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16/07/2025

KALW's Bounce podcast brought Bay Area basketball history to life @ 220 last night!

Our live panel with Rough Trades reporter Maya Goldberg-Safir and KALW's Erin Lim and Ben Trefny covered the increasing popularity of women's sports, the persistent inequities, and the impact of top athletes on the community.

The San Francisco Pioneers, the Bay Area's original professional women's basketball team, reunited for the first time in over 40 years at last night’s event. Jan Ternyik, Anita Oretega, Anna Johnson, and Gerry Booker shared their powerful stories of competition, love for the game, and breaking barriers long before the WNBA existed.

Thank you to everyone who showed up to honor the women who paved the way. Visit kalw.org/events to RSVP to our next live event.

16/07/2025

Today, how one Humboldt County restaurant experienced an outpouring of love, and help, from their community in the wake of flood damage. Then, what went wrong at Oakland’s Wood Street Community Cabins? And, a poem for the people who keep going, even when it feels impossible.

Today, how one Humboldt County restaurant received an outpouring of love in the wake of flood damage. Then, what went wrong at Oakland’s Wood Street Community Cabins?

16/07/2025

Live now on Your Call, we're airing the recent live show we hosted at the San Francisco Public Library about this country's caregiving crisis.

More than 53 million people provide unpaid care to a loved one. Over 60 percent are also working and 30 percent are taking care of children. The GOP budget cuts will make this crisis worse. We discuss universal healthcare in California and caregiving solutions and resources at the state and local levels.

Join us with:

Assemblymember Matt Haney, represents the eastern side of San Francisco, Chair of the Committee on Housing and Community Development, Chair of the Legislative Renters’ Caucus, and sponsor of AB 283, a bill that would allow in-home supportive services workers statewide to bargain for wages, benefits, and training opportunities with one unified voice

Kelly Dearman, executive director of the Department of Disability and Aging Services at the San Francisco Human Services Agency

Chris Durrance, documentary filmmaker who has worked on more than a dozen films for PBS Frontline, including Caregiving, which takes us inside the lives of six family and professional caregivers across the country

At our recent live broadcast at the San Francisco Public Library, we discussed universal healthcare in California and resources at the state and local levels.

15/07/2025

Live now on Your Call, we discuss the impacts of the Republican Party's unprecedented cuts to Medicaid, which will strip at least 17 million people of their health insurance and could cause over 51,000 people to lose their lives every year, according to projections from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and Yale.

Doctors and health professionals say the cuts will result in overcrowded emergency rooms, rural hospital closures, and higher costs for everyone, all while patients delay care and die from preventable deaths.

How are medical professionals preparing for what's to come?

Join us with:

Dr. Shannon Udovic-Constant, president of the California Medical Association

Dr. Rob Davidson, emergency room doctor and executive director of the Committee to Protect Healthcare

Kelly Hardy, senior managing director of health and research for Children Now

The GOP’s budget will strip 17 million people of their health insurance and push the healthcare system to a breaking point. How are medical professionals preparing?

15/07/2025

Today, Oakland's WNBA legend, Alexis Gray Lawson, talks about q***r visibility on and off the court. And then, we re-air a 2020 story about why one Paralympic basketball coach doesn’t want to be called “inspirational."

Today, an Oakland basketball legend talks about visibility on and off the court. And we hear from a former USA Paralympics women's basketball coach.

14/07/2025

It's International Zine Month and KALW is exploring the Bay Area’s thriving zine subculture! Last week, we took you to the Prelinger Library to learn about the history of zine making. This week, KALW's Kristie Song brings you to a zine party in the Mission.

Since the early 2000s, the Bay Area has been home to spaces like the San Francisco Zine Fest, the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest, and the Bay Area Q***r Zine Fest. They are places for zine lovers to hang out, find community, and explore the art form. This week, KALW brings you to a zine par...

14/07/2025

The Bay Area Air District extended a weekend air quality advisory for the Bay Area through today because of smoke from wildfires burning in the northern Sacramento Valley.

14/07/2025

California is known for its beautiful beaches and awe-inspiring coastline. But in the last 50 years, sea levels have risen at an exponential rate. Over the next three weeks, we’ll be releasing seven stories covering how some people and places are dealing with these rising tides.

In the first episode, our climate reporter Mary Catherine O’Connor () went to a riverside community in Napa County to learn how they’ve spent years trying to navigate rising waters — as well as differences of opinion about how to take care of the levee.

Series Producer:
Wren Farrell ()

Visit kalw.org/sea-level-rise for the complete story.

14/07/2025

San Mateo County has launched a new county office to help enforce laws against wage theft, particularly among vulnerable employees who work in the agriculture, hospitality, construction, and domestic work sectors.

14/07/2025

Sea level rise evokes images of battered coastlines, but inland waters are also rising in the Bay Area. Today on Crosscurrents, we’re kicking off a seven part series looking at sea level rise in California. In the first episode, we meet members of a riverside community who are grappling with an uncertain — and expensive — future. Then, we hear from teens on what the land back movement means to them.

We meet members of a riverside community who are grappling with an uncertain — and expensive — future. Then, we hear from teens on what the land back movement means to them.

14/07/2025

In the past two weeks, we welcomed hundreds of Members to tour KALW's future home at the .

A collaboration between and KALW, the Warfield Commons is a vibrant, multi-story hub for independent media, arts, and cultural organizations in the storied Warfield building in downtown San Francisco.

Our KALW Members toured the Warfield Commons and learned about our award-winning arts, music, and training programs with on-air talent and staff.

We'll be hosting one final KALW Members tour of the Warfield Commons this August, where Members will enjoy a catered brunch while learning about public media and freedom in a changing media landscape.

Want to join the tour? Become a member now at kalw.org/donate for your invitation.

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11/07/2025

An Alameda County Civil Grand Jury report released at the end of June found The City of Oakland has issued hundreds of tickets to abandoned vehicles that were reported stolen, creating a problem for both the victims of the crime and the city.