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Voters Love School Bonds. But Should They? Nov 05, 2018

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School bond measures almost always pass. More money for schools – and by extension, kids – seems like an obvious yes. But less attention is given to how that bond money gets spent and who is on the receiving end. One powerful lobbying group, nicknamed CASH, helps school districts get bonds passed. But critics say the arrangement is short-changing schools – and taxpayers.
Guest: Brian Krans, Bay Area-based freelance investigative reporter
Read Brian's full story: Cashing in on Education in the East Bay Express.

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Google Employees Say ‘Time’s Up’ for the Patriarchy Nov 02, 2018

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About 1,000 Google employees walked out of work Thursday and staged a rally on the company's main Mountain View campus. The impetus was a New York Times report published last week about dozens of sexual misconduct allegations and some very large exit packages for accused executives. At the rally, our reporter captured some of what was shared before being asked to leave.
Guest: Sam Harnett, KQED Silicon Valley reporter

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Silicon Valley Is Trying To Prevent Hate Speech. Is It Working? Oct 31, 2018

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Gab.ai is like Twitter without any restrictions. Gab is also where a man named Robert Bowers posted comments before allegedly shooting and killing 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue. Today: what Silicon Valley is doing to prevent hate speech online.
Guest: Rachael Myrow, KQED reporter

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How Much Do You Get Paid? *Crickets* Oct 29, 2018

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Are you embarrassed to share your salary? Yeah, a lot of us are. Software engineer Jackie Luo makes the case that we can’t improve the pay gap (for women or people of color) in industries like tech without being more transparent. So, she asked men in tech to share their salaries via Twitter. And thousands did.
Guest: Jackie Luo, software engineer at Square
Read Jackie's full story "I Know the Salaries of Thousands of Tech Employees" on Medium. And you can read her Tweet thread asking men to share salaries here.

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A Building Burns. Oakland Suspects Arson. Oct 26, 2018

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A big construction site of new housing went up in flames early Tuesday morning, and people immediately suspected arson. Some Oaklanders say it's motivated by anger against gentrification. The five-alarm fire in West Oakland isn't the first time new construction has burned lately.
Guest: Raquel Maria Dillon, KQED News reporter

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Priest Abuse and an Exorcism: One Santa Clara Woman’s Story Oct 24, 2018

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We don't often hear about priests abusing their adult parishioners. As advocates renew calls for accountability for priests accused of abusing children, we hear the story of a woman in Santa Clara who came to her priest for help overcoming sex addiction. She says he abused her and sent her to an exorcist.
Guest: Matthias Gafni, Bay Area News Group investigative reporter
Read the full story here.

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Should S.F.’s Big Businesses Be Taxed to Pay for Homelessness? Oct 22, 2018

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A Twitter fight between two of San Francisco's biggest, and wealthiest, tech leaders says a lot about the city's problem with homelessness. Proposition C calls for taxing the city's most profitable companies to double the $300 million already spent on homelessness. You might be surprised by who supports and opposes it.
Guest: Guy Marzorati, KQED politics and government reporter

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A Raised Arm and a Clenched Fist at the 1968 Olympics Oct 19, 2018

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John Carlos and Tommie Smith both won medals in the same track event at the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City. On the medal stand, both raised clenched fists in a salute to Black power. The backlash that followed cost them the rest of their running careers and years of difficulty outside of sports. Fifty years later, the prevailing attitude toward their protest has changed, and the movement lives on with other athlete activists like Colin Kaepernick.
Guest: Rachael Myrow, KQED Silicon Valley arts reporter

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Who Has Power and Who Doesn’t: Changes at PG&E Oct 17, 2018

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Power is important. Both the kind that lets us switch on the lights and the kind that gives people the ability to make decisions for us. Tens of thousands of Northern California residents lost power over the weekend after PG&E cut electricity for safety reasons. That comes one year after fires tore through the Northern California and PG&E was blamed -- in part for NOT cutting power. We discuss what's changed in the last year.
Guest: Marisa Lagos, KQED politics and government reporter

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Fighting Homelessness in Oakland, One Vacant Lot at a Time Oct 15, 2018

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Oakland sure has a lot of vacant properties, despite being in the middle of a housing crisis. In November, voters will decide whether the city should tax owners of those properties to help raise millions of dollars for homeless services. But how Measure W defines what 'vacant' means isn’t exactly clear.
Guest: Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED race and equity reporter

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