Seth Samuel

Violence in Syria and Afghanistan has Bay Area residents in the street;  a soldier’s mission against PTSD; and a new opera inspired by real-life tragedy.

What’s working in juvenile justice; catching crime before it occurs; The City that Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control; and Berkeley's Mondo Loko.

What some local transit agencies are doing to secure high-speed rail money -- even if the bullet train never gets on track; the effectiveness of regulating music, movie, and TV downloads; the perils of online dating; what love means to two people who are two generations apart; and local Irish band the Black Brothers.

A clinic goes mobile to cover underserved youth; an investigation exposes human trafficking in the Bay Area; an alternate perspective on egg donation; and local singer Even Taylor.

Medical clowns offer hospital patients a dose of humor; comic relief: Marilyn Pittman finds humor in life's tragedies; a disabled artist finds human connection in canvas; and local band Rumbaché.