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This week, we'll learn what California lawmakers are doing to safeguard reproductive rights. We'll discuss what Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter may mean for the Bay Area and also talk to The Chronicle's Soleil Ho about her life as a restaurant critic.
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Federal labor officials found enough support among Amazon workers on Staten Island to pave the way for a union election. It could be the second union vote for Amazon this year.
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If you’ve ever been on the rivers of the Sierra foothills, you may have noticed some folks with shovels and buckets. Turns out, they are looking for gold in what was once Gold Country. We meet a few of them as part of our @WORK series.
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For Ariana Marbley, the floral designer behind Esscents of Flowers, the pandemic has been a season of growth. She made flower arranging her full time job in June 2019. She’s found new ways to bring connection to customers through flowers.
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Rancho Grande refurbishes old, broken appliances and resells them at affordable prices. It’s a business that clashes with the part of San Francisco that adores the new and shiny, but their 25 years in business lets us know that newer isn’t always better.
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In this episode of What Works, we're going to Richmond to hear about a garden project that brings nourishment to a community that lives in a food desert and we'll visit a bike program that helps kids get their own wheels.
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We know it's important, especially for children and young adults, to see images like ourselves in the media. Comics and graphic novels are increasingly popular – it’s a billion-dollar-a-year-plus business – and LGBTQ characters are popping up more often in their pages.
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“We are here for the tough conversations,” says Melorra Green, speaking for herself and her twin, Melonie Green. On this week’s Out in the Bay, the sisters talk about their visions for a more inclusive Castro neighborhood, about art, “Black Joy,” San Francisco Pride 2021 and their coming-out experience.
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Food insecurity was already a problem in the United States before the Coronavirus pandemic made it even worse. According to one projection, one in eight people in the U.S. will experience food insecurity in 2021. A network of volunteers in Solano County is turning to its neighbors to help address this problem. More specifically, they are turning to their neighbor’s yards, and the fruit trees in them.
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Mother Brown’s Dining Room provides hot meals to anyone in need, but especially to the San Francisco Bayview neighborhood that it calls home. So when COVID-19 made it difficult for people to get their food, Mother Brown’s brought the dining room to them.
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“Every Girl Deserves To Shine” is a campaign to support transgender girls and is the principle that guides RUBIES, a form-fitting clothing line for trans girls and gender non-binary kids founded by a Canadian father-daughter duo in Toronto.
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San Francisco LGBTQ publication The Bay Area Reporter grew from an early 1970s “gay bar gossip rag” into one of the most influential LGBTQ newspapers and online news outlets in the country. The B.A.R.'s publisher and news editor reflect on turning 50 in these tough times for independent media and on a half-century of queer history.
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“I love looking like a fool," Drag Race contestant Rock M. Sakura told Out in the Bay. She stuck Sharpies up her nose, described her zany new TV series ... we laughed! But she got serious talking about anti-Asian and anti-sex-worker violence.
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During the uncertainty of the pandemic, residents in Richmond started selling home-cooked meals straight from their kitchens to pay bills and using social media to advertise their cuisines.
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On this edition of Your Call, we're discussing how the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill will benefit families and children. The bill includes a historic…
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The Expanded Child Allowance Will Reduce Child Poverty. How Can We Make It Permanent?On this edition of Your Call, we're discussing how the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill will benefit families and children. The bill includes a historic…