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Crosscurrents
Crosscurrents is KALW Public Radio's award-winning news magazine, broadcasting in the Bay Area Mondays through Thursdays on 91.7 FM. We make joyful, informative stories that engage people across the economic, social, and cultural divides in our community.
Episodes
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11/16: Mountain View or Googleville?
There's a reason some locals fear that Mountain View is becoming a company town in the classically monopolistic sense: Google accounts for 1 in 5 jobs there…
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11/15: Homeless in Googleville
Right outside of Google's headquarters in Mountain View we meet a Googler living in an RV in a company parking lot; a subcontractor living in a trailer on the…
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11/13: THE INTERSECTION — Life before Google
Once upon a time in Mountain View, California, there was life before Google. Listen on The Intersection.
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11/14: Home Sweet Google
Google has made a lot of its employees very, very rich. So why are some of them living in a mobile home park next to the company's global headquarters? And how…
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10/16: The inmates who are helping to fight California’s wildfires
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10/4: The Bay Area prepares for legalized recreational marijuana
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9/6: Backlash targets San Jose's 'tiny home' plan to house the homeless
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8/28: Nisrin's story
Today a special presentation from KALW News: Nisrin Abdelrahman, a doctoral student at Stanford University, was detained at JFK Airport after President Trump…