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
}
}
},
"root-site_20093": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "root-site_20093",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "root-site",
"id": "20093",
"found": true
},
"parent": 20090,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1440_0002_TheBay_iTunesTile_01-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1440_0002_TheBay_iTunesTile_01-160x160.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 160
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1440_0002_TheBay_iTunesTile_01-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1440_0002_TheBay_iTunesTile_01.jpg",
"width": 1440,
"height": 1440
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1440_0002_TheBay_iTunesTile_01-1020x1020.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1020
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1440_0002_TheBay_iTunesTile_01-800x800.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 800
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1440_0002_TheBay_iTunesTile_01-768x768.jpg",
"width": 768,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 768
}
},
"publishDate": 1631138504,
"modified": 1631138524,
"caption": "The Bay",
"description": null,
"title": "1440_0002_TheBay_iTunesTile_01",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"altTag": "The Bay",
"fetchFailed": false,
"isLoading": false
},
"news_12067800": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_12067800",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12067800",
"found": true
},
"title": "251215-EARTHQUAKESWARMS-16-BL-KQED",
"publishDate": 1766087953,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 12067799,
"modified": 1766087965,
"caption": "Mona Epstein keeps a weather radio and flashlight on her kitchen counter in her apartment in San Ramon on Dec. 15, 2025. A recent swarm of small earthquakes in the area motivated her to prepare for emergencies.",
"credit": "Beth LaBerge/KQED",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-EARTHQUAKESWARMS-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-EARTHQUAKESWARMS-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-EARTHQUAKESWARMS-16-BL-KQED-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-EARTHQUAKESWARMS-16-BL-KQED-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"npr-cds-wide": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-EARTHQUAKESWARMS-16-BL-KQED-1200x675.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"height": 675,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251215-EARTHQUAKESWARMS-16-BL-KQED.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
},
"fetchFailed": false,
"isLoading": false
},
"news_11968156": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11968156",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11968156",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11968141,
"imgSizes": {
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/111023_Angelica-Vasquez_MO_CM_11-1038x576.jpeg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/111023_Angelica-Vasquez_MO_CM_11-160x107.jpeg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/111023_Angelica-Vasquez_MO_CM_11-672x372.jpeg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/111023_Angelica-Vasquez_MO_CM_11.jpeg",
"width": 1568,
"height": 1045
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/111023_Angelica-Vasquez_MO_CM_11-1020x680.jpeg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/111023_Angelica-Vasquez_MO_CM_11-1536x1024.jpeg",
"width": 1536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1024
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/111023_Angelica-Vasquez_MO_CM_11-800x533.jpeg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
}
},
"publishDate": 1700609888,
"modified": 1700610187,
"caption": "Angelica Vásquez’s latest PG&E bill, on Nov. 10, 2023. ",
"description": null,
"title": "111023_Angelica-Vasquez_MO_CM_11",
"credit": "Manuel Orbegozo/CalMatters",
"status": "inherit",
"altTag": "A utility bill showing a balance of $400.68.",
"fetchFailed": false,
"isLoading": false
},
"news_12064281": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_12064281",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12064281",
"found": true
},
"title": "251115-DEADLY LUNG DISEASE-MD-04-KQED-2",
"publishDate": 1763347698,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 12064693,
"modified": 1763578459,
"caption": "Mr. Lopez adjusts the breathing tube connected to his oxygen tank in his home in Pittsburg on Nov. 15, 2025.",
"credit": "Martin do Nascimento/KQED",
"altTag": null,
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251115-DEADLY-LUNG-DISEASE-MD-04-KQED-2-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251115-DEADLY-LUNG-DISEASE-MD-04-KQED-2-1536x1025.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1025,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251115-DEADLY-LUNG-DISEASE-MD-04-KQED-2-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251115-DEADLY-LUNG-DISEASE-MD-04-KQED-2-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"npr-cds-wide": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251115-DEADLY-LUNG-DISEASE-MD-04-KQED-2-1200x675.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"height": 675,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251115-DEADLY-LUNG-DISEASE-MD-04-KQED-2.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1334
}
},
"fetchFailed": false,
"isLoading": false
}
},
"audioPlayerReducer": {
"postId": "stream_live",
"isPaused": true,
"isPlaying": false,
"pfsActive": false,
"pledgeModalIsOpen": true,
"playerDrawerIsOpen": false
},
"authorsReducer": {
"lklivans": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "8648",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "8648",
"found": true
},
"name": "Laura Klivans",
"firstName": "Laura",
"lastName": "Klivans",
"slug": "lklivans",
"email": "lklivans@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news",
"science"
],
"title": "Reporter",
"bio": "Laura Klivans is an award-winning science reporter for KQED News, where she covers climate change with an eye on both groundbreaking progress and gaps in action. She is the former host of KQED's blockbuster video series about tiny, amazing animals, \u003cem>Deep Look\u003c/em>. Her work reaches national audiences through NPR, \u003cem>Here & Now, \u003c/em>PRI, and other major outlets. \r\n\r\nLaura’s won five Northern California Area Emmy Awards for Deep Look and First Place in the Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards for a podcast exploring how one Oakland neighborhood teamed up to reduce planet-heating pollution.\r\n\r\nBeyond her reporting, she hosts and moderates events. In the past, she taught audio storytelling at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, led international education programs, worked with immigrants and refugees along the Thai-Burmese border, taught high schoolers sex ed, and was an actress. \r\n\r\nShe's a former UC Berkeley Human Rights Fellow, USC Center for Health Journalism's California Fellow and Coro Fellow in Public Affairs. Laura has a master’s in journalism from UC Berkeley, a master’s in education from Harvard, and an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University.\r\n\r\nShe loves trying to riddle the meaning out of vanity license plates.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/af8e757bb8ce7b7fee6160ba66e37327?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "lauraklivans",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"contributor",
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Laura Klivans | KQED",
"description": "Reporter",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/af8e757bb8ce7b7fee6160ba66e37327?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/af8e757bb8ce7b7fee6160ba66e37327?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/lklivans"
},
"ecruzguevarra": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "8654",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "8654",
"found": true
},
"name": "Ericka Cruz Guevarra",
"firstName": "Ericka",
"lastName": "Cruz Guevarra",
"slug": "ecruzguevarra",
"email": "ecruzguevarra@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Producer, The Bay Podcast",
"bio": "Ericka Cruz Guevarra is host of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay\">\u003cem>The Bay\u003c/em>\u003c/a> podcast at KQED. Before host, she was the show’s producer. Her work in that capacity includes a three-part reported series on policing in Vallejo, which won a 2020 excellence in journalism award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Ericka has worked as a breaking news reporter at Oregon Public Broadcasting, helped produce the Code Switch podcast, and was KQED’s inaugural Raul Ramirez Diversity Fund intern. She’s also an alumna of NPR’s Next Generation Radio program. Send her an email if you have strong feelings about whether Fairfield and Suisun City are the Bay. Ericka is represented by SAG-AFTRA.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/25e5ab8d3d53fad2dcc7bb2b5c506b1a?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "NotoriousECG",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor",
"manage_categories"
]
},
{
"site": "futureofyou",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"subscriber"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Ericka Cruz Guevarra | KQED",
"description": "Producer, The Bay Podcast",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/25e5ab8d3d53fad2dcc7bb2b5c506b1a?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/25e5ab8d3d53fad2dcc7bb2b5c506b1a?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/ecruzguevarra"
},
"fjhabvala": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "8659",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "8659",
"found": true
},
"name": "Farida Jhabvala Romero",
"firstName": "Farida",
"lastName": "Jhabvala Romero",
"slug": "fjhabvala",
"email": "fjhabvala@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Farida Jhabvala Romero is a Labor Correspondent for KQED. She previously covered immigration. Farida was \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccnma.org/2022-most-influential-latina-journalists\">named\u003c/a> one of the 10 Most Influential Latina Journalists in California in 2022 by the California Chicano News Media Association. Her work has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists (Northern California), as well as a national and regional Edward M. Murrow Award for the collaborative reporting projects “Dangerous Air” and “Graying California.” \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before joining KQED, Farida worked as a producer at Radio Bilingüe, a national public radio network. Farida earned her master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University.\u003c/span>",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c3ab27c5554b67b478f80971e515aa02?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "FaridaJhabvala",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/faridajhabvala/",
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Farida Jhabvala Romero | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c3ab27c5554b67b478f80971e515aa02?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c3ab27c5554b67b478f80971e515aa02?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/fjhabvala"
},
"amontecillo": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11649",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11649",
"found": true
},
"name": "Alan Montecillo",
"firstName": "Alan",
"lastName": "Montecillo",
"slug": "amontecillo",
"email": "amontecillo@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "KQED Contributor",
"bio": "Alan Montecillo is the senior editor of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/thebay\">The Bay\u003c/a>, \u003c/em> KQED's local news podcast. Before moving to the Bay Area, he worked as a senior talk show producer for WILL in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and at Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland, Oregon. He has won journalism awards from the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California, the Public Media Journalists Association, The Signal Awards, and has also received a regional Edward R. Murrow award. Alan is a Filipino American from Hong Kong and a graduate of Reed College.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5e4e7a76481969ccba76f4e2b5ccabc?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "alanmontecillo",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor",
"manage_categories"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Alan Montecillo | KQED",
"description": "KQED Contributor",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5e4e7a76481969ccba76f4e2b5ccabc?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d5e4e7a76481969ccba76f4e2b5ccabc?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/amontecillo"
},
"jessicakariisa": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11831",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11831",
"found": true
},
"name": "Jessica Kariisa",
"firstName": "Jessica",
"lastName": "Kariisa",
"slug": "jessicakariisa",
"email": "jkariisa@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Producer, The Bay",
"bio": "Jessica Kariisa is the producer of The Bay. She first joined KQED as an intern for The California Report Magazine, after which she became an on-call producer. She reported a Bay Curious episode on the use of rap lyrics in criminal trials which won a Society of Professional Journalists award in 2023 for Excellence in Features Journalism and the 2023 Signal Award for Best Conversation Starter. She’s worked on podcasts for Snap Judgment and American Public Media. Before embarking on her audio career, she was a music journalist.\r\n\r\nJessica Kariisa is represented by SAG-AFTRA.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4afd355fd24f5515aeab77fd6c72b671?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor",
"manage_categories"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Jessica Kariisa | KQED",
"description": "Producer, The Bay",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4afd355fd24f5515aeab77fd6c72b671?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4afd355fd24f5515aeab77fd6c72b671?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/jessicakariisa"
}
},
"breakingNewsReducer": {},
"pagesReducer": {
"root-site_thebay-podcasts": {
"type": "pages",
"id": "root-site_20090",
"meta": {
"index": "pages_1716337520",
"site": "root-site",
"id": "20090",
"score": 0
},
"slug": "thebay-podcasts",
"title": "The Bay | Podcasts",
"headTitle": "The Bay | Podcasts | KQED",
"pagePath": "thebay-podcasts",
"pageMeta": {
"sticky": false,
"WpPageTemplate": "page-podcast",
"adSlotOverride": "300x250_news",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include"
},
"headData": {
"title": "The Bay - In-Depth Look at the Bay Area | KQED",
"description": "Ericka Cruz Guevarra talks with local journalists about what’s happening in the Bay Area. It’s the context and analysis you need to make sense of the headlines.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"socialTitle": "The Bay - In-Depth Look at the Bay Area | KQED",
"socialDescription": "Ericka Cruz Guevarra talks with local journalists about what’s happening in the Bay Area. It’s the context and analysis you need to make sense of the headlines.",
"canonicalUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "PodcastSeries",
"name": "The Bay | Podcasts",
"description": "Ericka Cruz Guevarra talks with local journalists about what’s happening in the Bay Area. It’s the context and analysis you need to make sense of the headlines.",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"inLanguage": "en-US",
"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"
]
}
},
"imageData": {
"ogImageSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"width": 1200,
"height": 630
},
"twImageSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg"
},
"twitterCard": "summary_large_image"
}
},
"labelTerm": {
"site": ""
},
"publishDate": 1631138551,
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-columns\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-column\">\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Us\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-section\">\n\u003cp>Got a question, topic idea, advice ask or anything else you’re dying to tell us? Let it all out here! Call us at 415-710-9223 and leave us a voice message. Be sure to tell us your first name and what part of the Bay Area you are from. Just be aware that your message may be played on the podcast. If you prefer to email, we’re at \u003ca href=\"mailto:thebay@kqed.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thebay@kqed.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-column\">\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Follow Us\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-section\">\n\u003cp>Follow us on Twitter:\u003cbr>\u003ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://twitter.com/thebaykqed\" target=\"_blank\">@TheBayKQED\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-biographies\">\n\n\n\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [
{
"blockName": "kqed/hero",
"attrs": {
"titleLayout": "svg",
"titleSVG": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-Bay-Logotype@2x.png",
"backgroundImageAlt": "The Bay",
"backgroundImageUrl": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Banner-2560x1000-1.jpg",
"blurb": "Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra talks with local journalists about what’s happening in the greatest region in the country. It’s the context and analysis you need to make sense of the headlines, with help from the people who know it best. New episodes drop Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings.",
"blurbImageAlt": "The Bay",
"blurbImageUrl": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"previewID": "",
"hasSponsorLogo": false
},
"innerBlocks": [],
"innerHTML": "",
"innerContent": []
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/post-list",
"attrs": {
"layout": "cardsRecent",
"query": "posts?tag=the-bay&queryId=1458fa3b4ea",
"title": "Episodes",
"seeMore": true,
"sizeBase": 6,
"sizeSeeMore": 6
},
"innerBlocks": [],
"innerHTML": "",
"innerContent": []
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/listen-and-subscribe",
"attrs": [],
"innerBlocks": [],
"innerHTML": "",
"innerContent": []
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/columns",
"attrs": {
"heading": "Contact / Follow"
},
"innerBlocks": [
{
"blockName": "kqed/column",
"attrs": [],
"innerBlocks": [
{
"blockName": "core/heading",
"attrs": [],
"innerBlocks": [],
"innerHTML": "\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Us\u003c/h2>\n",
"innerContent": [
"\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Us\u003c/h2>\n"
]
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/section",
"attrs": [],
"innerBlocks": [
{
"blockName": "core/paragraph",
"attrs": [],
"innerBlocks": [],
"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>Got a question, topic idea, advice ask or anything else you’re dying to tell us? Let it all out here! Call us at 415-710-9223 and leave us a voice message. Be sure to tell us your first name and what part of the Bay Area you are from. Just be aware that your message may be played on the podcast. If you prefer to email, we’re at \u003ca href=\"mailto:thebay@kqed.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thebay@kqed.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n",
"innerContent": [
"\n\u003cp>Got a question, topic idea, advice ask or anything else you’re dying to tell us? Let it all out here! Call us at 415-710-9223 and leave us a voice message. Be sure to tell us your first name and what part of the Bay Area you are from. Just be aware that your message may be played on the podcast. If you prefer to email, we’re at \u003ca href=\"mailto:thebay@kqed.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thebay@kqed.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n"
]
}
],
"innerHTML": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-section\">\u003c/div>\n",
"innerContent": [
"\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-section\">",
null,
"\u003c/div>\n"
]
},
{
"blockName": "core/paragraph",
"attrs": [],
"innerBlocks": [],
"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"innerContent": [
"\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n"
]
}
],
"innerHTML": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-column\">\n\n\n\n\u003c/div>\n",
"innerContent": [
"\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-column\">",
null,
"\n\n",
null,
"\n\n",
null,
"\u003c/div>\n"
]
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/column",
"attrs": {
"heading": "Follow Us"
},
"innerBlocks": [
{
"blockName": "core/heading",
"attrs": [],
"innerBlocks": [],
"innerHTML": "\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Follow Us\u003c/h2>\n",
"innerContent": [
"\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Follow Us\u003c/h2>\n"
]
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/section",
"attrs": [],
"innerBlocks": [
{
"blockName": "core/paragraph",
"attrs": [],
"innerBlocks": [],
"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>Follow us on Twitter:\u003cbr>\u003ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://twitter.com/thebaykqed\" target=\"_blank\">@TheBayKQED\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n",
"innerContent": [
"\n\u003cp>Follow us on Twitter:\u003cbr>\u003ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://twitter.com/thebaykqed\" target=\"_blank\">@TheBayKQED\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n"
]
}
],
"innerHTML": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-section\">\u003c/div>\n",
"innerContent": [
"\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-section\">",
null,
"\u003c/div>\n"
]
}
],
"innerHTML": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-column\">\n\n\u003c/div>\n",
"innerContent": [
"\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-column\">",
null,
"\n\n",
null,
"\u003c/div>\n"
]
}
],
"innerHTML": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-columns\">\n\n\u003c/div>\n",
"innerContent": [
"\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-columns\">",
null,
"\n\n",
null,
"\u003c/div>\n"
]
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/biographies",
"attrs": {
"heading": "The Bay Team",
"bioType": "white"
},
"innerBlocks": [
{
"blockName": "kqed/biographies-item",
"attrs": {
"mediaURL": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/240426-Ericka-Cruz-Guevarra-MD-OFF-WHITE_qut-e1726507403161.jpg",
"mediaAlt": "Ericka Cruz Guevarra",
"name": "Ericka Cruz Guevarra",
"position": "Host",
"bio": "Ericka Cruz Guevarra is the host of \u003cem>The Bay\u003c/em>. Before that, she was the show’s producer. Her work in that capacity included a three-part reported series on policing in Vallejo, which won a 2020 Excellence in Journalism award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Ericka has worked as a breaking news reporting at Oregon Public Broadcasting, helped produce NPR's Code Switch podcast, and was KQED’s inaugural Raul Ramirez Diversity Fund intern. She’s also an alumna of NPR’s Next Generation Radio program. Send her an email if you have strong feelings about whether Fairfield and Suisun City are part of the Bay. ",
"link": "/author/ecruzguevarra"
},
"innerBlocks": [],
"innerHTML": "",
"innerContent": []
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/biographies-item",
"attrs": {
"mediaURL": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SQUARE-240315-ALAN-MONTECILLO-MD-OFF-WHITE-copy-e1726507257887.jpeg",
"mediaAlt": "Alan Montecillo",
"name": "Alan Montecillo",
"position": "Senior Editor",
"bio": "Alan Montecillo is the senior editor of \u003cem>The Bay\u003c/em>. He came to KQED from central Illinois, where he was a senior talk show producer at WILL in Champaign-Urbana. Before that, he worked at Oregon Public Broadcasting and co-founded the podcast \u003cem>Racist Sandwich\u003c/em>. He was raised in Hong Kong and graduated from Reed College. ",
"link": "/author/amontecillo"
},
"innerBlocks": [],
"innerHTML": "",
"innerContent": []
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/biographies-item",
"attrs": {
"mediaURL": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SQUARE_240913-JessicaKariisa-BL-OffWhite_qed.jpg",
"mediaAlt": "Jessica Kariisa",
"name": "Jessica Kariisa",
"position": "Producer",
"bio": "Jessica Kariisa is the producer of \u003cem>The Bay\u003c/em>. She first joined KQED as an intern for \u003cem>The California Report Magazine\u003c/em>, after which she became an on-call producer. She reported a \u003cem>Bay Curious\u003c/em> episode on the use of rap lyrics in criminal trials which won a Society of Professional Journalists award in 2023 for Excellence in Features Journalism and the 2023 Signal Award for Best Conversation Starter. She’s worked on podcasts for Snap Judgment and American Public Media. Before embarking on her audio career, she was a music journalist. Jessica Kariisa is represented by SAG-AFTRA.",
"link": "/author/jkariisa"
},
"innerBlocks": [],
"innerHTML": "",
"innerContent": []
}
],
"innerHTML": "\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-biographies\">\n\n\n\n\u003c/div>\n",
"innerContent": [
"\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-biographies\">",
null,
"\n\n",
null,
"\n\n",
null,
"\u003c/div>\n"
]
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/ad",
"attrs": [],
"innerBlocks": [],
"innerHTML": "",
"innerContent": []
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/programs",
"attrs": {
"title": "We Also Recommend",
"programIDs": [
"baycurious",
"mindshift",
"rightnowish",
"soldout",
"onourwatch",
"forum"
]
},
"innerBlocks": [],
"innerHTML": "",
"innerContent": []
}
],
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1739491002,
"format": "standard",
"path": "/podcasts/thebay",
"redirect": {
"type": "internal",
"url": "/podcasts/thebay"
},
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-columns\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-column\">\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Us\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-section\">\n\u003cp>Got a question, topic idea, advice ask or anything else you’re dying to tell us? Let it all out here! Call us at 415-710-9223 and leave us a voice message. Be sure to tell us your first name and what part of the Bay Area you are from. Just be aware that your message may be played on the podcast. If you prefer to email, we’re at \u003ca href=\"mailto:thebay@kqed.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thebay@kqed.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-column\">\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Follow Us\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-section\">\n\u003cp>Follow us on Twitter:\u003cbr>\u003ca rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://twitter.com/thebaykqed\" target=\"_blank\">@TheBayKQED\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-kqed-biographies\">\n\n\n\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\n\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": []
}
}
],
"featImg": "root-site_20093",
"label": "root-site",
"isLoading": false
}
},
"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_12067799": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12067799",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12067799",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1766142025000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "an-earthquake-swarm-license-plate-reader-cameras-and-clipper-2-0",
"title": "Earthquake Swarms, License Plate Reader Cameras, and Clipper 2.0",
"publishDate": 1766142025,
"format": "audio",
"headTitle": "Earthquake Swarms, License Plate Reader Cameras, and Clipper 2.0 | KQED",
"labelTerm": {},
"content": "\u003cp>In the Bay’s final news roundup of 2025, Ericka, Alan and Jessica discuss the recent series of small earthquakes in San Ramon and Sonoma County, Oakland’s decision to expand its network of license plate reader cameras, and new upgrades to the Clipper card system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1999633/scientists-say-san-ramons-latest-earthquake-swarm-is-normal-but-residents-are-on-edge\">Scientists Say San Ramon’s Latest Earthquake Swarm Is Normal, but Residents Are on Edge | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067461/oakland-council-expands-flock-license-plate-reader-network-despite-privacy-concerns\">Oakland Council Expands Flock License Plate Reader Network Despite Privacy Concerns | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065714/clipper-card-new-bart-caltrain-login-next-generation-discounts\">New Clipper Cards Are Here, With Big Perks for Riders. How to Manually Upgrade Yours | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6347268510&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:03] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to the Bay’s December News Roundup, where I sit with the rest of the Bay team to discuss some of the other stories on our radars this month. I am joined by Senior Editor Alan Montecillo. Hey, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:19] Happy Holidays!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:20] Happy holidays, and our producer, Jessica Kariisa. Hey, Jessica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:00:24] Hey, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra\u003c/strong> [00:00:25] Okay, so this is actually gonna be our last new episode of the year, and then we’re gonna be rerunning some of our favorite holiday-related episodes through January 7th. But yeah, it’s almost the holidays. It’s been really cold. It’s really dark. How are you all doing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:46] I feel like every year I think it’s not actually that cold in the Bay area. My friends on the East coast have actual snow. It’s actually freezing there. Like it’s only like 48, 50 degrees here. And then I totally eat my words every single year. Like I’m cold and I want to just stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:03] No, but this year in particular feels like especially cold. I feel like I’ve had that conversation with like multiple people. Like it feels historic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:01:15] I think it actually is historically cold and like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:19] Fact like fact-checked?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:01:20] Like yeah like fact checked, and I keep thinking to back to the episode that we just did about your PG&E bail because I know mine is gonna be So high from the usage of my heater because it’s just been absolutely freezing in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:36] Yeah, I felt like I was cheating a little bit because I brought my October bill, which is a little, you know, a little old, but I really have been cranking up the heat. As I mentioned, this is our last new episode of the year. Any reflections from the team here about the year of shows, the year on the Bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:00] Oh gosh, I don’t know if I’m ready to reflect on the entirety of 2025. Obviously a lot of news happened. You know, we didn’t do a news roundup in November because it coincided with Thanksgiving. But, you know, obviously the last couple of months, there’s been everything from, you, know, the special election to the government shutdown, to people on SNAP losing their benefits temporarily. And then even on top of that, you know, local stories like teachers in Contra Costa County going on strike, so, you know, the rhythm of the end of the year is kind of news-wise has been pretty turbulent, I would say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:02:35] It hasn’t been ramping down, it doesn’t feel like it. No, yeah, I think this year has been a lot of really intense news, especially, as Alan was mentioning, the local impacts of a lot of things that were happening at the federal level, the way that immigration was snapped, with, you know, national parks. I think we ended up covering a lot of stories like that, but I think I’m also really proud of the fact that we were able to get out in the field. We talked to a priest in San Jose, Erica interviewed, food is free, Solano’s executive director in Vallejo, and also Perrin Kao in Berkeley. And so we were also able to do a lot of really Bay Area specific things, which felt really good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:20] Well, let’s get right into some of the other stories that have been on our radars this month. Starting with you, Alan, I feel like there just have been so many earthquake notifications all around the Bay Area, including in Vallejo, one that really shook me and my cat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:39] Oh, really?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] A few weeks ago. So tell us about these earthquake warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:45] Sure. So in the process of reading about this, including reporting from our KQED colleague, Ezra David Romero, I learned a term that I was not thrilled to learn, which is earthquake swarm. Yeah, I know. It’s like, it sounds very like Old Testament plaguey, you know, like God sent an earthquake swarm to like the Pharaoh. But that’s what large portions of the Bay Area have been seeing these last couple of weeks. In fact, over the last month, there were more than 150 earthquakes in the San Ramon area. Most of those weren’t felt, but many of them were, including 10 that were at or above a magnitude 2.5 just on December 8th alone. And then in Sonoma County, there was about, I think, seven earthquakes, including a 4.0 magnitude between Rohnert Park and Glen Ellen. So we’ve, I’ve been seeing our My Shake notifications, but there are many residents who have literally felt multiple. Yeah, small earthquakes that didn’t damage their homes, but definitely spooked them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:44] I’ve been having a bit of trouble trying to decide how much of this is actually just normal and part of life in California. How normal are these clusters of earthquakes that we’ve been experiencing here in the Bay Area? How worried should I be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:03] These swarms, how normal are the swarms?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:05] Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:06] Uh, they seem pretty normal. I think that a few things to know about earthquake swarms, they do differ from a typical sequence of earthquakes. I think most of us think of a sequence of earthquake as there being like one big earthquake, like maybe there was a 5.0 somewhere or a 6.0 and then, you know, several like aftershocks over the next few hours or the next few days in the case of earthquake sw arms, there isn’t like a dominant earthquake, there’s sort of a cluster of tiny minor earthquakes and then the fault tends to quiet down. So this, this happens. So I think just because there were more than 150 earthquakes in the San Ramon area over the last month, doesn’t mean that we’re going to get, you know, knock on wood the big one, you know, tomorrow or something like that. Watch it be the one tomorrow just cause I said that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] Oh god. No. No, I’m just gonna say that actually brought me a lot of relief, that answer right until the very end there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:05:58] I mean, even though they are minor, I feel like it would still freak me out. Have we heard anything from residents about these swarms and how they’re feeling about it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:09] Yeah. So Ezra talked to residents in San Ramon in particular about the earthquakes that hit specifically around December 8th when there were 10 just that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mona Epstein \u003c/strong>[00:06:22] Well, Sunday night was rocking and rolling here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:28] One of them was a woman named Mona Epstein, and in Mona’s case, she felt several within several hours spanning from the very early morning to kind of mid-morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mona Epstein \u003c/strong>[00:06:40] I was woken, awakened around two o’clock. I felt a jolt and I’ve lived in Santa Mona quite a while. So I remember the last swarm of earthquakes we had. Then again at five o’ clock in the morning, shake the bed again, went back to sleep. At nine o’ o’ I was talking to my son on the phone a little after nine and this one really scared me. People were saying, well, it’s 3.6, it is nothing. I lived through the big one, blah, blah blah, but they don’t get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:11] Wow, my gosh. I just imagine this, like, poor woman being, like shaken in her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:17] Yeah. And, and you know, there’s something about the number 3.6 in this case that I think is a little deceiving, like it doesn’t sound that bad and it, you know it’s not really damaging buildings, but when there’s several in sequence too, it also makes you think like, oh, when’s the next one, will the next one be bigger, especially if you’re, you know, literally in, in Mona’s case, like at the epicenter of like, what’s technically a small earthquake, but if you were close to the epicenter of it, it feels big.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mona Epstein \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] And people, I remember people were saying, this is just making me feel so on edge. I feel so irritable because it’s just, you never know if this is gonna be the big one or if it’s an annoyance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:58] And I didn’t know this, but there is an actual fault in San Ramon that is pretty active, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:07] Right. So San Ramon in particular is above what’s called the Calaveras Fault. It sort of runs underneath the city. Um, it’s also technically part of the San Andreas Fault as well. So, you know, this kind of thing does happen. I mean, as you heard Mona say, uh, this wasn’t the first earthquake swarm that she had, uh you know lived through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:08:27] I guess the whole thing with earthquakes is that, you know, never really know when it’s coming and you know just got to be prepared. But what about like warning systems? Is there anything in place for residents or people who might be affected by swarms to at least just have like a little bit of heads up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:45] So the MyShake Alert will send out an alerting signal if it is measured at, I believe, 4.5 or higher. So if everyone got a notification anytime there was literally any seismic activity, our phones would be going off. I mean, they’re always going off anyway, but you know, it would be a little too much. One funny detail from this story that Ezra reported is that another resident named Rachael Heys said that her Cat was making weird noises and hid under a table, like seconds before the earthquake hit. Um, I, I’m not endorsing that as like a tried and true early warning system, like having a cat, but I thought that was, that was an interesting detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:28] Well, my cat Remi needs a software update, because she was fast asleep seconds before that earthquake in Vallejo. Well, Alan, thank you so much for bringing that story. We’re gonna take a quick break, but when we get back, we’ll dig into some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:03] And we’re back with the Bay’s Monthly News Roundup, where we dig into some of the other stories that have been on our radars this month, and we’re gonna dive into my story, which is a spicy one. Oakland City Council voted this week to expand a very controversial license plate reader, and this happened despite concerns from both residents and privacy experts. Who are especially worried about how these cameras could potentially expose residents to federal surveillance. I don’t know if you both have heard about these cameras from this Atlanta-based company called Flock Safety. They’ve been in the news, I feel like, a lot this summer, especially after a few media investigations revealed how… Local police departments around the US have shared data from these cameras with federal law enforcement. That actually includes the Oakland Police Department, which the San Francisco standard had actually reported. In at least one case, California Highway Patrol searched OPD’s database for data related to an immigration and customs enforcement investigation. So the headline here really is that despite a lot of pushback by residents a lot of concerns from privacy experts. At this city council meeting on Tuesday, Oakland approved this new two-year contract with Flock Safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:38] What does OPD typically use these cameras for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:44] So these cameras are used in a variety of ways around Oakland. They’ve been installed in the city since the spring of 2024. There’s about 300 of them around the city. They’re used by both merchants and also the Oakland police department. Merchants say that they have cameras, you know, around Oakland Chinatown, for example, to try and prevent crime. And Oakland PD says they use the data from these cameras to help them with investigations. According to one OPD report that was reported on by the San Francisco Chronicle, the police department there credits flock cameras for helping investigators track cars connected to robberies, cars connected to human trafficking, auto theft rings. And then they also say that these cameras have allowed this county-wide task force to make 110 arrests related to stolen cars. Because of these flock alerts. So they say it’s just really, really helpful for them in doing their jobs and in responding to the kind of crimes that they say that Oakland residents want them to respond to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:12:58] Yeah, I mean, especially with, you know, some of this data potentially being sent to ICE, I can imagine there was a lot of controversy around this. Can you talk a bit more about how residents are feeling or if there’s any pushback happening at that level?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:17] I actually saw this specific description of the council meeting that I found really interesting. This is from writer Maggie Tokuda-Hall for the Oakland Review of Books. She wrote, quote, “‘It’s like I wandered into the comment section “‘on an NPR article and got trapped.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:13:36] Oh, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:36] That’s the vibe at the December 16th Oakland City Council meeting. I was among some of the most informed people I’ve ever heard, each rushing to complete their statements before their mic was cut off at the one minute mark. So she was really talking about this like flood of residents who are really concerned about, you know, in this moment that we’re in, where a lot of community members are concerned about immigration customs enforcement actions. And when also the city of Oakland is, you know, really coming out as a sanctuary city, many residents see this as like a move that kind of works against that. Council Member Carroll Fife was the only no vote and she really points to this scrutiny around data sharing with the feds and she sort of makes this argument that this really goes against the city status as a Sanctuary City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:32] Are there any guardrails against sharing data with the feds in this contract with Flock?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:39] So in order to address some of these privacy concerns from residents, Oakland City Council also adopted a few amendments to their contract with Flock. And one of those includes prohibiting any sharing of data with federal immigration agencies or any state law enforcement for the purpose of investigating reproductive health or gender affirming care. Which seems maybe a little specific, but there is literally a story of a Texas police officer searching national flock data to find a woman who had self-administered an abortion. And so that’s the concern that they’re addressing there. Another amendment includes a sort of approval system that requires the city’s chief privacy officer and also the Oakland Police Department’s information technology director to authorize any sort of data sharing relationships with other agencies. A Flock spokesperson says that any municipality has the authority to decide what gets shared or not, but I will say that there are still data privacy folks out there who say any data collected is data at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:09] And that is it for my doozy of a story. Jessica Karii, we’re gonna end this one with you. What story have you got for us today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:16:18] I have a story about Transit. So, effective December 10th, Clipper launched their 2.0 version, which has a bunch of really cool upgrades for those of you who use Clipper. Basically, there’s four major upgrades. First, you can immediately access funds in your Clipper account. You don’t have to wait a few days, which was something that people had to do before sometimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:46] I mean, that is like… ne of the most annoying things to me about the Clipper. Because it’s like we’re in the Bay Area. We’re in- It should be immediate. Yeah, we’re the tech capital of the world. What do you mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:16:56] No, I’m with you. So that’s huge. The second is you can now have like family accounts. So basically, users will be able to manage more than one Clipper card. So a parent, for example, could add money to their kid’s account, just making things a little bit smoother on that end. Another big thing is now you can use contactless payment with a debit or credit card. I think we actually We talked about this in another roundup. About BART launching this towards the end of the summer, and now Clippers launched it, so that’s pretty cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:17:30] Meaning that you can now tap to pay with a credit card or debit card on any transit system that uses Clipper, right? So that includes Muni, Caltrain, et cetera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:17:39] Exactly. Yeah. And the one that I’m most interested in as someone who takes two transit agencies to work is that now when you transfer from one agency to another, you can get a discount of up to $2.85 on your second ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:17:59] As long as your transfer happens within two hours of your first ride. So that’s gonna lead to quite a bit of savings for some people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:06] Wow, I did not know about that last one, but I also take two transit systems to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:11] Yeah, and there’s actually a really cool website called clipper2.hikingbytransit.com where you can actually put in your transit information and it’ll tell you how much you’re expected to save over a year of commuting, which they’re calculating at about 500 trips. And so I put mine in and I’m going to save over $1,000, which is pretty cool. Which is pretty cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:35] Oh my gosh, what are you gonna do with that thousand dollar?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:38] I don’t know, I don’t know, maybe I’ll buy something, maybe i’ll go on a trip. Now I have that extra money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:18:45] Does everyone already have this? Has this automatically been implemented for everybody?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:49] Great question. So the whole Clipper 2.0 update is gonna take about eight to 12 weeks. It will happen automatically for everybody, but it will take some time. But you can manually update the app yourself by going to the Clipper website or going through however you have the app, if you have it on your phone, to get the update faster. That said, when… Clipper 2.0 first launched. There were some glitches and people were having issues updating. So there was a little frustration around that. It’s now been over a week. I was able to update mine pretty smoothly. So I think they’re working out some of the kinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:32] I mean Jessica, we’ve talked a lot on this show about like how much transit agencies around the Bay Area are really struggling financially right now so why why are they doing this and and why are they giving you and I big discounts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:19:46] Yeah, that’s a great question. And our colleague Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman did some really great reporting around this. So transit officials say that, you know, they’re hoping that offering these discounts will actually increase ridership. And if ridership goes up, then revenue goes up as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:20:03] The timing of this is interesting too, because next year we’re going to have the Super Bowl in the Bay Area in February, and then we will have World Cup games later in the year. So I think especially the tap to pay debit credit card for tourists, for people visiting out from other parts of the country or the world, I think that’s, I think essential to have, honestly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:20:23] Yeah, that’s a good point, yeah. Well, thank you so much for bringing that story, Jessica.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "In the Bay’s final news roundup of 2025, Ericka, Alan and Jessica discuss the recent series of small earthquakes in San Ramon and Sonoma County, Oakland’s decision to expand its network of license plate reader cameras, and new upgrades to the Clipper card system.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1766128146,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": true,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 68,
"wordCount": 3938
},
"headData": {
"title": "Earthquake Swarms, License Plate Reader Cameras, and Clipper 2.0 | KQED",
"description": "In the Bay’s final news roundup of 2025, Ericka, Alan and Jessica discuss the recent series of small earthquakes in San Ramon and Sonoma County, Oakland’s decision to expand its network of license plate reader cameras, and new upgrades to the Clipper card system.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Earthquake Swarms, License Plate Reader Cameras, and Clipper 2.0",
"datePublished": "2025-12-19T03:00:25-08:00",
"dateModified": "2025-12-18T23:09:06-08:00",
"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"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 8,
"slug": "news",
"name": "News"
},
"source": "The Bay",
"sourceUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay",
"audioUrl": "https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC6347268510.mp3",
"sticky": false,
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12067799/an-earthquake-swarm-license-plate-reader-cameras-and-clipper-2-0",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the Bay’s final news roundup of 2025, Ericka, Alan and Jessica discuss the recent series of small earthquakes in San Ramon and Sonoma County, Oakland’s decision to expand its network of license plate reader cameras, and new upgrades to the Clipper card system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1999633/scientists-say-san-ramons-latest-earthquake-swarm-is-normal-but-residents-are-on-edge\">Scientists Say San Ramon’s Latest Earthquake Swarm Is Normal, but Residents Are on Edge | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067461/oakland-council-expands-flock-license-plate-reader-network-despite-privacy-concerns\">Oakland Council Expands Flock License Plate Reader Network Despite Privacy Concerns | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065714/clipper-card-new-bart-caltrain-login-next-generation-discounts\">New Clipper Cards Are Here, With Big Perks for Riders. How to Manually Upgrade Yours | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC6347268510&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\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>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:03] I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara and welcome to the Bay’s December News Roundup, where I sit with the rest of the Bay team to discuss some of the other stories on our radars this month. I am joined by Senior Editor Alan Montecillo. Hey, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:19] Happy Holidays!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:20] Happy holidays, and our producer, Jessica Kariisa. Hey, Jessica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:00:24] Hey, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra\u003c/strong> [00:00:25] Okay, so this is actually gonna be our last new episode of the year, and then we’re gonna be rerunning some of our favorite holiday-related episodes through January 7th. But yeah, it’s almost the holidays. It’s been really cold. It’s really dark. How are you all doing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:46] I feel like every year I think it’s not actually that cold in the Bay area. My friends on the East coast have actual snow. It’s actually freezing there. Like it’s only like 48, 50 degrees here. And then I totally eat my words every single year. Like I’m cold and I want to just stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:03] No, but this year in particular feels like especially cold. I feel like I’ve had that conversation with like multiple people. Like it feels historic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:01:15] I think it actually is historically cold and like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:19] Fact like fact-checked?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:01:20] Like yeah like fact checked, and I keep thinking to back to the episode that we just did about your PG&E bail because I know mine is gonna be So high from the usage of my heater because it’s just been absolutely freezing in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:36] Yeah, I felt like I was cheating a little bit because I brought my October bill, which is a little, you know, a little old, but I really have been cranking up the heat. As I mentioned, this is our last new episode of the year. Any reflections from the team here about the year of shows, the year on the Bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:02:00] Oh gosh, I don’t know if I’m ready to reflect on the entirety of 2025. Obviously a lot of news happened. You know, we didn’t do a news roundup in November because it coincided with Thanksgiving. But, you know, obviously the last couple of months, there’s been everything from, you, know, the special election to the government shutdown, to people on SNAP losing their benefits temporarily. And then even on top of that, you know, local stories like teachers in Contra Costa County going on strike, so, you know, the rhythm of the end of the year is kind of news-wise has been pretty turbulent, I would say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:02:35] It hasn’t been ramping down, it doesn’t feel like it. No, yeah, I think this year has been a lot of really intense news, especially, as Alan was mentioning, the local impacts of a lot of things that were happening at the federal level, the way that immigration was snapped, with, you know, national parks. I think we ended up covering a lot of stories like that, but I think I’m also really proud of the fact that we were able to get out in the field. We talked to a priest in San Jose, Erica interviewed, food is free, Solano’s executive director in Vallejo, and also Perrin Kao in Berkeley. And so we were also able to do a lot of really Bay Area specific things, which felt really good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:20] Well, let’s get right into some of the other stories that have been on our radars this month. Starting with you, Alan, I feel like there just have been so many earthquake notifications all around the Bay Area, including in Vallejo, one that really shook me and my cat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:39] Oh, really?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] A few weeks ago. So tell us about these earthquake warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:45] Sure. So in the process of reading about this, including reporting from our KQED colleague, Ezra David Romero, I learned a term that I was not thrilled to learn, which is earthquake swarm. Yeah, I know. It’s like, it sounds very like Old Testament plaguey, you know, like God sent an earthquake swarm to like the Pharaoh. But that’s what large portions of the Bay Area have been seeing these last couple of weeks. In fact, over the last month, there were more than 150 earthquakes in the San Ramon area. Most of those weren’t felt, but many of them were, including 10 that were at or above a magnitude 2.5 just on December 8th alone. And then in Sonoma County, there was about, I think, seven earthquakes, including a 4.0 magnitude between Rohnert Park and Glen Ellen. So we’ve, I’ve been seeing our My Shake notifications, but there are many residents who have literally felt multiple. Yeah, small earthquakes that didn’t damage their homes, but definitely spooked them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:44] I’ve been having a bit of trouble trying to decide how much of this is actually just normal and part of life in California. How normal are these clusters of earthquakes that we’ve been experiencing here in the Bay Area? How worried should I be?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:03] These swarms, how normal are the swarms?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:05] Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:06] Uh, they seem pretty normal. I think that a few things to know about earthquake swarms, they do differ from a typical sequence of earthquakes. I think most of us think of a sequence of earthquake as there being like one big earthquake, like maybe there was a 5.0 somewhere or a 6.0 and then, you know, several like aftershocks over the next few hours or the next few days in the case of earthquake sw arms, there isn’t like a dominant earthquake, there’s sort of a cluster of tiny minor earthquakes and then the fault tends to quiet down. So this, this happens. So I think just because there were more than 150 earthquakes in the San Ramon area over the last month, doesn’t mean that we’re going to get, you know, knock on wood the big one, you know, tomorrow or something like that. Watch it be the one tomorrow just cause I said that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] Oh god. No. No, I’m just gonna say that actually brought me a lot of relief, that answer right until the very end there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:05:58] I mean, even though they are minor, I feel like it would still freak me out. Have we heard anything from residents about these swarms and how they’re feeling about it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:09] Yeah. So Ezra talked to residents in San Ramon in particular about the earthquakes that hit specifically around December 8th when there were 10 just that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mona Epstein \u003c/strong>[00:06:22] Well, Sunday night was rocking and rolling here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:28] One of them was a woman named Mona Epstein, and in Mona’s case, she felt several within several hours spanning from the very early morning to kind of mid-morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mona Epstein \u003c/strong>[00:06:40] I was woken, awakened around two o’clock. I felt a jolt and I’ve lived in Santa Mona quite a while. So I remember the last swarm of earthquakes we had. Then again at five o’ clock in the morning, shake the bed again, went back to sleep. At nine o’ o’ I was talking to my son on the phone a little after nine and this one really scared me. People were saying, well, it’s 3.6, it is nothing. I lived through the big one, blah, blah blah, but they don’t get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:11] Wow, my gosh. I just imagine this, like, poor woman being, like shaken in her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:17] Yeah. And, and you know, there’s something about the number 3.6 in this case that I think is a little deceiving, like it doesn’t sound that bad and it, you know it’s not really damaging buildings, but when there’s several in sequence too, it also makes you think like, oh, when’s the next one, will the next one be bigger, especially if you’re, you know, literally in, in Mona’s case, like at the epicenter of like, what’s technically a small earthquake, but if you were close to the epicenter of it, it feels big.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mona Epstein \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] And people, I remember people were saying, this is just making me feel so on edge. I feel so irritable because it’s just, you never know if this is gonna be the big one or if it’s an annoyance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:58] And I didn’t know this, but there is an actual fault in San Ramon that is pretty active, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:07] Right. So San Ramon in particular is above what’s called the Calaveras Fault. It sort of runs underneath the city. Um, it’s also technically part of the San Andreas Fault as well. So, you know, this kind of thing does happen. I mean, as you heard Mona say, uh, this wasn’t the first earthquake swarm that she had, uh you know lived through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:08:27] I guess the whole thing with earthquakes is that, you know, never really know when it’s coming and you know just got to be prepared. But what about like warning systems? Is there anything in place for residents or people who might be affected by swarms to at least just have like a little bit of heads up?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:45] So the MyShake Alert will send out an alerting signal if it is measured at, I believe, 4.5 or higher. So if everyone got a notification anytime there was literally any seismic activity, our phones would be going off. I mean, they’re always going off anyway, but you know, it would be a little too much. One funny detail from this story that Ezra reported is that another resident named Rachael Heys said that her Cat was making weird noises and hid under a table, like seconds before the earthquake hit. Um, I, I’m not endorsing that as like a tried and true early warning system, like having a cat, but I thought that was, that was an interesting detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:28] Well, my cat Remi needs a software update, because she was fast asleep seconds before that earthquake in Vallejo. Well, Alan, thank you so much for bringing that story. We’re gonna take a quick break, but when we get back, we’ll dig into some of the other stories that we’ve been following this month. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:03] And we’re back with the Bay’s Monthly News Roundup, where we dig into some of the other stories that have been on our radars this month, and we’re gonna dive into my story, which is a spicy one. Oakland City Council voted this week to expand a very controversial license plate reader, and this happened despite concerns from both residents and privacy experts. Who are especially worried about how these cameras could potentially expose residents to federal surveillance. I don’t know if you both have heard about these cameras from this Atlanta-based company called Flock Safety. They’ve been in the news, I feel like, a lot this summer, especially after a few media investigations revealed how… Local police departments around the US have shared data from these cameras with federal law enforcement. That actually includes the Oakland Police Department, which the San Francisco standard had actually reported. In at least one case, California Highway Patrol searched OPD’s database for data related to an immigration and customs enforcement investigation. So the headline here really is that despite a lot of pushback by residents a lot of concerns from privacy experts. At this city council meeting on Tuesday, Oakland approved this new two-year contract with Flock Safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:38] What does OPD typically use these cameras for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:44] So these cameras are used in a variety of ways around Oakland. They’ve been installed in the city since the spring of 2024. There’s about 300 of them around the city. They’re used by both merchants and also the Oakland police department. Merchants say that they have cameras, you know, around Oakland Chinatown, for example, to try and prevent crime. And Oakland PD says they use the data from these cameras to help them with investigations. According to one OPD report that was reported on by the San Francisco Chronicle, the police department there credits flock cameras for helping investigators track cars connected to robberies, cars connected to human trafficking, auto theft rings. And then they also say that these cameras have allowed this county-wide task force to make 110 arrests related to stolen cars. Because of these flock alerts. So they say it’s just really, really helpful for them in doing their jobs and in responding to the kind of crimes that they say that Oakland residents want them to respond to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:12:58] Yeah, I mean, especially with, you know, some of this data potentially being sent to ICE, I can imagine there was a lot of controversy around this. Can you talk a bit more about how residents are feeling or if there’s any pushback happening at that level?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:17] I actually saw this specific description of the council meeting that I found really interesting. This is from writer Maggie Tokuda-Hall for the Oakland Review of Books. She wrote, quote, “‘It’s like I wandered into the comment section “‘on an NPR article and got trapped.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:13:36] Oh, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:36] That’s the vibe at the December 16th Oakland City Council meeting. I was among some of the most informed people I’ve ever heard, each rushing to complete their statements before their mic was cut off at the one minute mark. So she was really talking about this like flood of residents who are really concerned about, you know, in this moment that we’re in, where a lot of community members are concerned about immigration customs enforcement actions. And when also the city of Oakland is, you know, really coming out as a sanctuary city, many residents see this as like a move that kind of works against that. Council Member Carroll Fife was the only no vote and she really points to this scrutiny around data sharing with the feds and she sort of makes this argument that this really goes against the city status as a Sanctuary City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:14:32] Are there any guardrails against sharing data with the feds in this contract with Flock?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:39] So in order to address some of these privacy concerns from residents, Oakland City Council also adopted a few amendments to their contract with Flock. And one of those includes prohibiting any sharing of data with federal immigration agencies or any state law enforcement for the purpose of investigating reproductive health or gender affirming care. Which seems maybe a little specific, but there is literally a story of a Texas police officer searching national flock data to find a woman who had self-administered an abortion. And so that’s the concern that they’re addressing there. Another amendment includes a sort of approval system that requires the city’s chief privacy officer and also the Oakland Police Department’s information technology director to authorize any sort of data sharing relationships with other agencies. A Flock spokesperson says that any municipality has the authority to decide what gets shared or not, but I will say that there are still data privacy folks out there who say any data collected is data at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:09] And that is it for my doozy of a story. Jessica Karii, we’re gonna end this one with you. What story have you got for us today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:16:18] I have a story about Transit. So, effective December 10th, Clipper launched their 2.0 version, which has a bunch of really cool upgrades for those of you who use Clipper. Basically, there’s four major upgrades. First, you can immediately access funds in your Clipper account. You don’t have to wait a few days, which was something that people had to do before sometimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:46] I mean, that is like… ne of the most annoying things to me about the Clipper. Because it’s like we’re in the Bay Area. We’re in- It should be immediate. Yeah, we’re the tech capital of the world. What do you mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:16:56] No, I’m with you. So that’s huge. The second is you can now have like family accounts. So basically, users will be able to manage more than one Clipper card. So a parent, for example, could add money to their kid’s account, just making things a little bit smoother on that end. Another big thing is now you can use contactless payment with a debit or credit card. I think we actually We talked about this in another roundup. About BART launching this towards the end of the summer, and now Clippers launched it, so that’s pretty cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:17:30] Meaning that you can now tap to pay with a credit card or debit card on any transit system that uses Clipper, right? So that includes Muni, Caltrain, et cetera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:17:39] Exactly. Yeah. And the one that I’m most interested in as someone who takes two transit agencies to work is that now when you transfer from one agency to another, you can get a discount of up to $2.85 on your second ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:17:59] As long as your transfer happens within two hours of your first ride. So that’s gonna lead to quite a bit of savings for some people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:06] Wow, I did not know about that last one, but I also take two transit systems to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:11] Yeah, and there’s actually a really cool website called clipper2.hikingbytransit.com where you can actually put in your transit information and it’ll tell you how much you’re expected to save over a year of commuting, which they’re calculating at about 500 trips. And so I put mine in and I’m going to save over $1,000, which is pretty cool. Which is pretty cool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:35] Oh my gosh, what are you gonna do with that thousand dollar?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:38] I don’t know, I don’t know, maybe I’ll buy something, maybe i’ll go on a trip. Now I have that extra money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:18:45] Does everyone already have this? Has this automatically been implemented for everybody?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:18:49] Great question. So the whole Clipper 2.0 update is gonna take about eight to 12 weeks. It will happen automatically for everybody, but it will take some time. But you can manually update the app yourself by going to the Clipper website or going through however you have the app, if you have it on your phone, to get the update faster. That said, when… Clipper 2.0 first launched. There were some glitches and people were having issues updating. So there was a little frustration around that. It’s now been over a week. I was able to update mine pretty smoothly. So I think they’re working out some of the kinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:19:32] I mean Jessica, we’ve talked a lot on this show about like how much transit agencies around the Bay Area are really struggling financially right now so why why are they doing this and and why are they giving you and I big discounts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:19:46] Yeah, that’s a great question. And our colleague Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman did some really great reporting around this. So transit officials say that, you know, they’re hoping that offering these discounts will actually increase ridership. And if ridership goes up, then revenue goes up as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:20:03] The timing of this is interesting too, because next year we’re going to have the Super Bowl in the Bay Area in February, and then we will have World Cup games later in the year. So I think especially the tap to pay debit credit card for tourists, for people visiting out from other parts of the country or the world, I think that’s, I think essential to have, honestly.\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>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:20:23] Yeah, that’s a good point, yeah. Well, thank you so much for bringing that story, Jessica.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12067799/an-earthquake-swarm-license-plate-reader-cameras-and-clipper-2-0",
"authors": [
"8654",
"11831",
"11649"
],
"categories": [
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_269",
"news_36204",
"news_1012",
"news_33812",
"news_1859",
"news_1764",
"news_4289",
"news_22598"
],
"featImg": "news_12067800",
"label": "source_news_12067799"
},
"news_12067458": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12067458",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12067458",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1765969251000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "decoding-your-pge-bill",
"title": "Decoding Your PG&E Bill",
"publishDate": 1765969251,
"format": "audio",
"headTitle": "Decoding Your PG&E Bill | KQED",
"labelTerm": {},
"content": "\u003cp>You’re not imagining it — your Pacific Gas & Electric bill really is going up. In fact, according to a KQED analysis, the average PG&E utility bill went up nearly 70% between 2020 and March 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just the cost: understanding what’s actually in your bill can be confusing. Today, KQED climate reporter Laura Klivans helps Ericka decode her PG&E bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2258746301&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033386/pge-electricity-rates-have-jumped-nearly-70-since-2020\">The Average PG&E Utility Bill Has Gone Up Nearly 70% Since 2020 | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1999400/bay-area-electricity-bills-are-some-of-the-highest-where-does-your-money-go\">Bay Area Electricity Bills Are Some of the Highest. Where Does Your Money Go? | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023805/pge-bills-keep-rising-what-can-you-do-to-potentially-lower-your-bills\">PG&E Bills Keep Rising. What Can You Do to (Potentially) Lower Your Bills? | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:51] \u003c/em>I’m Ericka Cruz-Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:56] \u003c/em>All right, so what are you holding in your hand?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kenya Brown: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:58] \u003c/em>I am holding my PG&E bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:01] \u003c/em>This is Kenya Brown, she’s a mom of five and she lives in a one story house in the East Bay city of Bay Point. And she’s tried a bunch of things to try and lower her Pacific gas and electric bill. Weatherizing her home, asking the kids to turn off the lights and turn down the heat. But she’s never had to pay this much for her utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:26] \u003c/em>Can you read it for me? What does it say? What’s the grand total?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kenya Brown: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:30] \u003c/em>$648 for one month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kenya Brown: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:35] \u003c/em>Like, I have to decide, like, am I going to pay this bill, or am I gonna eat food? And I have choose food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:46] \u003c/em>A lot of people are in this situation in California because you aren’t just imagining it. Utility bills are going up. But where does any of that money actually go? And why are bills skyrocketing in the first place?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:05] \u003c/em>And so then I thought, it’d be fun to do a story where I just dive into someone’s bill and try to really understand this. And for me as a climate reporter, it took a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:17] \u003c/em>Today, KQED’s climate reporter Laura Klivens sits down with me and my PG&E bill to help me decode it and understand where exactly my money is going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:24] \u003c/em>Part of the reason why we wanted to do this is because, to be honest, this is the first time I’m actually looking at my energy bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:30] \u003c/em>You and everyone else. Yeah. Nobody like looks at this gobbledyguck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:37] \u003c/em>Laura Klivens is a climate reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:43] \u003c/em>I had been doing reporting and I’d heard here and there people being like, you know, only a quarter of your bill is actually for the making of energy, which sounded so crazy to me. And that is accurate. That’s on one end of the spectrum. It’s like a quarter to 40%. But I was just like, what else is in the bill? And so then I thought it’d be fun to do a story where I just dive into someone’s Bill and try to really understand this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:12] \u003c/em>So Laura, we’re gonna be looking through my PG&E bill here. And I think I just wanna start at the top here. I paid $56.11 on my energy bill in October. Is that… expensive?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:31] \u003c/em>No, you are paying a super cheap amount. So it’s like, it tells me that you are not using a lot of electricity and you’re not using a lot of gas. Average bill is around $300 a month. This was from an analysis that our old colleague, Matthew Green, did in March. And that’s up from 179 a month in 2020. So yeah, you’re getting a good deal. I mean, you not getting a better deal than anyone else. You just don’t use as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:56] \u003c/em>I also want to mention that I have time of use peak pricing plan, which basically means that my, as I understand it, energy is charged based on peak usage time. So I try not to use my laundry from 4-9pm at peak pricing times because it’s more expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:23] \u003c/em>And the reason why energy providers have these is because we experience an increase in demand during those times. That’s when most people are coming back from an office or whatever kind of job and going home and cooking and washing and whatever. And so there’s a bit of a strain on the grid. And also at that time in California, the sun is setting, right? And so we have a bunch of solar, but the curve of solar goes down at that time and then the demand either remains the same or goes up a little bit. And so then you have this sort of strain at that time. So that’s why they’re trying to incentivize people to not use as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:02] \u003c/em>So you’ve got my bill printed out in front of me. I feel very exposed a little bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:10] \u003c/em>I know, doesn’t it feel a little weird?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:11] \u003c/em>It does. And I’ve got my bill in front of me as well. So let’s go through this thing. So it is eight pages, but I want to start on the first page because it looks like there are three main things that I’m really being charged for at the top here. PG&E and electric delivery charges, electric generation charges, and current gas charges. So what is going up for most people in their bills, and why is that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:40] \u003c/em>There’s different reasons why our energy bills increase at different times. Right now, in the past like five years-ish, we’ve been paying largely for wildfires. What we’re seeing is an increase in one section of the bill, which we will talk about. And it’s called transmission and distribution. And this includes things like towers and huge wires, and then the local wires and poles that we see in our neighborhoods. And that’s increasing because we have to prepare those things to be ready for more wildfire so that if fire comes towards them, that they don’t just sort of melt and cause issues, but also that they don’t spark wildfires, and we’re also paying for the liabilities of past wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:33] \u003c/em>Because they have sparked wildfires in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:35] \u003c/em>Yeah, mhm.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Severin Bornstein: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:37] \u003c/em>So if you went back 30 years, it was basically putting up wires around neighborhoods and then maintaining them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:46] \u003c/em>I spoke to UC Berkeley professor of energy and economics, Severin Bornstein, and he said that 30 years ago, transmission and distribution was just cents out of your entire bill. And now it’s just, it’s a much larger percentage of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Severin Bornstein: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:01] \u003c/em>Now because it’s much more likely that when that wire falls, it will hit dry tinder and it will happen on a windy day when there’s just a lot more fire risk, we’re spending an enormous amount of money to avoid that risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:18] \u003c/em>Basically, people’s electric delivery charges are going up because of wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:23] \u003c/em>Yes, made worse by climate change, not being able to be managed easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:28] \u003c/em>I’m paying $29.97 for these electric delivery charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:35] \u003c/em>Yeah, and that’s out of your bill of $56.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:38] \u003c/em>Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:38] \u003c/em>So the majority of your bills going into that. One thing I do want to mention about the first page, this is also where you would see if you are in a low income program like CARE, you would seek CARE discounts here. They’re at least going to be 20% of pretty much around your overall bill, 20% off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:58] \u003c/em>What’s CARE?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:58] \u003c/em>It’s a program for if you qualify for a low-income program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:04] \u003c/em>Should we flip the page?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:05] \u003c/em>Yeah, let’s do it. Let’s go to the next page here. Okay. It says details of MCE electric generation charges. So what is MCE, electric generation charges?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:19] \u003c/em>Okay, so this is where your bill is different than than other people’s and the same as other people. Okay. So generation is like, that’s the cost of producing energy. In California, we see it coming from natural gas, solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, and it includes the expense of the upkeep of these facilities. MCE is something called a community choice aggregator. Just rolls off the tongue, right? These are community power providers. That means that your electricity generation comes from them. You’re automatically enrolled in the community choice aggregator, in your case, MCEs, for your area. But if you’re here in the Bay Area region, you’re going to see different ones. There’s Clean Power SF, AVA, Community Energy is East Bay. So you’re enrolled in that program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:11] \u003c/em>And I am paying 17 and 68 cents on my electric generation charges\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:17] \u003c/em>So you’re paying some money to your community choice aggregator, and you’re also still paying PG&E. The reason why, when you’re part of one of these community choice aggregators, you also see that you’re paying PG& E is because PG& E still owns the poles and wires. They own the system, and so MCE uses their system, but they push their energy through it to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:45] \u003c/em>I mean it is really complicated to really sort through this, but it does seem like there are some high level things that we can do to really understand and decode this a little bit, which I feel like you’ve really helped me with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:58] \u003c/em>That’s good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:59] \u003c/em>Why is it so complicated?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:02] \u003c/em>I don’t know why it is this way right now. I ended up profiling someone with a high bill and part of the reason why her bill was high was because there was an error in her bill. But because all the bills are high right now and that’s sort of the conversation, she didn’t think to question it. Moving forward, she’ll probably be paying $150 to $200 less monthly. She’s just received $1,300 of a credit. There are hotlines you can call for assistance or to help you with a variety of your bills. But I will say that sometimes, and as much as you can go to PG&E, they have a website or a page with all the resources, it’s still hard to advocate for yourself for your bill because when you call some of these resources, maybe you get somebody who’s not particularly friendly as your customer service representative. It’s confusing to read your bills and understand them. You might. Have limited English ability, these are some of the barriers that face people who have high utility bills and wanna sort of ask some questions about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mohit Chhabra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:10] \u003c/em>It takes like multiple experts, maybe some PhDs, a bunch of phone calls to understand one electricity bill in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:19] \u003c/em>I spoke to Mohit Chhabra at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and he said something funny to me, which was, you know, it’s just, it says something that you have to talk to like eight PhDs to decipher something like this\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mohit Chhabra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:35] \u003c/em>And if you want people to actually like understand and take action, maybe like having a simplifying like front end or something would be useful. And if they want these details, they can like access it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:47] \u003c/em>I don’t think it’s high on anyone’s agenda right now, but reforming this to make it user-friendly would be so neat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:53] \u003c/em>Well, Laura, thank you so much for looking at my energy bill with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:58] \u003c/em>Thank you for being so vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:00] \u003c/em>I do feel very vulnerable, but I’m also proud that I guess my energy is not as high as it could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:08] \u003c/em>I know maybe you can give tips. Yeah. What are your tips?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:12] \u003c/em>You know, what I do, I do have a tip. OK. I load my laundry the night before. Like I put the soap in, I put clothes in. And then I first thing in the morning during off-peak hours I run that thing. So by like peak hours, I’m folding the laundry. I’m not doing the laundry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:31] \u003c/em>I love that.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Today, KQED climate reporter Laura Klivans helps Ericka decode her PG&E bill.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1766087718,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": true,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 62,
"wordCount": 2477
},
"headData": {
"title": "Decoding Your PG&E Bill | KQED",
"description": "Today, KQED climate reporter Laura Klivans helps Ericka decode her PG&E bill.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Decoding Your PG&E Bill",
"datePublished": "2025-12-17T03:00:51-08:00",
"dateModified": "2025-12-18T11:55:18-08:00",
"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"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 8,
"slug": "news",
"name": "News"
},
"source": "The Bay",
"sourceUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay",
"audioUrl": "https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC2258746301.mp3",
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-12067458",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12067458/decoding-your-pge-bill",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>You’re not imagining it — your Pacific Gas & Electric bill really is going up. In fact, according to a KQED analysis, the average PG&E utility bill went up nearly 70% between 2020 and March 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not just the cost: understanding what’s actually in your bill can be confusing. Today, KQED climate reporter Laura Klivans helps Ericka decode her PG&E bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2258746301&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033386/pge-electricity-rates-have-jumped-nearly-70-since-2020\">The Average PG&E Utility Bill Has Gone Up Nearly 70% Since 2020 | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1999400/bay-area-electricity-bills-are-some-of-the-highest-where-does-your-money-go\">Bay Area Electricity Bills Are Some of the Highest. Where Does Your Money Go? | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023805/pge-bills-keep-rising-what-can-you-do-to-potentially-lower-your-bills\">PG&E Bills Keep Rising. What Can You Do to (Potentially) Lower Your Bills? | KQED\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\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>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:51] \u003c/em>I’m Ericka Cruz-Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:56] \u003c/em>All right, so what are you holding in your hand?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kenya Brown: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:00:58] \u003c/em>I am holding my PG&E bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:01] \u003c/em>This is Kenya Brown, she’s a mom of five and she lives in a one story house in the East Bay city of Bay Point. And she’s tried a bunch of things to try and lower her Pacific gas and electric bill. Weatherizing her home, asking the kids to turn off the lights and turn down the heat. But she’s never had to pay this much for her utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:26] \u003c/em>Can you read it for me? What does it say? What’s the grand total?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kenya Brown: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:30] \u003c/em>$648 for one month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kenya Brown: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:35] \u003c/em>Like, I have to decide, like, am I going to pay this bill, or am I gonna eat food? And I have choose food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:46] \u003c/em>A lot of people are in this situation in California because you aren’t just imagining it. Utility bills are going up. But where does any of that money actually go? And why are bills skyrocketing in the first place?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:05] \u003c/em>And so then I thought, it’d be fun to do a story where I just dive into someone’s bill and try to really understand this. And for me as a climate reporter, it took a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:17] \u003c/em>Today, KQED’s climate reporter Laura Klivens sits down with me and my PG&E bill to help me decode it and understand where exactly my money is going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:24] \u003c/em>Part of the reason why we wanted to do this is because, to be honest, this is the first time I’m actually looking at my energy bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:30] \u003c/em>You and everyone else. Yeah. Nobody like looks at this gobbledyguck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:37] \u003c/em>Laura Klivens is a climate reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:43] \u003c/em>I had been doing reporting and I’d heard here and there people being like, you know, only a quarter of your bill is actually for the making of energy, which sounded so crazy to me. And that is accurate. That’s on one end of the spectrum. It’s like a quarter to 40%. But I was just like, what else is in the bill? And so then I thought it’d be fun to do a story where I just dive into someone’s Bill and try to really understand this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:12] \u003c/em>So Laura, we’re gonna be looking through my PG&E bill here. And I think I just wanna start at the top here. I paid $56.11 on my energy bill in October. Is that… expensive?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:31] \u003c/em>No, you are paying a super cheap amount. So it’s like, it tells me that you are not using a lot of electricity and you’re not using a lot of gas. Average bill is around $300 a month. This was from an analysis that our old colleague, Matthew Green, did in March. And that’s up from 179 a month in 2020. So yeah, you’re getting a good deal. I mean, you not getting a better deal than anyone else. You just don’t use as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:56] \u003c/em>I also want to mention that I have time of use peak pricing plan, which basically means that my, as I understand it, energy is charged based on peak usage time. So I try not to use my laundry from 4-9pm at peak pricing times because it’s more expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:23] \u003c/em>And the reason why energy providers have these is because we experience an increase in demand during those times. That’s when most people are coming back from an office or whatever kind of job and going home and cooking and washing and whatever. And so there’s a bit of a strain on the grid. And also at that time in California, the sun is setting, right? And so we have a bunch of solar, but the curve of solar goes down at that time and then the demand either remains the same or goes up a little bit. And so then you have this sort of strain at that time. So that’s why they’re trying to incentivize people to not use as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:02] \u003c/em>So you’ve got my bill printed out in front of me. I feel very exposed a little bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:10] \u003c/em>I know, doesn’t it feel a little weird?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:11] \u003c/em>It does. And I’ve got my bill in front of me as well. So let’s go through this thing. So it is eight pages, but I want to start on the first page because it looks like there are three main things that I’m really being charged for at the top here. PG&E and electric delivery charges, electric generation charges, and current gas charges. So what is going up for most people in their bills, and why is that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:40] \u003c/em>There’s different reasons why our energy bills increase at different times. Right now, in the past like five years-ish, we’ve been paying largely for wildfires. What we’re seeing is an increase in one section of the bill, which we will talk about. And it’s called transmission and distribution. And this includes things like towers and huge wires, and then the local wires and poles that we see in our neighborhoods. And that’s increasing because we have to prepare those things to be ready for more wildfire so that if fire comes towards them, that they don’t just sort of melt and cause issues, but also that they don’t spark wildfires, and we’re also paying for the liabilities of past wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:33] \u003c/em>Because they have sparked wildfires in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:35] \u003c/em>Yeah, mhm.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Severin Bornstein: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:37] \u003c/em>So if you went back 30 years, it was basically putting up wires around neighborhoods and then maintaining them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:46] \u003c/em>I spoke to UC Berkeley professor of energy and economics, Severin Bornstein, and he said that 30 years ago, transmission and distribution was just cents out of your entire bill. And now it’s just, it’s a much larger percentage of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Severin Bornstein: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:01] \u003c/em>Now because it’s much more likely that when that wire falls, it will hit dry tinder and it will happen on a windy day when there’s just a lot more fire risk, we’re spending an enormous amount of money to avoid that risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:18] \u003c/em>Basically, people’s electric delivery charges are going up because of wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:23] \u003c/em>Yes, made worse by climate change, not being able to be managed easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:28] \u003c/em>I’m paying $29.97 for these electric delivery charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:35] \u003c/em>Yeah, and that’s out of your bill of $56.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:38] \u003c/em>Right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:38] \u003c/em>So the majority of your bills going into that. One thing I do want to mention about the first page, this is also where you would see if you are in a low income program like CARE, you would seek CARE discounts here. They’re at least going to be 20% of pretty much around your overall bill, 20% off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:58] \u003c/em>What’s CARE?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:58] \u003c/em>It’s a program for if you qualify for a low-income program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:04] \u003c/em>Should we flip the page?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:05] \u003c/em>Yeah, let’s do it. Let’s go to the next page here. Okay. It says details of MCE electric generation charges. So what is MCE, electric generation charges?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:19] \u003c/em>Okay, so this is where your bill is different than than other people’s and the same as other people. Okay. So generation is like, that’s the cost of producing energy. In California, we see it coming from natural gas, solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, and it includes the expense of the upkeep of these facilities. MCE is something called a community choice aggregator. Just rolls off the tongue, right? These are community power providers. That means that your electricity generation comes from them. You’re automatically enrolled in the community choice aggregator, in your case, MCEs, for your area. But if you’re here in the Bay Area region, you’re going to see different ones. There’s Clean Power SF, AVA, Community Energy is East Bay. So you’re enrolled in that program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:11] \u003c/em>And I am paying 17 and 68 cents on my electric generation charges\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:17] \u003c/em>So you’re paying some money to your community choice aggregator, and you’re also still paying PG&E. The reason why, when you’re part of one of these community choice aggregators, you also see that you’re paying PG& E is because PG& E still owns the poles and wires. They own the system, and so MCE uses their system, but they push their energy through it to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:45] \u003c/em>I mean it is really complicated to really sort through this, but it does seem like there are some high level things that we can do to really understand and decode this a little bit, which I feel like you’ve really helped me with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:58] \u003c/em>That’s good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:59] \u003c/em>Why is it so complicated?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:02] \u003c/em>I don’t know why it is this way right now. I ended up profiling someone with a high bill and part of the reason why her bill was high was because there was an error in her bill. But because all the bills are high right now and that’s sort of the conversation, she didn’t think to question it. Moving forward, she’ll probably be paying $150 to $200 less monthly. She’s just received $1,300 of a credit. There are hotlines you can call for assistance or to help you with a variety of your bills. But I will say that sometimes, and as much as you can go to PG&E, they have a website or a page with all the resources, it’s still hard to advocate for yourself for your bill because when you call some of these resources, maybe you get somebody who’s not particularly friendly as your customer service representative. It’s confusing to read your bills and understand them. You might. Have limited English ability, these are some of the barriers that face people who have high utility bills and wanna sort of ask some questions about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mohit Chhabra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:10] \u003c/em>It takes like multiple experts, maybe some PhDs, a bunch of phone calls to understand one electricity bill in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:19] \u003c/em>I spoke to Mohit Chhabra at the Natural Resources Defense Council, and he said something funny to me, which was, you know, it’s just, it says something that you have to talk to like eight PhDs to decipher something like this\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Mohit Chhabra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:35] \u003c/em>And if you want people to actually like understand and take action, maybe like having a simplifying like front end or something would be useful. And if they want these details, they can like access it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:47] \u003c/em>I don’t think it’s high on anyone’s agenda right now, but reforming this to make it user-friendly would be so neat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:53] \u003c/em>Well, Laura, thank you so much for looking at my energy bill with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:58] \u003c/em>Thank you for being so vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:00] \u003c/em>I do feel very vulnerable, but I’m also proud that I guess my energy is not as high as it could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:08] \u003c/em>I know maybe you can give tips. Yeah. What are your tips?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:12] \u003c/em>You know, what I do, I do have a tip. OK. I load my laundry the night before. Like I put the soap in, I put clothes in. And then I first thing in the morning during off-peak hours I run that thing. So by like peak hours, I’m folding the laundry. I’m not doing the laundry.”\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>\u003cb>Laura Klivans: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:31] \u003c/em>I love that.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12067458/decoding-your-pge-bill",
"authors": [
"8654",
"8648",
"11649",
"11831"
],
"categories": [
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_34354",
"news_21973",
"news_33812",
"news_140",
"news_22598",
"news_23900"
],
"featImg": "news_11968156",
"label": "source_news_12067458"
},
"news_12066901": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_12066901",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "12066901",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1765796435000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "this-popular-kitchen-countertop-material-is-making-workers-sick",
"title": "This Popular Kitchen Countertop Material Is Making Workers Sick",
"publishDate": 1765796435,
"format": "audio",
"headTitle": "This Popular Kitchen Countertop Material Is Making Workers Sick | KQED",
"labelTerm": {},
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Engineered stone, or quartz, is a man-made material made with high concentrations of silica that is commonly used to make kitchen countertops in the U.S. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But doctors are seeing more and more workers in the countertop industry developing silicosis, an often deadly lung disease linked to inhaling toxic dust the material releases when powercut. Even though California has safety rules in place to reduce the risk to workers, some say it’s time to ban the use of engineered stone altogether.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Links:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064693/california-doctors-urge-ban-on-engineered-stone-as-silicosis-cases-surge\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Doctors Urge Ban on Engineered Stone as Silicosis Cases Surge | KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4840843567&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:34] Before we really dive into this story, I wanna ask you how likely the average person is to come across the kind of countertops that we’re really talking about in this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:01:46] It’s super common. Go to a Home Depot or get this product through big box retail stores like Costco this has become one of the most popular or the most popular countertop material in the US. It’s made in a factory with different products like silica and resins and dyes that are baked together into these slabs by machines. They can add like different colors and designs, you know? So it’s very popular because it’s beautiful. It’s also very stain resistant. It can be a lot cheaper than natural stones like marble or granite. And so that’s why consumers have preferred it. Few people know, I think, among consumers, about the risks of this product. Workers who are cutting it and polishing it and grinding it are getting sick with silicosis, which is a disease that they get from breathing the dust released by the material when it’s cut. The dust has a lot of silica particles. Those particles get stuck in their lungs. And cause a lot of health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:19] And Farida, I know you met one stone worker, actually here in the Bay Area, who now has silicosis because of his work. Can you tell me a little bit more about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:03:30] In his story. So we’re calling him Lopez because he’s an undocumented immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lopez\u003c/strong> \u003cem>\u003cstrong>[in Spanish]\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>[00:03:36] I’ve spent 20 years working in tile manufacturing, starting when I was 20 years old…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:03:45] Nearly all of the workers who’ve gotten sick with this kind of silicosis linked to engineer stone are Latino men. Lopez started working in this industry about two decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:00] Was there a specific moment when his health really started to go south?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:04:07] Part of his job was also to unload these big slabs, you know, from trucks into the shop, or even when they’re gonna install the countertops in people’s homes or, you know businesses or hotels. He said he started noticing that it was really difficult for him to lift them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lopez \u003cem>[in Spanish] \u003c/em> \u003c/strong>[00:04:26] In that year, in 2023, that’s when I started to feel like I was out of breath. We used to carry loads, but I didn’t feel like that before. We got to the point where I didn´t like it anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:43] And then he was coughing a lot, trouble like breathing. So he ended up going to the doctor and he was diagnosed last year with silicosis. Now he’s confined in his home. He has to breathe 24-7 with the help of an oxygen supply machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lopez \u003cem>[in Spanish] \u003c/em> \u003c/strong>[00:05:05] Look, in fact, I’m not leaving my house anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:05:14] So when I met him, he was sitting next to this machine and he had these clear tubes pronged to his nostrils and he can’t really leave his house without one of these machines to give him oxygen. He also wore masks when he was working, but they were filter masks and him and his employers thought that they were protected in that way, but now doctors are finding that this. Silica dust that is released by artificial stone is so tiny that it can penetrate the filter masks and it still lodges in the lungs and causes scarring and over time the lungs can’t expand and contract to breathe like they normally do. And he of course can no longer work. He’s run out of state disability benefits and he is on a waiting list to receive a double lung transplant and he’s only 43.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lopez \u003cem>[in Spanish] \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>[00:06:24] Right now, I feel desperate. It’s a desperation to be sitting alone, without being able to do anything. It’s anguish to be here alone, waiting for the time for them to talk to me about the hospital, so that I can receive the transplant that I’m waiting for and be able to go out and work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:53] I mean, Farida, how many people are there like Lopez in California now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:06:59] What we know so far in California and the California Department of Public Health is now tracking this is that there are 450 confirmed cases of silicosis among stone workers linked to artificial stone since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Shephali Gandhi \u003c/strong>[00:07:18] I mean, the number of cases is exploding. I think many of us in the field expected it to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero\u003c/strong> [00:07:25] So one of the doctors I’ve spoken with is Dr. Shephali Gandhi. She’s a pulmonologist at the University of California San Francisco and she is seeing a lot of these cases be referred to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Shephali Gandhi \u003c/strong>[00:07:41] I have like 40 cases that are on my like waiting list right now to see and it’s just like every month my mailbox is just like full of more referrals of silicosis cases like it’s Just insane the number. 25 people have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:07:58] And there are dozens more that have received lung transplants and more workers that are waiting for them or didn’t qualify for a lung transplant. Doctors tell me all the statistics and figures we have now are definitely an undercount. This disease takes a couple of years to show up with symptoms. People may be sick already, but they don’t know it yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:25] It’s so wild to hear just how, how much someone like Lopez’s life has been just irreversibly altered. What protections do stone workers have in California right now? I mean, even as it comes to safety gear, I mean is that, is that helpful at all? Or could that be helpful at for these workers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:08:50] The state is now requiring countertop fabrication shops that use stone with silica to cut it wet with machines that submerge the stone underwater when they’re cutting it and sawing it to suppress dust. They also need to be wearing protective gear, like these powered air purifying respirators, which sometimes cover the worker’s full face. There’s a lot of dust suppression. And so we’ve had those in place since 2023, but most of these shops are small and don’t have the money or the capacity or the willingness to put these in place. That’s why doctors are looking at what happened in Australia, where Australia ended up banning artificial stone with high silica last year. Dr. Gandhi and other doctors have spoken with, say, it’s time for the state to start facing these products with high silica out of fabrication shops to protect workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Shephali Gandhi \u003c/strong>[00:10:11] You know, substitution, which is where we like really go for safer alternatives to all artificial stone is really where I think we should be concentrating our efforts, which is essentially what they did in Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:29] California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or CalOSHA, has discussed whether the state should ban the use of engineered stone. And on Friday, doctors from the Western Occupation and Environmental Medical Association sent a letter urging the state to ban all fabrication and installation of engineered stone containing more than 1% silica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:01] I mean, what does the countertop industry think about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:11:05] So I spoke with Laurie Weber, who heads the International Service Fabricators Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laurie Weber \u003c/strong>[00:11:12] Do we think there should be a product ban? Absolutely not. It’s not about the product. It is about the proper fabrication processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:11:21] She doesn’t believe that a ban is a solution. She thinks really the issue is having fabrication shops work on these products safely and following all the, you know, rules, is really important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laurie Weber \u003c/strong>[00:11:37] You know, I think that the easy answer for people is just to ban a product. But I mean, we want to talk about all the shops not in compliance. What about the shops that are in compliance?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:11:46] Especially because there may be other products produced in the future. You know, these companies are adapting and changing really fast, you know? And so there might be other toxic things that workers are exposed to. So they believe that the best thing to do is to have something like a licensing system in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laurie Weber \u003c/strong>[00:12:06] There are a lot of livelihoods around that, right? A lot of jobs around that. And I think it just sounds very doomsday when at the end of the day, there are ways that we can help them become compliant and help them be better business owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:12:24] I’ve talked to fabricators. Told me that starting a basic shop that is complying with all the California safety rules would cost around $250,000. So some fabricators do it, but many others don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:40] Yeah, anyone you talk to from the companies themselves, you know, how are they responding to this crisis?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:12:46] Well, so there’s major manufacturers of artificial stone, Caesarstone, which is based in Israel. Another one is Cosentino, based in Spain. And then there’s a third one called Cambria, which is base in the US. But what they say is that they believe that you can cut and work on engineered stone safely if you follow proper health and safety measures. But because of the ban in Australia, Caesarstone and Cosentino have started to develop and sell alternative products with a lot less silica than traditional engineered stone. I’ve heard from doctors in California that have gone to Australia that these alternatives look pretty much the same as traditional artificial stone, that they’re a similar cost. There’s still questions whether the newer products are actually really safe or if they have other metals or resins or things that could be making workers sick. But what we know so far, for manufacturers, they say to the workers that are cutting it, they just need to follow the rules and precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:13] I mean, Farida, I wanna go back to Lopez here. I mean how is he doing? How are his spirits at this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:24] I’d say it’s an illness that has completely transformed his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lopez \u003cem>[in Spanish]\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>[00:14:30] Yes, in fact I’ve been having my appoints the same way for a year now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:35] Just in the span of my conversation with him, we started and he was very animated and you know engaged and sort of by the end he was just like exhausted and I feel like I got a glimpse of what life is like for him and his family now and it’s pretty bleak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lopez’s wife \u003cem>[in Spanish]\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>[00:15:00] Well, he’s always seen for us, he is the pillar. Now that we have it here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:15:14] His wife said, you know, he’s, he was a very hardworking, active person. We go to work every day, you know, was out of the house the whole day, um, you know, busy and, and now he’s just sitting at home thinking about this. It’s an incurable illness. Uh, and even when they get a lung transplant, doctors have told me that. You know, people still need to a lot of treatment, you know. And they can’t go back to life as normal. He’s one of hundreds of workers in California that are suing major manufacturers of artificial stone, like Caesarstone, claiming injuries. And so, Caesarstone is a public company, so I listened in to one of their earnings call recently, and they said there’s more than 500 lawsuits against them, from workers, not just in… The U.S., but in Australia, in Israel. So we’ll see what happens, but there’s definitely hundreds of cases in the pipeline against these companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:23] I mean, Farida, you’ve been reporting on this since 2023. What do you hope that people listening to this take away from your reporting?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:34] For me, you know, like I’m talking to workers, talking to fabricators, but I think the most candid conversations I have, you know are when I talk to friends. Once they find out about this, they’re like, wait, I just went to Home Depot and bought materials for a new countertop because I’m renovating my kitchen and it’s called Quartz. Is that the same thing as, you know, what you’re talking about? And I’ll be like, yes. And they’re, like, wow, I had no idea. For me, what was really striking is just how quickly this product became so popular. This stuff is everywhere. And then how quickly this public health crisis came, you know, as well. So I think that, you know we need to do this work so that more people know about it and can have a more informed decision when they’re buying these products.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Doctors are seeing workers in the countertop industry developing silicosis, a deadly lung disease linked to inhaling toxic dust released by engineered stone when powercut. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1765832239,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": true,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 49,
"wordCount": 2585
},
"headData": {
"title": "This Popular Kitchen Countertop Material Is Making Workers Sick | KQED",
"description": "Doctors are seeing workers in the countertop industry developing silicosis, a deadly lung disease linked to inhaling toxic dust released by engineered stone when powercut. ",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "This Popular Kitchen Countertop Material Is Making Workers Sick",
"datePublished": "2025-12-15T03:00:35-08:00",
"dateModified": "2025-12-15T12:57:19-08:00",
"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"
]
}
}
},
"primaryCategory": {
"termId": 8,
"slug": "news",
"name": "News"
},
"source": "The Bay",
"sourceUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay",
"audioUrl": "https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC4840843567.mp3",
"sticky": false,
"nprStoryId": "kqed-12066901",
"templateType": "standard",
"featuredImageType": "standard",
"excludeFromSiteSearch": "Include",
"articleAge": "0",
"path": "/news/12066901/this-popular-kitchen-countertop-material-is-making-workers-sick",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Engineered stone, or quartz, is a man-made material made with high concentrations of silica that is commonly used to make kitchen countertops in the U.S. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But doctors are seeing more and more workers in the countertop industry developing silicosis, an often deadly lung disease linked to inhaling toxic dust the material releases when powercut. Even though California has safety rules in place to reduce the risk to workers, some say it’s time to ban the use of engineered stone altogether.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Links:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064693/california-doctors-urge-ban-on-engineered-stone-as-silicosis-cases-surge\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Doctors Urge Ban on Engineered Stone as Silicosis Cases Surge | KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC4840843567&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\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>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:34] Before we really dive into this story, I wanna ask you how likely the average person is to come across the kind of countertops that we’re really talking about in this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:01:46] It’s super common. Go to a Home Depot or get this product through big box retail stores like Costco this has become one of the most popular or the most popular countertop material in the US. It’s made in a factory with different products like silica and resins and dyes that are baked together into these slabs by machines. They can add like different colors and designs, you know? So it’s very popular because it’s beautiful. It’s also very stain resistant. It can be a lot cheaper than natural stones like marble or granite. And so that’s why consumers have preferred it. Few people know, I think, among consumers, about the risks of this product. Workers who are cutting it and polishing it and grinding it are getting sick with silicosis, which is a disease that they get from breathing the dust released by the material when it’s cut. The dust has a lot of silica particles. Those particles get stuck in their lungs. And cause a lot of health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:19] And Farida, I know you met one stone worker, actually here in the Bay Area, who now has silicosis because of his work. Can you tell me a little bit more about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:03:30] In his story. So we’re calling him Lopez because he’s an undocumented immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lopez\u003c/strong> \u003cem>\u003cstrong>[in Spanish]\u003c/strong> \u003c/em>[00:03:36] I’ve spent 20 years working in tile manufacturing, starting when I was 20 years old…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:03:45] Nearly all of the workers who’ve gotten sick with this kind of silicosis linked to engineer stone are Latino men. Lopez started working in this industry about two decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:00] Was there a specific moment when his health really started to go south?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:04:07] Part of his job was also to unload these big slabs, you know, from trucks into the shop, or even when they’re gonna install the countertops in people’s homes or, you know businesses or hotels. He said he started noticing that it was really difficult for him to lift them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lopez \u003cem>[in Spanish] \u003c/em> \u003c/strong>[00:04:26] In that year, in 2023, that’s when I started to feel like I was out of breath. We used to carry loads, but I didn’t feel like that before. We got to the point where I didn´t like it anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:43] And then he was coughing a lot, trouble like breathing. So he ended up going to the doctor and he was diagnosed last year with silicosis. Now he’s confined in his home. He has to breathe 24-7 with the help of an oxygen supply machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lopez \u003cem>[in Spanish] \u003c/em> \u003c/strong>[00:05:05] Look, in fact, I’m not leaving my house anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:05:14] So when I met him, he was sitting next to this machine and he had these clear tubes pronged to his nostrils and he can’t really leave his house without one of these machines to give him oxygen. He also wore masks when he was working, but they were filter masks and him and his employers thought that they were protected in that way, but now doctors are finding that this. Silica dust that is released by artificial stone is so tiny that it can penetrate the filter masks and it still lodges in the lungs and causes scarring and over time the lungs can’t expand and contract to breathe like they normally do. And he of course can no longer work. He’s run out of state disability benefits and he is on a waiting list to receive a double lung transplant and he’s only 43.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lopez \u003cem>[in Spanish] \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>[00:06:24] Right now, I feel desperate. It’s a desperation to be sitting alone, without being able to do anything. It’s anguish to be here alone, waiting for the time for them to talk to me about the hospital, so that I can receive the transplant that I’m waiting for and be able to go out and work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:53] I mean, Farida, how many people are there like Lopez in California now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:06:59] What we know so far in California and the California Department of Public Health is now tracking this is that there are 450 confirmed cases of silicosis among stone workers linked to artificial stone since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Shephali Gandhi \u003c/strong>[00:07:18] I mean, the number of cases is exploding. I think many of us in the field expected it to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero\u003c/strong> [00:07:25] So one of the doctors I’ve spoken with is Dr. Shephali Gandhi. She’s a pulmonologist at the University of California San Francisco and she is seeing a lot of these cases be referred to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Shephali Gandhi \u003c/strong>[00:07:41] I have like 40 cases that are on my like waiting list right now to see and it’s just like every month my mailbox is just like full of more referrals of silicosis cases like it’s Just insane the number. 25 people have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:07:58] And there are dozens more that have received lung transplants and more workers that are waiting for them or didn’t qualify for a lung transplant. Doctors tell me all the statistics and figures we have now are definitely an undercount. This disease takes a couple of years to show up with symptoms. People may be sick already, but they don’t know it yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:25] It’s so wild to hear just how, how much someone like Lopez’s life has been just irreversibly altered. What protections do stone workers have in California right now? I mean, even as it comes to safety gear, I mean is that, is that helpful at all? Or could that be helpful at for these workers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:08:50] The state is now requiring countertop fabrication shops that use stone with silica to cut it wet with machines that submerge the stone underwater when they’re cutting it and sawing it to suppress dust. They also need to be wearing protective gear, like these powered air purifying respirators, which sometimes cover the worker’s full face. There’s a lot of dust suppression. And so we’ve had those in place since 2023, but most of these shops are small and don’t have the money or the capacity or the willingness to put these in place. That’s why doctors are looking at what happened in Australia, where Australia ended up banning artificial stone with high silica last year. Dr. Gandhi and other doctors have spoken with, say, it’s time for the state to start facing these products with high silica out of fabrication shops to protect workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Shephali Gandhi \u003c/strong>[00:10:11] You know, substitution, which is where we like really go for safer alternatives to all artificial stone is really where I think we should be concentrating our efforts, which is essentially what they did in Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:29] California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or CalOSHA, has discussed whether the state should ban the use of engineered stone. And on Friday, doctors from the Western Occupation and Environmental Medical Association sent a letter urging the state to ban all fabrication and installation of engineered stone containing more than 1% silica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:01] I mean, what does the countertop industry think about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:11:05] So I spoke with Laurie Weber, who heads the International Service Fabricators Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laurie Weber \u003c/strong>[00:11:12] Do we think there should be a product ban? Absolutely not. It’s not about the product. It is about the proper fabrication processes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:11:21] She doesn’t believe that a ban is a solution. She thinks really the issue is having fabrication shops work on these products safely and following all the, you know, rules, is really important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laurie Weber \u003c/strong>[00:11:37] You know, I think that the easy answer for people is just to ban a product. But I mean, we want to talk about all the shops not in compliance. What about the shops that are in compliance?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:11:46] Especially because there may be other products produced in the future. You know, these companies are adapting and changing really fast, you know? And so there might be other toxic things that workers are exposed to. So they believe that the best thing to do is to have something like a licensing system in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laurie Weber \u003c/strong>[00:12:06] There are a lot of livelihoods around that, right? A lot of jobs around that. And I think it just sounds very doomsday when at the end of the day, there are ways that we can help them become compliant and help them be better business owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:12:24] I’ve talked to fabricators. Told me that starting a basic shop that is complying with all the California safety rules would cost around $250,000. So some fabricators do it, but many others don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:40] Yeah, anyone you talk to from the companies themselves, you know, how are they responding to this crisis?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:12:46] Well, so there’s major manufacturers of artificial stone, Caesarstone, which is based in Israel. Another one is Cosentino, based in Spain. And then there’s a third one called Cambria, which is base in the US. But what they say is that they believe that you can cut and work on engineered stone safely if you follow proper health and safety measures. But because of the ban in Australia, Caesarstone and Cosentino have started to develop and sell alternative products with a lot less silica than traditional engineered stone. I’ve heard from doctors in California that have gone to Australia that these alternatives look pretty much the same as traditional artificial stone, that they’re a similar cost. There’s still questions whether the newer products are actually really safe or if they have other metals or resins or things that could be making workers sick. But what we know so far, for manufacturers, they say to the workers that are cutting it, they just need to follow the rules and precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:13] I mean, Farida, I wanna go back to Lopez here. I mean how is he doing? How are his spirits at this point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:24] I’d say it’s an illness that has completely transformed his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lopez \u003cem>[in Spanish]\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>[00:14:30] Yes, in fact I’ve been having my appoints the same way for a year now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:35] Just in the span of my conversation with him, we started and he was very animated and you know engaged and sort of by the end he was just like exhausted and I feel like I got a glimpse of what life is like for him and his family now and it’s pretty bleak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lopez’s wife \u003cem>[in Spanish]\u003c/em> \u003c/strong>[00:15:00] Well, he’s always seen for us, he is the pillar. Now that we have it here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farida Jhabvala Romero \u003c/strong>[00:15:14] His wife said, you know, he’s, he was a very hardworking, active person. We go to work every day, you know, was out of the house the whole day, um, you know, busy and, and now he’s just sitting at home thinking about this. It’s an incurable illness. Uh, and even when they get a lung transplant, doctors have told me that. You know, people still need to a lot of treatment, you know. And they can’t go back to life as normal. He’s one of hundreds of workers in California that are suing major manufacturers of artificial stone, like Caesarstone, claiming injuries. And so, Caesarstone is a public company, so I listened in to one of their earnings call recently, and they said there’s more than 500 lawsuits against them, from workers, not just in… The U.S., but in Australia, in Israel. So we’ll see what happens, but there’s definitely hundreds of cases in the pipeline against these companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:23] I mean, Farida, you’ve been reporting on this since 2023. What do you hope that people listening to this take away from your reporting?\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>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:34] For me, you know, like I’m talking to workers, talking to fabricators, but I think the most candid conversations I have, you know are when I talk to friends. Once they find out about this, they’re like, wait, I just went to Home Depot and bought materials for a new countertop because I’m renovating my kitchen and it’s called Quartz. Is that the same thing as, you know, what you’re talking about? And I’ll be like, yes. And they’re, like, wow, I had no idea. For me, what was really striking is just how quickly this product became so popular. This stuff is everywhere. And then how quickly this public health crisis came, you know, as well. So I think that, you know we need to do this work so that more people know about it and can have a more informed decision when they’re buying these products.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/12066901/this-popular-kitchen-countertop-material-is-making-workers-sick",
"authors": [
"8654",
"8659",
"11649",
"11831"
],
"categories": [
"news_8"
],
"tags": [
"news_36139",
"news_36138",
"news_33812",
"news_36225",
"news_19904",
"news_36232",
"news_36231",
"news_32943",
"news_22598"
],
"featImg": "news_12064281",
"label": "source_news_12066901"
}
},
"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",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9jYXRlZ29yeS9iYXktY3VyaW91cy1wb2RjYXN0L2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdA",
"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",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1MDAyODE4NTgz",
"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",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9zZXJpZXMvamVycnlicm93bi9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv"
}
},
"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",
"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",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5Nzk2MzI2MTEx",
"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",
"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/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vc29sZG91dA"
}
},
"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": "",
"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",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM4MjU5Nzg2MzI3",
"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",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM0NTcwODQ2MjY2",
"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": {},
"radioSchedulesReducer": {},
"listsReducer": {
"posts?tag=the-bay&queryId=1458fa3b4ea": {
"isFetching": false,
"latestQuery": {
"from": 0,
"postsToRender": 3
},
"tag": null,
"vitalsOnly": true,
"totalRequested": 3,
"isLoading": false,
"isLoadingMore": true,
"total": {
"value": 1117,
"relation": "eq"
},
"items": [
"news_12067799",
"news_12067458",
"news_12066901"
]
}
},
"recallGuideReducer": {
"intros": {},
"policy": {},
"candidates": {}
},
"savedArticleReducer": {
"articles": [],
"status": {}
},
"pfsSessionReducer": {},
"subscriptionsReducer": {},
"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"
},
"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"
},
"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"
},
"source_news_12067799": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_news_12067799",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "The Bay",
"link": "https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay",
"isLoading": false
},
"source_news_12067458": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_news_12067458",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "The Bay",
"link": "https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay",
"isLoading": false
},
"source_news_12066901": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_news_12066901",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "The Bay",
"link": "https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay",
"isLoading": false
},
"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_269": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_269",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "269",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "BART",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "BART Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 277,
"slug": "bart",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/bart"
},
"news_36204": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_36204",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "36204",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "cameras",
"slug": "cameras",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "cameras | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 36221,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/cameras"
},
"news_1012": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1012",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1012",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "earthquake",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "earthquake Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1022,
"slug": "earthquake",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/earthquake"
},
"news_33812": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33812",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33812",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Interests",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Interests Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33829,
"slug": "interests",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/interests"
},
"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_1764": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1764",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1764",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "public transit",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "public transit Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1777,
"slug": "public-transit",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/public-transit"
},
"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_22598": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_22598",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "22598",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "The Bay",
"description": "\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11638190\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/TheBay_1200x6301.png\" alt=\"\" />\r\n\u003cbr/>\r\n\r\nEvery good story starts local. So that’s where we start. \u003ci>The Bay\u003c/i> is storytelling for daily news. KQED host Devin Katayama talks with reporters to help us make sense of what’s happening in the Bay Area. One story. One conversation. One idea.\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong>Subscribe to The Bay:\u003c/strong>\r\n\r\n\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?mt=2\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/Listen_on_Apple_Podcasts_sRGB_US-e1515635079510.png\" />\u003c/a>",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "Every good story starts local. So that’s where we start. The Bay is storytelling for daily news. KQED host Devin Katayama talks with reporters to help us make sense of what’s happening in the Bay Area. One story. One conversation. One idea. Subscribe to The Bay:",
"title": "The Bay Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 22615,
"slug": "the-bay",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/the-bay"
},
"news_34354": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_34354",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "34354",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Electricity bill",
"slug": "electricity-bill",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Electricity bill Archives | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 34371,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/electricity-bill"
},
"news_21973": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_21973",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "21973",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "energy",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "energy Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 21990,
"slug": "energy",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/energy"
},
"news_140": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_140",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "140",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "PG&E",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "PG&E Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 144,
"slug": "pge",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/pge"
},
"news_23900": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_23900",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "23900",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "utilities",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "utilities Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 23917,
"slug": "utilities",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/utilities"
},
"news_36139": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_36139",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "36139",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "countertops",
"slug": "countertops",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "countertops | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 36156,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/countertops"
},
"news_36138": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_36138",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "36138",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "engineered stone",
"slug": "engineered-stone",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "engineered stone | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 36155,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/engineered-stone"
},
"news_36225": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_36225",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "36225",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "kitchen",
"slug": "kitchen",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "kitchen | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 36242,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/kitchen"
},
"news_19904": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19904",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19904",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Labor",
"slug": "labor",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Labor | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 19921,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/labor"
},
"news_36232": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_36232",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "36232",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "quartz",
"slug": "quartz",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "quartz | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 36249,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/quartz"
},
"news_36231": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_36231",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "36231",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "silica",
"slug": "silica",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "silica | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 36248,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/silica"
},
"news_32943": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_32943",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "32943",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "silicosis",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "silicosis Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 32960,
"slug": "silicosis",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/silicosis"
}
},
"userAgentReducer": {
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"isBot": true
},
"userPermissionsReducer": {
"wpLoggedIn": false
},
"localStorageReducer": {},
"browserHistoryReducer": [],
"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": {},
"restaurantData": []
},
"location": {
"pathname": "/podcasts/thebay",
"previousPathname": "/"
}
}