Timely read.

"The Bay Area and California have long had some of the country’s highest gas prices, and they’ve soared in recent weeks, driven in part by the war with Iran. But sky-high gas prices are only one piece of a broader surge in driving costs that is reshaping life in the Bay Area, where residents already endure grueling, car-dependent commutes.

Rising vehicle prices, insurance, maintenance and loan payments are forcing many drivers to make stark tradeoffs — stretching budgets, delaying major purchases or abandoning car ownership altogether."

https://www.kqed.org/news/12081471/driving-in-the-bay-area-is-essential-for-many-its-only-gotten-more-expensive

#kqed #car #driving #bayarea #ca #prices

#KQED:
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The View Inside California’s Last Nuclear Power Plant
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".. danger posed by spent nuclear waste at a site near several seismic faultlines."

".. cooling system kills almost two billion larval fish annually, plus other organisms that aren’t measured."

https://www.kqed.org/science/2000835/the-view-inside-californias-last-nuclear-power-plant

28.4.2026

#AKW #Atomkraftwerk #Atommüll #California #DiabloCanyon #HosgriFault #Kalifornien #Kernenergie #NPP #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #PGandE #SeismicFaultline #ShorelineFault #SpentFuel #USA

Do you ever love a book so much you slow down your reading of it because you just don't want to get to the end and leave those characters behind?

That's how I am with the new season of "All Creatures Great and Small." PBS Passport (streaming access for min $5/month donors) lets me binge watch the whole season, but I'm allowing myself one episode a week so it won't be over yet.

#AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall
#PBS
#KQED

#TV

The #AmericanRevolution -- new 6 part #documentary series by #KenBurns -- airs on #KQED & other #PBS stations starting on Sun 12/16 @ 8 pm

Burns is an unparalleled documentarian & I have a copy of most of his work on #DVD, including the complete multi disc sets on the #CivilWar #WWII, the #VietnamWar, #Baseball & #Jazz.

I'm looking forward to watching this series & to buying it when it comes out on DVD too.

https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/the-american-revolution-a-new-film-from-ken-burns-to-premiere-november-16-2025/

To my surprise, @alexismadrigal is a neighbor of Samin Nosrat which made this a delightful episode of Forum. Currently reading my library copy of her new book Good Things. I don’t really read cookbooks in general, but hers are different.

https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911445/samin-nosrat-on-nourishing-food-community-and-all-the-good-things

#KQEDFORUM #NPR #KQED #SFBA #Cookbooks

– Belva Davis, believed to be the first Black female TV reporter in the western United States, died on Sept. 24, 2025 at age 92. In this "Sunday Morning" profile of Davis that aired on Feb. 26, 2023, "60 Minutes" correspondent Bill Whitaker (who, like many journalists, walked in her footsteps) looked back at her career, and described how making a dream a reality became her legacy.
#KPIX #KQED #KRON #SanFrancisco #BayArea #journalism

https://youtu.be/4V8bS8aR6hg?si=UGNtF64qXfoC8Gox