PMVG, Distributed Media Lab Partner On News Syndication Network Offering The solution enables public and private broadcasters to grow audiences and revenue TV Tech · Jan 25, 2024
After decades of advocacy, suicide deterrent finally comes to the Golden Gate Bridge About 2,000 people are estimated to have jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge since 1937. Now, a safety net below the bridge is nearly complete. WEKU · Jan 12, 2024
It keeps people with schizophrenia in school and on the job. Why won't insurance pay? A new approach to schizophrenia involves managing early psychosis symptoms and keeping young people in school or jobs. The treatment is effective, but private insurance plans don't usually cover it. WEKU · Jan 2, 2024
This trial struck down California's same-sex marriage ban. Now you can see the tapes More than a decade after the trial to overturn Prop. 8 ended, trial videotapes remained sealed, until NPR member station KQED won a long legal battle that got the U.S. Supreme Court to unseal them. WEKU · Nov 4, 2023
On-field student protest delays start of USC-Cal game A protest over the suspension of a professor took place on the field before USC-Cal USA Today Sports Media Group · Oct 28, 2023
Kaiser hospital strike begins with 75,000 workers joining picket lines across the US ‘No agreement can be made until Kaiser executives stop bargaining in bad faith and committing unfair labor practices,’ said the executive director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023
At new mental health courts in California, judges will be able to mandate treatment In several California counties, new mental health courts open up in October. Officials hope to persuade people with psychosis to accept treatment. Critics say, it looks more like coercion. WEKU · Sep 20, 2023
Maui's wildfires are among the deadliest on record in the U.S. Here are some others The wildfires that killed more than 100 people in Maui are the deadliest to hit the U.S. in more than a century. Here's a look back at some of the country's most lethal blazes and lessons learned. WEKU · Aug 15, 2023
Thirty tonnes of explosive chemicals go missing in the Mojave Desert Ammonium nitrate can be turned into fertilizer or bombs, and was used by Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 Oklahoma City terrorist attack The Independent UK · May 22, 2023
The Future of Media Literacy Education Media literacy education invites a slew of nonprofit organizations and consultancies into the public school system, many of whom may have their own political agendas. Reason · May 18, 2023
At least 18 dead in 3 days after mass shootings in California devastate 2 communities The shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay, two towns just hundreds of miles apart in California, share devastating similarities. WEKU · Jan 25, 2023
California's 'Pineapple Express' relents, with some areas starting cleanup efforts Another huge winter storm has slammed California's coastal and inland areas with strong winds and heavy rain and snow. It has downed power lines and closed roads and is linked to at least two deaths. WEKU · Jan 5, 2023
Newsom trades barbs with Dahle in California’s only 2022 gubernatorial debate SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Sen. Brian Dahle clashed over gas prices, homelessness and abortion rights during the only debate between the two gubernatorial candidates in an otherwise sleepy race for the most powerful post in the state of California. Los Angeles Times · Oct 24, 2022
Debate set for Gavin Newsom and GOP gubernatorial challenger Brian Dahle SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Sen. Brian Dahle, R-Bieber, will go head to head later this month in a gubernatorial debate hosted by KQED, the San Francisco radio station announced Monday. Tribune News Service · Oct 4, 2022
WEKU · Jun 17, 2022 California may require labels on pot products to warn of mental health risks A proposed bill would require cannabis products to carry large warnings, similar to cigarettes. But the state's legal pot industry says more rules make it harder to compete with the illicit market.