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Bay Curious Presents Close All Tabs: Stan Wars, The Fandom Menace
We're presenting an episode of Close All Tabs, a new miniseries from KQED that explores the intersection of internet culture and politics. In this ep…
1 year, 7 months ago
How Often Should our Wild Lands Burn?
California has over 33 million acres of forest land, about a third of the state's total area, as well as other wild land areas. For decades we've don…
1 year, 7 months ago
A Final Resting Spot for Furry Friends
Burying the dead in San Francisco has long been banned, but at the Presidio pet cemetery hundreds of dogs, cats, fish, iguanas, and turtles have been…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Secret History of Mary Ellen Pleasant
One of San Francisco's purported “ghosts,” has a remarkable real-life story often left out of San Francisco's history books. Today we bring back an e…
1 year, 7 months ago
Proposition 36: Increasing Penalties for Drug and Theft Crimes
In 2014, Californians passed Prop 47, a criminal justice reform measure aimed at sending fewer low-level offenders for drug and theft crimes to priso…
1 year, 8 months ago
Proposition 35: Funding Medi-Cal
As our Prop Fest series continues, KQED Health Correspondent Lesley McClurg joins us to explain Prop. 35, which aims to improve Medi-Cal access by ma…
1 year, 8 months ago
Proposition 34: Prescription Drug Spending (But Also ... Rent Control?)
Today, we take a closer look at Prop 34, which takes aim at how revenues earned through a federal drug pricing program are spent by a very specific n…
1 year, 8 months ago
Proposition 33: Removing State Limits on Rent Control
For nearly 30 years, the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act has limited how far local governments can take rent control policies. This year, Propositio…
1 year, 8 months ago
Proposition 32: Minimum Wage Increase
As you know, California is already an expensive state to live in. When you add up rent, gas, and groceries, things get expensive real fast. Propositi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Proposition 6: Ending Forced Labor for Prisoners
In 1865, the U.S. ratified the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude — except as punishment for conv…
1 year, 8 months ago