California Revenue Shortfall Triggers Cuts
Governor Jerry Brown finds himself in an unenviable position this holiday season. He reported this week that California's revenues are coming up short, which triggered nearly a billion dollars in automatic cuts to state funding. Host Scott Shafer sits down with The California Report's Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers to find out what happens next and whether a tax increase is headed to the ballot.
Young Scientists Take On Climate Change
This week, as negotiators in South Africa made little progress toward cutting global warming emissions, nearly 300 of the world's top climate scientists met in San Francisco as part of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Among them was a small group of Stanford students, part of the emerging generation of climate scientists. Craig Miller of our Climate Watch project wondered what they make of all the global indecision and what it means for their work.
Genocide Survivors Learn to Document Their Stories
A group of survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is finishing up a two month stay in Los Angeles. A Holocaust foundation at the University of Southern California invited them to learn how it's documented tens of thousands of testimonies from Holocaust survivors. The Rwandan delegation will return home with that knowledge as they set out to record their country's mass killings.
Turning Points: Kelly Malone
Kelly Malone had a successful career in marketing when suddenly, at the age of 31, she was diagnosed with cancer. The young San Francisco entrepreneur traded in her high-powered career for something very low-tech. As part of our series "Turning Points," we learn the story of her life changing experience.
Harvesting Salt on the Mendocino Coast
During the recession, many people are learning a hard lesson: that the job you depend on may not be around forever. That's certainly the case for a couple on the North Coast. Three years ago they closed their sport fishing business after government regulations limited access to the ocean. Then, searching for what to do next with their lives, they figured out a way to convert their love of the ocean into a gourmet venture.