Local News Matters: Week of April 7, 2025

Anti-Trump protests intensify and take new forms. Sausalito decides against bike lanes. San Mateo can begin to oust its sheriff.

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Local News Matters: Week of March 31, 2025


SPECIAL REPORT: The Tunnel Vision (ep. 3): A look at California’s $20 billion solution to its water crisis — the Delta Conveyance Tunnel. We visit Miwok tribal leaders and scientists working on nature based solutions for saving the Delta from damage due to sea levels rise and increased water diversions.

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Local News Matters: Week of March 24, 2025


SPECIAL REPORT: The Tunnel Vision (ep. 2) A look at California’s $20 billion solution to its water crisis — the Delta Conveyance Tunnel. In this episode, we talk with the tunnel’s chief engineer Steve Minassian, who describes the process, locations and implications of the project, using four tunnel boring machines.

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Local News Matters: Week of March 17, 2025

SPECIAL REPORT: The Tunnel Vision (ep. 1) A look at California’s $20 billion solution to its water crisis — the Delta Conveyance Tunnel. In this first installment, we hear from the stakeholders – California’s fisheries, urban water agencies, Delta farmers and Delta tribes.

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Local News Matters: Week of March 10, 2025

Sausalito city council is spooked cyber-attack. Bird flu spreads into more species. Several homeless vehicles are left stranded in Hunters Point. A fired federal worker gets rehired after a social media shaming.

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Local News Matters: Week of March 3, 2025

The updated Cal Fire risk are maps are out.  Thousands of University of California workers go on strike. A DOGE raid of San Francisco’s City Hall turns out to be a prank.  Berkeley’s famous peregrine falcons have gone missing.

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Local News Matters: Week of Feb. 24, 2025

Sausalito works on its housing laws. Embattled San Mateo Sheriff is uninvited to a party in San Francisco. Another battery fire flares up in Moss Landing. Budget woes hit Oakland. President Trump takes aim at San Francisco’s Presidio.

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Local News Matters: Week of Feb. 17, 2025

A controversial development in Marin City reaches a compromise. New details emerge about the Martinez Refinery fire. The future of Open AI reaches a court battle. Berkeley’s homeless union presents its case against an encampment sweep.

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Local News Matters: Week of Feb. 10, 2025

Flooding in Sonoma County resulted in two storm-related deaths. Thousands of Bay Area federal workers receive an invitation to resign. Initial air quality reports are released by the Martinez Refining Company following a fire there and California’s Attorney General investigates a police shooting in Richmond.

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Local News Matters: Week of Feb. 3, 2025

Moss Landing residents deal with the aftermath of another battery storage facility fire. Alameda County has a new district attorney. San Francisco police officers are recognized for their role in a high-profile murder case. Millions in affordable housing project grants are now available in Marin County.

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Local News Matters: Week of Jan. 27, 2025

California prepares for conflict and compromise as Trump takes office. Sonoma State University announces major department cuts. Half Moon Bay plans to memorialize victims of a mass shooting. Oakland Unified School District faces a budgetary cliff.

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Local News Matters: Week of Jan. 20, 2025

Marin County swears in its first Black Supervisor. The Berkeley fire bomber pleads guilty. How bird flu impacts our food supply.  Los Angeles animals find shelter in the Bay Area.

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Local News Matters: Week of Jan. 13, 2025

Tule Elk win space at Point Reyes. Bay Area fire crews join the fight in Los Angeles. San Francisco has a new mayor, and new crimes emerge by convicted kidnapper Mathew Mueller.

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Local News Matters: Weeks of Dec. 30, 2024 & Jan. 6, 2025

SPECIAL REPORT:   This week, we visit a place six miles north of Sausalito, Cailfornia for a special report with incarcerated journalist Steve Brooks, the holidays in San Quentin

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Local News Matters: Week of Dec. 16, 2024

Marin health officials are on the alert for bird flu. Plans are laid to replace Alameda District Attorney Pamela Price. Violent crime is down in most of San Francisco. San Quentin’s incarcerated population was left out of tsunami warnings.

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Local News Matters: Week of Dec. 09, 2024

Marin County puts a limit on AirBnBs. A deep-sea earthquake reveals an uneven variety of emergency responses. The group that led the recall of Alameda DA Pamela Price calls for a tougher replacement.  San Mateo Supervisors find a way to oust their Sheriff.

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Local News Matters: Week of Dec. 2, 2024

SPECIAL REPORT: Field report from the Greater Farallon’s and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries, where a group of researchers with Point Blue Conservation Science have worked together for 20 years to monitor the health of these federally protected sanctuaries.

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Sausalito’s Secret History: Coney

In 1898, Sausalito almost became the Coney Island of the West.

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Sausalito’s Secret History: 030 Off Ramp to Nowhere

How did the Rodeo Ave. exit off 101 Southbound become the Off Ramp to Nowhere?

 

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Sausalito’s Secret History 078: Forbes

Back in July 2023 I wrote a newspaper column about Forbes Kiddoo and his fantasy isle which floated in Richardson’s Bay in the 80s. Then I got a big surprise!

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Secret History 077: Jail Cell

Few shoppers at Gene Hiller Menswear realize there’s a jail cell in the basement of the store.

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Louis Armstrong Rehearsal at the Hangover (Radio Sausalito Remaster)

Exclusive on Radio Sausalito! Hear Louis Armstrong rehearsing with his band live just prior to his broadcast from Club Hangover in San Francisco back in January 1954. This recording has been remastered for high fidelity and reissued as part of Radio Sausalito’s historic rebroadcast of the most complete collection of Club Hangover broadcasts.

We’re making available on demand, this mp3 of the remastered high-fidelity rehearsal recording made on stage at Club Hangover recorded the evening of his historic San Francisco broadcast.

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Sausalito Secret History 076 Dry Docks

To borrow a phrase from the sixties, if you remember the notorious dry docks of Richardson’s Bay. . . you were probably never aboard them.

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Secret History 074: Tequila Sunrise

Next time you’re enjoying tequila sunrise, don’t forget: that delicious cocktail was created right here in Sausalito.

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Secret History 72 Last Train

The last train pulled out of Sausalito on Thanksgiving Day, 1971 ending 96 years of service here.

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