California Issues (Audio)

Stories from around California produced by graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Series: "California News Service (CNS)" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29182]

Stories from around California produced by graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Series: "California News Service (CNS)" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29181]

Michael Gottfried from the Gevirtz School of Education at UC Santa Barbara discusses pre-K education, specifically which pre-kindergarten options are best preparing English language learners to start school. Gottfried is the winner of the first annual Bacon Public Lectureship and White Paper Competition sponsored by the UC Center Sacramento. Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley" [Public Affairs] [Education] [Show ID: 28866]

UC Berkeley professors Philip Stark and Tom Carlson are launching a new interdisciplinary project that’s bringing them to three East Bay food "deserts" to forage for wild edibles — dandelions, blackberries, oxalis, plantago, nasturtiums, mallow and more — and to document their availability. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29312]

Stories from around California produced by graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Series: "California News Service (CNS)" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29180]

Stories from around California produced by graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Series: "California News Service (CNS)" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29179]

Berkeley student and mother, Valeska Castañeda, spent much of her summer leading a 350-mile walk from Merced to Mexico in support of immigrant rights. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29319]

Stories from around California produced by graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29138]

California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones walks through the progress California has made in health care reform since implementing Covered California, the state’s health care exchange, and points out areas of the Affordable Care Act that he believes need improvement. Jones delivers the 2014 Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Lecture on Health Policy and then joins Henry E. Brady, the dean of Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, for a wide-ranging talk on Props 45 and 46 and other health policy issues issues facing the voters in November, 2014. Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 28824]

Social Venture Partners Santa Barbara and the Central Coast Collaborative on Homelessness (C3H) present the key opportunity of 2014 for concerned community members to engage in solutions to homelessness. Hear from top national and California leaders who are successfully reducing and preventing homelessness, and learn about opportunities to shape local and regional efforts. Featured speakers include national experts Philip Mangano, President and CEO of the American Roundtable to Abolish Homelessness and former Director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, who led the national strategy to prevent and end homelessness, and; Becky Kanis, Co-Founder of Social Change Agency and Director of the national 100,000 Homes Campaign, who successfully led the effort to reduce street homelessness in New York’s Times Square. Series: "Voices" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 28041]