How to Bay Area
How to Bay Area
How to Bay Area is the show that teaches you how to get stuff done in the San Francisco Bay Area. Become a master of Bay Area living by joining KCBS Radio as we explore questions like "How to make it in the local music scene," "How to catch Dungeness crab" and "How to help limit hunger."Social links:
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How to End the Homelessness Crisis
Since the pandemic began, state and local officials have been racing against time to get homeless Californians off the streets and into shelter, but after a year of effort, will the progress that's been made last? On this edition of How to Bay Area, we're going to discuss how advocates are hoping…
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How to Cast That Last-Minute Ballot
Election day is coming up in just a few days, and if you haven't cast your ballot already the window for mail-in voting is closing fast, but there are still plenty of other ways to get that vote counted: So on this mini-edition of How to Bay Area we lay out all the options that remain for last-minu…
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How (and Why) to Mask Up
On this edition of How to Bay Area we take closer look at masks, the funny face protectors that have sparked so much controversy since this pandemic began (and as we discover, long before then as well). Over the course of the program we speak with three expert guests on the best masking practices, …
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How to Reopen From the Covid Lockdown
On this edition of How to Bay Area, we consider the monumental effort to prepare the Bay Area for reopening from the Covid-19 lockdown, and why it is that health officials still believe that work is not yet done. Guest:Dr. Marm Kilpatrick, who studies infectious diseases at UC Santa Cruz’s Depart…
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How to Keep Your Home Virus Free
Even the most rigorous social distancers among us will most likely need to venture outside every now and then, so when we do, how can we avoid bringing the virus back inside with us? On this edition of How to Bay Area, we speak with Annelys Roque Gardner -- an infectious disease specialist with UC …
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How to Social Distance
When it comes to sheltering in place it seems like there shouldn’t be that much too it: stay there, don’t move. But life is more complicated than that, and it’s pretty clear that different Bay Area residents have decided to interpret these orders in different ways. So on this edition of How to Bay …
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How to Respond to the Coronavirus
Here in the Bay Area the number of people infected with coronavirus can still be counted on one hand, and all of them so far appear to have been isolated before they spread the illness more widely. Spreading faster though: fear about the illness. And that fear is at times manifesting itself in ug…
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How to Prepare for Wildfires
As fire season gets ready to blaze into full force communities around California are getting ready too. In some places this means clearing out excess vegetation, elsewhere it means hardening homes to make them more resilient to fire -- but no matter the work, it's more and more clear that Californi…
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How to Preserve LGBTQ Culture
There was a time when the Bay Area was home to highly visible queer communities full of LGBTQ-friendly businesses. And while you do still have plenty of rainbow flags in the Castro, if you look past the obvious symbols, the character of these neighborhoods has changed dramatically with many of thos…
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How to Commute
There are many sources of Bay Area angst -- the high cost of housing, the high cost of living, homelessness, the threat of wildfires -- but traffic stands out as an especially sore spot. There’s just something about it that grinds on our nerves and makes all our other headaches even more difficult …
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