Alaa Mostafa

To understand the connections between federal policy and local health systems, KALW recently hosted a live panel as part of our Bay Agenda series: live conversations focused on the ways the Bay Area will change in 2025.

Walgreens will be closing one of its five remaining Oakland stores tomorrow. Earlier this week, it shuttered another one, on east 18th Street east of Lake Merritt.

This story most recently aired in the June 21, 2023 episode of Crosscurrents.The Bay Area has the highest concentration of self-identified LGBT adults in…