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1 week ago | kqed.org | Izzy Bloom |Scott Shafer |Marisa Lagos

Izzy BloomScott ShaferMarisa LagosMay 6Failed to save articlePlease try againSenator Alex Padilla speaks with politics reporters Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer for Political Breakdown on the U.S. Capitol subway system on May 6, 2025.  (Izzy Bloom/KQED)The Political Breakdown team is reporting from Washington D.C. all this week.

Oct 17, 2024 | kqed.org | Izzy Bloom |Marisa Lagos |Scott Shafer

Izzy BloomMarisa LagosScott ShaferOct 17Failed to save articlePlease try againLeft: Rep. John Duarte January 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)Right: Assemblymember Adam Gray March 2012. (Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Political Breakdown continues their series examining the key California congressional races that could determine which party controls the House of Representatives next year.

Nov 3, 2023 | kqed.org | Izzy Bloom

Nov 3Failed to save articlePlease try againCheryl Seidner (right) and her grand-niece Hilanea Wilkinson on Humboldt Bay on September 22, 2023. (Alexandra Hootnick for KQED)‘Wiyot people had always intended to go back to the island. I don’t think there was ever a generation in which that wasn’t happening.’Michelle Vassel, current tribal administrator, Wiyot TribeA young woman named Jane Sam, who survived the massacre by hiding in a trash pile, later recounted the events of that night.

Oct 13, 2023 | kqed.org | Izzy Bloom

Oct 13Failed to save articlePlease try againThe California Domestic Workers Coalition, employers, domestic workers, and partners gather outside the Earl Warren Building to protest Governor Gavin Newsom’s veto of SB 686 in San Francisco on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. SB 686 would have provided health and safety protections to domestic workers such as nannies, house cleaners, and homecare providers.

Jul 28, 2023 | marketplace.org | Amanda Peacher |Izzy Bloom

Email address * This is the last summer that the Grateful Dead’s offshoot band, Dead & Company, is on the road. In the hours before their final show in San Francisco, there’s a big crowd at Shakedown Street, the flea market-slash-tailgating party that takes place in the parking lot of each concert. All kinds of formal and informal sales take place here. Somebody tries to trade a joint for a hot dog.