KALW Interviews
By Ben Trefny on Dec 8 2011 - 4:10pm
As part of last Saturday's live edition of "Crosscurrents," KALW's Ben Trefny interviewed Nikki Silva on stage at the Polish Club in San Francisco.
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BEN TREFNY: And with me today is one of the famous radio-producing sisters. It’s Nikki Silva....
By Holly Kernan on Nov 30 2011 - 5:26pm
The city of Richmond is notorious for its high crime rate and industrial pollution. And the Iron Triangle neighborhood – which is bordered on three sides by train tracks – just might be the city’s most dangerous neighborhood. But inside the Triangle, activist Tania Pulido is cultivating community...
By Holly Kernan on Nov 29 2011 - 5:09pm
California is home to more than 55,000 foster kids - the largest population in the country. And, the one place in the state where most of those kids come together is in public school. Jetaine Hart, a former foster youth and current educational mentor in Alameda County, argues that’s where we should...
By Holly Kernan on Nov 16 2011 - 5:12pm
Economic unrest is at the heart of social movements taking place around the country. But in San Francisco, that wasn’t enough to shake up the political establishment. When voters went to the polls last week, political incumbents carried the day, with George Gascon taking the race for district...
By Holly Kernan on Nov 16 2011 - 3:56pm
In this web exclusive interview, San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos reflects on his runner-up showing in the San Francisco mayor’s race. He also discusses how ranked-choice voting worked out in last week’s election, and describes his efforts to bring more lower-income and middle-class values to...
By Ben Trefny on Nov 16 2011 - 3:38pm
“Genius” is a pretty loaded title. But the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation began bestowing that honor on American luminaries who shine in a variety of respective fields. They no longer call the recipients “geniuses,” but they do still award half-a-million dollars to 20 or so every...
By Ben Trefny on Nov 8 2011 - 5:39pm
Early in his college education, Dale Stephens had a radical idea: drop out. Okay, maybe not so radical – except Stephens is extremely interested in the concept of education. He simply thought he could educate himself better outside of the hallowed halls of Arkansas' Hendrix College. That’s where...
By Nancy Mullane on Oct 25 2011 - 5:25pm
The past 13 months have been difficult for California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Last year, a new lethal injection facility was built in San Quentin. The state spent just over $800,000 building it in response to the allegation that it’s method of lethal injection was...
By Ben Trefny on Oct 20 2011 - 6:29pm
An estimated 30 million people or more live as slaves today – working against their will for someone else. And every year, some 17,500 are trafficked into the United States. Many of these people don’t have allies, but here in the Bay Area, there’s one non-profit that’s standing with them.
Not For...
By Holly Kernan on Oct 17 2011 - 5:22pm
In the last 25 years, women have been the fastest growing prison population in the United States and in California. Between the ‘70s and the 2000s, the number of female inmates in state prisons serving a sentence of over a year has grown by 757%.
Between 1985 and 2007, the number of women in prison...
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