The Bay

By KQED

Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra talks with local journalists about what’s happening in the greatest region in the country. It’s the context and analysis you need to make sense of the news, w... more

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The Bay episodes:

February 28, 2020 There’s a Familiar Distrust in West Oakland After Contaminated Water Closes McClymonds High
Groundwater contamination has forced McClymonds High School in West Oakland to temporarily close.

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19min
February 26, 2020 How Do Mobile Homes Fit Into Mountain View’s Rent Control Debate?
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.

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15min
February 24, 2020 What Companies Know About KQED’s Silicon Valley Editor
Californians can now request their personal data from companies that have them. So KQED's Rachael Myrow tried it out.

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17min
February 21, 2020 The A’s Are Abandoning Local Radio – And Oakland’s In Its Feels
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.

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17min
February 19, 2020 ‘That’s Where I Grew Up’: The Wuhan Natives Organizing Aid From The Bay
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.

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16min
February 17, 2020 Reckoning With Sexual Assault at Berkeley High School
Why protesters at Berkeley High School say they're fed up with how their school responds to allegations of sexual assault.

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22min
February 14, 2020 The Story of Change in Oakland Through the Old Capwell Building
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.

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17min
February 12, 2020 San Francisco’s Man-Made Taxi Medallion Crisis
In 2010, San Francisco started selling taxi medallions. Now, some drivers are in so much debt that the stress causes physical pain.

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17min
February 10, 2020 A Black Chef’s Dream of Returning to the Fillmore
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 kitchens.

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23min
February 07, 2020 ‘Fui Muy Afortunado’: How One Asylum-Seeker Made It to the Bay Area
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 countries are accepted into the U.S.

Douglas Oviedo is one of those lucky few. Now he lives in the Bay Area, and he's trying to help the people who are still waiting at the border.

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18min

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How many episodes does The Bay have?

The podcast currently has 1,749 episodes available.