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On the Tending Our Roots podcast, Miigis Gonzalez and Jill Fish feature guests working toward the collective health, healing, and well being of Indigenous communities. -
Stafford Hemmer/KALWThe Harm Reduction Therapy Center provides substance users with access to services that help them stay safer and alive. But in 2025, Mayor Daniel Lurie rolled out Breaking the Cycle, a directive that signals a change in San Francisco’s approach to harm reduction. Has it made a difference on the street?
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What can thoughtful people read this summer that speaks to the fraught historical moment? -
Elaine Gay Jarvis/GLBT Historical SocietyJust in time for Pride, BAY MADE shares a sneak peek of Revisiting The Gay Life from KALW’s Queer Power Hour and the GLBT Historical Society. The audio documentary series explores LGBTQ history in the Bay Area by re-listening to The Gay Life, a San Francisco radio show from the late '70s and early '80s.
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Courtesy Greenwich Entertainment_Geller/Goldfine ProductionsFilmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine craft a gem of a film, featuring interviews from James Taylor, Carole King, Linda Ronstadt, that highlights the many lives and facets of the English multi-hyphenate. -
Jay Blakesberg/Jay BlakesbergThe co-founder of the Tibetan Freedom Concerts, which took place in San Francisco in the ‘90s to support the cause of Tibetan independence, shares how music was the door into awareness.
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California voters could soon decide whether to approve more than 11 billion dollars in new funding for affordable housing and veteran homeownership programs. Legislative leaders and Governor Gavin Newsom announced an agreement this week to place the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act on the November 2026 ballot. -
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