Senate Bill 57, authored by Senator Scott Wiener, was advanced on Wednesday by the Assembly Public Safety Committee, and will now proceed to the California Assembly floor. This means that safe consumption sites for people using drugs, also known as harm reduction sites, can operate without federal interference in cities like Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

While San Francisco's Tenderloin Linkage Center has successfully reversed at least 85 overdoses in the last six months, the Bay Area is far behind other cities.

In this episode of "Bay Current", we hear from Allison Heller, co-creator of Fentcheck, a non-profit that began in 2019 to distribute fentanyl testing strips to venues throughout the Bay Area to mitigate overdose deaths, and Dr. Phillip Coffin, the Director of Substance Use Research at the San Francisco Department of Public Health.

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In this episode KCBS Radio's Kris Ankarlo speaks with a fire inspector from Ross Valley about making sure properties are ready to withstand a wildfire. As well as a talk with the coordinator of the FIRE Foundry, which is a program started this year in Marin County to recruit women and people of color into the fire service. 
Kathleen Cutter is the Defensible Space Lead for the Ross Valley Fire Department.  Adrian Brumley is the coordinator of the Fire Foundry program. 

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As wildfire season has gotten worse and longer over the years in Northern California, a group based in Sonoma County is taking tough lessons learned in recent years, to help residents - specifically those with animals, pets and farm animals alike.  KCBS Radio's Kris Ankarlo hosts today's Bay Current.

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In this bonus episode of “Bay Current”, we look back on Asian Pacific American Heritage Month by revisiting the legacy of late Bay Area civil rights activist Fred Korematsu with Dr. Karen Korematsu, his daughter and Founder and Executive Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute.

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KCBS Radio's Matt Bigler introduces you to one of the many unhoused residents living on the streets of Alameda County.  But her story is anything but common.

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One of the most prominent and trailblazing Asian American figures in the Bay Area also happens to be the architect of the San Francisco Giants.

In this episode of “Bay Current”, in celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, KCBS Radio’s Greg Wong sat down with Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi – the first Pakistani American and first Muslim baseball general manager and President of Baseball Operations in history – to discuss how his unique background and heritage impacted his unprecedented journey to be one of baseball’s top executives and what he’s doing to help diversify the sport.

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Today, May 26, marks the one year anniversary of the worst mass shooting in Bay Area history.  The VTA rail yard shooting in San Jose, when nine Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority workers were gunned down by a coworker.  Today, KCBS Radio's Keith Menconi and Matt Pitman take look at the past year of healing and recovery, and the tough lessons learned by the VTA since the shooting.

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IVF or In Vitro Fertilization has brought life changing joy to countless women and couple who otherwise struggle to conceive, or when normal conception would pose a health risk to the mother or genetic problems for a child.  But could this marvel of science be at risk once the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v Wade?  Matt Pitman discusses with KCBS Radio reporter Kathy Novak who has been exploring this question.

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This year will be the first time 16 and 17-year olds in Oakland will be able to vote in school board elections. 

To raise awareness for this – and other important local election issues – the Urban Peace Movement threw a free community event in Oakland last week featuring some of the Bay Area’s most listened to musical artists.

In this episode of “Bay Current”, we let the performers, organizers and eventgoers at Town Up Tuesday sound off about the issues that matter most to them in Oakland and what the city means to them.

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With the Warriors back in their familiar place this time of year.  Back in the NBA's Western Conference Finals.  A place they've been in five of the last seven seasons.  But it this the last and best shot they have at one more championship ring to go along with the three they've earned since 2015?

Bonta Hill, host of Warriors Talk Pre and Post Game on NBC Sports Bay Area and The Morning Roast on 95.7 The Game joins Matt Pitman for a little Dubs playoff talk.

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