Here’s another long overdue post with my latest. Most of this got done from my bedroom closet-studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michael Wara<\/a> 8\/15\/20 \u2014 I’m proud of this one because it was all mine. I was solo on a weekend the morning after the rolling-blackouts so I had to book, edit, produce, and engineer this 2-way on my own. Late the evening before, I booked Wara for 6:15am. He recorded himself with Tape-a-Call. I synced the interview myself and cut it in time to air at 7:30am. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Severin Borenstein<\/a> 9\/7\/20 \u2014 This one was more of a team effort. For both of these, I drew on the fact that I had covered the 2001 rolling blackouts when I was a baby reporter. My goal was to explain what happened and why, to listeners who didn’t remember back then, what was different to those who did, and how and why a regulatory agency and a private power monopoly work together to execute these outages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 1: Live from Vacaville<\/a> and Helen the Pig<\/a> \u2014 best sound<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Day 2: Live from Calistoga Incident Command<\/a> and Pope Valley<\/a> \u2014 best 2-way<\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 3: Live on Forum<\/a> and Grist Mill<\/a> \u2014 best writing<\/p>\n\n\n\n Day Umpteen (9\/2\/20): Chasing Wildfires<\/a> \u2014 I’ve been fascinated by Craig Clements’ research for a while now. I hope it’s not too obvious in this interview that I’m a total fangirl. So while he wanted to explain the data analysis, I was more interested in the exciting meteorologist-as-cowboy stuff. I still love talking to scientists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 15 Billion of the 2020 Fire Season (9\/28\/20) \u2014 The Shady Fire blew through so I interviewed the mayor of Santa Rosa<\/a> and KQED reporter Shannon Lin who talked to evacuees<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oaklandish and Business Insurance<\/a> (7\/24\/20) \u2014 What I remember about this interview is how defeated she sounded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bob Wachter<\/a> (10\/30\/20) predicted the winter surge when San Francisco paused its reopening. Then my colleague Kevin Stark told me about the arrival of the vaccine<\/a> on the same day (12\/14\/20) public health officials issued a dire warning about the coming hospital crunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Covid and McClymonds’ Warriors<\/a> (7\/21\/20) \u2014 I miss doing regular field interviews! <\/p>\n\n\n\n And since we’re approaching a whole year of Covid, here’s the first story I ever reported on the coronavirus<\/a>, back on January 27, 2020. I also interviewed a Wuhan native about shipping PPE to his hometown<\/a> back in February. Here’s me being talking about the first lockdown<\/a> on March 18, 2020. We knew so little and much of it was wrong. It makes my head hurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bay Area Freeway Naming Conventions<\/a> 11\/29\/20 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Presidential Candidates on Climate Change<\/a> 3\/2\/20 Hear me rattle off the names of the Democrats all in one breath! <\/p>\n\n\n\nWildfires: LNU Featurettes and 2-ways 8\/19-21\/20<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Covid Coverage<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Miscellaneous stuff from the before-times:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n