Roses are red, violets are blue. Your mom loves her Mother’s Day bouquet, and the floral industry does too!

KCBS Radio's Shannon Golden tells us that retail sales in the industry peak at a whopping 2 billion dollars during the second weekend of May, making it one of the biggest days of the year for sellers.

Roses are red, violets are blue. Your mom loves her Mother’s Day bouquet, and the floral industry does too!   KCBS Radio's Shannon Golden tells us that retail sales in the industry peak at a whopping 2 billion dollars during the second weekend of May, making it one of the biggest days of the year for sellers.

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Mother's Day is one of the biggest days of the year for the floral industry

Steph Curry and his wife, Ayesha, are slam-dunking another win for Oakland school children. 

As KCBS Radio's Matt Bigler reports, the couple's Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation just unveiled a brand new playground to help kids have fun and stay cool outdoors.

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Steph Curry and his wife, Ayesha, are slam-dunking another win for Oakland school children. 
As KCBS Radio's Matt Bigler reports, the couple's Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation just unveiled a brand new playground to help kids have fun and stay cool outdoors.
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Steph & Ayesha Curry's Foundation unveils new school playground in Oakland

A Penny for your thoughts could be harder to come by if some people get their way, advocating to eliminate low-value coins as a way to save the government money.

But researchers say we still get a good amount of use out of our pocket change, even in recent years. One way that's measured is in the TSA security line.

For more on this, KCBS Radio news anchor Holly Quan spoke with Jay Zagorsky, Professor of Markets Public, Policy, and Law at Questrom School of business at Boston University. He researches how we pay for things and how that's changing.

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A Penny for your thoughts could be harder to come by if some people get their way, advocating to eliminate low-value coins as a way to save the government money.
But researchers say we still get a good amount of use out of our pocket change, even in recent years. One way that's measured is in the TSA security line.
For more on this, KCBS Radio news anchor Holly Quan spoke with Jay Zagorsky, Professor of Markets Public, Policy, and Law at Questrom School of business at Boston University. He researches how we pay for things and how that's changing.
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TSA collected $1,000,000 in pocket change lost in screening lines in 2023

It's time now for Ask An Expert. Every weekday at 9:20 am, KCBS Radio is giving you direct access to top experts in various fields.

Today: Questions are arising following the death of both Iran's president and foreign minister, but some experts say it's likely not to bring any major shift to Iran's political, social or foreign policy dynamics.

To answer you questions and more, KCBS Radio news anchor Margie Shafer spoke with Kian Tajbakhsh, Iranian-American scholar and International Relations Professor at Columbia University.

If you have a question you would like answered, please email us at: AskUs@KCBSRadio.com.

You can listen to this entire interview and past Ask An Experts on the Audacy App. Download the app on your smartphone and favorite KCBS Radio. The interviews are posted in the On Demand section or you can utilize the Rewind feature to listen to it back.  

It's time now for Ask An Expert. Every weekday at 9:20 am, KCBS Radio is giving you direct access to top experts in various fields.
Today: Questions are arising following the death of both Iran's president and foreign minister, but some experts say it's likely not to bring any major shift to Iran's political, social or foreign policy dynamics.
To answer you questions and more, KCBS Radio news anchor Margie Shafer spoke with Kian Tajbakhsh, Iranian-American scholar and International Relations Professor at Columbia University.
If you have a question you would like answered, please email us at: AskUs@KCBSRadio.com.
You can listen to this entire interview and past Ask An Experts on the Audacy App. Download the app on your smartphone and favorite KCBS Radio. The interviews are posted in the On Demand section or you can utilize the Rewind feature to listen to it back.

Mother's Day is one of the biggest days of the year for the floral industry

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