Christopher Alam
News ProducerChristopher Alam is a writer, journalist, and producer from Fresno, California. He has contributed reporting for KQED, NPR, and Variable West. His fiction has appeared in the Beirut-based literary journal Rusted Radishes. His work engages with structural inequality, immigrant communities, and Arabs/West Asia. When not writing, he is a DJ on internet radio stations LowerGrand and HydeFM, and is a risograph printmaker.
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With President Joe Biden officially ending his bid for re-election, all eyes are on Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden has endorsed her as the nominee. Harris is an Oakland native with a long history of holding office in San Francisco…but how do Bay Area voters feel about a Harris candidacy? -
Two San Francisco workers’ rights groups invited people to join them in front of tech leader Sam Altman’s house to decry the industry’s push towards AI and the risk it poses to job security. -
The Berkeley City Council this week approved an ordinance that gives 16- and 17-year olds the ability to vote for school board members in the city this fall. We went to UC Berkeley’s campus and asked around: Why should youth be able to vote? -
In a new California law that went into effect July 1st, security deposits for renters can be no higher than one month’s rent. -
Supporters of the recall targeting Oakland’s embattled Mayor Sheng Thao held a small rally outside City Hall immediately after her first public address on the FBI raid on her home. -
Oakland’s embattled Mayor Sheng Thao finally emerged publicly for the first time since the FBI raided her home last week.
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The Point Fire in Sonoma County is the earliest large fire of this year, and its timing may have to do with the abundant rain over the past two years. -
Workers in tech and AI from all over the country are coming to San Francisco this week for the Data + AI Conference. But AI is still a very new technology, even for those familiar with it. What exactly can AI be helpful with besides office work? For today’s Question of the Bay, KALW asked some attendees Monday outside of the Moscone Center: How do you use AI in your daily life?Here’s our next “Question Of The Bay.”
