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On today’s show: 0:08 – Andrew Perez (@andrewperezdc), senior editor and reporter at The Lever, discusses the $1.6 billion dark money donation funding a Republican political advocacy group founded by Leonardo Leo, vice president of the Federalist Society. 0:33 – Newsom recently introduced emergency legislation to extend the life of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. We … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – David Senn, Senior Scientist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute discusses the red tide and associated fish kills observed around the SF Bay. 0:33 – Trades unions overcome gridlock over housing bills. We discuss with Manuela Tobias (@manuelatobiasm), housing reporter for the non-profit newsroom, CalMatters and co-host of Gimme Shelter … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest news from Russia’s war in Ukraine. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health joins us to answer our listeners COVID questions.
0:08 – We spend the hour with Abrahm Lustgarten (@abrahml), an environmental reporter at ProPublica who investigates the intersection of business, climate and energy. We discuss an article he wrote about climate debt, co-published by ProPublica / New York Times Magaine, Barbados Resists Climate Colonialism in an Effort to Survive the Costs of Global Warming.
A San Francisco federal judge will evaluate the temporary restraining order that stopped Caltrans from clearing the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland – deciding the fate of the city’s largest largest unhoused community. KPFA’s Ellie Prickett-Morgan has this story. Ahead of tomorrow’s hearing, residents have drafted an open letter from the Wood Street … Continued
0:08 – The California Air Resources Board is expected to decide today on a new zero emissions vehicle mandate. Nadia Lopez (@n_llopez), a reporter for CalMatters who covers environmental policy issues joins us to unpack the implications. 0:33 – Tomorrow morning, a San Francisco federal judge will evaluate the temporary restraining order that stopped Caltrans … Continued
On today’s show: 0:08 – Marshall Stienbaum (@Econ_Marshall) , Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance at The Jain Family Institute explains the case for student debt cancellation as the Biden administration reveals its student debt forgiveness policy. 0:33 – Chair of the Amah Mutsun Tribal … Continued
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.
On today’s show: 0:08 – John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the latest news from Russia’s war in Ukraine, including the unsolved murder of Darya Aleksandrovna Dugina, a Russian propogandist and the daughter of a pro-Kremlin intellectual. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School … Continued
0:08 – We spend this hour in conversation with Destin Jenkins (@destinkjenkins), Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. His latest book is The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City.
