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KQED's statewide radio news program, providing daily coverage of issues, trends, and public policy decisions affecting California and its diverse population.
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During the last federal government shutdown in late 2018 and early 2019, national parks here in California were greatly impacted. Some shut down completely, meaning a significant loss in potential revenue. Others remained open, but were not fully staffed. That includes Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. Vehicles drove off-road, causing major damage to sensitive areas, and trash piled up, scattered around the park. The hope is things will be different this time around.
Guest: Kenji Haroutunian, Executive Director, friends of Joshua Tree
Santa Clara County prosecutors have secured a grand jury indictment against 11 pro-Palestinian Stanford University protestors who barricaded themselves in the campus president’s office in 2024.
Reporter: Joseph Geha, KQED
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Around the Salton Sea, dust storms have become an increasing problem, sparking dozens of public health studies. But many Imperial Valley residents have grown weary of repeated studies that all basically say the same thing: that the air quality is bad and getting worse.
Reporter: Kori Suzuki, KPBS
National Parks are once again caught up in the middle of the federal government shutdown. During the last shutdown – for more than 30 days in 2018 and 2019 - parks that remained open were unstaffed, leading to widespread vandalism and environmental damage. There’s growing concern that an extended shutdown could once again put at serious risk of damage.
Reporter: Sarah Wright, KQED
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What once was a fire season in California is now a fire year. As a result, the state is looking to combat increasing wildfires with funding for more year-round firefighters.
Reporter: Rachel Livinal, KVPR
California voters approved a $10 billion climate bond measure, last November. We're now getting a sense of where the first round of Prop 4 money is going.
Reporter: Manola Secaira, CapRadio
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In Marin County, rents are among the highest in the nation. There, a group of mobile home park residents are in a years-long fight to keep hold of one of the county’s few affordable options. They’re residents of the RV Park of San Rafael, where a property management company has been raising the rent, setting new rules and threatening residents with eviction.
Reporter: Madi Bolaños, The California Report
The Trump administration has expanded its investigation of alleged antisemitism on college campuses to the California State University system.
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This week a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket launched from Florida – the mission? To study the outermost parts of the earth’s atmosphere. The mission is being steered by remote control from UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory. Reporter: Danielle Venton, KQED
A report out this week details major failures in LA County’s response to the January firestorms.
Reporter: Jacob Margolis, LAist
Immigration agents arrested three day laborers outside of a well-known worker center in Pomona Thursday morning. Immigration advocates say they’re worried about the health and safety of the people now being detained.
Reporter: Anthony Victoria, KVCR
A Southern California attorney is facing a historic fine for filing a state court appeal full of fake quotations generated by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT.
Reporter: Khari Johnson, CalMatters
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Healthcare workers across Southern California are struggling to provide medical care to undocumented patients, without clear guidance on how to handle encounters with immigration agents. Medical workers want hospitals to improve guidelines and provide better training so they can protect patients and themselves.
Reporter: Anthony Victoria, KVCR
A federal court hearing on whether or not roving immigration patrols can continue in the Los Angeles area has been postponed.
Reporter: Wendy Fry, CalMatters
A nearly seven mile stretch of Highway 1 near Big Sur will remain closed this winter, three years after back to back landslides wrecked the roadway. But things could improve in the spring.
Reporter: Robert Garrova, LAist
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As concerns continue to grow over ICE detention and enforcement in California, the agency is also ramping up its hiring efforts, as it aims to bring on 10,000 new agents by the end of the year. But some experts say the agency’s recruitment strategy is filled with white nationalist messages and imagery.
Reporter: Gustavo Solis, KPBS
After months of delays and refinement, supervisors in Shasta County, which has for years been at the center of election integrity debates, have approved funding for new changes to the county’s voting system.
Reporter: Roman Battaglia, Jefferson Public Radio
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Did you know, if your car gets towed in California and sold because you didn’t claim it, you’re entitled to the profit? And if you don’t claim your money, the DMV gets to keep it.
Reporter: Byrhonda Lyons, CalMatters
A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the Trump administration to restore 500 National Institutes of Health grants that it suspended at UCLA over the summer.
Reporter: Mikhail Zinshteyn, CalMatters
The Tulare County Public Defender’s Office has agreed to overhaul an alleged culture of sexual harassment among employees, under the terms of a deal announced Monday.
Reporter: Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED
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Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a new law lowering state cannabis taxes from 19% to 15%. Pot companies say it will bring much needed relief to an overtaxed, overregulated industry. But youth groups who are funded by this tax say kids are being betrayed.
Reporter: April Dembosky, KQED
Governor Gavin Newsom signed a series of bills into law on Saturday, aimed at reigning in aggressive immigration enforcement in the state.
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Tequila is produced exclusively in Mexico and has become a star in California's cocktail culture. More than 50 million cases of tequila were sold in the U.S. in 2023, with most of that consumed in the Golden State. And demand for tequila is growing faster than vodka, whiskey, and all other spirits combined. But this summer, several legal battles have begun which could shake up the entire industry.
Guest: Carlos Cabrera Lomeli, KQED
Bay Area immigrant advocates are suing the Trump administration to end its controversial immigration courthouse arrests, and stop detaining people for days in San Francisco holding rooms meant for only a few hours.
Reporter: Tyche Hendricks, KQED
When immigrants are detained by the feds, families often struggle to pay rent. LA County officials are now trying to help these families.
Reporter: David Wagner, LAist
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Almost every night for nearly three decades in Santa Cruz, Bob and Patti Vasconcellos have gotten a little gussied up. They throw their walkers in the trunk and head to their local karaoke bar. Their performances have made them local celebrities.
Reporter: Elena Neale-Sacks, KAZU
California’s oil industry regulator is expecting gasoline prices to rise through the end of the year– and is calling on refineries to help.
Reporter: Julie Small, KQED
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Santa Barbara Senator Monique Limón is set to become the leader of the California Senate this November, and a recent housing bill she authored is raising some eyebrows because it would keep CEQA requirements in place on one tiny plot of land in her district.
Reporter: Ben Christopher, CalMatters
As California experiences a record number of cases of Valley Fever cases, the Salinas Valley is seeing one of the largest spikes. Clouds of dust rise up behind trucks and tractors in the fields and sweep across Highway 101 in the wind, creating the perfect conditions to spread spores of the fungus that causes Valley Fever. People who work outside, like farm and construction workers, are especially at risk.
Reporter: Jerimiah Oetting in Paso Robles
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In the wake of George Floyd’s death and the protests that followed, California passed a law limiting the use of force against people exercising their First Amendment rights. An LAist investigation found that even when police departments appear to be breaking that law, the state doesn’t have a mechanism to actually enforce it.
Reporter: Yusra Farzan, LAist
Two companies with thousands of permits to drill oil wells in California merged on Monday, just two days after state lawmakers loosened environmental reviews for permits in Kern County.
Reporter: Julie Small, KQED
UC Merced students are speaking out after several campus leaders in charge of diversity, equity and inclusion programs were laid off.
Reporter: Rachel Livinal, KVPR
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The world lost an icon when Latin jazz pioneer Eddie Palmieri died last month. His music lives on through recordings, but also through sheet music, thanks in part to a publisher in rural California. This pioneer has helped make the work of Palmieri and other Latin jazz artists available to the world, from his home office in Madera.
Reporter: Kerry Klein, KVPR
A handful of controversial bills on climate and energy are heading to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk. That’s after state lawmakers passed the bills in the final hours of the legislative session on Saturday.
Reporter: Guy Marzorati, KQED
While discourse during this year’s end of session at the Capitol was dominated by that package of energy measures, some other big bills were sent to the governor's desk.
Reporter: Laura Fitzgerald, CapRadio
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Shasta County's voter-approved plan to become a charter county has been delayed by over a year because local officials failed to file necessary paperwork with the state. Local officials say the paperwork was finally filed last month.
Justin Higginbottom, Jefferson Public Radio
A push to build an immigration detention facility at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield is now on hold, according to the Department of Defense.
Tyche Hendricks, KQED
Dozens of carwash employees and their family members rallied alongside immigrant rights activists in Los Angeles on Thursday to denounce federal immigration raids at their worksites. Now, they're organizing patrols for possible future sweeps.
Benjamin Gottlieb
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Across Latino communities, the fear of arrest has become a part of daily life under stepped up immigration enforcement. Advocates say that constant stress is wearing on people's mental health.. And many are carrying the burden quietly.
Reporter: Anthony Victoria, KVCR
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s attempt to fast-track his administration’s proposal for a 45-mile-long tunnel under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta failed to pass the Legislature.
Reporter: Ezra David Romero, KQED
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For two decades, the nation’s solution to homelessness has been pretty straightforward: get people into housing. This approach is known as Housing First, and in California it’s even written into state law. But this summer, President Trump signed an executive order reversing this policy, turning a California mandate into a liability.
Reporter: Vanessa Rancaño, KQED
The Garnet Fire east of Fresno has burned more than 56,000 acres, and has reached the McKinley Grove of Giant Sequoias.
Reporter: Kerry Klein, KVPR
A San Diego law firm filed a class action lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement – arguing that federal agents are breaking the law when they arrest asylum seekers at immigration court.
Reporter: Gustavo Solis, KPBS
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Immigrant communities across Southern California are once again on edge after the US Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration’s roving immigration sweeps can continue. There could be broad implications from Monday's ruling.
Reporter: Wendy Fry, CalMatters
Business owners in the Bay Area, and across the state, have been following the dramatic workplace immigration raids in Southern California. That’s left many wondering what to do if ICE shows up at their place of business.
Reporter: Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED
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California’s farm labor force is aging and younger generations aren’t stepping in to fill those jobs. At the same time, agriculture itself is changing with new technology and immigration enforcement, leaving big questions about the future of the industry.
Reporter: Madi Bolanos, The California Report
John Burton, a towering figure in California politics, has died at the age of 92. A family member confirmed his death to KQED.
Reporter: Scott Shafer, KQED
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Climate change and tariffs may be shaking up the coffee industry. But young people are still abuzz these days about specialty drinks like lattes and macchiatos. And a Merced coffee shop is even giving this industry a boost, by training more people to serve up the delicious drinks.
Reporter: Rachel Livinal, KVPR
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have filed suit against Southern California Edison, over its alleged role in starting a pair of deadly wildfires.
Reporter: Dan Brekke, KQED
A bill that would have created career pathways for incarcerated firefighters was shelved by a Senate committee on Thursday.
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barely a minute of this is about the SoCal strikes. Why is that subject your headline?
wow that is scary looking pic
So, no episode for 10/5/2021?
Vandalism may be a minor crime to you, but it can be devastating to those who work paycheck to paycheck. So what if the cops are able to see anything on public streets. Don’t commit crimes and you won’t have a problem.