Mel Baker
- Username: MelBaker7
- PRX Member
- Role: Station Program Director
Recent Pieces from Mel Baker
Afghans in Bay Area Won’t Forget Those Living Under Taliban
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From: KSFP
Six months after the fall of Afghanistan and a Bay Area nonprofit is still trying to get some of its workers out of the country. We speak with the CEO of "Roots of Peace" and ...
Go to ‘DEFCON-N95?’ This doctor says case rates should drive behavior
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From: KSFP
With Omicron cases surging, we speak with Dr. Kim Rhoads, who has been working on community-led responses since the beginning of the pandemic. She has some advise for dealing ...
Women fought trafficking and created a refuge in this Chinatown building
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From: KSFP
We look at the history of the Cameron House in San Francisco's Chinatown. The women who founded the organization worked to rescue Chinese women and girls from traffickers, ...
Follow your recycling from bin to bale
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From: KSFP
Ride along with a sanitation worker who collects everything in San Francisco’s blue bins, and learn some dos and don’ts of recycling at a Recology sorting center.
SF is strengthening its buildings for the next big quake
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From: KSFP
While hundreds of soft-story buildings in San Francisco have been upgraded by their owners to survive a major quake, city officials said 700 such buildings remain at risk.
Signs of speculation, cause San Francisco leaders to spend millions to buy apartment buildings
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From: KSFP
Worries that real estate investors are buying multi-unit housing properties in San Francisco, then evicting tenants to turn a quick buck. has prompted local lawmakers to pour ...
The Bay Area could add millions of people without using more water. Here’s how.
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From: KSFP
Can the Bay Area address housing affordability and control water use in perpetually drought-stricken California at the same time? SPUR's Laura Feinstein says yes.
Indigenous organizers mark 52 years since the Alcatraz occupation — with the interior secretary
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From: KSFP
The first Native American Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, spoke to the activists who first occupied Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay in 1969. Their demand that the ...
Performer’s conservatorship is over, but activists say she’s not the only one
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From: KSFP
The end of Britney Spears' conservatorship raises questions about who gets "conserved" and why. "Civic" talks to mental health activists who are wary of the system and San ...
