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Joined August 2012
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17 Mar 2022
New podcast coming from @sarah_mizes_tan! See how you can participate ....
Hi friends, exciting news, I'm working on a new podcast about Asian American identity for @CapRadioNews! And we're looking to hear, if you're Asian American, how do you identify yourself, your heritage/background, and why? Email me a voice memo, sarah.mizestan@capradio.org!
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This week @CapRadioNews' News and Features Editor @pbartolone joins hosts @_Nixo and @nigelduara to discuss how Vallejo's experiment with citizen budgeting is working out a decade later. 🎧 Listen to the podcast for California’s essential weekly news. caprad.io/CSOMEP41
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UPDATE: Highway 50 is set to be CLOSED at 4 pm today between Sly Park Road and Meyers due to safety concerns with high winds expected to impact the #Caldor FIre. Mandatory evacuations now in place between Sly Park and Strawberry. @CHPPlacerville @CHPSouthLake @ElDoradoSheriff
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28 Jul 2021
New: the California Department of Public is recommending wearing a mask in indoor settings regardless of vaccination status, following updated CDC guidance.
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.@manuelatobiasm joins @_Nixo and @nigelduara to discuss California’s #housing crisis and why @CA_Dem can’t seem to agree on policy link.chtbl.com/CSOMep33
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15 Jul 2021
CALLOUT: Did you receive a Golden State Stimulus payment earlier this year? đź’µ I want to talk to you for a @CapRadioNews /NPR story. DMs are open.
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15 Jul 2021
hi! for @CapRadioNews, looking to speak to someone via dm, email or phone ASAP who’s been part of a universal basic income/guaranteed income program in CA, esp if it’s been in stockton, santa clara county or oakland! dms are open you can reach me: janelle.salanga@capradio.org
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“@GavinNewsom dramatically overstated how much work was done on these priority projects that he set out that were intended to prevent fire in some of the most vulnerable places in California,” notes @SRodd_CPR on #californiawildfires 🎧: link.chtbl.com/CSOMep30

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22 Jun 2021
My first time out in the field since this whole Covid thing started ... naturally, it involved beer. And bikes.
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When should you wear a mask? What changes for customers at businesses? What are the rules for events? @SammyCaiola, @milne4, @emilymzentner, @chrishagan, @CapRadioMike and @janelle_cpp answer your reopening questions for @CapRadioNews bit.ly/2SxyQGg

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California is "reopening" — what exactly does that mean? This week, @emily_hoeven joins the podcast to discuss the reopening rules, and @laurelrosenhall and @frombenC join to share an update about California’s unprecedented budget surplus link.chtbl.com/CSOMep28

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.@MichaelDTubbs implemented a guaranteed income program as former mayor of Stockton. Now he’s advising California Gov. @GavinNewsom on income inequality. Listen to Tubbs discuss the basic income initiative on our latest episode link.chtbl.com/CSOMep27

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California’s new Reparations Task Force will study reparation proposals for African Americans. @DrWeber4CA says the task force must “determine the depth of the harm and the ways in which we are to repair that harm.” @janelle_cpp reports for @capradio bit.ly/3g9AHIS
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Memorial Day weekend is one of the busiest for @CAStateParks. Listen to the latest episode on how wildfires, drought and a pandemic have changed #stateparks. 🎧: link.chtbl.com/CSOMep26 📷: Max Whittaker, courtesy of @savetheredwoods
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25 May 2021
This is a great episode to help you get primed on offshore wind in California thanks to @ezraromero & @_Nixo
25 May 2021
CA and the Biden admin just announced plans to develop wind energy off California's coast - enough to power 1.6 million homes. Recently @ezraromero told me what an offshore wind farm could look like. A good time to revisit this @YourGoldenState ep! capradio.org/news/california…
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California’s first Latino Senator @SenAlexPadilla joins @_Nixo and @nigelduara on the latest episode to talk about pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, clean energy and California’s infrastructure. caprad.io/CSOMep25

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Three-fourths of CA is experiencing extreme drought, and the drinking water rural communities rely on is being pumped with no statewide limits. @CalMatters reporters @RA_Becks and Julie Cart take a look at how unprepared the state is for 2021's drought: bit.ly/3ov1t24
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Shifting priorities during the pandemic meant the CA Teachers Association outspent others for the first quarter this year in lobbying expenditures by more than 2x the second and third-ranking lobbying funders, two Big Oil interests. Via @Mercnews: bayareane.ws/2RYxAes
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