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In Episode #4, Bill Bratton, former Los Angeles Police Chief and former New York Police Commissioner, discusses the importance of working with the community, recent charges of crime data manipulation in New York, the dangers of cutting police services due to budget crises, the emergence of “...
A new study indicates that emergency room wait-times in California average 274 minutes. Iowa has the shortest wait-times, and California is 99 minutes behind…
The wait-time has increased regarding a decision over whether State Controller John Chiang must issue minimum wage checks to state...
This week is the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act -- the most comprehensive law to protext the rights of people with disabilities.
But About six years before the law was enacted, clinical psychologist Elias Katz and his wife, Florence established the National Institute for...
In Episode #3, Matthew Cate, Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, discusses the Department’s new parole policies, the importance of research in guiding policy decisions, his prior work as Inspector General of the agency he now leads, his advice for the next...
Alcatraz may not be the first place that comes to mind for bird-watching, but the authors of the birding blog Maganrord aren’t your typical birders. KALW’s Molly Samuel spoke to the bloggers and bird enthusiasts at Alcatraz and brought back signs of life from the long abandoned island.
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On Monday, an intern for the Mountain View tech firm, Covia Labs, stepped out onto a San Francisco street, fiddling with an iPhone. Moments later, a passing bicyclist snatched the phone from her hands, and raced off.
Since then, the blogosphere (including us here at KALW News) has been giggling at...
In between reading up on those November propositions and measures, you may want to take a break and indulge in a good old-fashioned arm-wrestle! The first organized arm wrestling competition was held in 1952 right here in Petaluma. Thirty-five years later, the film “Over the Top” starring Sylvester...
All over the country, regional planners are working on high-speed rail networks. President Barack Obama has said now is the time to build a modern passenger train system:
BARACK OBAMA: There's no reason why we can't do this. This is America. There's no reason why the future of travel should lie...
If you were to judge Oakland by the news coverage of the past week, the East Bay's largest city would appear to be spinning out of control. Eighty police officers were laid off after the Oakland Police Officer's Association rejected a city council proposal to pay nine percent of their salaries into...
Yesterday, we took a look at the college demographic called the Millennial Generation and their place in our economy. Right now, Millenials, who are between the ages of 10 and 28, are graduating from college to the worst job market in ages.
Lynne Lancaster is co-author of the new book, The M-...
Carletta Sue Kay
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