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Hospital Desert – Part 2

Richmond is losing its second hospital in less than five years putting many further and further away from an emergency room.

Hospital Desert: Part 1

Richmond residents may lose their second major hospital in less than five years, putting many further and further away from an emergency room.

Running Toward a Cure for Crohn’s Disease

1.6 million Americans suffer from Crohn’s and IBD, and many of those people are taking their body back from the disease through running.

Just Another Disabled Entertainer

“When somebody sees me they think they already know everything, they already know that I’m suffering. They already know that I have it worse than them. They already know that I am embarrassed about how I look and that I didn’t want to leave the house. None of which is true. “

The Johnny Appleseed of Pirate Radio

From 1993 – 1998, Stephen Dunifer broadcast Free Radio Berkeley, a micro-power radio station, from spots around the East Bay — from up in the Berkeley Hills to the second floor bathroom of a squat in Oakland. After duking it out with the Federal Communications Commission, arguing that forcing radio stations to receive a license…

This Is Not A Test: Tsunami Safety in the Bay Area

In a city surrounded on three sides by water, what happens when a tsunami strikes?

Answers to Your Money Questions

North Gate Radio host Nuria Marquez Martinez sits down with Fred Selinger, personal finance expert and professor at the Haas School of business, to talk about how young people can better manage their money.

Living with Student Debt

“I feel like I did everything right in college again, you know I got Pell Grants, I got merit scholarships, I worked my entire way through college, and still somehow wound up with all this debt.”

Road Trip

East Coast-born reporter Sybil Patten drove from Berkeley to Portland Oregon along the coast. With microphone in hand, she went looking for a story.

Denim in SF Hangs on by a Thread

The Trump administration is threatening to raise tariffs on foreign products and many countries are fighting back. The EU and China announced that in response, they will raise their own tariffs on iconic American brands like Harley Davidson, Kentucky bourbon, and Levi’s Jeans. An American invention, jeans have been a symbol of the American West…