Posts Tagged ‘jeffschechtman’
James Thebaut’s lens on California’s watershed
James Thebaut is a Los Angeles ecological documentarian and long-time environmental activist. He argues in his latest documentary, “” now airing on PBS, that the intensity of California’s wildfires is due as much to bad policy as it is to climate…
Read MoreNick Neely takes a walk through time
Nick Neely walked for 12 weeks and 650 miles from San Diego to Palo Alto. Recreating the journey taken by the Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola in 1769, he became immersed in the history, people, and topography of the Golden State. Writing about both…
Read MoreGeoffrey King: Vallejo Police Department on the brink
Geoffrey King, an attorney and native of Vallejo, cared deeply about his city. He said he could no longer stand by and watch the underreported killings of civilians by one of the most violent police forces in the nation. So he launched Open Vallejo, a…
Read MoreDr. Jennifer Brokaw on keeping our first responders healthy
Dr. Jennifer Brokaw, daughter of the news anchor and author Tom Brokaw, is an emergency care physician and patient advocate. In February, she was appointed as the physician for San Francisco’s first responders. She explains how her job overseeing…
Read MoreAnthony Rendon on California’s shifting priorities
Anthony Rendon, a Democrat from Lakewood, became California’s 70th Assembly speaker in 2016. He talks about his work with two very different governors and how the legislative focus has changed from budget surpluses, housing, wildfires, affirmative…
Read MoreLt. Ben Kelso on the blurred lines between Black and Blue
Lt. Ben Kelso, a 30-year veteran of the San Diego police force and the president of the Black Officers Association of San Diego, gives us an inside view of policing and race in Southern California. Sitting astride two worlds, he details the pain,…
Read MoreEloy Ortiz Oakley on the future of California Community Colleges
Eloy Ortiz Oakley, the chancellor of California’s community college system oversees the largest education system in the country with more than 2.1 million students and 115 colleges. That puts Oakley on the front line of many of the social and policy…
Read MoreA fire in Paradise
The California-based journalists Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano reported extensively on the 2018 Camp Fire. Their coverage from the day the inferno began through the refugee crisis that followed gave them special access to the lives, forever changed,…
Read MoreSteve Inskeep on the 19th-century explorer who helped shape California
Steve Inskeep has hosted NPR’s “Morning Edition” since 2004. He is also a popular author and historian, and his latest book “Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War” looks at the…
Read MoreMayor Jesse Arreguin and Berkeley’s spirit of caring
Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin is one of the youngest mayors in the Bay Area. He is Berkeley’s first Latino mayor, and also serves as the president of the Association of Bay Area Governments. He leads a city that faced enormous homelessness and…
Read MoreCarl Nolte = San Francisco
Carl Nolte has spent 60 years at the San Francisco Chronicle. A fourth-generation San Franciscan, Nolte has seen it all, and still, he says, he feels a sense of surprise on every block. The current crises, however, have made him long for a city he may…
Read MoreRandy Shaw discusses housing in the age of Covid-19
Randy Shaw, a longtime San Francisco housing advocate rejoins the California Sun Podcast to discuss some recent shocking scenes in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. He also looks at how homeless and housing needs in California still might get…
Read MoreDan Walters sees California government headed to the ICU
Dan Walters, a columnist for , is the dean of journalists covering Sacramento and California government. We went to Dan to get his assessment of how Gov. Gavin Newsom was handling the coronavirus crisis and what the pandemic might mean for the state….
Read MoreMatt Richtel on the anti-virus program we already own
Matt Richtel, a Pulitzer prize-winning technology and science journalist for the N.Y. Times, is the author of “.” In this week’s podcast, he reminds us that while we search for the vaccine or the antiviral for the human operating system, we already…
Read MoreChip Walter looks into Silicon Valley’s immortality machine
Maybe we should be trying to solve our current coronavirus crises in Silicon Valley, and not at the National Institutes of Health? This week we talk with journalist Chip Walter, who takes us inside the work of a group of well-known tech boomer…
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