2023 was San Francisco’s deadliest year on record for drug overdoses. More than 800 residents lost their lives to accidental overdoses last year, and nearly 80% of those deaths were linked to the synthetic opioid fentanyl. Tonight on State of the Bay, I’ll host a panel of experts who will discuss what should be done to address addiction and prevent more loss of life in our city.
Joining me will be:
- Vitka Eisen, president and CEO, HealthRIGHT 360
- Kevin Fagan, reporter, The San Francisco Chronicle
- Dr. Anna Lembke, professor of psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine; chief, Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic; author, Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop and Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Finally, we’ll learn about Rancho-Obi Wan, the largest Star Wars memorabilia collection in the country, from the collector Steve Sansweet.
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Tonight on State of the Bay, I’ll host a discussion on how Oakland baseball fans are determined to keep professional baseball alive in the city. Instead of the A’s, fans may soon be rooting for the B’s! Guests include Bryan Carmel, Ballers co-founder and chief experience officer and Jorge Leon, president of the Oakland 68’s.
And later in show, we’ll cover how Safeway abruptly announced this month that in March it would close its store located on Webster Street in San Francisco’s Fillmore district. What will the closure of the neighborhood’s only full-service grocery store mean for the community, with its history of redlining and gentrification? Guests include San Francisco District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston and long-time Fillmore resident Pia Harris.
Finally, we’ll meet Willard Harris, who’s going strong at age 104. What can her story tell us about how to age well?
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On tonight’s State of the Bay, we’ll discuss California’s role at the just-concluded United Nations Climate Conference (COP 28) and dig into what the agreement to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels might mean for Bay Area refineries. Plus, we’ll take a tour through the WPA murals of Coit Tower.
First, we’ll talk with Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, representing California’s 16th Assembly District in the East Bay, about the role of California and the Bay Area in this year’s COP.
Then, we’ll look at how the agreement reached at COP 28 to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels might mean for Bay Area refineries. Joining us will be:
- Ann Alexander, senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council
- Greg Karras, independent consultant, senior scientist for Communities for a Better Environment and author of “Decommissioning California Refineries: Climate and Health Paths in an Oil State.”
Finally, we’ll take a tour through the WPA murals at San Francisco’s Coit Tower with Charlie Goldman.
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I’m guest hosting Your Call’s Media Roundtable this morning at 10am PT. First, we’ll discuss Argentina’s far-right president-elect Javier Milei. He denies climate change, opposes abortion, plans to slash government spending and dollarize the economy, and eliminate the Central Bank and key ministries. Joining us for an update will be Valen Iricibar, award-winning journalist and editor at the Buenos Aires Herald.
Then we’ll get the latest on major U.S. Supreme Court cases. Next month, the court will hear a case that could reshape the US tax code, including banning future wealth tax proposals, among others. Chris Geidner, award winning legal journalist and author and publisher of Law Dork, will join us to unpack it all.
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Tonight on State of the Bay, I’ll talk to The Athletic’s Steve Berman, who will give us the latest on the A’s possible departure to Las Vegas. He’ll also weigh in on the latest with the Niners and Warriors.
Then we’ll be joined by a panel of local citizens who participated in the Chronicle’s SF Next Project, where they came up with practical solutions to our city’s biggest problems. Guests include:
- Jonathan Krim with the San Francisco Chronicle
- Tom Radulovich with Livable City
- Joi Jackson-Morgan with 3rd Street Youth Center
- Tom Nagel with Rescue SF
Finally, we will check in with Azikiwee Anderson from Rize Up Bakery after a recent break in.
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On tonight’s State of the Bay, I’ll be speaking with Ricardo Cano, transportation reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, about why state regulators have revoked permits for Cruise’s driverless autonomous vehicles. What are the implications for the autonomous vehicle industry here in California and beyond?
We’ll also hear from Los Angeles Times environmental reporter and author Rosanne Xia about her new book “California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline.”
And finally, we’ll sit down with Emily Pilloton-Lam, founder and executive director of the Berkeley non-profit Girls Garage.
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Join me tonight on State of the Bay, when we’ll hear how two UC Berkeley professors with very different views on the Israel-Hamas war joined together to send a message condemning violence and advocating civil disagreement. Joining us to tell the story will be Professor Ron Hassner, a professor of political science and director of the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies.
Then, what would you do with an extra $500 – $1,000 a month? 725 families in the Bay area received just that. Two generous, privately funded pilot programs in the Bay Area: Oakland Resilient Families and MOMentum in Marin spent the last 2 years running and studying Universal Basic Income here in the bay. Learn what they discovered with:
- Aly Bonde, Senior Director of public policy and finance at Oakland Thrives and coordinator of the guaranteed income pilot: Oakland Resilient families.
- Barbara Zarate, Director for Economic Opportunity at the Marin Community Foundation, where she oversees MOMentum, Marin’s Guaranteed Income Demonstration Project.
Finally, we’ll talk with Corey Rosen, host of the Moth story slam, about the art of story telling and how to tell your story at the Moth. You can listen to some of his stories on his website.
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On tonight’s State of the Bay, I’ll be interviewing Steve Berman, the “Bay Area Sports Guy,” now of The Athletic, to hear his insights. Was the 49ers’ shocking loss yesterday a fluke? Will the Warriors’ intriguing new roster work? And can the new WNBA team thrive here?
Then we’ll talk housing in the Bay Area. Governor Newsom recently signed a whopping 56 new housing bills. Cities are under pressure to build more, and fast. Will these new bills help? Joining us will be:
- Sarah Karlinsky of SPUR
- Ben Metcalf of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley
Finally, we’ll hear about a new exhibit on censorship called unBANNED, with Tamsin Smith, curator at Arion Press Gallery in the Presidio.
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I’m guest hosting Your Call’s Media Roundtable this morning at 10am PT. First, we’ll discuss the media coverage of Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as speaker of the House this week, initiated by eight far-right members of his own party. McCarthy’s 269-day reign as speaker was ended by a 216-210 vote.
How is the media covering the extremists’ power play within the GOP? We’ll hear from:
- Mark Jacob, freelance writer, former metro editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, and author of the website Stop the Presses
- John Nichols, national-affairs correspondent for The Nation and the co-author of It’s OK to be Angry About Capitalism
Then we’ll talk about the new session of the Supreme Court, which started Monday. The justices will examine important cases on major issues such as free speech, gun rights, abortion, voting rights, and a case that could threaten the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and potentially numerous other federal agencies, among others.
Joining us to discuss will be Chris Geidner, award winning legal journalist, author and publisher of the website Law Dork.
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On today’s Your Call One Planet Series, I’ll be guest hosting and talking to University of Pennsylvania renowned climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann, presidential distinguished professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media.
He will discuss his new book, Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis. In this sweeping work of science and history, Mann shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but to thrive, and how they are imperiled if we veer off course.
Then we’ll discuss Water for Life, a documentary film that tells the story of three Indigenous activists in Central and South America, fighting to protect their ancestral lands and water rights.
The film follows Alberto Curamil, a Mapuche chief in Chile; Francisco Pineda, a corn-grower in El Salvador; and the late Berta Cáceres, of the Lenca in Honduras, as they face jail and murder while leading movements to safeguard their drinking water and irrigation water from multinational corporations and corrupt governments. Joining us will be:
- Will Parrinello, award-winning documentary filmmaker and the director of Water for Life
- Sarah Kass, award-winning storyteller specializing in long- and short-form documentaries and non-fiction television, and producer of Water for Life
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