window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={
"attachmentsReducer": {
"audio_0": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_0",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_1": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_1",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_2": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_2",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_3": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_3",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_4": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_4",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"
}
}
},
"placeholder": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "placeholder",
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"height": 512,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"small": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 32,
"height": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 50,
"height": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 64,
"height": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 96,
"height": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 128,
"height": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
}
},
"news_139957": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_139957",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "139957",
"found": true
},
"parent": 139939,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/8747_transform-1.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 360
}
},
"publishDate": 1403310978,
"modified": 1403310978,
"caption": "(Jeremy Raff/KQED)",
"description": null,
"title": "8747_transform (1)",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_137366": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_137366",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "137366",
"found": true
},
"parent": 137357,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS8537_IMG_9782-scr-e1405355033607.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 427
}
},
"publishDate": 1401314841,
"modified": 1487805998,
"caption": "Tech workers board a shuttle bus in San Francisco. ",
"description": "Tech workers board a shuttle bus in San Francisco. (Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)",
"title": "Tech Workers-Google Buses",
"credit": "Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_140021": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_140021",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "140021",
"found": true
},
"parent": 139909,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/ShowplaceSquareBldgCrop.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 360
}
},
"publishDate": 1403551379,
"modified": 1403551379,
"caption": "The building at 2 Henry Adams St. in San Francisco's Showplace Square district. (Google Street View)\n",
"description": "The building at 2 Henry Adams St. in San Francisco's Showplace Square district. (Google Street View)\n",
"title": "ShowplaceSquareBldgCrop",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_139907": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_139907",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "139907",
"found": true
},
"parent": 139854,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/justyo.jpg",
"width": 1029,
"height": 681
}
},
"publishDate": 1403303417,
"modified": 1403303417,
"caption": "The web homepage for \u003ca href=\"http://www.justyo.co/\" target=\"_blank\">Yo\u003c/a>.",
"description": "The web homepage for \u003ca href=\"http://www.justyo.co/\" target=\"_blank\">Yo\u003c/a>.",
"title": "Yo-App",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_139505": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_139505",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "139505",
"found": true
},
"parent": 139460,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/RS8747_SF-Protest-48-lpr.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
},
"publishDate": 1403109315,
"modified": 1403109315,
"caption": null,
"description": "Protesters at a Bay Area surveillance protest. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)",
"title": "No Spying-Surveillance Protest",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_126917": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_126917",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "126917",
"found": true
},
"parent": 124860,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS8866_UberX_3-lpr-e1394812282724.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 427
}
},
"publishDate": 1392852049,
"modified": 1438987745,
"caption": "A new independent study says Uber has helped reduce drunk driving deaths in California. ",
"description": "A new independent study says Uber has helped reduce drunk driving deaths in California. ",
"title": "RS8866_UberX_3-lpr",
"credit": "Jeremy Raff/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_138706": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_138706",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "138706",
"found": true
},
"parent": 138693,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/Mission-street.jpg",
"width": 640,
"height": 360
}
},
"publishDate": 1402430660,
"modified": 1402430660,
"caption": "The Mission District is ground zero for tough parking and an incubator for many start-up solutions (Shawn Hoke/Flickr)",
"description": null,
"title": "Mission-street",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_133673": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_133673",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "133673",
"found": true
},
"parent": 133657,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS378_Google_082411-lpr.jpg",
"width": 1580,
"height": 996
}
},
"publishDate": 1398291571,
"modified": 1435192093,
"caption": "Google headquarters in Mountain View. ",
"description": "Google headquarters in Mountain View. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)",
"title": "Google headquarters",
"credit": "Justin Sullivan/Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"science_17777": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "science_17777",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "17777",
"found": true
},
"parent": 17769,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2014/05/1.jpg",
"width": 678,
"height": 381
}
},
"publishDate": 1401222067,
"modified": 1401222067,
"caption": null,
"description": null,
"title": "parvizi-brain",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"stateofhealth_19227": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "stateofhealth_19227",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "stateofhealth",
"id": "19227",
"found": true
},
"parent": 19214,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr-400x256.jpg",
"width": 400,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 256
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr-320x205.jpg",
"width": 320,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 205
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr.jpg",
"width": 850,
"height": 545
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr-768x492.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 492
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 96
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr-800x513.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 513
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 64
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr-75x75.jpg",
"width": 75,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 75
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 32
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 128
}
},
"publishDate": 1400787778,
"modified": 1400787778,
"caption": "(Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)",
"description": "US Capitol",
"title": "RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_136792": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_136792",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "136792",
"found": true
},
"parent": 136719,
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/washingmachine2-1-of-1.jpg",
"width": 384,
"height": 362
}
},
"publishDate": 1400790783,
"modified": 1400790783,
"caption": null,
"description": null,
"title": "washingmachine2 (1 of 1)",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
}
},
"audioPlayerReducer": {
"postId": "stream_live",
"isPaused": true,
"isPlaying": false,
"pfsActive": false,
"pledgeModalIsOpen": true,
"playerDrawerIsOpen": false,
"liveAudioPlayStartedAt": 0,
"liveAudioPlayContext": ""
},
"authorsReducer": {
"jbrooks": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "80",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "80",
"found": true
},
"name": "Jon Brooks",
"firstName": "Jon",
"lastName": "Brooks",
"slug": "jbrooks",
"email": "jbrooks@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"science"
],
"title": "Digital Editor",
"bio": "Jon Brooks is a former Digital Editor for KQED Science. He is the former editor of KQED’s daily news blog, News Fix. In 2014, he won a California Journalism Award for his coverage of ride services like Uber and Lyft and the taxi industry. A veteran blogger, he previously worked for Yahoo! in various news writing and editing roles. Jon is also a playwright whose work has been produced in San Francisco, New York, Italy, and around the U.S. He has written about film for his own blog and studied film at Boston University.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/98887f7ed1c876ed414d4c915e969584?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "jbrooksfoy",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"Contributor",
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "futureofyou",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "mindshift",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "quest",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Jon Brooks | KQED",
"description": "Digital Editor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/98887f7ed1c876ed414d4c915e969584?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/98887f7ed1c876ed414d4c915e969584?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/jbrooks"
},
"bgoebel": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "214",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "214",
"found": true
},
"name": "Bryan Goebel",
"firstName": "Bryan",
"lastName": "Goebel",
"slug": "bgoebel",
"email": "bgoebel@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": null,
"bio": "Bryan Goebel is a reporter focused on transportation and housing issues. He was previously the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco, and an anchor/editor at KCBS Radio. He's a lifelong Californian and has also worked at radio stations in Barstow, Redding and Sacramento.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7fdd6b065bfe9a23a71bcfa80848df88?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "velobry",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Bryan Goebel | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7fdd6b065bfe9a23a71bcfa80848df88?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7fdd6b065bfe9a23a71bcfa80848df88?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/bgoebel"
},
"danbrekke": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "222",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "222",
"found": true
},
"name": "Dan Brekke",
"firstName": "Dan",
"lastName": "Brekke",
"slug": "danbrekke",
"email": "dbrekke@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news",
"science"
],
"title": "KQED Editor and Reporter",
"bio": "Dan Brekke is a reporter and editor for KQED News, responsible for coverage of topics ranging from California water issues to the Bay Area's transportation challenges. In a newsroom career that began in Chicago in 1972, Dan has worked for \u003cem>The San Francisco Examiner,\u003c/em> Wired and TechTV and has been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Business 2.0, Salon and elsewhere.\r\n\r\nSince joining KQED in 2007, Dan has reported, edited and produced both radio and online features and breaking news pieces. He has shared as both editor and reporter in four Society of Professional Journalists Norcal Excellence in Journalism awards and one Edward R. Murrow regional award. He was chosen for a spring 2017 residency at the Mesa Refuge to advance his research on California salmon.\r\n\r\nEmail Dan at: \u003ca href=\"mailto:dbrekke@kqed.org\">dbrekke@kqed.org\u003c/a>\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twitter.com/danbrekke\u003c/a>\r\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com/danbrekke\u003c/a>\r\n\u003cstrong>LinkedIn:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke\u003c/a>",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f1f0d2a978fb3b23426c922c7e2af558fa36905b49c4ce76a97dc3c72d27226?s=600&d=mm&r=g",
"twitter": "danbrekke",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/dan.brekke/",
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke/",
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"administrator",
"create_posts"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "quest",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "food",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "elections",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Dan Brekke | KQED",
"description": "KQED Editor and Reporter",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f1f0d2a978fb3b23426c922c7e2af558fa36905b49c4ce76a97dc3c72d27226?s=600&d=mm&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f1f0d2a978fb3b23426c922c7e2af558fa36905b49c4ce76a97dc3c72d27226?s=600&d=mm&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/danbrekke"
},
"katrinaschwartz": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "234",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "234",
"found": true
},
"name": "Katrina Schwartz",
"firstName": "Katrina",
"lastName": "Schwartz",
"slug": "katrinaschwartz",
"email": "kschwartz@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Producer",
"bio": "Katrina Schwartz is a journalist based in San Francisco. She's worked at KPCC public radio in LA and has reported on air and online for KQED since 2010. She covered how teaching and learning is changing for MindShift between 2012 and 2020. She is the co-host of the MindShift podcast and now produces KQED's Bay Curious podcast.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edb4ee79070447a018538c9aae6eeecf28786515b8a0c30e43b6b7dce5aa44c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "kschwart",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "mindshift",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Katrina Schwartz | KQED",
"description": "Producer",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edb4ee79070447a018538c9aae6eeecf28786515b8a0c30e43b6b7dce5aa44c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edb4ee79070447a018538c9aae6eeecf28786515b8a0c30e43b6b7dce5aa44c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/katrinaschwartz"
},
"kqednewsstaffandwires": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "237",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "237",
"found": true
},
"name": "KQED News Staff and Wires",
"firstName": "KQED News Staff and Wires",
"lastName": null,
"slug": "kqednewsstaffandwires",
"email": "onlinenewsstaff@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": null,
"bio": null,
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/72295af8ebbfbd19a4948f5271285664?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "lowdown",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "food",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "KQED News Staff and Wires | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/72295af8ebbfbd19a4948f5271285664?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/72295af8ebbfbd19a4948f5271285664?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/kqednewsstaffandwires"
},
"rachael-myrow": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "251",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "251",
"found": true
},
"name": "Rachael Myrow",
"firstName": "Rachael",
"lastName": "Myrow",
"slug": "rachael-myrow",
"email": "rmyrow@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Senior Editor of KQED's Silicon Valley News Desk",
"bio": "• I write and edit stories about how Silicon Valley power and policies shape everyday life in California. I’m also passionate about making Bay Area history and culture more accessible to a broad public. • I’ve been a journalist for most of my life, starting in high school with The Franklin Press in Los Angeles, where I grew up. While earning my first degree in English at UC Berkeley, I got my start in public radio at KALX-FM. After completing a second degree in journalism at Cal, I landed my first professional job at Marketplace, then moved on to KPCC (now LAist), and then KQED, where I hosted The California Report for more than seven years. • My reporting has appeared on NPR, The World, WBUR’s \u003ci>Here & Now\u003c/i>, and the BBC. I also guest host for KQED’s \u003ci>Forum\u003c/i>, as well as the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. • I speak periodically on media, democracy and technology issues, and do voiceover work for documentaries and educational video projects. • Outside of the studio, you'll find me hiking Bay Area trails and whipping up Insta-ready meals in my kitchen. • I do not accept gifts, money, or favors from anyone connected to my reporting, I don't pay people for information, and I do not support or donate to political causes. • I strive to treat the people I report on with fairness, honesty, and respect. I also recognize there are often multiple sides to a story and work to verify information through multiple sources and documentation. If I get something wrong, I correct it.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3ed8a3c5f26025e4a805ba634cda8cd764906b97438a6d9ce216b044e340da4e?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "rachaelmyrow",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachaelmyrow/",
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"edit_others_posts",
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "futureofyou",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "bayareabites",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "food",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Rachael Myrow | KQED",
"description": "Senior Editor of KQED's Silicon Valley News Desk",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3ed8a3c5f26025e4a805ba634cda8cd764906b97438a6d9ce216b044e340da4e?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3ed8a3c5f26025e4a805ba634cda8cd764906b97438a6d9ce216b044e340da4e?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/rachael-myrow"
},
"wjonassen": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "261",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "261",
"found": true
},
"name": "Wendi Jonassen",
"firstName": "Wendi",
"lastName": "Jonassen",
"slug": "wjonassen",
"email": "wendi.jonassen@gmail.com",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": null,
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/86a296c54acbd8b7edba69d44d70f06d?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Wendi Jonassen | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/86a296c54acbd8b7edba69d44d70f06d?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/86a296c54acbd8b7edba69d44d70f06d?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/wjonassen"
},
"kqedscience": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "6387",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "6387",
"found": true
},
"name": "KQED Science",
"firstName": "KQED",
"lastName": "Science",
"slug": "kqedscience",
"email": "kqedscience@gmail.com",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": null,
"bio": "KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond by the flagship Northern California PBS and NPR affiliate.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5a295ff49cf82a8c0f30937d3f788b2f?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "quest",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "food",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "KQED Science | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5a295ff49cf82a8c0f30937d3f788b2f?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5a295ff49cf82a8c0f30937d3f788b2f?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/kqedscience"
}
},
"pagesReducer": {
"news_category_technology": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_248",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "248",
"score": 10.931152
},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Technology",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Technology Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 256,
"slug": "technology",
"isLoading": false,
"title": "Technology",
"pageMeta": {
"site": "news",
"WpPageTemplate": "page-topic-editorial",
"currentPage": 153
},
"blocks": [
{
"blockName": "kqed/post-list",
"attrs": {
"layout": "cardArticle2",
"query": "posts/news?category=technology",
"seeMore": false,
"paginated": true,
"page": 153
}
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/ad"
}
]
}
},
"pfsSessionReducer": {},
"postsReducer": {
"stream_live": {
"type": "live",
"id": "stream_live",
"audioUrl": "https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio",
"title": "Live Stream",
"excerpt": "Live Stream information currently unavailable.",
"link": "/radio",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "KQED Live",
"link": "/"
}
},
"stream_kqedNewscast": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "stream_kqedNewscast",
"audioUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1",
"title": "KQED Newscast",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "88.5 FM",
"link": "/"
}
},
"news_139939": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_139939",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "139939",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1403317857000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "bipartisan-bill-limits-nsa-surveillance-powers",
"title": "Digital Rights Activist Hails House Vote on Bill Limiting NSA Surveillance",
"publishDate": 1403317857,
"format": "aside",
"headTitle": "Digital Rights Activist Hails House Vote on Bill Limiting NSA Surveillance | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 6944,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/8747_transform-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/8747_transform-1.jpg\" alt=\"(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/155310703&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an unusual show of bipartisan unity, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a funding bill Friday with an amendment, co-sponsored by San Jose Democrat Zoe Lofgren, that would limit the surveillance powers of the National Security Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NSA would be barred from collecting the content of Americans’ emails and phone calls without a warrant — also called “backdoor searches” — if the bill becomes law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are called backdoor searches because the NSA is using a loophole under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to collect the content of conversations between non-Americans and Americans, says Nadia Kayyali, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Kayyali believes this is an illegal interpretation of FISA and that the NSA needs a warrant to collect Americans’ conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are certain things that there are just no justifications for, and accessing Americans’ conversations is one of them. Making the Internet less safe is one of them,” Kayyali told KQED’s Mina Kim. “It is an exciting thing to see that it did pass by such a large margin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of Congress are still concerned about national safety, however, and want to see provisions that allow the NSA and other intelligence agencies access to a backdoor approach during times of urgent threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things pointed out during the debate is that there is very little evidence that any of this has really helped,” Kayyali says. “In terms of accessing an American’s information, that is what warrants are for. Judges sign warrants in the middle of the night”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill still has to be passed by the Senate and signed by the president before it becomes law, but the overwhelming support for the amendment (the vote was 293-123) signifies a better understanding of the extent of the NSA’s surveillance, Kayyali says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is absolutely a win,” she says. “This is something that I think people from every end of the political spectrum need to be concerned about.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Measure would bar NSA from collecting Americans' communications without a warrant.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1721149109,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": true,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 11,
"wordCount": 356
},
"headData": {
"title": "Digital Rights Activist Hails House Vote on Bill Limiting NSA Surveillance | KQED",
"description": "Measure would bar NSA from collecting Americans' communications without a warrant.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Digital Rights Activist Hails House Vote on Bill Limiting NSA Surveillance",
"datePublished": "2014-06-20T19:30:57-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-07-16T09:58:29-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"customPermalink": "2012/06/20/nsa-surveillance-powers-limited-under-new-bill/",
"path": "/news/139939/bipartisan-bill-limits-nsa-surveillance-powers",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/8747_transform-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/8747_transform-1.jpg\" alt=\"(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/155310703&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an unusual show of bipartisan unity, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a funding bill Friday with an amendment, co-sponsored by San Jose Democrat Zoe Lofgren, that would limit the surveillance powers of the National Security Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NSA would be barred from collecting the content of Americans’ emails and phone calls without a warrant — also called “backdoor searches” — if the bill becomes law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are called backdoor searches because the NSA is using a loophole under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to collect the content of conversations between non-Americans and Americans, says Nadia Kayyali, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Kayyali believes this is an illegal interpretation of FISA and that the NSA needs a warrant to collect Americans’ conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are certain things that there are just no justifications for, and accessing Americans’ conversations is one of them. Making the Internet less safe is one of them,” Kayyali told KQED’s Mina Kim. “It is an exciting thing to see that it did pass by such a large margin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of Congress are still concerned about national safety, however, and want to see provisions that allow the NSA and other intelligence agencies access to a backdoor approach during times of urgent threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things pointed out during the debate is that there is very little evidence that any of this has really helped,” Kayyali says. “In terms of accessing an American’s information, that is what warrants are for. Judges sign warrants in the middle of the night”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill still has to be passed by the Senate and signed by the president before it becomes law, but the overwhelming support for the amendment (the vote was 293-123) signifies a better understanding of the extent of the NSA’s surveillance, Kayyali says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is absolutely a win,” she says. “This is something that I think people from every end of the political spectrum need to be concerned about.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/139939/bipartisan-bill-limits-nsa-surveillance-powers",
"authors": [
"261"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_13",
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_4481",
"news_4289"
],
"featImg": "news_139957",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_139906": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_139906",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "139906",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1403311154000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "hearing-on-san-franciscos-tech-shuttle-program-draws-complaints",
"title": "Hearing on San Francisco's Tech Shuttle Program Draws Complaints",
"publishDate": 1403311154,
"format": "aside",
"headTitle": "Hearing on San Francisco’s Tech Shuttle Program Draws Complaints | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 6944,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137366\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/28/the-good-news-about-working-in-the-bay-area-for-some-wages-are-very-high/rs8537_img_9782-scr-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-137366\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137366\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS8537_IMG_9782-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED) \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has tentatively approved a list of stops for its tech shuttle bus pilot program following a packed public hearing at City Hall Friday that drew complaints from residents concerned about the loss of parking and the impacts on their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just ramrodding this through and it’s wrong-minded and short-sighted,” said Lisa Awbrey, who lives near two Muni stops in the Panhandle where public buses would share curb space with private shuttles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA approved an 18-month pilot \u003ca href=\"http://sfmta.com/fr/projects-planning/projects/commuter-shuttles-policy-and-pilot-program\">commuter shuttle program\u003c/a> in January, and earlier this month said it identified 115 stops where the shuttles would share space with Muni buses. It originally called for 200 stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really wanted to select locations where, based on our best information, we could accommodate the shuttle activity and minimize impact on Muni and other users,” said Carli Paine of the SFMTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At nine locations, where Muni stops are too busy, some parking would be removed to \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/06/12/are-sfmtas-proposed-shuttle-stops-enough-to-end-muni-conflicts/\">provide white zones\u003c/a> exclusively for shuttles. Three parking spaces would be permanently eliminated and 30 spaces used during peak hours, or about .01 percent of all on-street spaces in the city, according to the SFMTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gus Hernandez of the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association is worried about one of the white zone stops proposed on Hayes Street at Steiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our concern is that it’s going to cause more congestion and traffic in the neighborhood, as well as removal of parking on the north side,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Covert of the Bay Area Council was among the few speakers at the public hearing who testified in favor of the shuttle program, saying it’s a vital link in the transportation system, and that the loss of parking would be minimal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Three permanent parking spaces overall are going to be eliminated to provide for shuttle space for 17,000 San Francisco residents. I think that’s a pretty good deal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists who contend the tech shuttles, often called “Google buses,” have helped fuel gentrification\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/san-francisco-activists-and-seiu-sue-city-over-google-bus-plan\"> have filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against the city, demanding an environmental review. A settlement conference is scheduled for next week, said Sara Shortt, director of the Housing Rights Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she supports the white zones, Shortt said the city needs to get more creative about how it manages the shuttles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are better solutions, like having a tech hub in one specific space. I think they can stretch themselves further. I do think not using the Muni stops is an absolute improvement,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighty eight stops were approved at the hearing by a traffic engineering panel. SFMTA officials said they were still reviewing a small number of additional stops that would be considered at a July 11th public hearing. The list of stops is then expected to go before the SFMTA Board for final approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shuttle pilot is scheduled to start August 1st, a month later than anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "'They're just ramrodding this through and it's wrong-minded and short-sighted,' said one city resident.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1740180735,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 16,
"wordCount": 519
},
"headData": {
"title": "Hearing on San Francisco's Tech Shuttle Program Draws Complaints | KQED",
"description": "'They're just ramrodding this through and it's wrong-minded and short-sighted,' said one city resident.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Hearing on San Francisco's Tech Shuttle Program Draws Complaints",
"datePublished": "2014-06-20T17:39:14-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-02-21T15:32:15-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"customPermalink": "2014/06/21-tech-bus-complaints-city-hearing/",
"path": "/news/139906/hearing-on-san-franciscos-tech-shuttle-program-draws-complaints",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137366\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/28/the-good-news-about-working-in-the-bay-area-for-some-wages-are-very-high/rs8537_img_9782-scr-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-137366\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137366\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS8537_IMG_9782-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED) \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has tentatively approved a list of stops for its tech shuttle bus pilot program following a packed public hearing at City Hall Friday that drew complaints from residents concerned about the loss of parking and the impacts on their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just ramrodding this through and it’s wrong-minded and short-sighted,” said Lisa Awbrey, who lives near two Muni stops in the Panhandle where public buses would share curb space with private shuttles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA approved an 18-month pilot \u003ca href=\"http://sfmta.com/fr/projects-planning/projects/commuter-shuttles-policy-and-pilot-program\">commuter shuttle program\u003c/a> in January, and earlier this month said it identified 115 stops where the shuttles would share space with Muni buses. It originally called for 200 stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really wanted to select locations where, based on our best information, we could accommodate the shuttle activity and minimize impact on Muni and other users,” said Carli Paine of the SFMTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At nine locations, where Muni stops are too busy, some parking would be removed to \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/06/12/are-sfmtas-proposed-shuttle-stops-enough-to-end-muni-conflicts/\">provide white zones\u003c/a> exclusively for shuttles. Three parking spaces would be permanently eliminated and 30 spaces used during peak hours, or about .01 percent of all on-street spaces in the city, according to the SFMTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gus Hernandez of the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association is worried about one of the white zone stops proposed on Hayes Street at Steiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our concern is that it’s going to cause more congestion and traffic in the neighborhood, as well as removal of parking on the north side,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrian Covert of the Bay Area Council was among the few speakers at the public hearing who testified in favor of the shuttle program, saying it’s a vital link in the transportation system, and that the loss of parking would be minimal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Three permanent parking spaces overall are going to be eliminated to provide for shuttle space for 17,000 San Francisco residents. I think that’s a pretty good deal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists who contend the tech shuttles, often called “Google buses,” have helped fuel gentrification\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/san-francisco-activists-and-seiu-sue-city-over-google-bus-plan\"> have filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against the city, demanding an environmental review. A settlement conference is scheduled for next week, said Sara Shortt, director of the Housing Rights Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she supports the white zones, Shortt said the city needs to get more creative about how it manages the shuttles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are better solutions, like having a tech hub in one specific space. I think they can stretch themselves further. I do think not using the Muni stops is an absolute improvement,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighty eight stops were approved at the hearing by a traffic engineering panel. SFMTA officials said they were still reviewing a small number of additional stops that would be considered at a July 11th public hearing. The list of stops is then expected to go before the SFMTA Board for final approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shuttle pilot is scheduled to start August 1st, a month later than anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/139906/hearing-on-san-franciscos-tech-shuttle-program-draws-complaints",
"authors": [
"214"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_248",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_1631",
"news_20517"
],
"featImg": "news_137366",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_139909": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_139909",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "139909",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1403307807000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1403307807,
"format": "aside",
"disqusTitle": "Pinterest Move Threatens Long-Time San Francisco Tenants With Eviction",
"title": "Pinterest Move Threatens Long-Time San Francisco Tenants With Eviction",
"headTitle": "Priced Out | News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/2979_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-140021 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/ShowplaceSquareBldgCrop.jpg\" alt=\"The building at 2 Henry Adams St. in San Francisco's Showplace Square district. (Google Street View)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The building at 2 Henry Adams St. in San Francisco's Showplace Square district. (Google Street View)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dozens of design and production businesses in San Francisco's Showplace Square District likely face eviction as Pinterest plans to take over the building at 2 Henry Adams St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building is currently zoned for PDR--production, distribution, and repair--and can't be used for office space, like Pinterest plans to build. But a loophole in zoning regulations allows building owners to convert PDR-zoned buildings to office spaces if they are designated as historic landmarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property manager filed the paperwork to start that process last year. The San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission unanimously approved the historic designation on the almost 100-year-old building and now it just needs the official stamp from the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If 2 Henry Adams St., which was built in 1915 during the post-earthquake reconstruction, is designated as an historic landmark and Pinterest moves in, all tenants but a few on the first floor face eviction. Some of the tenants have been there for several decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the moment we don't know exactly what is happening. That is part of the problem,\" says Jim Gallagher, General Manager at Garden Court Antiques, which is currently on the first floor of 2 Henry Adams St. \"Everyone has been sort of paralyzed and we realized that we need to speak up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rumors Proved True\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rumors began circulating months ago and several companies started to get worried as the property owner stopped renewing leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Country Floor, which has been on the first floor for 21 years, tried to renew their long-term lease several months ago, but were told (without being given a reason) that they could only sign a month-to-month lease, says Jeanne Reynolds, showroom manager at Country Floors. They were also told they couldn't remodel after hiring an expensive architect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They weren't telling us the truth about anything. They were telling different people different things. Not all tenants got notices about meetings.\" Reynolds says. \"We never even knew about the hearings. We felt threatened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property owner, who is pursuing the lease with Pinterest, plans to attempt to relocate some of the tenants with longer leases, like Garden Court Antiques, to spaces in the Galleria building across the street at 101 Henry Adams St. But that building is currently 80 percent leased, leaving little room for new tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While relocation and eviction details are still murky, it is clear that many of the current tenants don't want to leave their space or their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know for a fact, because I am in the location I am in, I work with the top designers. My clients are the top designers,\" says Reynolds. \"I would lose all my top clients.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garden Court Antiques has been on the ground floor, surrounded by big windows for years. Gallagher fears that moving the business will result in less foot traffic and business overflow from other business in the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are a community of folks and part of how we have survived is because of what we draw in for one another,\" Gallagher says. \"If we are all spread out, we don't have critical mass.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallagher adds that one of the important things to keep in mind are the blue-collar workers who rely on the businesses in 2 Henry Adams St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Supervisor Malia Cohen is preparing legislation that could change the historic landmark designation loophole, mandating that even historic buildings can't fully convert to office space. Her office says that fourteen other buildings in the area are vulnerable because of that loophole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am not comfortable with what the building is being proposed to be used for,\" Cohen told KQED's Cyrus Musiker. \"I believe that the design center is one of the most unique and important aspects that we have inside San Francisco and I want to acknowledge that office space is being built all over the city right now and i don't see why we need to convert precious PDR spaces into offices.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors heard a review on the historic designation of 2 Henry Adams St. last Monday and will continue reviewing for the next three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do believe that [the building] is of landmark quality,\" Cohen says. \"I just don't feel comfortable moving forward until all the tenants have their questions answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Landmark Recommendation Resolution on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/230640618/Landmark-Recommendation-Resolution\">Landmark Recommendation Resolution\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_2112\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/230640618/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "139909 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=139909",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/06/20/pinterest-move-threatens-long-time-san-francisco-tenants-with-eviction/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 747,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 22
},
"modified": 1403561080,
"excerpt": "In city's Showplace Square District, a large number of design and production businesses may lose out.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "In city's Showplace Square District, a large number of design and production businesses may lose out.",
"title": "Pinterest Move Threatens Long-Time San Francisco Tenants With Eviction | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Pinterest Move Threatens Long-Time San Francisco Tenants With Eviction",
"datePublished": "2014-06-20T16:43:27-07:00",
"dateModified": "2014-06-23T15:04:40-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "pinterest-move-threatens-long-time-san-francisco-tenants-with-eviction",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "2014/06/20/-pinterest-eviction-design-businesses-at-showplace-square/",
"path": "/news/139909/pinterest-move-threatens-long-time-san-francisco-tenants-with-eviction",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/2979_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-140021 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/ShowplaceSquareBldgCrop.jpg\" alt=\"The building at 2 Henry Adams St. in San Francisco's Showplace Square district. (Google Street View)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The building at 2 Henry Adams St. in San Francisco's Showplace Square district. (Google Street View)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dozens of design and production businesses in San Francisco's Showplace Square District likely face eviction as Pinterest plans to take over the building at 2 Henry Adams St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building is currently zoned for PDR--production, distribution, and repair--and can't be used for office space, like Pinterest plans to build. But a loophole in zoning regulations allows building owners to convert PDR-zoned buildings to office spaces if they are designated as historic landmarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property manager filed the paperwork to start that process last year. The San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission unanimously approved the historic designation on the almost 100-year-old building and now it just needs the official stamp from the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If 2 Henry Adams St., which was built in 1915 during the post-earthquake reconstruction, is designated as an historic landmark and Pinterest moves in, all tenants but a few on the first floor face eviction. Some of the tenants have been there for several decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the moment we don't know exactly what is happening. That is part of the problem,\" says Jim Gallagher, General Manager at Garden Court Antiques, which is currently on the first floor of 2 Henry Adams St. \"Everyone has been sort of paralyzed and we realized that we need to speak up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rumors Proved True\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rumors began circulating months ago and several companies started to get worried as the property owner stopped renewing leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Country Floor, which has been on the first floor for 21 years, tried to renew their long-term lease several months ago, but were told (without being given a reason) that they could only sign a month-to-month lease, says Jeanne Reynolds, showroom manager at Country Floors. They were also told they couldn't remodel after hiring an expensive architect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They weren't telling us the truth about anything. They were telling different people different things. Not all tenants got notices about meetings.\" Reynolds says. \"We never even knew about the hearings. We felt threatened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The property owner, who is pursuing the lease with Pinterest, plans to attempt to relocate some of the tenants with longer leases, like Garden Court Antiques, to spaces in the Galleria building across the street at 101 Henry Adams St. But that building is currently 80 percent leased, leaving little room for new tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While relocation and eviction details are still murky, it is clear that many of the current tenants don't want to leave their space or their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know for a fact, because I am in the location I am in, I work with the top designers. My clients are the top designers,\" says Reynolds. \"I would lose all my top clients.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garden Court Antiques has been on the ground floor, surrounded by big windows for years. Gallagher fears that moving the business will result in less foot traffic and business overflow from other business in the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are a community of folks and part of how we have survived is because of what we draw in for one another,\" Gallagher says. \"If we are all spread out, we don't have critical mass.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gallagher adds that one of the important things to keep in mind are the blue-collar workers who rely on the businesses in 2 Henry Adams St.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Supervisor Malia Cohen is preparing legislation that could change the historic landmark designation loophole, mandating that even historic buildings can't fully convert to office space. Her office says that fourteen other buildings in the area are vulnerable because of that loophole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am not comfortable with what the building is being proposed to be used for,\" Cohen told KQED's Cyrus Musiker. \"I believe that the design center is one of the most unique and important aspects that we have inside San Francisco and I want to acknowledge that office space is being built all over the city right now and i don't see why we need to convert precious PDR spaces into offices.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors heard a review on the historic designation of 2 Henry Adams St. last Monday and will continue reviewing for the next three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do believe that [the building] is of landmark quality,\" Cohen says. \"I just don't feel comfortable moving forward until all the tenants have their questions answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View Landmark Recommendation Resolution on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/230640618/Landmark-Recommendation-Resolution\">Landmark Recommendation Resolution\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_2112\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/230640618/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/139909/pinterest-move-threatens-long-time-san-francisco-tenants-with-eviction",
"authors": [
"261"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"series": [
"news_18549"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758",
"news_6266",
"news_13",
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_6511",
"news_6509",
"news_2706"
],
"featImg": "news_140021",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_139854": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_139854",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "139854",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1403306709000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "yo-publicized-popular-and-now-hacked",
"title": "Yo: Publicized, Popular and Now Hacked",
"publishDate": 1403306709,
"format": "aside",
"headTitle": "Yo: Publicized, Popular and Now Hacked | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 6944,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139907\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/justyo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-139907\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/justyo-640x423.jpg\" alt=\"The web homepage for Yo.\" width=\"320\" height=\"212\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Web home page for \u003ca href=\"http://www.justyo.co/\" target=\"_blank\">Yo\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yo. We only \u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/2014/6/18/5820948/9-questions-about-yo-you-were-embarrassed-to-ask\" target=\"_blank\">just heard about you\u003c/a> and already you’re super-popular. And getting hacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yo is a simple app with little apparent first-glance reason for existing. Install it on your smartphone. Create an account. Connect with friends. Then send them this message: “Yo.” Over and over again. That’s all there is to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yo buzz comes from stories earlier this week that disclosed the creators of this oddball app, with 50,000 users as of a few days ago, had raised $1 million in angel funding for their project. Here’s Yo’s Creation Myth, as recounted \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.ft.com/tech-blog/2014/06/yo-the-new-app-that-takes-simple-to-the-extreme/\" target=\"_blank\">in the Financial Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As is fashionable these days, Yo began as a somewhat accidental side-project of another start-up. Yo’s co-founder and chief executive Or Arbel was asked by Moshe Hogeg, chief of image-sharing app Mobli, to make an app with one big button that could call his assistant without having to pick up the phone or compose a text message. Mr Arbel, a former iOS engineer at Mobli, was working on a stealth financial start-up, Stox, and said he didn’t have time. But sometime later, he remembered the single-character text conversations he had over WhatsApp with a friend: ? instead of “how are you doing?” and ! to reply “great”, or simply go back and forth saying “yo”. “We communicated without saying anything,” Mr Arbel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight hours of coding later, he had combined the two into Yo, and shared it with his Stox colleagues. “They all loved the simplicity,” Mr Arbel says, “except one who said this is the stupidest app he’d ever seen.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Let’s say the jury is still out on how stupid Yo is or whether, as \u003ca href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/06/18/3450334/yo-app-tech-bubble/\" target=\"_blank\">some have been quick to say\u003c/a>, Yo is a sign of the apocalypse that will end Tech Bubble 2.0. You don’t have to think too far back to recall a time when people were scratching their heads over what possible use Twitter might be. It’s not hard to imagine smart developers turning the Yo platform into a customized personal alert system — someone out there is already experimenting with Yo as a World Cup goal announcement service — and winning a big following.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we do know is that getting a little media exposure has triggered a mini-Yo-mania, with the app getting a huge surge in downloads and traffic. Before appearing in the media earlier this week, Yo had reported about 4 million messages sent in the 10 weeks since it launched on April Fools’ Day. The company said it handled 3.7 million messages on Thursday alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The media spotlight on Yo also has attracted hackers, who with lightning speed uncovered a series of big and small security issues. TechCrunch \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/20/yo-app-allegedly-hacked-by-college-students/\" target=\"_blank\">was first with the story \u003c/a>earlier Friday, reporting on the exploits of a Georgia Tech student:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The student emailed TechCrunch detailing what he alleges are the results of the hack: “We can get any Yo user’s phone number (I actually texted the founder, and he called me back.) We can spoof Yos from any users, and we can spam any user with as many Yos as we want. We could also send any Yo user a push notification with any text we want (though we decided not to do that.)”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yo’s creator, Or Arbel, confirmed both the Georgia Tech hack and other security breaches. The company \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/YoAppStatus\" target=\"_blank\">said via Twitter\u003c/a>, “We are working on the securities issues that came to our attention. We want you to know we take this very seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "App an overnight sensation, experiencing both a surge in popularity and exposure of big security holes.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1740180976,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 13,
"wordCount": 639
},
"headData": {
"title": "Yo: Publicized, Popular and Now Hacked | KQED",
"description": "App an overnight sensation, experiencing both a surge in popularity and exposure of big security holes.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Yo: Publicized, Popular and Now Hacked",
"datePublished": "2014-06-20T16:25:09-07:00",
"dateModified": "2025-02-21T15:36:16-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"path": "/news/139854/yo-publicized-popular-and-now-hacked",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139907\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/justyo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-139907\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/justyo-640x423.jpg\" alt=\"The web homepage for Yo.\" width=\"320\" height=\"212\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Web home page for \u003ca href=\"http://www.justyo.co/\" target=\"_blank\">Yo\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yo. We only \u003ca href=\"http://www.vox.com/2014/6/18/5820948/9-questions-about-yo-you-were-embarrassed-to-ask\" target=\"_blank\">just heard about you\u003c/a> and already you’re super-popular. And getting hacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yo is a simple app with little apparent first-glance reason for existing. Install it on your smartphone. Create an account. Connect with friends. Then send them this message: “Yo.” Over and over again. That’s all there is to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Yo buzz comes from stories earlier this week that disclosed the creators of this oddball app, with 50,000 users as of a few days ago, had raised $1 million in angel funding for their project. Here’s Yo’s Creation Myth, as recounted \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.ft.com/tech-blog/2014/06/yo-the-new-app-that-takes-simple-to-the-extreme/\" target=\"_blank\">in the Financial Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As is fashionable these days, Yo began as a somewhat accidental side-project of another start-up. Yo’s co-founder and chief executive Or Arbel was asked by Moshe Hogeg, chief of image-sharing app Mobli, to make an app with one big button that could call his assistant without having to pick up the phone or compose a text message. Mr Arbel, a former iOS engineer at Mobli, was working on a stealth financial start-up, Stox, and said he didn’t have time. But sometime later, he remembered the single-character text conversations he had over WhatsApp with a friend: ? instead of “how are you doing?” and ! to reply “great”, or simply go back and forth saying “yo”. “We communicated without saying anything,” Mr Arbel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight hours of coding later, he had combined the two into Yo, and shared it with his Stox colleagues. “They all loved the simplicity,” Mr Arbel says, “except one who said this is the stupidest app he’d ever seen.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Let’s say the jury is still out on how stupid Yo is or whether, as \u003ca href=\"http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/06/18/3450334/yo-app-tech-bubble/\" target=\"_blank\">some have been quick to say\u003c/a>, Yo is a sign of the apocalypse that will end Tech Bubble 2.0. You don’t have to think too far back to recall a time when people were scratching their heads over what possible use Twitter might be. It’s not hard to imagine smart developers turning the Yo platform into a customized personal alert system — someone out there is already experimenting with Yo as a World Cup goal announcement service — and winning a big following.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we do know is that getting a little media exposure has triggered a mini-Yo-mania, with the app getting a huge surge in downloads and traffic. Before appearing in the media earlier this week, Yo had reported about 4 million messages sent in the 10 weeks since it launched on April Fools’ Day. The company said it handled 3.7 million messages on Thursday alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The media spotlight on Yo also has attracted hackers, who with lightning speed uncovered a series of big and small security issues. TechCrunch \u003ca href=\"http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/20/yo-app-allegedly-hacked-by-college-students/\" target=\"_blank\">was first with the story \u003c/a>earlier Friday, reporting on the exploits of a Georgia Tech student:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The student emailed TechCrunch detailing what he alleges are the results of the hack: “We can get any Yo user’s phone number (I actually texted the founder, and he called me back.) We can spoof Yos from any users, and we can spam any user with as many Yos as we want. We could also send any Yo user a push notification with any text we want (though we decided not to do that.)”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yo’s creator, Or Arbel, confirmed both the Georgia Tech hack and other security breaches. The company \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/YoAppStatus\" target=\"_blank\">said via Twitter\u003c/a>, “We are working on the securities issues that came to our attention. We want you to know we take this very seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/139854/yo-publicized-popular-and-now-hacked",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_1089",
"news_1631",
"news_6512"
],
"featImg": "news_139907",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_139460": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_139460",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "139460",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1403110832000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "plans-to-expand-scope-of-license-plate-readers-alarm-privacy-advocates",
"title": "Plans to Expand Scope of License-Plate Readers Alarm Privacy Advocates",
"publishDate": 1403110832,
"format": "aside",
"headTitle": "Plans to Expand Scope of License-Plate Readers Alarm Privacy Advocates | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 6944,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/RS8747_SF-Protest-48-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-139505\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/RS8747_SF-Protest-48-lpr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters at a Bay Area surveillance protest. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters at a Bay Area surveillance protest. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Ali Winston\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\">\u003cstrong> The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police departments in the Bay Area and across the United States have adopted automated license-plate readers as a crime-fighting tool — technology capable of spotting vehicles that have been reported as stolen. But with few controls on how the license-plate data are used or handled, the devices have emerged as a major concern for privacy advocates, who say the technology can be used to track people whether or not they’re suspected of any wrongdoing. Now, the types of data collected and analyzed with the help of license-plate readers are expanding into other realms of personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents obtained by The Center for Investigative Reporting show that a leading maker of license-plate readers wants to merge the vehicle identification technology with other sources of identifying information, alarming privacy advocates. Vigilant Solutions is pushing a system that eventually could help fuse public records, license plates and facial recognition databases for police in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Livermore company released its own facial recognition software last year for use in stationary and mobile devices. The technology uses algorithms to determine whether a person’s face matches that of somebody already in a law enforcement database. Like license-plate readers, facial recognition technology has been criticized for incorrectly identifying people.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘When you’re combining data from multiple sources, it becomes incredibly revealing.’\u003ccite>— Jennifer Lynch,\u003cbr>\nElectronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Vigilant also is the market leader in license-plate data collection. The company runs the Law Enforcement Archive and Reporting Network database, which stores more than 2.5 billion records and adds roughly 70 million new license-plate scans monthly. The company offers law enforcement free access to its license-plate data through another database, the National Vehicle Location Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vigilant sells license-plate readers to over a dozen California agencies, including the California Highway Patrol, Orange County Sheriff’s Department, and the Sacramento Police and County Sheriff’s departments. For its business with law enforcement in the city of Alameda, Anaheim, Marin County, San Rafael and Sacramento, Vigilant won the contracts without going through a competitive bidding process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Vigilant PowerPoint presentation about its products, obtained by CIR, contains a section on the “near future” for the company. That includes a fusion of public records, license-plate data and facial recognition, according to the slide. Another technology, dubbed MOAB, would help law enforcement find vehicles using a “probabilistic assessment” of a vehicle’s location based on historical data and public records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another slide prepared for Texas law enforcement shows how a combined data program could work. It would pull mug shots from the local Department of Motor Vehicles database and notify law enforcement with an alert if “a vehicle is associated with someone with a known criminal history.” The slide also describes “facial images embedded into” the license-plate record. Another describes how Vigilant’s FaceSearch application works on mobile devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Widdowson, a Vigilant spokeswoman, said the slides reviewed by CIR were of a prototype program that did not actually include facial recognition technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for specific references to merging license-plate data with facial recognition and public records, Widdowson said the slide “is merely showing that law enforcement can combine data from public records with LPR (license-plate reader) data to reduce their search area for a suspect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates said combining historical plate-reader data with public records and facial recognition technology runs contrary to law enforcement’s argument that license plates are not considered personally-identifying information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Los Angeles Police Department for information about their collection and use of license-plate data, said Vigilant’s plans could represent a sea change in the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that Vigilant already offers analytical software that traces the movements of a vehicle through the public and private plate-reader data it retains, Lynch said the company’s plans could pose a threat to individual privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>License-plate readers could move into uncharted territory by combining into one search tool the location data from license-plate readers with public records such as court files and property records — as well as photographs of individuals from criminal or DMV databases. That tool, in turn, could be used with facial recognition software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A plate reader could tag a passing car and the names of people associated with the vehicle and keep a log of where that person traveled. That data potentially could be stored for months or years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re combining data from multiple sources, it becomes incredibly revealing,” Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting, an award-winning nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more, visit cironline.org. Winston can be reached at awinston@cironline.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Livermore firm discusses combining license-plate data with facial recognition and other technology.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1721149609,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 19,
"wordCount": 853
},
"headData": {
"title": "Plans to Expand Scope of License-Plate Readers Alarm Privacy Advocates | KQED",
"description": "Livermore firm discusses combining license-plate data with facial recognition and other technology.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Plans to Expand Scope of License-Plate Readers Alarm Privacy Advocates",
"datePublished": "2014-06-18T10:00:32-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-07-16T10:06:49-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"customPermalink": "2014/06/18/plan-to-expand-scope-of-license-plate-readers-raises-privacy-concerns/",
"path": "/news/139460/plans-to-expand-scope-of-license-plate-readers-alarm-privacy-advocates",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_139505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/RS8747_SF-Protest-48-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-139505\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/RS8747_SF-Protest-48-lpr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters at a Bay Area surveillance protest. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters at a Bay Area surveillance protest. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Ali Winston\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\">\u003cstrong> The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police departments in the Bay Area and across the United States have adopted automated license-plate readers as a crime-fighting tool — technology capable of spotting vehicles that have been reported as stolen. But with few controls on how the license-plate data are used or handled, the devices have emerged as a major concern for privacy advocates, who say the technology can be used to track people whether or not they’re suspected of any wrongdoing. Now, the types of data collected and analyzed with the help of license-plate readers are expanding into other realms of personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents obtained by The Center for Investigative Reporting show that a leading maker of license-plate readers wants to merge the vehicle identification technology with other sources of identifying information, alarming privacy advocates. Vigilant Solutions is pushing a system that eventually could help fuse public records, license plates and facial recognition databases for police in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Livermore company released its own facial recognition software last year for use in stationary and mobile devices. The technology uses algorithms to determine whether a person’s face matches that of somebody already in a law enforcement database. Like license-plate readers, facial recognition technology has been criticized for incorrectly identifying people.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘When you’re combining data from multiple sources, it becomes incredibly revealing.’\u003ccite>— Jennifer Lynch,\u003cbr>\nElectronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Vigilant also is the market leader in license-plate data collection. The company runs the Law Enforcement Archive and Reporting Network database, which stores more than 2.5 billion records and adds roughly 70 million new license-plate scans monthly. The company offers law enforcement free access to its license-plate data through another database, the National Vehicle Location Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vigilant sells license-plate readers to over a dozen California agencies, including the California Highway Patrol, Orange County Sheriff’s Department, and the Sacramento Police and County Sheriff’s departments. For its business with law enforcement in the city of Alameda, Anaheim, Marin County, San Rafael and Sacramento, Vigilant won the contracts without going through a competitive bidding process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Vigilant PowerPoint presentation about its products, obtained by CIR, contains a section on the “near future” for the company. That includes a fusion of public records, license-plate data and facial recognition, according to the slide. Another technology, dubbed MOAB, would help law enforcement find vehicles using a “probabilistic assessment” of a vehicle’s location based on historical data and public records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another slide prepared for Texas law enforcement shows how a combined data program could work. It would pull mug shots from the local Department of Motor Vehicles database and notify law enforcement with an alert if “a vehicle is associated with someone with a known criminal history.” The slide also describes “facial images embedded into” the license-plate record. Another describes how Vigilant’s FaceSearch application works on mobile devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Widdowson, a Vigilant spokeswoman, said the slides reviewed by CIR were of a prototype program that did not actually include facial recognition technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for specific references to merging license-plate data with facial recognition and public records, Widdowson said the slide “is merely showing that law enforcement can combine data from public records with LPR (license-plate reader) data to reduce their search area for a suspect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates said combining historical plate-reader data with public records and facial recognition technology runs contrary to law enforcement’s argument that license plates are not considered personally-identifying information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Los Angeles Police Department for information about their collection and use of license-plate data, said Vigilant’s plans could represent a sea change in the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that Vigilant already offers analytical software that traces the movements of a vehicle through the public and private plate-reader data it retains, Lynch said the company’s plans could pose a threat to individual privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>License-plate readers could move into uncharted territory by combining into one search tool the location data from license-plate readers with public records such as court files and property records — as well as photographs of individuals from criminal or DMV databases. That tool, in turn, could be used with facial recognition software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A plate reader could tag a passing car and the names of people associated with the vehicle and keep a log of where that person traveled. That data potentially could be stored for months or years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re combining data from multiple sources, it becomes incredibly revealing,” Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting, an award-winning nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more, visit cironline.org. Winston can be reached at awinston@cironline.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/139460/plans-to-expand-scope-of-license-plate-readers-alarm-privacy-advocates",
"authors": [
"237"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_19903",
"news_1859",
"news_4289",
"news_20517"
],
"featImg": "news_139505",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_139262": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_139262",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "139262",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1403030746000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 6944
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1403030746,
"format": "aside",
"disqusTitle": "Once Friendly Territory, California Looks to Toughen Rules for Uber, Lyft",
"title": "Once Friendly Territory, California Looks to Toughen Rules for Uber, Lyft",
"headTitle": "News Fix | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126917\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/30/lyft-uberx-driver-safety/rs8866_uberx_3-lpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126917\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126917\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS8866_UberX_3-lpr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"The California Public Utilities Commission requires Transportation Network Companies like UberX to display signage. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED) \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n February, when Lyft was battling to stave off regulations of ride-service companies in Seattle, company CEO John Zimmer \u003ca href=\"//www.geekwire.com/2014/seattle-tech-community-ride-sharing/%E2%80%9D\">pointed to California as a shining example of a fruitful partnership between a disruptive tech industry and regulators.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California had a yearlong rule-making process with several steps,” he said in an interview about the California Public Utilities Commission's decision last year to sanction what it calls Transportation Network Companies, or TNCs. “And they were able to come out with something that put, in many cases, more strict standards on new companies like Lyft, yet preserved innovation and consumer choice. I think that’s a fantastic model.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Ride-service firms in a struggle with legislators and regulators over insurance and other issues.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But critics of companies like Lyft and TNC behemoth Uber were not so happy with the CPUC ruling. Taxi companies and their regulators led the charge: Despite a host of requirements the commission created as the cost of TNCs doing business in California, these were nowhere near the regulatory burden that taxis had to contend with in San Francisco and other cities, they said. The biggest complaint: The state was not saddling the Lyfts and Ubers with the same stringent insurance requirements that taxi firms must meet under local regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The TNC industry has portrayed these protests as the loud protectionist rumblings of an obsolete industry. But now, nine months after the commission’s decision paved the way for ride-service upstarts to purloin large chunks of cab business, the home state of the most prominent ride-service companies may be on the verge of levying significantly more rigorous insurance mandates, either through legislation, the regulatory process or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stern \u003ca href=\"//www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/216C7343-8740-40C3-BF60-2B57BF37F8A5/0/LettertoLoganGreenofLyft061014.pdf%E2%80%9D\">letter that CPUC President Michael Peevey sent\u003c/a> last week to UberX, Lyft and three other TNCs serves as a sign of just how precarious things have gotten for the industry in California. The letter threatened to revoke the companies' licenses unless they prevented drivers from operating at five California airports. Not only did TNCs fail to obtain the necessary permits to serve the airports, Peevey wrote, but the vast majority of drivers flaunted CPUC regulations by not displaying required insignias on their vehicles. In addition, some drivers could not provide proof of insurance, and on two occasions at San Francisco International, operated without a valid driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peevey expressed his \"personal disappointment and concern about this behavior.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber was less than contrite: \"We have spent countless hours with airport managers and their staff to help develop requirements that are aligned with CPUC regulations and embrace the spirit of ride-sharing,\" company spokeswoman Eva Behrend said in a statement. \"The tone of the majority of these conversations has been mutually respectful and productive. It's unfortunate the CPUC is not allowing the airport process they designed to proceed by allowing ride-sharing companies to continue working with California airport authorities on their permitting process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003cstrong>Update June 17\u003c/strong>: A representative for Uber said at a state Senate committee hearing today that it needed to do a better job of informing drivers of the insignia requirements. But she also said drivers do not like to identify themselves as working for TNCs because of harassment from taxis. We have also heard this, especially from Lyft drivers, who frequently remove the trademark mustache from their cars for the same reason.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the airport kerfuffle could prove to be a mere skirmish compared to other regulatory battles brewing around an industry that has expanded globally with startling rapidity. On June 6, Uber announced it had raised an additional $1.2 billion in investment capital to \u003ca href=\"//dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/uber-raises-new-funds-at-17-billion-valuation/%E2%80%9D\">up its valuation to $18.2 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sacramento Takes a Whack\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee heard two bills intended to inject a stronger dose of regulation in the world of TNCs, especially around insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"//legiscan.com/CA/bill/AB612/2013%E2%80%9D\">[contextly_sidebar id=\"[contextly_sidebar id=\"04961c76f5ecb41f81c0c29378870f0c\"]\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The TNCs offer drivers $1 million in commercial liability insurance, the same requirement as what San Francisco taxis must carry. But TNC coverage is \u003cem>excess insurance\u003c/em>, ostensibly triggered only at the point where the personal policies of TNC drivers, using their own vehicle, after all, stop paying. The TNCs contend that drivers' personal policies should be the insurer of first resort. But both the insurance industry and the state Department of Insurance have now taken the position that this set-up is based on a fiction, contingent on the erroneous view that drivers’ personal insurers will be happy to or at least tolerate paying claims for individuals who drive commercially for TNCs, an activity that has not been factored into the price of their policies. If it is a fiction, though, it's one that makes TNC insurance less expensive, because it assumes drivers’ own policies will pick up at least some of the liability cost for accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, another TNC, all insist drivers’ personal insurers have paid claims for accidents occurring during a paid ride. The insurance industry says that’s because the drivers’ insurer didn’t know the accident happened on a TNC call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The insurance industry is attempting to dismantle this two-tier TNC coverage by backing \u003ca href=\"//legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2293/id/1008847%E2%80%9D\">AB 2293\u003c/a>, sponsored by Assemblymember Susan Bonilla (D-Concord). The bill, which does not set specific coverage amounts, would require TNCs to advise drivers that their personal insurance may not provide coverage during TNC work. It would also force the companies to carry primary insurance, like taxis do, and defend drivers against lawsuits for loss or injury when providing TNC services. The bill would also extend the time that drivers are insured to when they have their apps open but have yet to accept a call, so called \"Period 1.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Uber called the bill “a back-room deal by insurance companies and trial attorneys to prematurely force the ridesharing industry to fit their special interests. The bill allows insurance companies to escape their liability for services they’ve already charged ratepayers, and helps trial attorneys work the system to ensure they get the largest payouts possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>(Update June 17, 1 p.m. \u003c/strong>The energy committee forwarded AB 2293 to the Committee on Insurance. The bill does not contain specific amounts of required coverage, but that is where the debate appears to now lie. At the hearing, representatives for Lyft and Uber said they support a number of the bill's requirements: that their insurance be primary, that there be a written disclosure to drivers of TNC insurance limitations and that the period of coverage now extend from app on to app off. However, as an official analysis of the bill states, the TNCs contend that requiring $1 million in coverage for the period before a driver accepts a call would “kill their business model and service.” So the TNCs have proposed an amendment that would set a requirement of just up to $100,000 in insurance, which is what Uber and Lyft offer now for this period. Committee Chair Alex Padilla seemed to push the bill's sponsor, Susan Bonilla, to forward the bill with those requirements. But she said, \"I can’t abandon the reality that catastrophic things do happen and that $100,000 isn’t going to be enough ... What happens after that is exhausted?\" Bonilla did, however, say that she is \"committed\" to treating Period 1 with more flexibility than in the subsequent times a driver will have to covered. Interestingly enough, Kara Cross, General Counsel for the Personal Insurance Federation of California, said Uber told her in negotiations that they can't acknowledge that Period 1 is commercial activity, because that could come into play in the lawsuit against them by the family of Sofia Liu, the 6-year-old killed in San Francisco on New Year's Eve, by an UberX driver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:34 p.m.\u003c/strong> Uber's Eva Behrend, in a response to Kara Cross's comment, said, \"That's patently false.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second bill, \u003ca href=\"//legiscan.com/CA/bill/AB612/2013%E2%80%9D\">AB 612\u003c/a>, sponsored by Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian (D-Los Angeles), is backed by the Taxicab Paratransit Association of California and would legislate requirements closer to what local taxi companies labor under: mandatory drug and alcohol testing of drivers; closer monitoring of DMV records; mandatory criminal background checks; driver fingerprinting; and the banning of anyone convicted of a number of crimes, from burglary to credit card fraud to obstructing a peace officer. The bill also stipulates TNCs must have a preventive maintenance program for driver's vehicles, and that all vehicles involved in TNC work must be registered with the CPUC, with an official decal affixed to every bumper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A provision that would have required TNCs to cover vehicles around the clock was removed from the bill before the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber, naturally, is not a fan, calling the proposed legislation “a flagrant attempt to stymie innovation and competition by an antiquated industry. It is an obvious play by the taxicab industry to kill competition and limit consumer choice ... “ Backers of the bill, the company said, wanted to \"make it impossible for companies like Uber to operate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Rouse, the president of TPAC and general manager of Yellow Cab in L.A., said the legislation is necessary to police companies that are plain out of control. He pointed to the violations at California airports as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is not a single jurisdiction, whether inside or outside the U.S., where the TNCs actually follow the letter of the law,” he said. “This is the new world order, where these companies just routinely, habitually thumb their nose at the law in every single city where they operate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>(Update June 17, 1 p.m. \u003c/strong>The committee voted to remove all but the drug and alcohol testing and background check provisions from AB 612. Representatives from San Francisco International Airport spoke in favor of the bill.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CPUC Puts the Hammer Down\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TNCs are also under the gun from the \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M094/K268/94268677.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">CPUC's proposed modification\u003c/a> of its original TNC decision. These new regulations, if approved, could significantly increase the companies' insurance costs. The modified decision is scheduled to be heard on July 10 or after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, released last Tuesday, makes no bones about clarifying the issue of whether drivers’ personal insurance would cover claims related to TNC accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A driver’s personal automobile policy is no way required to provide coverage or the duty to defend for TNC services,” the commission wrote. Reinforcing that stipulation, the commission states TNC policies “shall provide exclusive coverage, and assume all liability and the sole duty to defend, at dollar one,” which would prohibit the TNCs' reliance on excess insurance. The proposal does say that a driver’s insurance can be used to cover TNC accidents, but only if it is “specifically written for the purpose of covering transportation network services.” And those policies do not currently exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like AB 2293, the latest CPUC proposal also extends the time that drivers are insured to Period 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UberX driver who struck and killed Sofia Liu in San Francisco was reportedly in this interval between calls, so was not covered by Uber's policy, a limitation not widely known at the time. Subsequently, both \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/14/uber-lyft-insurance/\" target=\"_blank\">Uber and Lyft announced they had closed this gap\u003c/a> by offering up to $100,000 in coverage for drivers in the app on-and-waiting time. However, this won’t be good enough under the CPUC’s proposal, which appears to simply extend the $1 million insurance requirement to this period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft have also added $50,000 in collision insurance, and Uber offers $50,000 in comprehensive coverage (fire, theft and such). These are all contingent, however, on drivers having bought the same coverage on their personal auto policies. The CPUC’s proposal gives TNCs no such leeway, making collision and comprehensive mandatory regardless of a driver’s having purchased it on his own. Finally, the commission also wants to require $5,000 in coverage for medical payments related to injuries resulting from an accident. Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones is \u003ca href=\"//www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2014/06/12/uber-lyft-setback-insurance-chief-backs-proposal.html?page=3%E2%80%9D\">supporting the proposed CPUC changes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TNC Arguments Against\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the CPUC first floated the expansion of the mandatory $1 million coverage to include Period 1, Uber argued it could spur drivers to “(keep) the app open at all times, regardless of the drivers’ intent to accept a request for transportation service … solely to obtain the benefit from the increased insurance.” Uber also speculated that drivers not engaged in TNC work might turn on the app “immediately following an accident in order to try to secure the potentially significant financial benefit of the higher limits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft had similar objections: “(A) TNC driver could forget to close the app and be considered to be ‘providing TNC services’ in the middle of the night when the car is parked on the street and the driver is sleeping, or when the vehicle is being driven by another household member, or when it is being used to transport a driver’s child to soccer practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kara Cross of the Personal Insurance Federation of California says TNCs can guard against drivers gaming the system this way by monitoring their acceptance rates, tracking who has the app on while not accepting rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Stuart Nelson, the president of Point West Insurance, a property and casualty insurance broker in Sacramento, says the CPUC’s mandatory collision coverage could invite fraud. “You could damage a car personally and then say it was damaged during a drive,” he says. “I could have this pre-existing damage and then claim it happened as an Uber driver, and Uber has to cover it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TNCs Would Pay More\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson, Kara Cross, and Jerry Sullivan, who runs an insurance brokerage business, all say TNCs will pay more for insurance if the CPUC changes go through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who write livery are prepared to write the kind of exposure these guys will have,” Sullivan said. “But it’s going to cost them 30 to 35 percent more than they are now.” He said that increase only takes into account the greater expense of extending the period of time drivers are covered — the TNCs might incur additional increases for the additional collision and comprehensive insurance. Nelson thinks requiring TNCs to offer one-size-fits-all collision coverage to every driver could be a significant extra cost, because “there’s no way to properly insure the risk. We won’t know if we’re insuring a 1974 Volkswagen Bug or a Ferrari.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The taxi industry, for its part, is still not happy with the CPUC, because the proposed changes would not go into effect immediately, but after the current TNC policies expire or one year from the effective date of the decision, whichever comes first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Sullivan said he was in discussion with Lyft about 18 months ago to broker insurance coverage, but that the company balked when he quoted them a price for primary coverage from Lloyds of London. “They didn’t want to pay the price,” he says. “That’s not how they designed their business model.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "139262 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=139262",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/06/17/once-friendly-territory-california-looks-to-toughen-rules-for-uber-lyft/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 2652,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 43
},
"modified": 1403113093,
"excerpt": "Proposed laws and regulations could rein in what has been close to a free ride for the startups so far.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Proposed laws and regulations could rein in what has been close to a free ride for the startups so far.",
"title": "Once Friendly Territory, California Looks to Toughen Rules for Uber, Lyft | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Once Friendly Territory, California Looks to Toughen Rules for Uber, Lyft",
"datePublished": "2014-06-17T11:45:46-07:00",
"dateModified": "2014-06-18T10:38:13-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "once-friendly-territory-california-looks-to-toughen-rules-for-uber-lyft",
"status": "publish",
"customPermalink": "06/17/2014/Uber-Lyft-Insurance-crack-down/",
"path": "/news/139262/once-friendly-territory-california-looks-to-toughen-rules-for-uber-lyft",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126917\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/30/lyft-uberx-driver-safety/rs8866_uberx_3-lpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126917\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126917\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS8866_UberX_3-lpr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"The California Public Utilities Commission requires Transportation Network Companies like UberX to display signage. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Jeremy Raff/KQED) \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n February, when Lyft was battling to stave off regulations of ride-service companies in Seattle, company CEO John Zimmer \u003ca href=\"//www.geekwire.com/2014/seattle-tech-community-ride-sharing/%E2%80%9D\">pointed to California as a shining example of a fruitful partnership between a disruptive tech industry and regulators.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California had a yearlong rule-making process with several steps,” he said in an interview about the California Public Utilities Commission's decision last year to sanction what it calls Transportation Network Companies, or TNCs. “And they were able to come out with something that put, in many cases, more strict standards on new companies like Lyft, yet preserved innovation and consumer choice. I think that’s a fantastic model.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Ride-service firms in a struggle with legislators and regulators over insurance and other issues.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But critics of companies like Lyft and TNC behemoth Uber were not so happy with the CPUC ruling. Taxi companies and their regulators led the charge: Despite a host of requirements the commission created as the cost of TNCs doing business in California, these were nowhere near the regulatory burden that taxis had to contend with in San Francisco and other cities, they said. The biggest complaint: The state was not saddling the Lyfts and Ubers with the same stringent insurance requirements that taxi firms must meet under local regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The TNC industry has portrayed these protests as the loud protectionist rumblings of an obsolete industry. But now, nine months after the commission’s decision paved the way for ride-service upstarts to purloin large chunks of cab business, the home state of the most prominent ride-service companies may be on the verge of levying significantly more rigorous insurance mandates, either through legislation, the regulatory process or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stern \u003ca href=\"//www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/216C7343-8740-40C3-BF60-2B57BF37F8A5/0/LettertoLoganGreenofLyft061014.pdf%E2%80%9D\">letter that CPUC President Michael Peevey sent\u003c/a> last week to UberX, Lyft and three other TNCs serves as a sign of just how precarious things have gotten for the industry in California. The letter threatened to revoke the companies' licenses unless they prevented drivers from operating at five California airports. Not only did TNCs fail to obtain the necessary permits to serve the airports, Peevey wrote, but the vast majority of drivers flaunted CPUC regulations by not displaying required insignias on their vehicles. In addition, some drivers could not provide proof of insurance, and on two occasions at San Francisco International, operated without a valid driver’s license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peevey expressed his \"personal disappointment and concern about this behavior.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber was less than contrite: \"We have spent countless hours with airport managers and their staff to help develop requirements that are aligned with CPUC regulations and embrace the spirit of ride-sharing,\" company spokeswoman Eva Behrend said in a statement. \"The tone of the majority of these conversations has been mutually respectful and productive. It's unfortunate the CPUC is not allowing the airport process they designed to proceed by allowing ride-sharing companies to continue working with California airport authorities on their permitting process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(\u003cstrong>Update June 17\u003c/strong>: A representative for Uber said at a state Senate committee hearing today that it needed to do a better job of informing drivers of the insignia requirements. But she also said drivers do not like to identify themselves as working for TNCs because of harassment from taxis. We have also heard this, especially from Lyft drivers, who frequently remove the trademark mustache from their cars for the same reason.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the airport kerfuffle could prove to be a mere skirmish compared to other regulatory battles brewing around an industry that has expanded globally with startling rapidity. On June 6, Uber announced it had raised an additional $1.2 billion in investment capital to \u003ca href=\"//dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/uber-raises-new-funds-at-17-billion-valuation/%E2%80%9D\">up its valuation to $18.2 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sacramento Takes a Whack\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee heard two bills intended to inject a stronger dose of regulation in the world of TNCs, especially around insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"//legiscan.com/CA/bill/AB612/2013%E2%80%9D\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The TNCs offer drivers $1 million in commercial liability insurance, the same requirement as what San Francisco taxis must carry. But TNC coverage is \u003cem>excess insurance\u003c/em>, ostensibly triggered only at the point where the personal policies of TNC drivers, using their own vehicle, after all, stop paying. The TNCs contend that drivers' personal policies should be the insurer of first resort. But both the insurance industry and the state Department of Insurance have now taken the position that this set-up is based on a fiction, contingent on the erroneous view that drivers’ personal insurers will be happy to or at least tolerate paying claims for individuals who drive commercially for TNCs, an activity that has not been factored into the price of their policies. If it is a fiction, though, it's one that makes TNC insurance less expensive, because it assumes drivers’ own policies will pick up at least some of the liability cost for accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, another TNC, all insist drivers’ personal insurers have paid claims for accidents occurring during a paid ride. The insurance industry says that’s because the drivers’ insurer didn’t know the accident happened on a TNC call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The insurance industry is attempting to dismantle this two-tier TNC coverage by backing \u003ca href=\"//legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2293/id/1008847%E2%80%9D\">AB 2293\u003c/a>, sponsored by Assemblymember Susan Bonilla (D-Concord). The bill, which does not set specific coverage amounts, would require TNCs to advise drivers that their personal insurance may not provide coverage during TNC work. It would also force the companies to carry primary insurance, like taxis do, and defend drivers against lawsuits for loss or injury when providing TNC services. The bill would also extend the time that drivers are insured to when they have their apps open but have yet to accept a call, so called \"Period 1.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Uber called the bill “a back-room deal by insurance companies and trial attorneys to prematurely force the ridesharing industry to fit their special interests. The bill allows insurance companies to escape their liability for services they’ve already charged ratepayers, and helps trial attorneys work the system to ensure they get the largest payouts possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>(Update June 17, 1 p.m. \u003c/strong>The energy committee forwarded AB 2293 to the Committee on Insurance. The bill does not contain specific amounts of required coverage, but that is where the debate appears to now lie. At the hearing, representatives for Lyft and Uber said they support a number of the bill's requirements: that their insurance be primary, that there be a written disclosure to drivers of TNC insurance limitations and that the period of coverage now extend from app on to app off. However, as an official analysis of the bill states, the TNCs contend that requiring $1 million in coverage for the period before a driver accepts a call would “kill their business model and service.” So the TNCs have proposed an amendment that would set a requirement of just up to $100,000 in insurance, which is what Uber and Lyft offer now for this period. Committee Chair Alex Padilla seemed to push the bill's sponsor, Susan Bonilla, to forward the bill with those requirements. But she said, \"I can’t abandon the reality that catastrophic things do happen and that $100,000 isn’t going to be enough ... What happens after that is exhausted?\" Bonilla did, however, say that she is \"committed\" to treating Period 1 with more flexibility than in the subsequent times a driver will have to covered. Interestingly enough, Kara Cross, General Counsel for the Personal Insurance Federation of California, said Uber told her in negotiations that they can't acknowledge that Period 1 is commercial activity, because that could come into play in the lawsuit against them by the family of Sofia Liu, the 6-year-old killed in San Francisco on New Year's Eve, by an UberX driver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:34 p.m.\u003c/strong> Uber's Eva Behrend, in a response to Kara Cross's comment, said, \"That's patently false.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second bill, \u003ca href=\"//legiscan.com/CA/bill/AB612/2013%E2%80%9D\">AB 612\u003c/a>, sponsored by Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian (D-Los Angeles), is backed by the Taxicab Paratransit Association of California and would legislate requirements closer to what local taxi companies labor under: mandatory drug and alcohol testing of drivers; closer monitoring of DMV records; mandatory criminal background checks; driver fingerprinting; and the banning of anyone convicted of a number of crimes, from burglary to credit card fraud to obstructing a peace officer. The bill also stipulates TNCs must have a preventive maintenance program for driver's vehicles, and that all vehicles involved in TNC work must be registered with the CPUC, with an official decal affixed to every bumper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A provision that would have required TNCs to cover vehicles around the clock was removed from the bill before the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber, naturally, is not a fan, calling the proposed legislation “a flagrant attempt to stymie innovation and competition by an antiquated industry. It is an obvious play by the taxicab industry to kill competition and limit consumer choice ... “ Backers of the bill, the company said, wanted to \"make it impossible for companies like Uber to operate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Rouse, the president of TPAC and general manager of Yellow Cab in L.A., said the legislation is necessary to police companies that are plain out of control. He pointed to the violations at California airports as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is not a single jurisdiction, whether inside or outside the U.S., where the TNCs actually follow the letter of the law,” he said. “This is the new world order, where these companies just routinely, habitually thumb their nose at the law in every single city where they operate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>(Update June 17, 1 p.m. \u003c/strong>The committee voted to remove all but the drug and alcohol testing and background check provisions from AB 612. Representatives from San Francisco International Airport spoke in favor of the bill.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CPUC Puts the Hammer Down\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TNCs are also under the gun from the \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M094/K268/94268677.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">CPUC's proposed modification\u003c/a> of its original TNC decision. These new regulations, if approved, could significantly increase the companies' insurance costs. The modified decision is scheduled to be heard on July 10 or after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, released last Tuesday, makes no bones about clarifying the issue of whether drivers’ personal insurance would cover claims related to TNC accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A driver’s personal automobile policy is no way required to provide coverage or the duty to defend for TNC services,” the commission wrote. Reinforcing that stipulation, the commission states TNC policies “shall provide exclusive coverage, and assume all liability and the sole duty to defend, at dollar one,” which would prohibit the TNCs' reliance on excess insurance. The proposal does say that a driver’s insurance can be used to cover TNC accidents, but only if it is “specifically written for the purpose of covering transportation network services.” And those policies do not currently exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like AB 2293, the latest CPUC proposal also extends the time that drivers are insured to Period 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UberX driver who struck and killed Sofia Liu in San Francisco was reportedly in this interval between calls, so was not covered by Uber's policy, a limitation not widely known at the time. Subsequently, both \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/14/uber-lyft-insurance/\" target=\"_blank\">Uber and Lyft announced they had closed this gap\u003c/a> by offering up to $100,000 in coverage for drivers in the app on-and-waiting time. However, this won’t be good enough under the CPUC’s proposal, which appears to simply extend the $1 million insurance requirement to this period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft have also added $50,000 in collision insurance, and Uber offers $50,000 in comprehensive coverage (fire, theft and such). These are all contingent, however, on drivers having bought the same coverage on their personal auto policies. The CPUC’s proposal gives TNCs no such leeway, making collision and comprehensive mandatory regardless of a driver’s having purchased it on his own. Finally, the commission also wants to require $5,000 in coverage for medical payments related to injuries resulting from an accident. Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones is \u003ca href=\"//www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2014/06/12/uber-lyft-setback-insurance-chief-backs-proposal.html?page=3%E2%80%9D\">supporting the proposed CPUC changes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TNC Arguments Against\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the CPUC first floated the expansion of the mandatory $1 million coverage to include Period 1, Uber argued it could spur drivers to “(keep) the app open at all times, regardless of the drivers’ intent to accept a request for transportation service … solely to obtain the benefit from the increased insurance.” Uber also speculated that drivers not engaged in TNC work might turn on the app “immediately following an accident in order to try to secure the potentially significant financial benefit of the higher limits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft had similar objections: “(A) TNC driver could forget to close the app and be considered to be ‘providing TNC services’ in the middle of the night when the car is parked on the street and the driver is sleeping, or when the vehicle is being driven by another household member, or when it is being used to transport a driver’s child to soccer practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kara Cross of the Personal Insurance Federation of California says TNCs can guard against drivers gaming the system this way by monitoring their acceptance rates, tracking who has the app on while not accepting rides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Stuart Nelson, the president of Point West Insurance, a property and casualty insurance broker in Sacramento, says the CPUC’s mandatory collision coverage could invite fraud. “You could damage a car personally and then say it was damaged during a drive,” he says. “I could have this pre-existing damage and then claim it happened as an Uber driver, and Uber has to cover it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>TNCs Would Pay More\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelson, Kara Cross, and Jerry Sullivan, who runs an insurance brokerage business, all say TNCs will pay more for insurance if the CPUC changes go through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People who write livery are prepared to write the kind of exposure these guys will have,” Sullivan said. “But it’s going to cost them 30 to 35 percent more than they are now.” He said that increase only takes into account the greater expense of extending the period of time drivers are covered — the TNCs might incur additional increases for the additional collision and comprehensive insurance. Nelson thinks requiring TNCs to offer one-size-fits-all collision coverage to every driver could be a significant extra cost, because “there’s no way to properly insure the risk. We won’t know if we’re insuring a 1974 Volkswagen Bug or a Ferrari.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The taxi industry, for its part, is still not happy with the CPUC, because the proposed changes would not go into effect immediately, but after the current TNC policies expire or one year from the effective date of the decision, whichever comes first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Sullivan said he was in discussion with Lyft about 18 months ago to broker insurance coverage, but that the company balked when he quoted them a price for primary coverage from Lloyds of London. “They didn’t want to pay the price,” he says. “That’s not how they designed their business model.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/139262/once-friendly-territory-california-looks-to-toughen-rules-for-uber-lyft",
"authors": [
"80"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_248",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_1066",
"news_4524",
"news_4756",
"news_4953"
],
"featImg": "news_126917",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_138693": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_138693",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "138693",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1402498806000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "should-techies-be-able-to-put-a-price-on-free-street-parking",
"title": "Should Techies Be Able to Put a Price on Free Street Parking?",
"publishDate": 1402498806,
"format": "aside",
"headTitle": "Should Techies Be Able to Put a Price on Free Street Parking? | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 6944,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138706\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/shawnhoke/8622678518\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138706\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/Mission-street.jpg\" alt=\"The Mission District is ground zero for tough parking and an incubator for many start-up solutions (Shawn Hoke/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mission District is ground zero for tough parking and an incubator for many startup solutions. (Shawn Hoke/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s a storm brewing in San Francisco over one of the city’s hottest commodities — street parking. Several startup tech companies are trying to solve the headache of endless circling in search of a spot. Billing the ideas as part of the “sharing economy,” companies like \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sweetch-sf/id849841885?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sweetch\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://monkeyparking.strikingly.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MonkeyParking \u003c/a>propose using smartphone apps (what else?) to alert other users that a spot will be opening up and charge them for the privilege of being in the right place at the right time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the idea has people riled up about technocrats making money off public space. Sweetch in particular is aimed at the busy Mission District and encourages users to donate the $5 they get for their parking spot to a charity of their choice. If a user chooses to keep the money, he or she pays a 20 percent transaction fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2014/06/putting-a-tech-price-on-street-parking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission Local\u003c/a> has been following the apps-will-solve-all-your-parking-problems trend, as well as an online conversation between neighbors and the co-founders of Sweetch, Thomas Cottin and Aboud Jardaneh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Cottin and Jardaneh say they will easily be able to see when drivers are abusing the system and can block them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they tried to explain this on \u003ca href=\"https://nextdoor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nextdoor\u003c/a>, what ensued was a lively discussion that in large part urged them to reconsider their app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know people will find a way to capitalize on this, to abuse this,” wrote one participant. While she understood the madness of finding parking and would sometimes even be willing to pay, she added, the system was fraught with problems. “I think you need to re-evaluate what kind of resource your app was trying to provide, whether it is actually resourceful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another, stating flatly that Sweetch was a “terrible idea,” wondered what would happen if she was driving around and tried to pull into a spot already promised to a Sweetch driver. “Do I need to fight for my right to park?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another pointed out that $5 a day is pocket change for “some of us, but it is grocery money for a large number of families in the Mission.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Sweetch co-founders say the pushback they are seeing stems from a generational divide, and that soon this kind of service will be common and accepted. In their eyes, information is a commodity people will pay for. And in this case, knowing where that perfect street spot is going to open up saves drivers time and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you think of ideas like this? A miracle solution to parking problems or a misuse of public space?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Tech solutions to finding street parking are making some neighbors angry.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1721108385,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 12,
"wordCount": 472
},
"headData": {
"title": "Should Techies Be Able to Put a Price on Free Street Parking? | KQED",
"description": "Tech solutions to finding street parking are making some neighbors angry.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Should Techies Be Able to Put a Price on Free Street Parking?",
"datePublished": "2014-06-11T08:00:06-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-07-15T22:39:45-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"customPermalink": "San-Francisco-parking-tech-solution-Sweetch-ParkingMonkey/",
"path": "/news/138693/should-techies-be-able-to-put-a-price-on-free-street-parking",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_138706\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/shawnhoke/8622678518\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138706\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/Mission-street.jpg\" alt=\"The Mission District is ground zero for tough parking and an incubator for many start-up solutions (Shawn Hoke/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mission District is ground zero for tough parking and an incubator for many startup solutions. (Shawn Hoke/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s a storm brewing in San Francisco over one of the city’s hottest commodities — street parking. Several startup tech companies are trying to solve the headache of endless circling in search of a spot. Billing the ideas as part of the “sharing economy,” companies like \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sweetch-sf/id849841885?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sweetch\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://monkeyparking.strikingly.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MonkeyParking \u003c/a>propose using smartphone apps (what else?) to alert other users that a spot will be opening up and charge them for the privilege of being in the right place at the right time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the idea has people riled up about technocrats making money off public space. Sweetch in particular is aimed at the busy Mission District and encourages users to donate the $5 they get for their parking spot to a charity of their choice. If a user chooses to keep the money, he or she pays a 20 percent transaction fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2014/06/putting-a-tech-price-on-street-parking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission Local\u003c/a> has been following the apps-will-solve-all-your-parking-problems trend, as well as an online conversation between neighbors and the co-founders of Sweetch, Thomas Cottin and Aboud Jardaneh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Cottin and Jardaneh say they will easily be able to see when drivers are abusing the system and can block them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they tried to explain this on \u003ca href=\"https://nextdoor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nextdoor\u003c/a>, what ensued was a lively discussion that in large part urged them to reconsider their app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know people will find a way to capitalize on this, to abuse this,” wrote one participant. While she understood the madness of finding parking and would sometimes even be willing to pay, she added, the system was fraught with problems. “I think you need to re-evaluate what kind of resource your app was trying to provide, whether it is actually resourceful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another, stating flatly that Sweetch was a “terrible idea,” wondered what would happen if she was driving around and tried to pull into a spot already promised to a Sweetch driver. “Do I need to fight for my right to park?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another pointed out that $5 a day is pocket change for “some of us, but it is grocery money for a large number of families in the Mission.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Sweetch co-founders say the pushback they are seeing stems from a generational divide, and that soon this kind of service will be common and accepted. In their eyes, information is a commodity people will pay for. And in this case, knowing where that perfect street spot is going to open up saves drivers time and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you think of ideas like this? A miracle solution to parking problems or a misuse of public space?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/138693/should-techies-be-able-to-put-a-price-on-free-street-parking",
"authors": [
"234"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_205",
"news_5270",
"news_1159"
],
"featImg": "news_138706",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_137430": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_137430",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "137430",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1401380921000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "google-not-where-we-want-to-be-on-diversity",
"title": "Google: 'Not Where We Want to Be' on Diversity",
"publishDate": 1401380921,
"format": "aside",
"headTitle": "Google: ‘Not Where We Want to Be’ on Diversity | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 6944,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133673\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS378_Google_082411-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-133673\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS378_Google_082411-lpr-640x403.jpg\" alt=\"Google headquarters in Mountain View. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"320\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google headquarters in Mountain View. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:30 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Google is winning plaudits for disclosing data on the diversity, or lack of diversity, in its U.S. workforce. As Martha Mendoza of the Associated Press reports (see the story below), no less a diversity campaigner than the Rev. Jesse Jackson praised the online search and advertising juggernaut for taking “the bold step” of making public the racial and gender breakdown of its staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=overall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The report, released Wednesday,\u003c/a> shows that Google’s overall workforce in the United States is 70 percent male and 30 percent female. The racial/ethnic breakdown: 61 percent white, 30 percent Asian, 4 percent two or more races, 3 percent Hispanic, 2 percent black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you look just a little further into the numbers, though, the gender divide in what the company defines as its \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tech workforce\u003c/a> is even more pronounced: 83 percent men and 17 percent women. The tech worker group is 60 percent white, 34 percent Asian, 2 percent Hispanic, 1 percent black, and 3 percent two or more races. Among \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=non-tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“nontech” employees\u003c/a>, the gender number is a nearly even split, 52 percent men and 48 percent women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statistics are derived from \u003ca href=\"http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/diversity/2013-EEO-1-consolidated-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google’s latest EEO-1 report\u003c/a> to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mother Jones — “\u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/05/google-diversity-labor-gender-race-gap-workers-silicon-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Firms Are Even Whiter and More Male Than You Thought\u003c/a>” — has some cold data to dash on the warm welcome Google has gotten for making its numbers public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MJ’s Josh Harkinson filed a Freedom of Information Act request for diversity data from 10 leading Silicon Valley firms: Apple, Google, Oracle, Cisco Systems, Intel, Gilead Sciences, eBay, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard and VMware. The numbers suggest that’s what’s true at Google is true throughout the Valley. They show whites make up 63 percent of the overall workforce at the 10 companies, Asians 25 percent, Hispanics 6 percent and blacks 4 percent. Males predominate, making up 70 percent of company personnel. Whites hold 83 percent of executive positions, the same percentage of males in top jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harkinson also includes a critique of the claim that the composition of the Silicon Valley workforce is just an example of merit at work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Prominent techies like to say that the Valley is a pure meritocracy, but the glaring disparities make that a dubious claim. “In polite company, I would say it’s a fallacy,” says Laura Weidman Powers, the executive director of Code2040, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that promotes racial diversity in tech hiring. “In impolite company, I would say it’s bullshit.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mendozamartha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martha Mendoza\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN JOSE — In a groundbreaking disclosure, \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google has revealed\u003c/a> how very white and male its workforce is — just 2 percent of its Google employees are black, 3 percent are Hispanic, and 30 percent are women. About a third of the company’s workforce is Asian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The search giant said the transparency about its workforce is an important step toward change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply put, Google is not where we want to be when it comes to diversity,” Google Inc. senior vice president Laszlo Bock wrote in a blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers were \u003ca href=\"http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/diversity/2013-EEO-1-consolidated-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compiled as part of a report\u003c/a> that major U.S. employers must file with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Companies are not required to make the information public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gender divide is based on the roughly 44,000 people Google employed throughout the world at the start of this year. The company didn’t factor about 4,000 workers at its Motorola Mobility division, which is being sold to China’s Lenovo Group for $2.9 billion. The racial data is limited to Google’s roughly 26,600 workers in the U.S as of August 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg recently said the social networking company is headed toward disclosure as well, but it was important to share the data internally first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple, Twitter and Microsoft did not respond immediately to queries about possible plans to disclose data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hewlett-Packard spokesman Michael Thacker said the firm, with 331,800 worldwide employees, has been publishing this data going back to 2001 as part of a Global Citizenship Report. In its most recent report, the company reported almost 7 percent of its U.S. workforce was black, 6 percent Hispanic and 33 percent were women.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We’re the first to admit that Google is miles from where we want to be. … Being totally clear about the extent of the problem is a really important part of the solution.’\u003ccite>— Laszlo Bock,\u003cbr>\nGoogle senior vice president\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bock said Google has been working to diversify, not just its offices but in the broader tech sector. Since 2010, the firm has given more than $40 million to organizations working to bring computer science education to women and girls, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also is working with historically black colleges and universities to elevate course work and attendance in computer science, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we’re the first to admit that Google is miles from where we want to be, and that being totally clear about the extent of the problem is a really important part of the solution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender and ethnic disparities are reflected throughout the tech industry. About 7 percent of tech workers are black or Latino in Silicon Valley and nationally. Blacks and Hispanics make up 13.1 and 16.9 percent of the U.S. population, respectively, according to the most recent Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming months, Google said, it will work with the \u003ca href=\"http://kaporcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kapor Center for Social Impact\u003c/a>, a group that uses information technology to close gender and ethnic gaps in the Silicon Valley workforce. The center will be organizing a Google-backed conference in California focusing on issues of technology and diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Co-founder Freada Kapor Klein, who started the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lpfi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Level Playing Field Institute\u003c/a> 13 years ago to teach and mentor black and Latino students in science and math, said Google is showing leadership “which has been sorely needed for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google is the company known for the moonshot, and applying that part of Google DNA to this problem is a breath of fresh air,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Rev. Jesse Jackson launched a campaign to diversify Silicon Valley, asking to meet with leaders of several iconic technology companies about bringing black and Hispanics into their workforce and leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, he’s been leading delegations to annual shareholders’ meetings at firms including Google, Facebook, eBay Inc. and Hewlett-Packard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday Jackson said Google is to be commended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bold step in the right direction. We urge other companies to follow Google’s lead,” he said. “Silicon Valley and the tech industry have demonstrated an ability to solve the most challenging and complex problems in the world. Inclusion is a complex problem — if we put our collective minds together, we can solve that too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iris Gardner, a manager at nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://code2040.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code2040\u003c/a>, which places high-performing black and Latino software engineering students in internships with top tech companies, said Google’s disclosure could mark a pivotal moment in the push to diversify Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a big deal for them to be transparent about something that most companies haven’t in the past been willing to share,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Search giant wins praise for disclosure, which shows the company is overwhelmingly white and male",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1729029859,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 33,
"wordCount": 1278
},
"headData": {
"title": "Google: 'Not Where We Want to Be' on Diversity | KQED",
"description": "Search giant wins praise for disclosure, which shows the company is overwhelmingly white and male",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Google: 'Not Where We Want to Be' on Diversity",
"datePublished": "2014-05-29T09:28:41-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-10-15T15:04:19-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"customPermalink": "2014/05/29/google-diversity-report-shows-workforce-overwhelmingly-white-male/",
"path": "/news/137430/google-not-where-we-want-to-be-on-diversity",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133673\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS378_Google_082411-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-133673\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS378_Google_082411-lpr-640x403.jpg\" alt=\"Google headquarters in Mountain View. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"320\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google headquarters in Mountain View. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:30 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Google is winning plaudits for disclosing data on the diversity, or lack of diversity, in its U.S. workforce. As Martha Mendoza of the Associated Press reports (see the story below), no less a diversity campaigner than the Rev. Jesse Jackson praised the online search and advertising juggernaut for taking “the bold step” of making public the racial and gender breakdown of its staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=overall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The report, released Wednesday,\u003c/a> shows that Google’s overall workforce in the United States is 70 percent male and 30 percent female. The racial/ethnic breakdown: 61 percent white, 30 percent Asian, 4 percent two or more races, 3 percent Hispanic, 2 percent black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you look just a little further into the numbers, though, the gender divide in what the company defines as its \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tech workforce\u003c/a> is even more pronounced: 83 percent men and 17 percent women. The tech worker group is 60 percent white, 34 percent Asian, 2 percent Hispanic, 1 percent black, and 3 percent two or more races. Among \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html#tab=non-tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“nontech” employees\u003c/a>, the gender number is a nearly even split, 52 percent men and 48 percent women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statistics are derived from \u003ca href=\"http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/diversity/2013-EEO-1-consolidated-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google’s latest EEO-1 report\u003c/a> to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mother Jones — “\u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/05/google-diversity-labor-gender-race-gap-workers-silicon-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silicon Valley Firms Are Even Whiter and More Male Than You Thought\u003c/a>” — has some cold data to dash on the warm welcome Google has gotten for making its numbers public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MJ’s Josh Harkinson filed a Freedom of Information Act request for diversity data from 10 leading Silicon Valley firms: Apple, Google, Oracle, Cisco Systems, Intel, Gilead Sciences, eBay, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard and VMware. The numbers suggest that’s what’s true at Google is true throughout the Valley. They show whites make up 63 percent of the overall workforce at the 10 companies, Asians 25 percent, Hispanics 6 percent and blacks 4 percent. Males predominate, making up 70 percent of company personnel. Whites hold 83 percent of executive positions, the same percentage of males in top jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harkinson also includes a critique of the claim that the composition of the Silicon Valley workforce is just an example of merit at work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Prominent techies like to say that the Valley is a pure meritocracy, but the glaring disparities make that a dubious claim. “In polite company, I would say it’s a fallacy,” says Laura Weidman Powers, the executive director of Code2040, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that promotes racial diversity in tech hiring. “In impolite company, I would say it’s bullshit.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mendozamartha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martha Mendoza\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SAN JOSE — In a groundbreaking disclosure, \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/diversity/at-google.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google has revealed\u003c/a> how very white and male its workforce is — just 2 percent of its Google employees are black, 3 percent are Hispanic, and 30 percent are women. About a third of the company’s workforce is Asian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The search giant said the transparency about its workforce is an important step toward change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply put, Google is not where we want to be when it comes to diversity,” Google Inc. senior vice president Laszlo Bock wrote in a blog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The numbers were \u003ca href=\"http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/diversity/2013-EEO-1-consolidated-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compiled as part of a report\u003c/a> that major U.S. employers must file with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Companies are not required to make the information public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gender divide is based on the roughly 44,000 people Google employed throughout the world at the start of this year. The company didn’t factor about 4,000 workers at its Motorola Mobility division, which is being sold to China’s Lenovo Group for $2.9 billion. The racial data is limited to Google’s roughly 26,600 workers in the U.S as of August 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg recently said the social networking company is headed toward disclosure as well, but it was important to share the data internally first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple, Twitter and Microsoft did not respond immediately to queries about possible plans to disclose data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hewlett-Packard spokesman Michael Thacker said the firm, with 331,800 worldwide employees, has been publishing this data going back to 2001 as part of a Global Citizenship Report. In its most recent report, the company reported almost 7 percent of its U.S. workforce was black, 6 percent Hispanic and 33 percent were women.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We’re the first to admit that Google is miles from where we want to be. … Being totally clear about the extent of the problem is a really important part of the solution.’\u003ccite>— Laszlo Bock,\u003cbr>\nGoogle senior vice president\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bock said Google has been working to diversify, not just its offices but in the broader tech sector. Since 2010, the firm has given more than $40 million to organizations working to bring computer science education to women and girls, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also is working with historically black colleges and universities to elevate course work and attendance in computer science, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But we’re the first to admit that Google is miles from where we want to be, and that being totally clear about the extent of the problem is a really important part of the solution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gender and ethnic disparities are reflected throughout the tech industry. About 7 percent of tech workers are black or Latino in Silicon Valley and nationally. Blacks and Hispanics make up 13.1 and 16.9 percent of the U.S. population, respectively, according to the most recent Census data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the coming months, Google said, it will work with the \u003ca href=\"http://kaporcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kapor Center for Social Impact\u003c/a>, a group that uses information technology to close gender and ethnic gaps in the Silicon Valley workforce. The center will be organizing a Google-backed conference in California focusing on issues of technology and diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Co-founder Freada Kapor Klein, who started the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lpfi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Level Playing Field Institute\u003c/a> 13 years ago to teach and mentor black and Latino students in science and math, said Google is showing leadership “which has been sorely needed for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google is the company known for the moonshot, and applying that part of Google DNA to this problem is a breath of fresh air,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Rev. Jesse Jackson launched a campaign to diversify Silicon Valley, asking to meet with leaders of several iconic technology companies about bringing black and Hispanics into their workforce and leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, he’s been leading delegations to annual shareholders’ meetings at firms including Google, Facebook, eBay Inc. and Hewlett-Packard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday Jackson said Google is to be commended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bold step in the right direction. We urge other companies to follow Google’s lead,” he said. “Silicon Valley and the tech industry have demonstrated an ability to solve the most challenging and complex problems in the world. Inclusion is a complex problem — if we put our collective minds together, we can solve that too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iris Gardner, a manager at nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://code2040.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code2040\u003c/a>, which places high-performing black and Latino software engineering students in internships with top tech companies, said Google’s disclosure could mark a pivotal moment in the push to diversify Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a big deal for them to be transparent about something that most companies haven’t in the past been willing to share,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/137430/google-not-where-we-want-to-be-on-diversity",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_93",
"news_1631"
],
"featImg": "news_133673",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"news_137357": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_137357",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "137357",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1401315142000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "the-good-news-about-working-in-the-bay-area-for-some-wages-are-very-high",
"title": "The Good News About Working in the Bay Area: For Many, Wages Are Very High",
"publishDate": 1401315142,
"format": "aside",
"headTitle": "The Good News About Working in the Bay Area: For Many, Wages Are Very High | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 6944,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS8537_IMG_9782-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137366\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS8537_IMG_9782-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED) \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before anything else, let’s glory in our superiority. On average, people in the Bay Area are making a lot of money (too bad so much goes to keeping a roof over our heads).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest numbers on employment and wages throughout the United States\u003c/a>, says average wages throughout the region are generally much higher than the national average of $22.33 an hour. The South Bay average is $34.45 an hour, which is 54 percent above the national average; in the San Francisco area, it’s $32.41, which is 45 percent higher than the U.S. mean; and in the East Bay, it’s $28.70, or 28.5 percent higher than the all-American average. Those newly released stats are all from May 2013, by the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the “we sure make a lot of money hereabouts” headline, the bureau’s numbers render a sharp statistical snapshot of the technology workforce and its economic impact in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, note that while tech workers are well paid, they’re not the highest-paid folks in the region. According to the bureau’s report, that distinction belongs in the Bay Area and nationwide to medical professionals: Psychiatrists, anesthesiologists, surgeons, obstetricians and gynecologists, orthodontists and oral-maxillofacial surgeons are at or near the top of the money list in every California metro area, with average yearly wages topping $200,000. Chief executive officers and lawyers also are among the top-paid professions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, while there are a lot of tech workers here — \u003ca href=\"http://www.economicmodeling.com/2011/10/14/understanding-location-quotient-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by one measure\u003c/a>, the South Bay has the highest concentration of technology workers in the country — other metro areas (Washington, D.C., Seattle and New York) have a significantly higher number of people working in what the BLS calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes150000.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Computer and Mathematical Occupations\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, the BLS stats are a reminder that in many parts of the Bay Area, a great majority of people are working outside the technology industry. In the area the bureau calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_41940.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara\u003c/a> (actually comprised of Santa Clara and San Benito counties), those in “Office and Administrative Support Positions,” a category ranging from bill collectors to gaming-cage workers, outnumber tech workers roughly 122,000 to 97,000. In the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City area (corresponding to Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties), the tech worker population is outnumbered by those working in office support, sales, food services, financial services and management occupations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why does tech employment have such an outsize impact here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau’s statistics suggest it’s a combination of that high concentration of tech workers here combined with the wages the industry pays. In Silicon Valley, tech workers make up about four times the share of the workforce than they do nationwide — about 10.5 percent versus 2.8 percent across the entire U.S. labor pool. In the San Francisco region, 6.8 percent of workers are in tech occupations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pay? Perhaps reflecting and partially feeding the unhappy reality of Bay Area property prices, tech wages here are the highest in the country. In Silicon Valley, the BLS says the mean annual tech wage is $115,870, the equivalent of $55.71 an hour. In San Francisco, the figures are $103,780 and $49.89. Those salaries are ahead of every other tech hub in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A glance at the other end of the wage spectrum also provides some concrete evidence of the have/have-not divide that’s led to our regional uneasiness over high real estate prices, Google buses and wealth inequality in general. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says there are about 50,000 software developers in Silicon Valley with an average annual wage of $130,000 or so. There are also about 55,000 dishwashers, manicurists, fast-food workers, wait staff, parking lot attendants and many others making somewhere between $19,000 and $23,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Driven by salaries in the tech sector, pay in the South Bay is 54 percent higher than the U.S. average. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1729029862,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 12,
"wordCount": 689
},
"headData": {
"title": "The Good News About Working in the Bay Area: For Many, Wages Are Very High | KQED",
"description": "Driven by salaries in the tech sector, pay in the South Bay is 54 percent higher than the U.S. average. ",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "The Good News About Working in the Bay Area: For Many, Wages Are Very High",
"datePublished": "2014-05-28T15:12:22-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-10-15T15:04:22-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"path": "/news/137357/the-good-news-about-working-in-the-bay-area-for-some-wages-are-very-high",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS8537_IMG_9782-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137366\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/RS8537_IMG_9782-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED) \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before anything else, let’s glory in our superiority. On average, people in the Bay Area are making a lot of money (too bad so much goes to keeping a roof over our heads).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest numbers on employment and wages throughout the United States\u003c/a>, says average wages throughout the region are generally much higher than the national average of $22.33 an hour. The South Bay average is $34.45 an hour, which is 54 percent above the national average; in the San Francisco area, it’s $32.41, which is 45 percent higher than the U.S. mean; and in the East Bay, it’s $28.70, or 28.5 percent higher than the all-American average. Those newly released stats are all from May 2013, by the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the “we sure make a lot of money hereabouts” headline, the bureau’s numbers render a sharp statistical snapshot of the technology workforce and its economic impact in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, note that while tech workers are well paid, they’re not the highest-paid folks in the region. According to the bureau’s report, that distinction belongs in the Bay Area and nationwide to medical professionals: Psychiatrists, anesthesiologists, surgeons, obstetricians and gynecologists, orthodontists and oral-maxillofacial surgeons are at or near the top of the money list in every California metro area, with average yearly wages topping $200,000. Chief executive officers and lawyers also are among the top-paid professions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, while there are a lot of tech workers here — \u003ca href=\"http://www.economicmodeling.com/2011/10/14/understanding-location-quotient-2/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by one measure\u003c/a>, the South Bay has the highest concentration of technology workers in the country — other metro areas (Washington, D.C., Seattle and New York) have a significantly higher number of people working in what the BLS calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes150000.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“Computer and Mathematical Occupations\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, the BLS stats are a reminder that in many parts of the Bay Area, a great majority of people are working outside the technology industry. In the area the bureau calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_41940.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara\u003c/a> (actually comprised of Santa Clara and San Benito counties), those in “Office and Administrative Support Positions,” a category ranging from bill collectors to gaming-cage workers, outnumber tech workers roughly 122,000 to 97,000. In the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City area (corresponding to Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties), the tech worker population is outnumbered by those working in office support, sales, food services, financial services and management occupations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why does tech employment have such an outsize impact here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau’s statistics suggest it’s a combination of that high concentration of tech workers here combined with the wages the industry pays. In Silicon Valley, tech workers make up about four times the share of the workforce than they do nationwide — about 10.5 percent versus 2.8 percent across the entire U.S. labor pool. In the San Francisco region, 6.8 percent of workers are in tech occupations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pay? Perhaps reflecting and partially feeding the unhappy reality of Bay Area property prices, tech wages here are the highest in the country. In Silicon Valley, the BLS says the mean annual tech wage is $115,870, the equivalent of $55.71 an hour. In San Francisco, the figures are $103,780 and $49.89. Those salaries are ahead of every other tech hub in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A glance at the other end of the wage spectrum also provides some concrete evidence of the have/have-not divide that’s led to our regional uneasiness over high real estate prices, Google buses and wealth inequality in general. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says there are about 50,000 software developers in Silicon Valley with an average annual wage of $130,000 or so. There are also about 55,000 dishwashers, manicurists, fast-food workers, wait staff, parking lot attendants and many others making somewhere between $19,000 and $23,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/137357/the-good-news-about-working-in-the-bay-area-for-some-wages-are-very-high",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_1758",
"news_8",
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_6389",
"news_1631",
"news_3733",
"news_6387"
],
"featImg": "news_137366",
"label": "news_6944"
},
"science_17769": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "science_17769",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "17769",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1401227419000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "science"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1401227419,
"format": "aside",
"title": "Military Plans To Test Brain Implants To Fight Mental Disorders",
"headTitle": "Military Plans To Test Brain Implants To Fight Mental Disorders | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>A team of neuroscientists at the University of California at San Francisco will receive $26 million dollars over the next five years from the Department of Defense to develop new “electroceuticals,” electricity-based treatments for depression, anxiety disorders, addiction and other mental disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work, which will also focus on veterans with PTSD, is part of President Obama’s Brain Initiative. At UCSF, neuroscientist and neurosurgeon Eddie Chang will lead a team studying volunteers who already have probes in their brains as part of treatment for epilepsy or Parkinson’s disease. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(See our coverage on the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/epilepsy-reveals-the-brain-in-action/\">role epilepsy patients play in brain science\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chang and others will use these probes to look for the parts of the brain involved in depression and PTSD. Once the scientists have those clues, they’ll work with scientists at UC Berkeley and elsewhere to design tiny electronic implants that can stimulate the cells in faulty brain circuits and, they hope, fix those networks and alleviate symptoms. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/27/316129491/military-plans-to-test-brain-implants-to-fight-mental-disorders','embed':'<a class=\\"embedly-card\\" href=\\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/27/316129491/military-plans-to-test-brain-implants-to-fight-mental-disorders\\">Military Plans To Test Brain Implants To Fight Mental Disorders</a>'}\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/27/316129491/military-plans-to-test-brain-implants-to-fight-mental-disorders\">Military Plans To Test Brain Implants To Fight Mental Disorders\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 179,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 6
},
"modified": 1704933575,
"excerpt": "A team of neuroscientists at the University of California at San Francisco is embarking on a $70 million project, funded by the Department of Defense, to develop treatment for depression, anxiety disorders, addiction and other mental disorders. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "A team of neuroscientists at the University of California at San Francisco is embarking on a $70 million project, funded by the Department of Defense, to develop treatment for depression, anxiety disorders, addiction and other mental disorders. ",
"title": "Military Plans To Test Brain Implants To Fight Mental Disorders | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "Military Plans To Test Brain Implants To Fight Mental Disorders",
"datePublished": "2014-05-27T14:50:19-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-01-10T16:39:35-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "military-plans-to-test-brain-implants-to-fight-mental-disorders",
"status": "publish",
"sticky": false,
"path": "/science/17769/military-plans-to-test-brain-implants-to-fight-mental-disorders",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A team of neuroscientists at the University of California at San Francisco will receive $26 million dollars over the next five years from the Department of Defense to develop new “electroceuticals,” electricity-based treatments for depression, anxiety disorders, addiction and other mental disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work, which will also focus on veterans with PTSD, is part of President Obama’s Brain Initiative. At UCSF, neuroscientist and neurosurgeon Eddie Chang will lead a team studying volunteers who already have probes in their brains as part of treatment for epilepsy or Parkinson’s disease. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(See our coverage on the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/epilepsy-reveals-the-brain-in-action/\">role epilepsy patients play in brain science\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chang and others will use these probes to look for the parts of the brain involved in depression and PTSD. Once the scientists have those clues, they’ll work with scientists at UC Berkeley and elsewhere to design tiny electronic implants that can stimulate the cells in faulty brain circuits and, they hope, fix those networks and alleviate symptoms. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/27/316129491/military-plans-to-test-brain-implants-to-fight-mental-disorders','embed':'<a class=\\"embedly-card\\" href=\\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/27/316129491/military-plans-to-test-brain-implants-to-fight-mental-disorders\\">Military Plans To Test Brain Implants To Fight Mental Disorders</a>'}\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/27/316129491/military-plans-to-test-brain-implants-to-fight-mental-disorders\">Military Plans To Test Brain Implants To Fight Mental Disorders\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/science/17769/military-plans-to-test-brain-implants-to-fight-mental-disorders",
"authors": [
"6387"
],
"categories": [
"science_39",
"science_40"
],
"tags": [
"science_64",
"science_5155"
],
"featImg": "science_17777",
"label": "science"
},
"stateofhealth_19214": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "stateofhealth_19214",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "stateofhealth",
"id": "19214",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1400788134000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "stateofhealth"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1400788134,
"format": "aside",
"disqusTitle": "Patent Reform Plunged Into Deep Freeze ",
"title": "Patent Reform Plunged Into Deep Freeze ",
"headTitle": "State of Health | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-19227\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr-640x410.jpg\" alt=\"(Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">Patent reform is a big deal in California, and not just to Silicon Valley tech companies. Any company that makes money off a patented idea or technology is keenly interested in what happens at the federal level – or doesn’t. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"This news is devastating to the welfare of startups who will continue to face the threat of patent trolls.\" \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Senator Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who chairs the Judiciary Committee, has taken the patent reform bill off the agenda, lamenting in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/comment-of-senator-patrick-leahy-d-vt_chairman-senate-judiciary-committee-on-patent-legislation\" target=\"_blank\">statement \u003c/a>the various industries that rely on patents could not come to terms “on how to combat the scourge of patent trolls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have said all along that we needed broad bipartisan support to get a bill through the Senate. Regrettably, competing companies on both sides of this issue refused to come to agreement on how to achieve that goal.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was intended to stymie trolls -- companies that exist solely to buy up patents, threaten infringement lawsuits, and then offer to settle for a tidy sum. A recent report issued by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fdocs%2Fpatent_report.pdf&ei=ZUd-U-udJ4umyATF24GoAg&usg=AFQjCNGjo7m0fnd7ncG3tbeP76LATX8bwQ&sig2=rs5ii3fjv55Q5bK9kpqZDg&bvm=bv.67720277,d.aWw\" target=\"_blank\">White House\u003c/a> quoted one estimate that trolls extracted $29 billion dollars from their hapless targets in 2011, a 400 percent increase from 2005. Trouble is, your attitude about what parts of the system need reforming -- and how -- differs depending on whether you work in software, biotech, a research university, or even a law firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So who scuttled the bill on its way to markup? The Washington Post \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/21/whos-behind-the-last-minute-push-to-thwart-patent-reform/?utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\">reports \u003c/a>it was a coalition of trial lawyers, universities, pharmaceutical firms and biotech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe the measures in the legislation … go far beyond what is necessary or desirable to combat abusive patent litigation, and would do serious damage to the patent system,\" reads \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/files/2014/05/BIO-letter-copy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">one letter\u003c/a> sent to Leahy on May 20. \"Many of the provisions would have the effect of treating every patent holder as a patent troll.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They couldn’t reach consensus on elements of the House Bill and finally just gave up,\" Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) told KQED. Lofgren co-sponsored the House patent reform bill that \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnet.com/news/house-passes-bill-aimed-at-curbing-patent-troll-lawsuits/\" target=\"_blank\">passed in December\u003c/a> with bi-partisan support, a rare feat these days in Washington DC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren says the need for patent reform is urgent, especially for small businesses and entrepreneurs. \"Nobody likes to be sued, but at least the big companies have the revenue to be able to fight this stuff. The little guys can just be crushed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley lobbying outfit Engine was quick to voice its disappointment. In a press release, Engine \u003ca href=\"http://engine.is/issues/patent-reform-off-the-table-for-now-whats-next/3885\" target=\"_blank\">said\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This news is devastating to the welfare of startups who will continue to face the threat of patent trolls. That no agreement could be reached, especially in light of the efforts being made across the committee to find common ground, is also bad news for the economy where \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/24/waiting-for-patent-reform-is-costing-us-billions-here-are-the-numbers/\" target=\"_blank\">annual losses from patent troll litigation are billions of dollars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In recent years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get legislation through Congress. Individually and through groups, tech titans have \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/31/silicon-valley-big-bucks-lobbying-force-in-washington-dc/?__utma=34673459.1355619827.1376932905.1400771684.1400783799.180&__utmb=34673459.5.10.1400783800&__utmc=34673459&__utmx=-&__utmz=34673459.1400783800.180.102.utmcsr=google%7Cutmccn=%28organic%29%7Cutmcmd=organic%7Cutmctr=%28not%20provided%29&__utmv=-&__utmk=148613557\" target=\"_blank\">spent a lot of money\u003c/a> trying to get comprehensive immigration reform passed -– to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While retail, software and IT firms have born the brunt of troll attacks so far, biopharmaceutical firms are fat targets, too, and \u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/201945-next-patent-troll-victims-pharma-and-bio\" target=\"_blank\">word is\u003c/a> that industry will face increasing pressure to seek protection from changes in the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after weeks of frustrating negotiations, it looks like patent reform may have to wait for the next legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe not. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-Palto Alto) had a different read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Senator Leahy has pushed the pause button,\" she told KQED, noting there has been no vote killing the bill. \"I always welcome in negotiations a time out. Their responsibility is to reach consensus, for the sake of the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Lofgren, Eshoo wants to see legislative action now, not next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really is a racket,\" Eshoo says of the patent troll industry. \"It's a hold up, and it places an economic gun at the head of companies. There's too much of a cost to our national economy. We can't afford this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"N65cwOqaTvWZV0oMuRMrKL7NhN4JZaB9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "19214 http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=19214",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/05/22/patent-reform-plunged-into-deep-freeze-fight-trolls/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 700,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 20
},
"modified": 1400798845,
"excerpt": "Legislation to stymie \"patent trolls\" taken off the agenda at the U.S. Senate.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Legislation to stymie "patent trolls" taken off the agenda at the U.S. Senate.",
"title": "Patent Reform Plunged Into Deep Freeze | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Article",
"headline": "Patent Reform Plunged Into Deep Freeze ",
"datePublished": "2014-05-22T12:48:54-07:00",
"dateModified": "2014-05-22T15:47:25-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "patent-reform-plunged-into-deep-freeze-fight-trolls",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/stateofhealth/19214/patent-reform-plunged-into-deep-freeze-fight-trolls",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19227\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-19227\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/05/RS3437_dccapitol0223-scr-640x410.jpg\" alt=\"(Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\">Patent reform is a big deal in California, and not just to Silicon Valley tech companies. Any company that makes money off a patented idea or technology is keenly interested in what happens at the federal level – or doesn’t. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"This news is devastating to the welfare of startups who will continue to face the threat of patent trolls.\" \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Senator Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who chairs the Judiciary Committee, has taken the patent reform bill off the agenda, lamenting in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/comment-of-senator-patrick-leahy-d-vt_chairman-senate-judiciary-committee-on-patent-legislation\" target=\"_blank\">statement \u003c/a>the various industries that rely on patents could not come to terms “on how to combat the scourge of patent trolls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have said all along that we needed broad bipartisan support to get a bill through the Senate. Regrettably, competing companies on both sides of this issue refused to come to agreement on how to achieve that goal.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was intended to stymie trolls -- companies that exist solely to buy up patents, threaten infringement lawsuits, and then offer to settle for a tidy sum. A recent report issued by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fdocs%2Fpatent_report.pdf&ei=ZUd-U-udJ4umyATF24GoAg&usg=AFQjCNGjo7m0fnd7ncG3tbeP76LATX8bwQ&sig2=rs5ii3fjv55Q5bK9kpqZDg&bvm=bv.67720277,d.aWw\" target=\"_blank\">White House\u003c/a> quoted one estimate that trolls extracted $29 billion dollars from their hapless targets in 2011, a 400 percent increase from 2005. Trouble is, your attitude about what parts of the system need reforming -- and how -- differs depending on whether you work in software, biotech, a research university, or even a law firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So who scuttled the bill on its way to markup? The Washington Post \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/21/whos-behind-the-last-minute-push-to-thwart-patent-reform/?utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\">reports \u003c/a>it was a coalition of trial lawyers, universities, pharmaceutical firms and biotech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe the measures in the legislation … go far beyond what is necessary or desirable to combat abusive patent litigation, and would do serious damage to the patent system,\" reads \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/files/2014/05/BIO-letter-copy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">one letter\u003c/a> sent to Leahy on May 20. \"Many of the provisions would have the effect of treating every patent holder as a patent troll.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They couldn’t reach consensus on elements of the House Bill and finally just gave up,\" Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) told KQED. Lofgren co-sponsored the House patent reform bill that \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnet.com/news/house-passes-bill-aimed-at-curbing-patent-troll-lawsuits/\" target=\"_blank\">passed in December\u003c/a> with bi-partisan support, a rare feat these days in Washington DC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren says the need for patent reform is urgent, especially for small businesses and entrepreneurs. \"Nobody likes to be sued, but at least the big companies have the revenue to be able to fight this stuff. The little guys can just be crushed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley lobbying outfit Engine was quick to voice its disappointment. In a press release, Engine \u003ca href=\"http://engine.is/issues/patent-reform-off-the-table-for-now-whats-next/3885\" target=\"_blank\">said\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This news is devastating to the welfare of startups who will continue to face the threat of patent trolls. That no agreement could be reached, especially in light of the efforts being made across the committee to find common ground, is also bad news for the economy where \u003ca href=\"http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/24/waiting-for-patent-reform-is-costing-us-billions-here-are-the-numbers/\" target=\"_blank\">annual losses from patent troll litigation are billions of dollars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In recent years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get legislation through Congress. Individually and through groups, tech titans have \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/31/silicon-valley-big-bucks-lobbying-force-in-washington-dc/?__utma=34673459.1355619827.1376932905.1400771684.1400783799.180&__utmb=34673459.5.10.1400783800&__utmc=34673459&__utmx=-&__utmz=34673459.1400783800.180.102.utmcsr=google%7Cutmccn=%28organic%29%7Cutmcmd=organic%7Cutmctr=%28not%20provided%29&__utmv=-&__utmk=148613557\" target=\"_blank\">spent a lot of money\u003c/a> trying to get comprehensive immigration reform passed -– to no avail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While retail, software and IT firms have born the brunt of troll attacks so far, biopharmaceutical firms are fat targets, too, and \u003ca href=\"http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/201945-next-patent-troll-victims-pharma-and-bio\" target=\"_blank\">word is\u003c/a> that industry will face increasing pressure to seek protection from changes in the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after weeks of frustrating negotiations, it looks like patent reform may have to wait for the next legislative session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or maybe not. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-Palto Alto) had a different read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Senator Leahy has pushed the pause button,\" she told KQED, noting there has been no vote killing the bill. \"I always welcome in negotiations a time out. Their responsibility is to reach consensus, for the sake of the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Lofgren, Eshoo wants to see legislative action now, not next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really is a racket,\" Eshoo says of the patent troll industry. \"It's a hold up, and it places an economic gun at the head of companies. There's too much of a cost to our national economy. We can't afford this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"N65cwOqaTvWZV0oMuRMrKL7NhN4JZaB9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/stateofhealth/19214/patent-reform-plunged-into-deep-freeze-fight-trolls",
"authors": [
"251"
],
"categories": [
"stateofhealth_14"
],
"featImg": "stateofhealth_19227",
"label": "stateofhealth"
},
"news_136719": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_136719",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "136719",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1400790870000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "good-reads-disrupting-your-laundry-one-healthy-snack-at-a-time",
"title": "Good Reads: Disrupting Your Laundry, One Healthy Snack at a Time",
"publishDate": 1400790870,
"format": "aside",
"headTitle": "Good Reads: Disrupting Your Laundry, One Healthy Snack at a Time | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 6944,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/washingmachine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-136790\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/washingmachine-640x406.jpg\" alt=\"(Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"640\" height=\"406\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A New York Magazine commenter puts it best: “Sometimes I read stuff like this and have a hard time figuring out if it’s a parody or the real thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘The brightest minds of a generation … have taken the knowledge acquired at our most august institutions and applied themselves to solving increasingly minor First World problems.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Stuff like this” is Jessica Plessner’s story “\u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry\u003c/a>,” on the VC-fueled battle among startups all over the country to invent, or reinvent, the perfect laundry experience. Plessner focuses on Santa Monica-based Washio, a service that employs laundry “ninjas,” dispatched Uber-style via smartphone app, to pick up customers’ laundry and then deliver it again, impeccably washed, folded and packaged. But, of course, doing a super-cool job on your laundry isn’t enough. Plessner relates:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>… The founders wanted to make sure their business stood out from the competition—that Washio established itself as the washing and dry-cleaning service by and for the convenience-loving, whimsy-embracing millennials of the New Tech Boom. “So we came up with the cookies,” says Metzner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by Silicon Valley guru Paul Graham’s seminal essay to “do things that don’t scale,” they sourced cookies from bakeries in their three markets—snickerdoodles in San Francisco, frosted red velvet in L.A., classic chocolate chip in Washington, D.C.—which the ninja delivered, wrapped, along with the freshly laundered clothing. The gesture added another logistical wrinkle to an already complicated business, but it was worth it. “In the beginning, people loved it,” says Metzner. “Our social media went crazy, like, ‘Oh my God, Washio is the best!’ ” …\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Soon, though, Washio started to hear from customers who thought it would be nice to get healthy snacks rather than wonderful cookies. As Plessner says, in San Francisco, “innovations are dying from the day they are born.” We get tired of the new and expect — feel entitled to — something better. Plessner deploys the term \u003ca href=\"http://faculty.som.yale.edu/ShaneFrederick/HedonicTreadmill.pdf?subject=Please+mail+a+hard+copy+of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“hedonic treadmill”\u003c/a> to describe that rapid cycle of pleasure and excitement devolving into complacency and dissatisfaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing back from the busy app-driven laundry market, here’s how Plessner sums up much of what she sees happening in the New Tech Boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We are living in a time of Great Change, and also a time of Not-So-Great Change. The tidal wave of innovation that has swept out from Silicon Valley, transforming the way we communicate, read, shop, and travel, has carried along with it an epic shit-ton of digital flotsam. Looking around at the newly minted billionaires behind the enjoyable but wholly unnecessary Facebook and WhatsApp, Uber and Nest, the brightest minds of a generation, the high test-scorers and mathematically inclined, have taken the knowledge acquired at our most august institutions and applied themselves to solving increasingly minor First World problems. The marketplace of ideas has become one long late-night infomercial. Want a blazer embedded with GPS technology? A Bluetooth-controlled necklace? A hair dryer big enough for your entire body? \u003cem>They can be yours!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Read the entire piece here: “\u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry\u003c/a>“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "A long walk on the 'hedonic treadmill' of trivial Silicon Valley innovation and customer expectations. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1729029866,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 10,
"wordCount": 568
},
"headData": {
"title": "Good Reads: Disrupting Your Laundry, One Healthy Snack at a Time | KQED",
"description": "A long walk on the 'hedonic treadmill' of trivial Silicon Valley innovation and customer expectations. ",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Good Reads: Disrupting Your Laundry, One Healthy Snack at a Time",
"datePublished": "2014-05-22T13:34:30-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-10-15T15:04:26-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"customPermalink": "new-york-magazine-on-washio-and-the-laundry-wars/",
"path": "/news/136719/good-reads-disrupting-your-laundry-one-healthy-snack-at-a-time",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_136790\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/washingmachine.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-136790\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/washingmachine-640x406.jpg\" alt=\"(Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"640\" height=\"406\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A New York Magazine commenter puts it best: “Sometimes I read stuff like this and have a hard time figuring out if it’s a parody or the real thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘The brightest minds of a generation … have taken the knowledge acquired at our most august institutions and applied themselves to solving increasingly minor First World problems.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Stuff like this” is Jessica Plessner’s story “\u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry\u003c/a>,” on the VC-fueled battle among startups all over the country to invent, or reinvent, the perfect laundry experience. Plessner focuses on Santa Monica-based Washio, a service that employs laundry “ninjas,” dispatched Uber-style via smartphone app, to pick up customers’ laundry and then deliver it again, impeccably washed, folded and packaged. But, of course, doing a super-cool job on your laundry isn’t enough. Plessner relates:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>… The founders wanted to make sure their business stood out from the competition—that Washio established itself as the washing and dry-cleaning service by and for the convenience-loving, whimsy-embracing millennials of the New Tech Boom. “So we came up with the cookies,” says Metzner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by Silicon Valley guru Paul Graham’s seminal essay to “do things that don’t scale,” they sourced cookies from bakeries in their three markets—snickerdoodles in San Francisco, frosted red velvet in L.A., classic chocolate chip in Washington, D.C.—which the ninja delivered, wrapped, along with the freshly laundered clothing. The gesture added another logistical wrinkle to an already complicated business, but it was worth it. “In the beginning, people loved it,” says Metzner. “Our social media went crazy, like, ‘Oh my God, Washio is the best!’ ” …\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Soon, though, Washio started to hear from customers who thought it would be nice to get healthy snacks rather than wonderful cookies. As Plessner says, in San Francisco, “innovations are dying from the day they are born.” We get tired of the new and expect — feel entitled to — something better. Plessner deploys the term \u003ca href=\"http://faculty.som.yale.edu/ShaneFrederick/HedonicTreadmill.pdf?subject=Please+mail+a+hard+copy+of\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“hedonic treadmill”\u003c/a> to describe that rapid cycle of pleasure and excitement devolving into complacency and dissatisfaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing back from the busy app-driven laundry market, here’s how Plessner sums up much of what she sees happening in the New Tech Boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We are living in a time of Great Change, and also a time of Not-So-Great Change. The tidal wave of innovation that has swept out from Silicon Valley, transforming the way we communicate, read, shop, and travel, has carried along with it an epic shit-ton of digital flotsam. Looking around at the newly minted billionaires behind the enjoyable but wholly unnecessary Facebook and WhatsApp, Uber and Nest, the brightest minds of a generation, the high test-scorers and mathematically inclined, have taken the knowledge acquired at our most august institutions and applied themselves to solving increasingly minor First World problems. The marketplace of ideas has become one long late-night infomercial. Want a blazer embedded with GPS technology? A Bluetooth-controlled necklace? A hair dryer big enough for your entire body? \u003cem>They can be yours!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Read the entire piece here: “\u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry\u003c/a>“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/136719/good-reads-disrupting-your-laundry-one-healthy-snack-at-a-time",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"programs": [
"news_6944"
],
"categories": [
"news_248"
],
"tags": [
"news_4849",
"news_1631"
],
"featImg": "news_136792",
"label": "news_6944"
}
},
"podcastsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"podcasts": {}
},
"radioProgramsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"radioPrograms": {}
},
"radioSearchSegmentsReducer": {},
"programsReducer": {
"all-things-considered": {
"id": "all-things-considered",
"title": "All Things Considered",
"info": "Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/all-things-considered"
},
"american-suburb-podcast": {
"id": "american-suburb-podcast",
"title": "American Suburb: The Podcast",
"tagline": "The flip side of gentrification, told through one town",
"info": "Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 19
},
"link": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"
}
},
"baycurious": {
"id": "baycurious",
"title": "Bay Curious",
"tagline": "Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time",
"info": "KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Bay Curious",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/baycurious",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 3
},
"link": "/podcasts/baycurious",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9a90d476-aa04-455d-9a4c-0871ed6216d4/bay-curious",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"
}
},
"bbc-world-service": {
"id": "bbc-world-service",
"title": "BBC World Service",
"info": "The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "BBC World Service"
},
"link": "/radio/program/bbc-world-service",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/",
"rss": "https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"
}
},
"californiareport": {
"id": "californiareport",
"title": "The California Report",
"tagline": "California, day by day",
"info": "KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareport",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 8
},
"link": "/californiareport",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/26099305-72af-4542-9dde-ac1807fe36d5/kqed-s-the-california-report",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"
}
},
"californiareportmagazine": {
"id": "californiareportmagazine",
"title": "The California Report Magazine",
"tagline": "Your state, your stories",
"info": "Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.",
"airtime": "FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report Magazine",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareportmagazine",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 10
},
"link": "/californiareportmagazine",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"
}
},
"city-arts": {
"id": "city-arts",
"title": "City Arts & Lectures",
"info": "A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.cityarts.net/",
"airtime": "SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "City Arts & Lectures"
},
"link": "https://www.cityarts.net",
"subscribe": {
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/",
"rss": "https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"
}
},
"closealltabs": {
"id": "closealltabs",
"title": "Close All Tabs",
"tagline": "Your irreverent guide to the trends redefining our world",
"info": "Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CAT_2_Tile-scaled.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Close All Tabs",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 1
},
"link": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-all-tabs/id214663465",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC6993880386",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/92d9d4ac-67a3-4eed-b10a-fb45d45b1ef2/close-all-tabs",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6LAJFHnGK1pYXYzv6SIol6?si=deb0cae19813417c"
}
},
"code-switch-life-kit": {
"id": "code-switch-life-kit",
"title": "Code Switch / Life Kit",
"info": "\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />",
"airtime": "SUN 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"
}
},
"commonwealth-club": {
"id": "commonwealth-club",
"title": "Commonwealth Club of California Podcast",
"info": "The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.",
"airtime": "THU 10pm, FRI 1am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Commonwealth Club of California"
},
"link": "/radio/program/commonwealth-club",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"
}
},
"forum": {
"id": "forum",
"title": "Forum",
"tagline": "The conversation starts here",
"info": "KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/forum",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 9
},
"link": "/forum",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"
}
},
"freakonomics-radio": {
"id": "freakonomics-radio",
"title": "Freakonomics Radio",
"info": "Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://freakonomics.com/",
"airtime": "SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/freakonomics-radio",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"
}
},
"fresh-air": {
"id": "fresh-air",
"title": "Fresh Air",
"info": "Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/fresh-air",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"
}
},
"here-and-now": {
"id": "here-and-now",
"title": "Here & Now",
"info": "A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.",
"airtime": "MON-THU 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/here-and-now",
"subsdcribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hidden-brain": {
"id": "hidden-brain",
"title": "Hidden Brain",
"info": "Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain",
"airtime": "SUN 7pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "NPR"
},
"link": "/radio/program/hidden-brain",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"
}
},
"how-i-built-this": {
"id": "how-i-built-this",
"title": "How I Built This with Guy Raz",
"info": "Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this",
"airtime": "SUN 7:30pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/how-i-built-this",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hyphenacion": {
"id": "hyphenacion",
"title": "Hyphenación",
"tagline": "Where conversation and cultura meet",
"info": "What kind of no sabo word is Hyphenación? For us, it’s about living within a hyphenation. Like being a third-gen Mexican-American from the Texas border now living that Bay Area Chicano life. Like Xorje! Each week we bring together a couple of hyphenated Latinos to talk all about personal life choices: family, careers, relationships, belonging … everything is on the table. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hyphenacion_FinalAssets_PodcastTile.png",
"imageAlt": "KQED Hyphenación",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 15
},
"link": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hyphenaci%C3%B3n/id1191591838",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2p3Fifq96nw9BPcmFdIq0o?si=39209f7b25774f38",
"youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/c/kqedarts",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6c3dd23c-93fb-4aab-97ba-1725fa6315f1/hyphenaci%C3%B3n",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC2275451163"
}
},
"jerrybrown": {
"id": "jerrybrown",
"title": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"tagline": "Lessons from a lifetime in politics",
"info": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 18
},
"link": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/",
"tuneIn": "http://tun.in/pjGcK",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/44420f75-3b0e-4301-ab3b-16da6b09e543/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown"
}
},
"latino-usa": {
"id": "latino-usa",
"title": "Latino USA",
"airtime": "MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm",
"info": "Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://latinousa.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/latino-usa",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"
}
},
"marketplace": {
"id": "marketplace",
"title": "Marketplace",
"info": "Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.marketplace.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "American Public Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/marketplace",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/",
"rss": "https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"
}
},
"masters-of-scale": {
"id": "masters-of-scale",
"title": "Masters of Scale",
"info": "Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.",
"airtime": "Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://mastersofscale.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WaitWhat"
},
"link": "/radio/program/masters-of-scale",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "http://mastersofscale.app.link/",
"rss": "https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"
}
},
"mindshift": {
"id": "mindshift",
"title": "MindShift",
"tagline": "A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids",
"info": "The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/mindshift/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 12
},
"link": "/podcasts/mindshift",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"
}
},
"morning-edition": {
"id": "morning-edition",
"title": "Morning Edition",
"info": "\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3am-9am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/morning-edition"
},
"onourwatch": {
"id": "onourwatch",
"title": "On Our Watch",
"tagline": "Deeply-reported investigative journalism",
"info": "For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "On Our Watch from NPR and KQED",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 11
},
"link": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw",
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"
}
},
"on-the-media": {
"id": "on-the-media",
"title": "On The Media",
"info": "Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wnyc"
},
"link": "/radio/program/on-the-media",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"
}
},
"pbs-newshour": {
"id": "pbs-newshour",
"title": "PBS NewsHour",
"info": "Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "pbs"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pbs-newshour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/",
"rss": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"
}
},
"perspectives": {
"id": "perspectives",
"title": "Perspectives",
"tagline": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991",
"info": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Perspectives_Tile_Final.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Perspectives",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/perspectives/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 14
},
"link": "/perspectives",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"
}
},
"planet-money": {
"id": "planet-money",
"title": "Planet Money",
"info": "The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/planet-money",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"
}
},
"politicalbreakdown": {
"id": "politicalbreakdown",
"title": "Political Breakdown",
"tagline": "Politics from a personal perspective",
"info": "Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.",
"airtime": "THU 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Political Breakdown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 5
},
"link": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e0c2d153-ad36-4c8d-901d-f1da6a724824/political-breakdown",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"
}
},
"possible": {
"id": "possible",
"title": "Possible",
"info": "Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.possible.fm/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Possible"
},
"link": "/radio/program/possible",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"
}
},
"pri-the-world": {
"id": "pri-the-world",
"title": "PRI's The World: Latest Edition",
"info": "Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "PRI"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pri-the-world",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/",
"rss": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"
}
},
"radiolab": {
"id": "radiolab",
"title": "Radiolab",
"info": "A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.",
"airtime": "SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/radiolab",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/",
"rss": "https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"
}
},
"reveal": {
"id": "reveal",
"title": "Reveal",
"info": "Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.",
"airtime": "SAT 4pm-5pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/reveal",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/",
"rss": "http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"
}
},
"rightnowish": {
"id": "rightnowish",
"title": "Rightnowish",
"tagline": "Art is where you find it",
"info": "Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 16
},
"link": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"
}
},
"science-friday": {
"id": "science-friday",
"title": "Science Friday",
"info": "Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.",
"airtime": "FRI 11am-1pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/science-friday",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"
}
},
"snap-judgment": {
"id": "snap-judgment",
"title": "Snap Judgment",
"tagline": "Real stories with killer beats",
"info": "The Snap Judgment radio show and podcast mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap's musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling... with a BEAT!! Snap first aired on public radio stations nationwide in July 2010. Today, Snap Judgment airs on over 450 public radio stations and is brought to the airwaves by KQED & PRX.",
"airtime": "SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Snap-Judgment-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Snap Judgment",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 4
},
"link": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snap-judgment/id283657561",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/449018144/snap-judgment",
"stitcher": "https://www.pandora.com/podcast/snap-judgment/PC:241?source=stitcher-sunset",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3Cct7ZWmxHNAtLgBTqjC5v",
"rss": "https://snap.feed.snapjudgment.org/"
}
},
"soldout": {
"id": "soldout",
"title": "SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America",
"tagline": "A new future for housing",
"info": "Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/soldout",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 13
},
"link": "/podcasts/soldout",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america",
"tunein": "https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/"
}
},
"spooked": {
"id": "spooked",
"title": "Spooked",
"tagline": "True-life supernatural stories",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Spooked-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Spooked",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 7
},
"link": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spooked/id1279361017",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/549547848/snap-judgment-presents-spooked",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/76571Rfl3m7PLJQZKQIGCT",
"rss": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/TBotaapn"
}
},
"tech-nation": {
"id": "tech-nation",
"title": "Tech Nation Radio Podcast",
"info": "Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.",
"airtime": "FRI 10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://technation.podomatic.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "Tech Nation Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tech-nation",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"
}
},
"ted-radio-hour": {
"id": "ted-radio-hour",
"title": "TED Radio Hour",
"info": "The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/ted-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"
}
},
"thebay": {
"id": "thebay",
"title": "The Bay",
"tagline": "Local news to keep you rooted",
"info": "Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Bay",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/thebay",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 2
},
"link": "/podcasts/thebay",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d800ea4c-7a2c-42f2-b861-edaf78a5db0b/the-bay",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"
}
},
"thelatest": {
"id": "thelatest",
"title": "The Latest",
"tagline": "Trusted local news in real time",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Latest-2025-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Latest",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/thelatest",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 6
},
"link": "/thelatest",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-latest-from-kqed/id1197721799",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1257949365/the-latest-from-k-q-e-d",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/5KIIXMgM9GTi5AepwOYvIZ?si=bd3053fec7244dba",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9137121918"
}
},
"theleap": {
"id": "theleap",
"title": "The Leap",
"tagline": "What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?",
"info": "Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Leap",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/theleap",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 17
},
"link": "/podcasts/theleap",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"
}
},
"the-moth-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-moth-radio-hour",
"title": "The Moth Radio Hour",
"info": "Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.",
"airtime": "SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://themoth.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "prx"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/",
"rss": "http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"
}
},
"the-new-yorker-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"title": "The New Yorker Radio Hour",
"info": "The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.",
"airtime": "SAT 10am-11am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"
}
},
"the-sam-sanders-show": {
"id": "the-sam-sanders-show",
"title": "The Sam Sanders Show",
"info": "One of public radio's most dynamic voices, Sam Sanders helped launch The NPR Politics Podcast and hosted NPR's hit show It's Been A Minute. Now, the award-winning host returns with something brand new, The Sam Sanders Show. Every week, Sam Sanders and friends dig into the culture that shapes our lives: what's driving the biggest trends, how artists really think, and even the memes you can't stop scrolling past. Sam is beloved for his way of unpacking the world and bringing you up close to fresh currents and engaging conversations. The Sam Sanders Show is smart, funny and always a good time.",
"airtime": "FRI 12-1pm AND SAT 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The-Sam-Sanders-Show-Podcast-Tile-400x400-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "KCRW"
},
"link": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feed.cdnstream1.com/zjb/feed/download/ac/28/59/ac28594c-e1d0-4231-8728-61865cdc80e8.xml"
}
},
"the-splendid-table": {
"id": "the-splendid-table",
"title": "The Splendid Table",
"info": "\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.splendidtable.org/",
"airtime": "SUN 10-11 pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-splendid-table"
},
"this-american-life": {
"id": "this-american-life",
"title": "This American Life",
"info": "This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.",
"airtime": "SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wbez"
},
"link": "/radio/program/this-american-life",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"rss": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"
}
},
"tinydeskradio": {
"id": "tinydeskradio",
"title": "Tiny Desk Radio",
"info": "We're bringing the best of Tiny Desk to the airwaves, only on public radio.",
"airtime": "SUN 8pm and SAT 9pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/300x300-For-Member-Station-Logo-Tiny-Desk-Radio-@2x.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-52030/tiny-desk-radio",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tinydeskradio",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/g-s1-52030/rss.xml"
}
},
"wait-wait-dont-tell-me": {
"id": "wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"title": "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!",
"info": "Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.",
"airtime": "SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"
}
},
"weekend-edition-saturday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-saturday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Saturday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.",
"airtime": "SAT 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"
},
"weekend-edition-sunday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-sunday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Sunday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.",
"airtime": "SUN 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"
}
},
"racesReducer": {},
"racesGenElectionReducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026Reducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026PresidentialReducer": {},
"radioSchedulesReducer": {},
"listsReducer": {
"posts/news?category=technology": {
"isFetching": false,
"latestQuery": {
"from": 1824,
"size": 12
},
"vitalsOnly": false,
"totalRequested": 12,
"isLoading": false,
"isLoadingMore": true,
"total": {
"value": 2461,
"relation": "eq"
},
"items": [
"news_139939",
"news_139906",
"news_139909",
"news_139854",
"news_139460",
"news_139262",
"news_138693",
"news_137430",
"news_137357",
"science_17769",
"stateofhealth_19214",
"news_136719"
],
"complete": true
}
},
"recallGuideReducer": {
"intros": {},
"policy": {},
"candidates": {}
},
"savedArticleReducer": {
"articles": [],
"status": {}
},
"newslettersReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"newsletters": {},
"isSubscribing": false,
"isUnsubscribing": false,
"subscribedNewsletters": {}
},
"termsReducer": {
"about": {
"name": "About",
"type": "terms",
"id": "about",
"slug": "about",
"link": "/about",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"arts": {
"name": "Arts & Culture",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"description": "KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts",
"slug": "arts",
"link": "/arts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"artschool": {
"name": "Art School",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "artschool",
"slug": "artschool",
"link": "/artschool",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareabites": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareabites",
"slug": "bayareabites",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareahiphop": {
"name": "Bay Area Hiphop",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareahiphop",
"slug": "bayareahiphop",
"link": "/bayareahiphop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"campaign21": {
"name": "Campaign 21",
"type": "terms",
"id": "campaign21",
"slug": "campaign21",
"link": "/campaign21",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"careers": {
"name": "Careers",
"type": "terms",
"id": "careers",
"slug": "careers",
"link": "/careers",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"checkplease": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "checkplease",
"slug": "checkplease",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"education": {
"name": "Education",
"grouping": [
"education"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "education",
"slug": "education",
"link": "/education",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"elections": {
"name": "Elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "elections",
"slug": "elections",
"link": "/elections",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"events": {
"name": "Events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "events",
"slug": "events",
"link": "/events",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"event": {
"name": "Event",
"alias": "events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "event",
"slug": "event",
"link": "/event",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"filmschoolshorts": {
"name": "Film School Shorts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "filmschoolshorts",
"slug": "filmschoolshorts",
"link": "/filmschoolshorts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"food": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "food",
"slug": "food",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"forum": {
"name": "Forum",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/forum?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "forum",
"slug": "forum",
"link": "/forum",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"futureofyou": {
"name": "Future of You",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "futureofyou",
"slug": "futureofyou",
"link": "/futureofyou",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"jpepinheart": {
"name": "KQED food",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/food,bayareabites,checkplease",
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "jpepinheart",
"slug": "jpepinheart",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"liveblog": {
"name": "Live Blog",
"type": "terms",
"id": "liveblog",
"slug": "liveblog",
"link": "/liveblog",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"livetv": {
"name": "Live TV",
"parent": "tv",
"type": "terms",
"id": "livetv",
"slug": "livetv",
"link": "/livetv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"lowdown": {
"name": "The Lowdown",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/lowdown?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "lowdown",
"slug": "lowdown",
"link": "/lowdown",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"mindshift": {
"name": "Mindshift",
"parent": "news",
"description": "MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "mindshift",
"slug": "mindshift",
"link": "/mindshift",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news": {
"name": "News",
"grouping": [
"news",
"forum"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "news",
"slug": "news",
"link": "/news",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"newsletters": {
"name": "newsletters",
"type": "terms",
"id": "newsletters",
"slug": "newsletters",
"link": "/newsletters",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"perspectives": {
"name": "Perspectives",
"parent": "radio",
"type": "terms",
"id": "perspectives",
"slug": "perspectives",
"link": "/perspectives",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"podcasts": {
"name": "Podcasts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "podcasts",
"slug": "podcasts",
"link": "/podcasts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pop": {
"name": "Pop",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop",
"slug": "pop",
"link": "/pop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pressroom": {
"name": "Pressroom",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pressroom",
"slug": "pressroom",
"link": "/pressroom",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"quest": {
"name": "Quest",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "quest",
"slug": "quest",
"link": "/quest",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"radio": {
"name": "Radio",
"grouping": [
"forum",
"perspectives"
],
"description": "Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "radio",
"slug": "radio",
"link": "/radio",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"root": {
"name": "KQED",
"image": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"imageWidth": 1200,
"imageHeight": 630,
"headData": {
"title": "KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California",
"description": "KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."
},
"type": "terms",
"id": "root",
"slug": "root",
"link": "/root",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"science": {
"name": "Science",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"description": "KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "science",
"slug": "science",
"link": "/science",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"stateofhealth": {
"name": "State of Health",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "stateofhealth",
"slug": "stateofhealth",
"link": "/stateofhealth",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"support": {
"name": "Support",
"type": "terms",
"id": "support",
"slug": "support",
"link": "/support",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"thedolist": {
"name": "The Do List",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "thedolist",
"slug": "thedolist",
"link": "/thedolist",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"trulyca": {
"name": "Truly CA",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "trulyca",
"slug": "trulyca",
"link": "/trulyca",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"tv": {
"name": "TV",
"type": "terms",
"id": "tv",
"slug": "tv",
"link": "/tv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"voterguide": {
"name": "Voter Guide",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "voterguide",
"slug": "voterguide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"guiaelectoral": {
"name": "Guia Electoral",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "guiaelectoral",
"slug": "guiaelectoral",
"link": "/guiaelectoral",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news_category_technology": {
"isLoading": true
},
"news_248": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_248",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "248",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Technology",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Technology Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 256,
"slug": "technology",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/technology"
},
"news_6944": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6944",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6944",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/News-Fix-Logo-Web-Banners-04.png",
"name": "News Fix",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "program",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "The News Fix is a daily news podcast from KQED that breaks down the latest headlines and provides in-depth analysis of the stories that matter to the Bay Area.",
"title": "News Fix - Daily Dose of Bay Area News | KQED",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6968,
"slug": "news-fix",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/program/news-fix"
},
"news_8": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_8",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "8",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 8,
"slug": "news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/news"
},
"news_13": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_13",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "13",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Politics",
"slug": "politics",
"taxonomy": "category",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Politics | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 13,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/politics"
},
"news_4481": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4481",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4481",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "NSA",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "NSA Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4500,
"slug": "nsa",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/nsa"
},
"news_4289": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4289",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4289",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "surveillance",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "surveillance Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4308,
"slug": "surveillance",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/surveillance"
},
"news_1397": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1397",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1397",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Transportation",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Transportation Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1409,
"slug": "transportation",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/transportation"
},
"news_1631": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1631",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1631",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Technology",
"slug": "technology",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Technology | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 1643,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/technology"
},
"news_20517": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20517",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20517",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "transportation",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "transportation Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20534,
"slug": "transportation",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/transportation"
},
"news_18549": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18549",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18549",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Priced Out",
"description": "It seems that almost everyone in the Bay Area has a housing horror story to tell. Anecdotes abound of renters spending months looking for a new place, and the pound of flesh extracted when they do find one. Equally scary are the stories from aspiring, seemingly qualified homeowners who are turned away by banks. \r\n \r\nThroughout 2014, KQED brought out the facts and stories behind the Bay Area housing crisis as part of our series called ‘Priced Out.’ We told the stories of people struggling and surviving amidst the increasing cost of living. We examined the changing neighborhoods and cities in the Bay Area, looked at who is getting evicted and why, as well as the potential solutions that have emerged.",
"taxonomy": "series",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "It seems that almost everyone in the Bay Area has a housing horror story to tell. Anecdotes abound of renters spending months looking for a new place, and the pound of flesh extracted when they do find one. Equally scary are the stories from aspiring, seemingly qualified homeowners who are turned away by banks. Throughout 2014, KQED brought out the facts and stories behind the Bay Area housing crisis as part of our series called ‘Priced Out.’ We told the stories of people struggling and surviving amidst the increasing cost of living. We examined the changing neighborhoods and cities in the Bay Area, looked at who is getting evicted and why, as well as the potential solutions that have emerged.",
"title": "Priced Out Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5066,
"slug": "priced-out",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/series/priced-out"
},
"news_1758": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1758",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1758",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Economy",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "Full coverage of the economy",
"title": "Economy Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2648,
"slug": "economy",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/economy"
},
"news_6266": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6266",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6266",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Housing",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Housing Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6290,
"slug": "housing",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/housing"
},
"news_6511": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6511",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6511",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Country Floors",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Country Floors Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6535,
"slug": "country-floors",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/country-floors"
},
"news_6509": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6509",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6509",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Garden Court Antiques",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Garden Court Antiques Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6533,
"slug": "garden-court-antiques",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/garden-court-antiques"
},
"news_2706": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2706",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2706",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Pinterest",
"slug": "pinterest",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Pinterest | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null,
"metaRobotsNoIndex": "noindex"
},
"ttid": 2724,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/pinterest"
},
"news_1089": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1089",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1089",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "social media",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "social media Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1100,
"slug": "social-media",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/social-media"
},
"news_6512": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6512",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6512",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Yo",
"slug": "yo",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Yo | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null,
"metaRobotsNoIndex": "noindex"
},
"ttid": 6536,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/yo"
},
"news_6188": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6188",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6188",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Law and Justice",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Law and Justice Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6212,
"slug": "law-and-justice",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/law-and-justice"
},
"news_19903": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19903",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19903",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "law enforcement",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "law enforcement Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19920,
"slug": "law-enforcement",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/law-enforcement"
},
"news_1859": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1859",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1859",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "privacy",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "privacy Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1874,
"slug": "privacy",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/privacy"
},
"news_1066": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1066",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1066",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California Public Utilities Commission",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "California Public Utilities Commission Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1077,
"slug": "california-public-utilities-commission",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/california-public-utilities-commission"
},
"news_4524": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4524",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4524",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Lyft",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Lyft Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4543,
"slug": "lyft",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/lyft"
},
"news_4756": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4756",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4756",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "ride-sharing",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "ride-sharing Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4775,
"slug": "ride-sharing",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/ride-sharing"
},
"news_4953": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4953",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4953",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "UberX",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "UberX Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4972,
"slug": "uberx",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/uberx"
},
"news_205": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_205",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "205",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Media",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Media Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 213,
"slug": "media",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/media"
},
"news_5270": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_5270",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "5270",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Mission District",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Mission District Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5292,
"slug": "mission-district",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/mission-district"
},
"news_1159": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1159",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1159",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Parking",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Parking Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1170,
"slug": "parking",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/parking"
},
"news_93": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_93",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "93",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Google",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Google Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 96,
"slug": "google",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/google"
},
"news_6389": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6389",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6389",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Bureau of Labor Statistics",
"slug": "bureau-of-labor-statistics",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Bureau of Labor Statistics | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null,
"metaRobotsNoIndex": "noindex"
},
"ttid": 6413,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/bureau-of-labor-statistics"
},
"news_3733": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_3733",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "3733",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "wages",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "wages Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3751,
"slug": "wages",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/wages"
},
"news_6387": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6387",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6387",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "work",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "work Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6411,
"slug": "work",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/work"
},
"science_39": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_39",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "39",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Health",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Health Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 41,
"slug": "health",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/health"
},
"science_40": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_40",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "40",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 42,
"slug": "news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/category/news"
},
"science_64": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_64",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "64",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "full-image",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "full-image Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 67,
"slug": "full-image",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/full-image"
},
"science_5155": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "science_5155",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "science",
"id": "5155",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "UCSF",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "UCSF Archives | KQED Science",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 5155,
"slug": "ucsf",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/science/tag/ucsf"
},
"stateofhealth_14": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "stateofhealth_14",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "stateofhealth",
"id": "14",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Policy",
"description": "Actions by people in power – lawmakers, regulators and the like – can make a difference to your health, for better or for worse. We keep you informed",
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "Actions by people in power – lawmakers, regulators and the like – can make a difference to your health, for better or for worse. We keep you informed",
"title": "Policy Archives | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 14,
"slug": "policy",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/stateofhealth/category/policy"
},
"news_4849": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4849",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4849",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "startups",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "startups Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4868,
"slug": "startups",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/startups"
}
},
"userPermissionsReducer": {
"wpLoggedIn": false
},
"eventsReducer": {},
"fssReducer": {},
"tvDailyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer": {},
"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer": {},
"userAccountReducer": {
"user": {
"email": null,
"emailStatus": "EMAIL_UNVALIDATED",
"loggedStatus": "LOGGED_OUT",
"loggingChecked": false,
"articles": [],
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"phoneNumber": null,
"fetchingMembership": false,
"membershipError": false,
"memberships": [
{
"id": null,
"startDate": null,
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"familyNumber": null,
"memberNumber": null,
"memberSince": null,
"expirationDate": null,
"pfsEligible": false,
"isSustaining": false,
"membershipLevel": "Prospect",
"membershipStatus": "Non Member",
"lastGiftDate": null,
"renewalDate": null,
"lastDonationAmount": null
}
]
},
"authModal": {
"isOpen": false,
"view": "LANDING_VIEW"
},
"error": null
},
"youthMediaReducer": {},
"checkPleaseReducer": {
"filterData": {
"region": {
"key": "Restaurant Region",
"filters": [
"Any Region"
]
},
"cuisine": {
"key": "Restaurant Cuisine",
"filters": [
"Any Cuisine"
]
}
},
"restaurantDataById": {},
"restaurantIdsSorted": [],
"error": null
},
"userAgentReducer": {
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"isBot": true
},
"requestOutcomesReducer": {
"notFound": []
}
}
