Bay Area food banks call for support amid high holiday demand
Bay Area food banks are sounding the alarm about rising food insecurity and a drop in donations.
View ArticleTHE STACKS: Traci Thomas talks with Mitchell S. Jackson
This week on BAY MADE: episodes from The Stacks, a podcast from Oakland’s own Traci Thomas. She sits down with some of the buzziest authors in the biz and digs deep into their writing and their lives.
View ArticleGM pulls plug on Cruise robo-taxis
The robo-taxi company Cruise – whose autonomous vehicles were banned last year from San Francisco streets – is no more.
View ArticleCritics demand ouster of Alameda County Registrar of Voters
The people behind the successful recalls of Oakland's mayor and Alameda County's district attorney are now coming for the county's registrar of voters.
View ArticleCrisis and Creativity in Mayan Mythology
How do stories and ingenuity help a community in danger survive and thrive?
View ArticleJudges suit alleges they’re ‘shortchanged’ on pay raise
A coalition of California judges argue the state has been stiffing them for years by mishandling the formula it uses to calculate their wage increases. In a new lawsuit, one such judge is demanding...
View ArticleGAYS AGAINST BRIGGS: Episode 05
Until the end of the year, QPH is airing Gays Against Briggs, a seven-part series about the 1978 proposition known as the Briggs Initiative, which would ban gays and lesbians from working in California...
View ArticleEXPOSED: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point
The U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, in San Francisco, exposed at least 1,073 workers, military personnel, and others to radiation early in the Cold War.
View ArticleFolk Music & Beyond Presents Live Music By Winterdance this Saturday 2 pm
Folk Music & Beyond presents Celtic songs for the holiday season performed live by Winterdance
View ArticleRemembering Derrick Hayes
Last week, Oakland’s Derrick Hayes died at the age of 65. On Sunday, Street Spirit held a memorial for him.
View ArticleAlameda County Recalls / 'A Harper Family Mixtape' / Remembering Derrick Hayes
Today, the ousting of Oakland’s mayor and Alameda County’s District Attorney. Then, a novelist explores the story of family and coming of age. And, we honor the life of a treasured community builder.
View ArticleL. John Harris searches for story behind a portrait
Berkeley author L. John Harris reads from his new book, "Portrait in Red: A Paris Obsession." It documents his search for the story behind an anonymous portrait of a young girl wearing a red head cover.
View ArticleSan Mateo County DA clears sheriff’s deputy of fraud allegations
The San Mateo County District Attorney's Office announced earlier in the day that the deputy taken into custody last month for alleged timecard fraud shouldn't have been arrested in the first place and...
View ArticleCEO murder exposes growing anger with the corporate health system
The largest health insurers in the US have raked in more than $371 billion in profits since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, according to The Lever.
View ArticleYear End Tax Tips 2024
It’s that time of year. Are you ready to face the tax man? What should you do before years end?Tonight's YLR Host, Rob Wyman, is joined by tax attorney Cindy Ho of Cindy Ho Law, APC, in San Jose, and...
View ArticleReport: Homelessness down in Alameda County, but up in Oakland
An analysis of data gathered during last January’s “Point In Time” national census on the unhoused shows that overall homelessness has decreased in Alameda County, but increased in its largest city,...
View Article‘Sanctuary spaces’ set up across West Coast for unhoused
A group of unhoused and housed organizers and advocates launched ‘sanctuary spaces’ across the West Coast earlier today, calling on local governments to stop sweeping homeless encampments.
View ArticleWho Owns Culture?
How do we tell the difference between appreciation and appropriation—between exploration and exploitation?
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