Podcasts about KQED

On this edition of The Bay's monthly news roundup, Ericka is joined by The Bay's senior editor Alan Montecillo and KQED associate arts and culture editor Nastia Voynovskaya. We talk about the Pickett Fire currently burning in Napa, scheduling and payment changes to public transit across the Bay, and why some local artists have decided to take their music off Spotify. Links: Pickett Fire Did ‘escaped control burn' cause Napa County's Pickett Fire? Dispatch records raise questions about blaze's origin Starting This Week, You Can Tap Onto BART With a Credit Card — Here's How SF Band Ditches Spotify Over CEO's $700M Military AI Investment Bay Area transit's latest Big Sync improves transfers, saving riders up to 20 minutes per trip Bay Area artists turn down S.F. Boiler Room show, throw their own party instead Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mama D sees that the future of the experiment is up to her and what she decides: Lead the group to the plot of land offered by the city, hope and pray for a magical new plot, or disband the group and dissolve the experiment. Following weeks of indecision, Mama D makes a choice. And while everyone from the group was hard at work to turn their dream into reality, they didn't seem to notice a major problem with the set-up. A fault line of sorts.  This episode contains strong language & graphic imagery. Please take care while listening. Big thanks to the entire cast from A Tiny Plot for sharing your worlds with us.A Tiny Plot is a new 5-part series from KQED's Snap Studios, hosted and produced by Shaina Shealy. Edited by Anna Sussman, original music by Renzo Gorrio, engineering by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Director of Production: Marisa Dodge. Executive Producers: Glynn Washington and Mark Ristich. Artwork: Teo Ducot.Specials thanks: Jen Chien, Catherine Winter, the City of Oakland, Sweetie at the Travel Inn, Ryan Finnegan, Will Craft, JP Dobrin, Thomas Brouns, Sukey Lewis, Alistair Boone, The Street Spirit, KQED legal, and Ott House Audio.Episode 3 of 5. Episodes drop on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Listen on any podcast platform, right here on Snap Judgment!  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Summer is coming to an end, so we're taking a journey back in time to remember two amusement parks that have etched themselves into the imaginations of generations of Bay Area residents: Idora Park in Oakland and San Francisco's Playland at the Beach. This story originally aired in September of 2022, but we're bringing it back to celebrate the end of summer. Additional Resources Idora Park and Playland-at-the-Beach: Bay Area Amusement Parks of a Bygone Era Read the episode transcript Sign up for our newsletter Enter our Sierra Nevada Brewing Company monthly trivia contest Got a question you want answered? Ask! Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. You can show your love by going to https://kqed.org/donate/podcasts This story was reported by Christopher Beale. Bay Curious is made by Katrina Schwartz, Gabriela Glueck and Christopher Beale. Additional support from Olivia Allen-Price, Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Alana Walker, Ethan Toven-Lindsey and everyone on Team KQED.

California Republican lawmakers are suing to block Governor Gavin Newsom's redistricting plan from the November ballot, as President Trump vows his own lawsuit against the state's effort to redraw its congressional maps to favor Democrats. That's despite Trump encouraging a similar effort in Texas that favors Republicans. Meanwhile, Newsom is trolling the President on social media, co-opting his taunting style. We'll talk with KQED's politics team about Newsom's tactics and get the latest redistricting news. What do you think of the Governor's methods? Guests: Marisa Lagos, politics correspondent, KQED - co-host of KQED's Political Breakdown Guy Marzorati, correspondent, KQED's California Politics and Government Desk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

KQED newscast for Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM

KQED newscast for Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM

KQED newscast for Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM

KQED newscast for Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM

KQED newscast for Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM

KQED newscast for Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM

KQED newscast for Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM

KQED newscast for Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM

KQED newscast for Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM

Last night we published the 17th edition of Capitol Weekly's Top 100 – our annual analysis of the unelected political power structure in California. We look at the mostlybehind the scenes players who influence policy, elections and governance, including Capitol staff, lobbyists, Agency staff, donors, business leaders, activists, Labor leaders – and even journalists.Hosts Rich Ehisen and Tim Foster are joined by KQED's Marisa Lagos, co-host of the Political Breakdown podcast and radio show. Lagos has been reporting on California politics for nearly two decades, and is intimately familiar with the Golden State's political power players - elected and not. Lagos, Ehisen and Foster discuss the themes running through the 2025 list, look at the new faces, and talk about the sophomore class of the Top 100 Hall of Fame.1:11 "It is A list, not THE list"1:56 The Top 100 Hall of Fame6:20 Nancy McFadden9:31 Mike Belote10:37 Rex Frazier12:19 Kip Lipper15:16 Catherine Reheis-Boyd19:07 Themes of the year?22:41 Housing23:36 Ron Conway25:55 "The legislature hasn't flexed its muscle really since COVID"27:04 Bob Salladay28:43 Paul Mitchell29:00 Jodi Hicks29:13 Ann Patterson/Nathan Barankin/Nani Coloretti32:47 Jason Elliot, Jim DeBoo34:05 Dave Sapp35:38 Dee Dee Myers35:51 Steve Wertheimer36:15 Steve O'Mara37:34 Toks Omishakin38:37 Defending DMV!40:01 Where are the GOP officials?42:00 "Were you actually effective?"42:27 Jennifer Barrera43:22 Jim Wunderman45:50 Rob Lapsley49:24 Chris Cadelago51:11 Nick Gerda53:33 Ashley Zavala1:00:51 Melody Gutierrez and Alene Tchekmedyian1:04:14 Political BreakdownWant to support the Capitol Weekly Podcast? Make your tax deductible donation here: capitolweekly.net/donations/Capitol Weekly Podcast theme is "Pickin' My Way" by Eddie Lang    

The standoff between Public Works and the group from Union Point Park ends with a handshake -- a deal to build a new kind of housing community funded by the city where homeless residents make their own rules. But right away, the civility of this agreement seems to break down. And after months of waiting, the group from Union Point Park finally gets a plot of land on E12th street for their radical experiment. But there's a big problem with the land. It's something that leaves the future of this experiment in limbo.This episode contains strong language & graphic imagery. Please take care while listening. A Tiny Plot is a new 5-part series from KQED's Snap Studios. Host and Reporter Shaina Shealy takes listeners inside an encampment in Oakland for an against-all-odds story about scarcity, community, and the complexity of building something new from the margins of a broken system. What happens when people who've been shut out of a system that has failed them decide to take the lead? Disaster, and unexpected beauty. Big thanks to the entire cast from A Tiny Plot for sharing your worlds with us.Hosted and produced by Shaina Shealy. Edited by Anna Sussman, original music by Renzo Gorrio, engineering by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Director of Production: Marisa Dodge. Executive Producers: Glynn Washington and Mark Ristich. Artwork: Teo Ducot.Specials thanks: Jen Chien, Catherine Winter, the City of Oakland, Sweetie at the Travel Inn, Ryan Finnegan, Will Craft, JP Dobrin, Thomas Brouns, Sukey Lewis, Alistair Boone, The Street Spirit, KQED legal, and Ott House Audio.Episode 2 of 5. Episodes drop on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Listen on any podcast platform, right here on Snap Judgment!  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

KQED newscast for Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM

KQED newscast for Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM

KQED newscast for Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM

KQED newscast for Monday, August 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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KQED newscast for Monday, August 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM

KQED newscast for Monday, August 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM

KQED newscast for Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 6:28 AM

KQED newscast for Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM

KQED newscast for Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM

KQED newscast for Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM

KQED newscast for Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM

KQED newscast for Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM

KQED newscast for Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM

KQED newscast for Monday, August 25, 2025 at 5:28 AM

KQED newscast for Monday, August 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM

KQED newscast for Monday, August 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM

KQED newscast for Monday, August 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM

KQED newscast for Monday, August 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM

KQED newscast for Monday, August 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM

KQED newscast for Monday, August 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM

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KQED newscast for Monday, August 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM

KQED newscast for Monday, August 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM

KQED newscast for Monday, August 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM

KQED newscast for Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM

KQED newscast for Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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KQED newscast for Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM

KQED newscast for Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM

Using broken refrigerators, mattresses and dishwashers, residents of Union Point Park barricade their tent-city. And they fight for an extraordinary idea: their own plot of land from the city, where they could live in community and set their own rules, on their own terms.A Tiny Plot is a new 5-part series from KQED's Snap Studios. Host and Reporter Shaina Shealy takes listeners inside an encampment in Oakland for an against-all-odds story about scarcity, community, and the complexity of building something new from the margins of a broken system. What happens when people who've been shut out of a system that has failed them decide to take the lead? Disaster, and unexpected beauty. This episode contains strong language & graphic imagery. Please take care while listening. Huge love & thanks to the entire cast from A Tiny Plot for sharing your worlds with us.Hosted and produced by Shaina Shealy. Edited by Anna Sussman, original music by Renzo Gorrio, engineering by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Director of Production: Marisa Dodge. Executive Producers: Glynn Washington and Mark Ristich. Artwork: Teo Ducot.Specials thanks: Jen Chien, Catherine Winter, the City of Oakland, Sweetie at the Travel Inn, Ryan Finnegan, Will Craft, JP Dobrin, Thomas Brouns, Sukey Lewis, Alistair Boone, The Street Spirit, KQED legal, and Ott House Audio.Episode 1 of 5. Episodes drop on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Listen on any podcast platform, right here on Snap Judgment!  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices