Bay Area Headlines: Thursday, 5/12/22

KALW | By Kevin Vance

Published May 12, 2022 at 11:47 AM PDT

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority has mailed its first batch of disciplinary letters to workers who refuse to comply with the agency's COVID-19 vaccine policy/California is in a multi-year drought and facing another long fire season. On top of that, the state says it has a shortage of firefighters/North Korea announces they have a COVID outbreak/Three projects in the Bay Area will receive about 52 million dollars to create residences for homeless people/The CDC reported yesterday that more than 107-thousand Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting another record

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Kevin Vance created a program of folk music for KALW, A Patchwork Quilt, in October 1991. He grew up in Berkeley during the 1960s and '70s and spent his years learning in public schools, community colleges, bookstores, libraries, and non-commercial radio stations, as well as from the people around him. When he's not on the radio, then he's selling books, taking care of his family, listening to music, entering stuff into a computer, or taking a class.

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