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Flipping the Switch: What Will it Take for California to Meet Its 100% Green Energy Goal?
6+ hour, 37+ min ago (139+ words) KQED Flipping the Switch: What Will it Take for California to Meet Its 100% Green Energy Goal? Airdate: Wednesday, August 5, 2026 9 AM California is racing toward the ambitious goal of a 100% clean energy grid by 2045. But trading fossil fuels for zero-carbon power…...
California, US Lawmakers Debate License Plate Reader Technology
11+ hour, 45+ min ago (1111+ words) In the past year alone, they’ve helped catch suspected murderers, bank robbers and hit-and-run drivers. They’ve located dozens of stolen cars and helped send a wildland arsonist to prison. They’re also distrusted and despised by privacy rights activists on the…...
Why Don’t Americans Trust the News? | KQED
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (105+ words) Why Don’t Americans Trust the News? kqed.org Why Don’t Americans Trust the News? Airdate: Monday, August 3, 2026 at 10 AM A trusted press is essential to a thriving democracy, but recent studies show that Americans’ confidence in news media has hit…...
Climate Funding Fight to Leave Lawmakers With Tough Spending Choices | KQED
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (516+ words) As state lawmakers return to the Capitol from summer recess on Monday, Democrats are spoiling for a fight with Gov. Gavin Newsom over the future of California’s signature climate fund. Less than a year ago, Newsom and the Legislature extended…...
Meet the ‘Merfolk’ Frolicking in Northern California’s Pools and Swimming Holes | KQED
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (618+ words) This story is part of Finding Your People, a series celebrating the Bay Area’s meetups and subcultures that bring people together IRL in an increasingly online world. In a swimming hole called the Garden of Eden in the Santa Cruz…...
In a Disconnected World, ‘Finding Your People’ Is More Important Than Ever | KQED
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (208+ words) Stories from KQED Arts & Culture’s Finding Your People publish every Monday and Wednesday in August. During the pandemic, I experienced a wakeup call: Throughout my 20s, my concurrent overachiever and party-girl tendencies filled my life with nothing but work and going…...
Adults Have Struggled to Set Rules for AI In School. These Teens Figured It Out
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (1469+ words) BOSTON — Over the course of one frantic, late-July weekend, 98 teens representing all 50 states put their busy lives on hold to try to do something remarkable. The students, most of them high school juniors and seniors, gathered in a precise replica…...
Too Short, Going Strong at 60, Makes the Case for ‘Senior Citizen Rappers’
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (572+ words) At 60, Too Short is helping usher hip-hop into what he calls its senior citizen era. Just don’t expect him to rap like one. The Oakland hip-hop pioneer is still recording, touring and talking slick more than four decades after he…...
Berkeley Moves Forward With Bike Lanes on Hopkins Street, After Fierce Debate
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (541+ words) Berkeley is one step closer to having protected bicycle lanes on Hopkins Street — an issue that has divided the city for years and has forced a reckoning on how the city approaches its ambitious climate goals. After hours of public…...
‘Time Travel’ to San Francisco’s Past at These Local Haunts
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (1179+ words) There aren’t many places that make you feel like you’ve stepped into ’90s San Francisco. But, luckily, Dog Eared Books on Valencia Street is one of them. “If somebody wants a taste of what the Mission District felt like in 1995, they…...