community, Trauma, and Helping Children Heal

30 mins; May 25, 2022

Your Biggest Ideas on How to Solve the Housing Crisis

28 mins; May 23, 2022

The Workers’ Right to COVID Sick Pay in California

21 mins; May 20, 2022

An Extremist Plot to Blow Up the California Democratic Party HQ

25 mins; May 18, 2022

Activists Lobbied for a New, Diverse District. An Old White Congressman is the Frontrunner

22 mins; May 16, 2022

SFPD’s Former Comms Director is Now on the Board of Supervisors

20 mins; May 13, 2022

A New Wave of COVID is Hitting the Bay. How’s it Different?

16 mins; May 11, 2022

KQED Live: An Interview with Chesa Boudin

59 mins; May 09, 2022

In Sebastopol, Students Want Adults to Do More About Racist Bullying

25 mins; May 06, 2022

Even in California, Abortion Services Can Be Hard to Find

19 mins; May 04, 2022

Letting go of La Pulga

19 mins; May 02, 2022

Bay Curious: Oakland’s 16th Train Station Helped Build West Oakland and the Civil Rights Movement

22 mins; April 29, 2022

‘Love me Before the City Disappears’: Poet Nijla Mu’min

23 mins; April 27, 2022

An Immigrant Visa Problem is Hitting Silicon Valley

23 mins; April 25, 2022

Masks Are Optional. But Not For the Medically Vulnerable.

23 mins; April 22, 2022

San Francisco is Limiting What Police Can Do With Your DNA

20 mins; April 20, 2022

Could Schools Be Held Accountable in Court for How They Handle Sexual Assault?

25 mins; April 18, 2022

San Francisco’s Redistricting Disaster

23 mins; April 15, 2022

Why Does Uber Want to Team Up with Taxis?

17 mins; April 13, 2022

Support for Mutual Aid Came and Went, But the Need is Still There

20 mins; April 11, 2022

A Mass Shooting in Downtown Sacramento

21 mins; April 08, 2022

‘It’s Like Groundhog Day’: Another Year of Drought

21 mins; April 06, 2022

Bay Curious: The History of the Bay’s 425 Shellmounds

17 mins; April 04, 2022

The ‘Sustained Excellence’ of Stanford Women’s Basketball

21 mins; April 01, 2022

How BART Removed — and Then Reinstated — Director Lateefah Simon

24 mins; March 30, 2022

KQED Live: Finding Asylum in California

30 mins; March 28, 2022

What Happened at Vallejo's Project Roomkey?

30 mins; March 25, 2022

A Strike at Chevron’s Richmond Refinery

18 mins; March 23, 2022

Paying for Gas as a Ride Service Driver

15 mins; March 21, 2022

Many SF Teachers Haven't Been Getting Their Paychecks

17 mins; March 18, 2022

Finally, California's Unemployment System Adds More Language Support

20 mins; March 16, 2022

Remembering the Atlanta Spa Shooting — And How We Move Forward

18 mins; March 14, 2022

Rightnowish: Self Love is a Communal Act

19 mins; March 11, 2022

Students, Growth, and Housing at UC Berkeley

22 mins; March 09, 2022

SF Students Are Still Pushing for a Reckoning With Sexual Abuse

28 mins; March 07, 2022

How the War in Ukraine is Affecting Former Soviet Immigrants

19 mins; March 04, 2022

For 15 Years, Valero’s Benicia Refinery Released Toxic Chemicals — And No One Knew

18 mins; March 02, 2022

Remembering the Fight for Japanese American Reparations

24 mins; February 28, 2022

Reacting to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

13 mins; February 25, 2022

How Disaster Planning Leaves Out Queer People

20 mins; February 23, 2022

The SF School Board Recall Won in a Landslide. Now What?

21 mins; February 18, 2022

SOLD OUT: A Suburb with an Eviction Problem

29 mins; February 16, 2022

California Will Close Death Row at San Quentin. The Next Steps Are More Complicated

20 mins; February 14, 2022

'You Think You Can Just Close My School Down? No.'

21 mins; February 11, 2022

Have You Felt 'COVID Shame?'

12 mins; February 09, 2022

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