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17-Year-Old Fremont City Council Candidate Ishan Shah

17-year-old Ishan Shah is running for City Council in Fremont, California. The teen, who says he watched the news growing up, rather than cartoons, would be the city's youngest city council member...

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Federal Money for California Schools

There's a lot of federal money available for schools, but a California law stands in the way of state eligibility. Zoe Corneli reports on the tussle over the details. A public informational hearing of...

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P.O.W.E.R. Lunch with the Former Homeless

According to mayor Gavin Newsom’s annual homeless count, roughly 6,500 people are living without reliable shelter this year in San Francisco. Homeless advocates say the figure is actually double that....

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Rakas

With a quarter of the population foreign-born and nearly half speaking a language other than English, the Californian sound of today sings in two tongues and sways to many different beats. From...

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Sound Cave

Artist and composer Tyson Ayers builds new instruments out of cast-off pieces of old ones. But his instruments aren’t your usual guitars and drums. They’re installation-sized, instruments that many...

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The African Presence in Mexico

An exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California sheds light on the long-ignored history of African-heritage Mexicans. In fact it wasn't until 1992 that the Mexican government officially recognized the...

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Literary Death Match

Book readings have a slightly stuffy reputation: quiet, restrained, civilized. They aren't generally rowdy events. And rarely, if ever, are they death-defying. But one San Francisco group is working to...

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Bay Bridge Retrofit

Ben Van Houten and Christian Cunningham write the blog The Bay Bridged and come on Crosscurrents to talk about their favorite music. Here they discuss Dame Satan.Arts and Cultureread more

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The Bay Area's Water Future

San Francisco voters agreed in 2002 to pay for a 4 and a half billion dollar upgrade to the system of pipes and reservoirs that supplies most of the Bay Area’s water every day. Some of the first...

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Plays in Prison

San Francisco’s Juvenile Hall is a county detention facility with a capacity of more than 100 inmates. Its maximum-security unit can accommodate 20, and it’s usually full. The kids there face felony...

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