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Home prices are higher than ever before in the Bay Area. So it begs the question: are we in a housing bubble or a housing crisis?
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 06:18
Bennett and Porter do their cooking in a shared kitchen that’s part of a transitional house in West Oakland. But they met many years ago.
“Well, w...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 10:42
It all started a couple of years ago, when a happy-go-lucky guy I swim with named Joe Omran showed up at Aquatic Park one day in a foul mood. Thirt...
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 14:18
Arthur Streeter is taking me to meet an inmate who’s going to be released from jail today.
“So we’re going to pick him up and get something to eat...
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- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 12:49
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After years of struggle, the Oakland Police Department is finally getting some positive news. Crime rates are down in all major categories, includi...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 07:24
Nearly one in ten children in California have a parent in the criminal justice system, but it’s hard to find numbers for individual cities. Experts...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 05:37
Just over the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County, a few miles from Muir Woods, lies Muir Beach. The beautiful and peaceful waterfront is a favorite...
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 06:13
Tenants are facing a tough time in San Francisco. The city has some of the nation’s highest rents and laws like the Ellis Act have made evictions f...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 08:29
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Every time news of another school shooting hits the headlines, so does the debate about how to keep children safe. After the shootings at Sandy Hoo...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 10:14
Current Pope Francis has famously said about homosexuality, “who am I to Judge?” But despite his progressive words, the Roman Catholic church does ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 06:06
Four people have been killed by cars on Van Ness Avenue in 2014 – more than half of the pedestrian deaths in San Francisco this year.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 05:58
The sharing economy in San Francisco is humming. Companies like Airbnb have figured out how to make a lot of money by using existing housing stock ...
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: 08:40
Reported by NPR's Jason DeRose, May 2014.
Earlier this year the president of Uganda signed into law an Anti-Homosexuality Bill. It makes being gay...
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- Added: May 21, 2014
- Length: 06:44
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When it comes to sending a message to the community, one way to do it is to simply stand together. That’s what one Oakland organization is doing by...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 07:54
Last June, the U.S. Congress made a landmark decision to pass immigration reform. The new law eliminates the Diversity Immigrant Lottery Visa, also...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 07:07
The success of Bay Area Bike Share depends on one place: downtown San Francisco. Back in August, the program. made a well-calculated gamble and stu...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 07:24
If you drive north from San Francisco and through most of Marin County, you get to the town of Novato. Turn east from Highway 101 and you run into ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 04:39
Oakland Police Captain Ricardo Orozco says he’s living his dream of being a cop.
“Ever since I was a small boy, the show that I always liked to wa...
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 16:20
Community policing has been the official police philosophy in Oakland since 1996. Rather than police simply responding to crime after it happens, c...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 07:59
In every police department, there’s a special division just for policing the cops. Its responsible for investigating all officer misconduct, includ...
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 10:45
On the eve of a vote in Uruguay's House of Representatives on the legalisation of Marijuana, Ben Weisz reports from Montevideo on a country yet to ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2013
- Length: 06:51
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 27:30
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Most of us shudder to imagine the impact of another large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and for good reason. A spill in future decades could hav...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 04:36
A new Crisis Group report examines how the dysfunctional administration of the larger of the country’s two entities has paralyzed its decision-maki...
- Added: Oct 18, 2010
- Length: 07:30
Many U.S. workers are being badly mistreated -- cheated -- by employers.
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 04:02
