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Don Wagner Wants Federal Help To Determine Voter Eligibility In California | Political Breakdown
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- Don Wagner Wants Federal Help To Determine Voter Eligibility In California | Political Breakdown
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 2 hours ago
- Description
- California Secretary of State candidate Don Wagner explains why he supports using federal databases to help verify voter eligibility while keeping private identifying information protected.
🎙 Host: Marisa Lagos
🎧 Guest: Don Wagner
📌 Show: Political Breakdown
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Join hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos as they unpack the day in politics with a California perspective. Featuring interviews with reporters and other insiders involved in the craft of politics—including elected officials, candidates, pollsters, campaign managers, fundraisers, and other politi...
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- California's Battery Boom is Transforming the Power Grid
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 22 hours ago
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- California is known for its renewal energy, like solar and wind. And battery storage facilities are an essential part of keeping the state electrified once the sun goes down and the wind stops to blow. Greater demands means tripling the number of facilities in the near future, and mitigating some of the safety concerns, such as starting fires and creating a resonance phenomenon with their frequencies. There are about 275 battery storage facilities in California and around 450 more in development.
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- Why California is Building Hundreds of Battery Storage Facilities | The B-Segment with Brian Watt
- Runtime
- 7:58
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
- Description
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California is known for its renewal energy, like solar and wind. And battery storage facilities are an essential part of keeping the state electrified once the sun goes down and the wind stops to blow. Greater demands means tripling the number of facilities in the near future, and mitigating some of the safety concerns, such as starting fires and creating a resonance phenomenon with their frequencies. There are about 275 battery storage facilities in California and around 450 more in development.
Read more: https://www.kqed.org/science/2001611/californias-solar-and-battery-boom-is-transforming-the-power-grid
Learn more about climate solutions reported by KQED News: https://www.kqed.org/flippingtheswitch
✏️ VIDEO CHAPTERS ✏️
00:00 Introduction
2:00 What does a battery storage facility look like...
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- The Fight Over California Voter Data | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 1:10
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
- Description
- California Secretary of State Shirley Weber explains why California refused to hand over detailed voter roll data to the federal government and how the state is protecting voter privacy.
🎙 Host: Marisa Lagos
🎧 Guest: Shirley Weber
📌 Show: Political Breakdown
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- ‘Phenomenal Views’: What to Know About New Peninsula Trail
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
- Description
- A major new trail in San Mateo County is now open: the Skyline Watershed Ridge Trail.
The 6-mile trail, which can only be done as an out-and-back, runs through the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s watershed lands — a habitat that supports three of the Bay Area’s largest reservoirs.
This landscape also contains the highest concentration of rare, threatened and endangered species in the Bay Area, according to the San Francisco Estuary Institute.
Running parallel to Skyline Boulevard south of Highway 92, the new trail marks the completion of a key segment of the Bay Area Ridge Trail, a 500-mile loop trail that is currently around 75% complete and will eventually circumnavigate the whole region.
“This has been a hard place for people to access,” SFPUC Natural Resources and Lands Management Division Manager Tim Ramirez said. “We’re finally able to offer something to people that is going to be new and also give them a glimpse into the universe...
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- The Three Best Things I Ate at the Lot in Richmond
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- 2:09
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- Every Tuesday and Thursday, a small, empty lot in Richmond transforms into one of the Bay Area’s most vibrant street food markets. About 15 or 20 food tents line up at any given time, the smell of fish sauce, Thai basil, smoked meat and fried plantains wafting in the air.
Welcome to The Lot.
What The Lot offers is a little bit different. While the Bay Area has no shortage of night markets and Off the Grid–style food truck meetups, I don’t know any that offer such a wildly diverse variety of global cuisines, all within the confines of a tiny parking lot. Most street food markets in the Bay don’t have a single Cameroonian, Guatemalan or Laotian food vendor, much less all three lined up in a row, back to back to back.
Over the past few months, I’ve been slowly eating my way through the market, though it still feels like I’ve barely cracked the surface. For now, none of the stands are big, established brands with a lot of social media h...
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- Nancy Pelosi's First Election Was A Squeaker
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- When Nancy Pelosi ran for congress in 1987 for the first time, KQED senior politics correspondent Scott Shafer was there to see 12 other candidates attack her on stage during a debate. Since then, Pelosi has come to be known as the iron fist in a Gucci glove. KQED’s new podcast, “The Speaker: How Nancy Pelosi Changed the Face of Power,” explores Pelosi’s rise to power and some of her formative years in the 1980s during the height of the AIDS crisis.
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- California Secretary of State Race: Shirley Weber vs. Don Wagner | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 31:18
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- California’s election system is at the center of a debate over how ballots are counted, how voter rolls are maintained and how the state can balance access to voting with public confidence in elections. So what should change, and what role should the Secretary of State play?
Marisa Lagos sits down separately with the two candidates for California’s Secretary of State. She meets with incumbent Shirley Weber and Republican candidate Don Wagner to discuss vote-by-mail, ballot counting, voter ID, election security, voter-roll data and their different approaches to running elections in California.
🎙 Host: Marisa Lagos
🎧 Guests: Shirley Weber, Don Wagner
📌 Show: Political Breakdown
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- Jane Kim Wants to Make Nixon’s Healthcare Idea a Reality | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 0:36
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
- Description
- California insurance commissioner candidate Jane Kim discusses her proposal to create a plan for Medicare for kids in California. Kim says the idea was originally proposed by Richard Nixon and argues that California could guarantee healthcare for every child.
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Join hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos as they unpack the day in politics with a California perspective. Featuring interviews with reporters and other insiders involved in the craft of politics—including elected officials, candidates, pollsters, campaign managers, fundraisers, and other political players—Political Breakdow...
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- ‘A Chromebook in the Hand of Every Child.’ Did Schools Go Too Far?
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
- Description
- Last year, Suki Reddy started to enter her third-grader’s bedroom to find him, face lit up behind the glow of a computer, watching YouTube.
This didn’t seem possible, she thought; she had put controls on his iPad and closely monitored his screen time.
But Reddy’s son didn’t have to use his personal tablet to watch videos in bed. He could open YouTube on his school-issued Chromebook.
“They had less controls on their school computer than families have,” Reddy said. “There’s families who don’t have any phones or iPads for their kids. The only access that their kids are getting is through the school computer.”
Reddy’s two children are in the San Mateo–Foster City School District, which includes 21 elementary and middle schools across the two cities. For years, the district has issued each child a Chromebook and integrated them into students’ learning, using them for access to textbooks, class handouts and homework as early as transitional k...
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- If Nancy Pelosi Disagrees With You, You'll Know
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
- Description
- When Nancy Pelosi ran for congress in 1987 for the first time, KQED senior politics correspondent Scott Shafer was there to see 12 other candidates attack her on stage during a debate. Since then, Pelosi has come to be known as the iron fist in a Gucci glove. KQED’s new podcast, “The Speaker: How Nancy Pelosi Changed the Face of Power,” explores Pelosi’s rise to power and some of her formative years in the 1980s during the height of the AIDS crisis.
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- Jane Kim Wants Insurers to Pay More Claims | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 0:47
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
- Description
- California insurance commissioner candidate Jane Kim says consumers should know how much of their insurance premiums are being paid back in claims. She discusses her proposal to set a minimum percentage of premiums that insurers must spend on home and auto insurance claims.
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- Crossing Nancy: How Pelosi Accumulated Her Power
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- 14:07
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
- Description
- When Nancy Pelosi ran for congress in 1987 for the first time, KQED senior politics correspondent Scott Shafer was there to see a dozen other candidates attack her on stage during a debate; no one was intimidated by her. Since then, Pelosi has come to be known as the "iron fist in a Gucci glove."
KQED’s new podcast, “The Speaker: How Nancy Pelosi Changed the Face of Power,” explores Pelosi’s rise to power and some of her formative years in the 1980s during the height of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco. You'll also hear about her enduring influence in the Bay Area and her endorsement of Connie Chan over Scott Wiener in the upcoming election to replace her.
Listen to the first episode on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/do/podcast/the-ultimate-insider/id6806402229?i=1000790008887
✏️ VIDEO CHAPTERS ✏️
00:00 Introduction
2:04 How did Nancy Pelosi accumulate power?
5:05 What was Nancy Pelosi’s journey to Congress...
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- When Should You Get the New COVID Vaccine?
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- 1:32
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- The new 2026-27 COVID-19 vaccine is here — although unlike in previous years, there’s a chance you might not even have heard about it yet.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the updated shots a couple weeks ago. But this year, there’s been no formal guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about who should actually get it.
In the absence of any federal guidelines, the California Department of Public Health issued its own recommendations on Friday about who should absolutely seek out the new COVID-19 shot. State health officials’ strongest recommendations are for everyone age 65 and older, those with risk factors that increase their chances of getting severe COVID-19, pregnant people, children age 6 to 23 months and healthcare workers.
But the state also said that basically everyone else — or in their words, “all who choose to reduce risk of severe illness” — can get the 2026-27 COVID-19 shot, too, a...
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- Muni’s New ‘Fare Required’ Signs Are Meant to Boost Payment
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- 0:47
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- We’ve all been there — running down the sidewalk as the Muni bus pulls to a stop just across the street.
But recently, some San Francisco riders have complained that as they weigh whether to break a sweat trying to catch a ride, they aren’t able to tell what line they’re rushing toward.
“When you’re picking up a bus on Market [Street], and 20 people are waiting for 5 different buses … ‘Which bus is this’ is the hot topic of conversation,” one Reddit user wrote.
In August, buses’ front signs started to alternate displays of “Fare Required” with the usual line information and destination, which San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency spokesperson Erica Kato said is part of the agency’s “Fares For Our Future” campaign, aimed at increasing payment compliance as Muni weathers major funding shortfalls.
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- Jane Kim Says California’s Insurance System Is a “Total Disaster" | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 28:05
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- California’s insurance market is under growing strain as wildfire numbers increase, premiums rise and homeowners face canceled coverage. So what would it take to make insurance more affordable and available, and could a public insurance program for wildfire disasters be part of the answer?
Marisa Lagos sits down with former San Francisco supervisor and California insurance commissioner candidate Jane Kim to discuss her campaign for the position, including proposal for a single-payer public insurance program for natural disasters, the role of private insurers, wildfire mitigation and rising premiums, as well as her plans to change how insurance claims are paid and regulated.
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- Valkyries Coach Natalie Nakase's Bay Vibe
- Runtime
- 0:32
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- In their second season in the WNBA, the Golden State Valkyries continue to make history and remain a cultural phenomenon. When the Valkyries play at home, Chase Center becomes Ballhalla – a sold-out sea of fans decked out in lavender. Brian Watt spoke with Erin Lim, who documented this fandom in "BOUNCE: The Rise of Women's Professional Sports." They talked about the team's challenging, yet spectacular first season, what feels so different about being at Ballhalla and why being a fan of women's sports is political.
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- Why Californians Struggle to Get Insurance Help | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
- Description
- California insurance commissioner candidate Ben Allen discusses the challenges homeowners can face when dealing with insurance companies after a disaster. He explains why he believes the California Department of Insurance needs more resources to help consumers navigate the claims process.
🎙 Host: Marisa Lagos
🎧 Guest: Ben Allen
📌 Show: Political Breakdown
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- Chinese Immigrants Led the First Mass Resistance to Deportation
- Runtime
- 1:43
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- Long before immigration raids and deportations became political flashpoints, Chinese immigrants defied the federal government’s expansion of immigration powers in the late 19th century.
From 1892-93, Chinese immigrants refused to comply with the requirement to register with their local internal revenue offices. If they were caught without a certificate, they faced arrest, detention and deportation as stipulated by the Geary Act, which historians and legal theorists say helped shape today’s U.S. immigration system.
While Chinese immigrants are remembered for constitutional victories, including rulings that established birthright citizenship and strengthened equal protection, they have another legacy: they led a nationwide campaign against the federal government’s expansion of immigration powers. And though they ultimately failed to overturn the Geary Act in court, their resistance challenged the adoption of now-routine practices — calling them “cruel and unjust,...
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- What Makes the Valkyries' Ballhalla so Magical?
- Runtime
- 0:46
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- In their second season in the WNBA, the Golden State Valkyries continue to make history and remain a cultural phenomenon. When the Valkyries play at home, Chase Center becomes Ballhalla – a sold-out sea of fans decked out in lavender. Brian Watt spoke with Erin Lim, who documented this fandom in "BOUNCE: The Rise of Women's Professional Sports." They talked about the team's challenging, yet spectacular first season, what feels so different about being at Ballhalla and why being a fan of women's sports is political.
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- AI Can Make Music, But Can It Connect? | Dream Machines
- Runtime
- 0:30
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
- Description
- AI can generate polished music in seconds. But musician Camilo Landau argues that technical skill may not actually be the point of music.
Alexis Madrigal and Robin Sloan talk with Landau about what AI-generated music reveals about why humans make music in the first place—and why human expression and connection may be the piece AI can’t replicate.
🎙 Hosts: Alexis Madrigal, Robin Sloan
🎙 Guest: Camilo Landau
📌 Show: Dream Machines
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- What makes the Valkyries’ Ballhalla magical? | The B-Segment with Brian Watt
- Runtime
- 15:12
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
- Description
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In their second season in the WNBA, the Golden State Valkyries
continue to make history and remain a cultural phenomenon. When the Valkyries play at home, Chase Center becomes Ballhalla – a sold-out sea of fans decked out in lavender. Brian Watt spoke with Erin Lim, who documented this fandom in "BOUNCE: The Rise of Women's Professional Sports." They talked about the team's challenging, yet spectacular first season, what feels so different about being at Ballhalla and why being a fan of women's sports is political.
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00:00 Introduction
02:25 How did the Valky...
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- Is a Guttural Scream at the Sea Right For You?
- Runtime
- 1:56
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
- Description
- "Just got laid off? Your love life a disaster? Not one, but two of your violins got stolen?" asked a mysterious flier posted around San Francisco. "Well then, a guttural scream at the sea may be right for you." Adorned with stock imagery of a man in suit and tie knee-deep in a scream at the beach, the flier included a QR code with details for a gathering to scream at the sea.
On Saturday, around one hundred people convened at Vista del Mar at Sutro Heights Park to do just that. The event included vocal warm-ups, a screaming contest, the one really big scream, vocal cool-downs, followed by a snack of freshly cut fruit.
Danielle Egan, scream conductor, said she came up with the idea because "there's a lot of reasons to scream these days, and I just felt like I could really use a good one. And then I thought screaming is better with friends." Egan is the creator of other absurdist events designed to get people outside like Pursuit, a city-wide scavenger hunt, and Sit Club, des...
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- Why Your Neighbor Matters in a Wildfire | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- California insurance commissioner candidate Ben Allen believes that individual home hardening can only go so far when it comes to wildfire risk. He discusses the need for community-wide resilience efforts, including fire infrastructure, zoning, community design and investments that can make neighborhoods less vulnerable to major disasters.
🎙 Host: Marisa Lagos
🎧 Guest: Ben Allen
📌 Show: Political Breakdown
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- Title
- How to Watch Bay Area Baseball on a Budget
- Runtime
- 1:52
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- Love baseball but trying to save money? Whether you’re trying to root for the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park or the Bay Area’s other baseball teams, there are ways for fans to keep a budget.
Some Bay Area baseball fans may say that watching your team play at their home field, surrounded by fans buzzing with excitement before first pitch — is priceless. But others will tell you that living here is only getting much more expensive — and that they’ll gladly find ways to save while supporting their team.
We dived into the numbers to learn the best strategies for enjoying baseball in person with family and friends while keeping costs down.
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- Ben Allen’s Plan to Fix California’s Insurance System | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 27:15
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- California faces an insurance market that is difficult to navigate with rising risk of wildfires and homeowners struggling with rising costs and coverage. Marisa Lagos sits down with State Senator Ben Allen, a Democratic candidate for California insurance commissioner, to discuss wildfire risk, consumer protections, insurance rates, as well as his plan to make insurance more affordable and available across the state.
🎙 Host: Marisa Lagos
🎧 Guest: Ben Allen
📌 Show: Political Breakdown
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- Title
- Are Sleeping Pods a Solution to SF's Housing Crisis?
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- As one sleeping pod company looks to build a massive 400-bed super dorm, experts are skeptical it will provide a real solution for most residents struggling to afford housing in San Francisco. But for $700 a month, it's an affordable solution for people who can make it work. KQED News reporter Sydney Johnson spent several nights in a pod to give you an inside look at what it was like to sleep in a pod and what level of privacy one can expect.
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- Title
- Under a Sacramento Bridge, California's Largest Urban Bat Colony Takes Flight Every Night
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- As bat populations across California decline, driven largely by habitat loss, pesticides and predation, a Yolo County tour group tries to reshape public perception on the nocturnal neighbors.
Every summer, as the sun sets over the Yolo Causeway just outside Sacramento, a quarter of a million bats stream out from beneath the bridge. Drivers crossing Interstate 80 rarely know they’re there — the bats’ wingbeats and chirps drowned out by the rush of trucks and cars crossing the bridge.
But from June through August, visitors can watch thousands of bats spiral out from under the causeway into the dusk sky in a phenomenon locals call a “bat-nado” — on guided tours run by the Yolo Basin Foundation.
Right now, the camp is almost entirely mothers and their pups, said Corky Quirk, the Yolo Basin Foundation’s program coordinator. Females give birth in early summer and stay with their young for about two months, until the pups are strong enough ...
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- Can You Actually Get Some Sleep in a Sleeping Pod?
- Runtime
- 0:57
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- As one sleeping pod company looks to build a massive 400-bed super dorm, experts are skeptical it will provide a real solution for most residents struggling to afford housing in San Francisco. But for $700 a month, it's an affordable solution for people who can make it work. KQED News reporter Sydney Johnson spent several nights in a pod to give you an inside look at what it was like to sleep in a pod and what level of privacy one can expect.
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- Title
- What Changed Steve Hilton’s Position on Extraditing an Abortion Doctor? | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- Steve Hilton explains why he's changed his position on a controversial issue about abortion services that we raised in our original Political Breakdown interview with the gubernatorial candidate.
🎙 Host: Marisa Lagos
🎧 Guest: Steve Hilton
📌 Show: Political Breakdown
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- Title
- What $700 Rent Looks Like in San Francisco | The B-Segment with Brian Watt
- Runtime
- 18:42
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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As one sleeping pod company looks to build a massive 400-bed super dorm, experts are skeptical it will provide a real solution for most residents struggling to afford housing in San Francisco. But for $700 a month, it's an affordable solution for people who can make it work. KQED News reporter Sydney Johnson spent several nights in a pod to give you an inside look at what it was like to sleep in a pod and what level of privacy one can expect.
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- Title
- Steve Hilton on Trump’s Push to End Mail-In Voting | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
- Description
- California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton discusses mail-in voting, early voting and the election system, including his thoughts on efforts to end mail-in voting.
🎙 Host: Marisa Lagos
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Join hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos as they unpack the day in politics with a California perspective. Featuring interviews with reporters and other insiders involved in the craft of politics—including elected officials, candidates, pollsters, campaign managers, fundraisers, and other political players—Polit...
- Title
- Why Mobile-Home Owners Are at Risk of Rent Increases | The B-Segment Shorts
- Runtime
- 0:41
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- Mobile homes are supposed to be an affordable path to home ownership, but mobile park owners are hiking the rent for the land underneath the homes. And complex ownership structures make it hard to know who to complain to or hold accountable. KQED’s Madi Bolaños reported on Harmony Communities and some of the hardships elderly residents faced when their rent tripled.
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The B-Segment is the KQED News interview series hosted by Brian Watt. Subscribe to see Bay Area newsmakers deepen your understanding of the place we call home.
- Title
- Steve Hilton’s Strategy to Win Over California | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 28:27
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton returns to Political Breakdown and joins host Marisa Lagos to discuss his campaign. Hilton lays out his plans for taxes, housing, AI regulation, data centers and election integrity, and explains why he believes Republicans can win statewide in 2026.
🎙 Host: Marisa Lagos
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- Title
- 91-Year-Old Mobile-Home Owner's Rent Tripled in One Year | The B-Segment Shorts
- Runtime
- 0:35
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
- Description
- Mobile homes are supposed to be an affordable path to home ownership, but mobile park owners are hiking the rent for the land underneath the homes. And complex ownership structures make it hard to know who to complain to or hold accountable. KQED’s Madi Bolaños reported on Harmony Communities and some of the hardships elderly residents faced when their rent tripled.
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- Title
- AI Job Loss Isn’t Inevitable | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
- Description
- Political journalist Marisa Lagos and California Federation of Labor Unions President Lorena Gonzalez discuss AI’s potential impact on jobs and why Gonzalez says widespread job loss isn’t inevitable.
🎙 Host: Marisa Lagos
🎧 Guest: Lorena Gonzalez
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- Senior Mobile-Home Owners Facing Major Rent Hikes | The B-Segment Shorts
- Runtime
- 0:29
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
- Description
- Mobile homes are supposed to be an affordable path to home ownership, but mobile park owners are hiking the rent for the land underneath the homes. And complex ownership structures make it hard to know who to complain to or hold accountable. KQED’s Madi Bolaños reported on Harmony Communities and some of the hardships elderly residents faced when their rent tripled.
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- Title
- Errors Plagued Clipper 2.0 Long Before Botched Launch, Records Reveal
- Runtime
- 1:47
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
- Description
- An analysis of internal emails and other records by KQED found that problems with Clipper 2.0 persisted long before its bungled rollout late last year.
- Title
- Rent Hikes, Evictions in California Mobile Home Parks | The B-Segment with Brian Watt
- Runtime
- 10:32
- Date posted
- 30 days ago
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Mobile homes are supposed to be an affordable path to home ownership, but mobile park owners are hiking the rent for the land underneath the homes. And complex ownership structures make it hard to know who to complain to or hold accountable. KQED’s Madi Bolaños reported on Harmony Communities and some of the hardships elderly residents faced when their rent tripled.
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- Title
- Why Lorena Gonzalez Is Frustrated With Democrats | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 1:09
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Host Marisa Lagos and California Federation of Labor Unions President Lorena Gonzalez discuss the Democratic Party’s relationship with organized labor and why Gonzalez believes Democrats need to do more to address workers’ concerns surrounding AI and economics.
🎙 Host: Marisa Lagos
🎧 Guest: Lorena Gonzalez
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Join hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos as they unpack the day in politics with a California perspective. Featuring interviews with reporters and other insiders involved in the craft of politics—including el...
- Title
- San Francisco Is Quietly Removing 911 Peer Responders
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Starting August 14, San Francisco will remove peer specialists from its 911 response. These peer responders, equipped with both training and personal experience with issues like homelessness and addiction, say the decision is a regressive step in the city’s approach to mental and behavioral health emergencies.
- Title
- AI Is Changing Work. Can Unions Keep Up? | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 27:20
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- As California lawmakers debate AI regulation and voters prepare to weigh a proposed 5% one-time billionaire tax, labor leaders are pushing back against what they see as growing threats to workers.
Political Breakdown host Marisa Lagos sits down with Lorena Gonzalez, president of the California Federation of Labor Unions, to discuss AI in the workplace, worker surveillance and human oversight. They also discuss California’s proposed billionaire tax, the fight over healthcare funding and growing tensions between labor and the Democratic Party.
🎙 Host: Marisa Lagos
🎧 Guest: Lorena Gonzalez
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- Title
- Caltrans I-580 Truck Ban Study Finds Modest Health Gains, Major Traffic Shifts
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- In a long-awaited preliminary study, Caltrans found that lifting a decades-old truck ban on Interstate 580 would add about 3,800 large vehicles to the highway daily — and reduce truck traffic along parallel Interstate 880.
The findings come as the state’s transportation department examines the potential traffic, health and equity impacts of removing a more than 70-year-old ban on trucks heavier than 9,000 pounds, with the exception of some buses and paratransit vehicles, from the highway running along the base of the East Bay Hills in Oakland and San Leandro.
Oakland residents have raised concerns for years about the health impacts of the ban, which diverts most truck traffic coming through the East Bay to I-880.
More than half of residents living along I-880 are environmentally burdened — meaning they carry the heaviest pollution, health, and economic burdens — compared to just 8.7% of residents living along I-580, according to the Caltrans study.
Caltr...
- Title
- Why the WNBA Can’t Stay Silent Against Political Pressure | Political Breakdown
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Journalist Howard Bryant argues that the WNBA needs to more forcefully defend its league and players amid growing political pressure.
🎙 Host: Marisa Lagos
🎧 Guest: Howard Bryant
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Join hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos as they unpack the day in politics with a California perspective. Featuring interviews with reporters and other insiders involved in the craft of politics—including elected officials, candidates, pollsters, campaign managers, fundraisers, and other political players—Political Breakdown pulls bac...
- Title
- The Most Dangerous AI Hallucinations Are Hard to Spot | Dream Machines
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- AI hallucinations used to be obvious: a fake paper, a made-up source, a fact that was clearly wrong. But as AI systems improve, Jungwon Byun says their mistakes are becoming much harder to detect.
Alexis Madrigal and Robin Sloan talk with Byun about why an AI can cite a real research paper and still misrepresent what it says—and why subtle errors may be more dangerous than the wild hallucinations of earlier models.
🎙 Hosts: Alexis Madrigal, Robin Sloan
🎙 Guest: Jungwon Byun
📌 Show: Dream Machines
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- Title
- Tips to Stay Warm at Night While Camping | The B-Segment Shorts
- Runtime
- 0:45
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Host Brian Watt and guest Sarah Wright discuss Wright's tips for staying warm at night while camping.
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- Title
- Cost Saving Tips From Giants and Padres Fans
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Love baseball but trying to save money? Whether you’re trying to root for the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park or the San Diego Padres at Petco Park, there are ways for fans to keep a budget. KQED and KPBS talked to fans about their personal tips for saving money while attending games this baseball season.
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- Title
- The Three Things You Absolutely Need to Go Camping| The B-Segment Shorts
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Host Brian Watt and guest Sarah Wright discuss Wright's absolute camping essentials.
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- Title
- A Must-Have Meal for the Pacific Coast Trail | The B-Segment Shorts
- Runtime
- 0:35
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Host Brian Watt and guest Sarah Wright discuss Wright's favorite meal from her time hiking the Pacfic Coast Trail.
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- Title
- Camping on a Budget | The B-Segment with Brian Watt
- Runtime
- 13:25
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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Bay Area Budget Friendly Camping Tips
What are the three essential items to take on a camping trip? Where can you find great deals? What are some tips to get a good night’s sleep in a tent?
Brian Watt interviews Sarah Wright, KQED’s Outdoors reporter, on cheap local camping options in the Bay Area. Getting the gear is often the most expensive part, but Sarah has tips on where to find free and low-cost gear, and knowing when to rent, borrow and thrift. She set out on a recent camping trip to Anthony Chabot Campground in the Oakland Hills.
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