Bay Current

In Vallejo – the same city grappling with investigations into police badge bending and police brutality – a sophisticated gunshot detection service is being considered by its city council.

This comes at a time when a recent poll has found that Vallejo residents are increasingly distrusting of its government.

In this episode of “Bay Current”, we hear from John Glidden, Staff writer for The Vallejo Sun, who’s been covering these issues for the publication.

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Once again, California faces another record setting drought.  And as temperatures outside are heating up, officials are urging us to conserve water at home.  KCBS Radio's David Welch tried out a new in-home program offered by the city of San Francisco, that brings a water conservation specialist to your home to go over ways you can conserve water.  David also speaks with California's  Wade Crowfoot became California's Secretary of Natural Resources about the vital need to conserve water right now.

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While eyes across the country on Election Day honed in on the heated recall race of progressive San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, on the other side of the Bay Bridge, civil rights attorney Pamela Price came out on top in the Alameda County District Attorney primaries.

In this episode of “Bay Current”, we hear from San Jose State University political science professor Melinda Jackson, PhD, as to why this election is so historic.

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It's election day across the Bay Area and all eyes will be on the recall election against San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin.  KCBS Radio insider Phil Matier joins Matt Pitman to explain why this vote will reverberate across the nation and why the stakes are so high.

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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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