Hotel rooms, RVs, and other shelter spaces are being made available. But it's going to take a lot more to keep people experiencing homelessness safe from the coronavirus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
News outlets are considered 'essential' businesses. Here's how we're (still) bringing you stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The San Francisco Examiner and SF Weekly are cutting the pay and hours of their journalists by 40 percent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How much help do you have right now if you can't make rent? It depends on where you live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Courts are considered "essential," but it doesn't mean a jury trial is a safe place for people to gather right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Asians and Asian-Americans are being harassed by people who think looking Chinese means you have the coronavirus. Three California organizations have created a tracker in order to document these incidences, and now they're receiving nearly 100 a day. Guest: Professor Russel Jeung, Chair of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Students may be taking online classes, but their extracurriculars have been canceled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jessica Christian wants to take photos of where the people are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The new coronavirus is highlighting just how precarious life has been for many workers and contractors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Religious communities are trying to stay connected while also staying safe from the coronavirus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Seton Medical Center is in financial trouble. But closing the hospital could put many vulnerable people at risk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
News about the coronavirus in the Bay Area is changing every day. Schools are closing, white collar workers are working from home and officials are trying to keep up. It can be overwhelming to know what to do and how to plan. Our KQED colleagues have been working around the clock to bring us up-to-date information about the coronavirus, including our friends over at Bay Curious. They've answered some questions and concerns that listeners submitted, and today we're sharing that episode with you. ...
Lots of workers, including gig workers, can't work from home to stay safe during the coronavirus outbreak. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reported cases of the new coronavirus are increasing, and it's up to public health officials to try and figure out where those cases came from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
To celebrate The Bay turning two, the team went on a little field trip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The AP called California for Bernie Sanders, but we won't know the full results for a while. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Most people don't volunteer for presidential campaigns. So we spoke to two volunteers, to learn about what led them to spend their free time helping their candidates in the Bay Area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Groundwater contamination has forced McClymonds High School in West Oakland to temporarily close. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mountain View could make changes to its rent control policy on March 3. But no matter what happens, mobile home renters will continue to be left out of the debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Californians can now request their personal data from companies that have them. So KQED's Rachael Myrow tried it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Baseball on the radio is special to many longtime fans. So some of them aren't thrilled that the A's are dropping their local English-language broadcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thousands of college graduates from Wuhan live in the Bay Area. Some of them have formed a non-profit to help their hometown fight the coronavirus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why protesters at Berkeley High School say they're fed up with how their school responds to allegations of sexual assault. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The building in Oakland now known as Uptown Station has a long history. And if you follow that history, you can see just how much the city has changed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 2010, San Francisco started selling taxi medallions. Now, some drivers are in so much debt that the stress causes physical pain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fernay McPherson has built up her business, piece by piece, for six years. Today, you can find Minnie Bell's Soul Movement at the Emeryville Public Market. But Fernay's biggest professional dream is to bring her restaurant back to the place where she and so many other black folks in the Bay Area lived until it became unaffordable — the Fillmore in San Francisco. This episode is from Copper & Heat, a podcast produced in Oakland that explores the unspoken rules and traditions of restaurant kit...
It’s been about one year since the Trump administration changed how seeking asylum works at the U.S-Mexico border. The so-called “Remain in Mexico” policy means that tens of thousands of migrants from Central America have to wait for their court hearings in what can be dangerous conditions. This policy has made the process much harder for asylum seekers, who already have an uphill climb to get their claims approved. Only a small fraction of those seeking asylum to escape violence in their countr...
When Santa Clara University's provost sent an email reminding people to be aware of their racial biases around the coronavirus, Sherry Wang, a professor in the school's Department of Counseling Psychology, responded to add some more context. "I think that this is also an opportunity to remind each other about the historical legacy of racializing infectious diseases against People of Color," Wang wrote to her campus community. As a professor who is also Asian American, Wang says she both is and i...
SB 50 would have made big changes to the way housing in California gets built. So why did it fail? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mohammed Nuru has been in San Francisco city government for a long time. He was appointed to the Public Works department in 2000 by then-Mayor Willie Brown and eventually became the director of that department in 2011. Nuru has been accused of shady behavior at various times during his career. But on Monday, the FBI made it official when they charged him with public corruption and lying to investigators. So why is he getting arrested now? Guest: Joe Eskenazi, editor and columnist for Mission Loc...
