Perspectives
is KQED Public Radio's series of daily commentaries
by our listeners. Essays cover a broad range of
social and political issues, cultural observations
and personal experiences of interest to KQED's Northern
California audience. We strive to present fresh
and insightful commentary that give our listeners
a reason to pause, to think, to laugh or to consider
life from the many points of view that make up our
community. Perspectives
is one way in which KQED Public Radio works to keep
the "public" in public radio.
Perspectives is produced
by Mark Trautwein. Mark holds a degree in journalism
from the University of California, Berkeley and
was a reporter for the Berkeley Daily Gazette. He
worked as a senior legislative assistant to the
U.S. House Interior Committee in Washington, D.C.
for 15 years before returning to the Bay Area to
work as a consultant and editor.