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Ali Eminov/Flickr / Creative CommonsLast year, the state of California ordered San Jose to account for all of its homelessness spending and measure the success of its support programs. KALW’s Erin Bump has more on how the city’s fared. -
Sarahmirk/Wikimedia CommonsTomorrow, the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles will hear arguments about whether to dismantle a decades-old legal framework that protects immigrant children in federal custody.
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Today is both International Cat Day as well as Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day -
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The son of famed Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti spoke to KALW's Emmanuel Nado ahead of his show at the UC Theatre in Berkeley. -
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN/Outside LandsSome of the essential things you need to know before the festival in Golden Gate Park this weekend August 8-10.
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Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty ImagesThis week a new word made its public debut. With an increase in attacks on health care facilities and personnel, the goal of this coinage is to spark outrage and outcry. But the reaction is mixed. -
Keystone/Getty Images; Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; Alan Kent/Getty ImagesBobbys were inescapable in music in the '50s and '60s: Bobby Sherman, Bobby Rydell, Bobby Darin and more. NPR critic Bob Mondello looks back to an era when everyone seemed to share his name. -
Avid Reader PressHaley Cohen Gilliland's A Flower Traveled in My Blood tells the story of a group of grandmothers who spent decades searching for their stolen grandchildren during and after Argentina's "Dirty War." -
National Crime Prevention Council/YouTube/Screenshot by NPRThe National Crime Prevention Council is questioning federal cuts to McGruff the Crime Dog's campaign to sniff out fake pills. The group says McGruff's work that started in 1980 isn't over.
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Bay MadeThis week, BAY MADE is proud to share "The Myth of So-called Artificial Intelligence," the latest series from KALW alum Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett, the duo behind The World According to Sound. -
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CrosscurrentsToday, we’re learning to skate through life. Then, a computer engineer with a history in radical activism. And, an iconic photographer captured the Grateful Dead. -
CrosscurrentsThese lifelong skaters want to teach you how to skateboard for free. -
CrosscurrentsDesigner Lee Felsenstein is legendary. He’s one of the Electronic Frontier Foundations’ "Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier"; a Laureate of The Tech Museum in San Jose; and a Fellow of the Computer History Museum. His new autobiography is "Me and My Big Ideas: Counterculture, Social Media, and the Future." -
Washington Post reporter Dana Hedgpeth has extensively covered the 523 Indian boarding schools established in the US, where 3,104 students died between 1828 and 1970.
