How the Church of Satan Was Born in San Francisco
The Bay Area has long been associated with countercultural movements — whether it was the Beats of the 1950s, the hippies of the 1960s or th...
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Bay Curious
Bay Curious is a podcast about the unexplored San Francisco Bay Area. Each week we take a deep dive into the mysteries that make this area quirky, delightful and, at times, dysfunctional. It...
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20 of 548 episodesProp 45: Faster Environmental Reviews for Certain Projects
The California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, requires state and local agencies to consider the environmental impact of public and priv...
Prop 44: Health Clinic Spending Requirements
Proposition 44 on the 2026 California ballot would require private non-profit health clinics serving the lowest income Californians to spend...
Prop 43: Special Tax Voter Threshold
Proposition 43 on the 2026 California ballot would increase the vote threshold to pass new local taxes earmarked for special causes. Additio...
Prop 42: Bans New State Taxes on Investments and Personal Property
Proposition 42 on the 2026 California ballot prohibits new state personal property taxes and certain retroactive state taxes. Additional Res...
Prop 41: Requires Audits of New Special Taxes
Proposition 41 on the 2026 California ballot would require more audits on the programs that are funded by special taxes. Is it good governan...
Prop 40: One Time Tax on Billionaires
Proposition 40 would impose a one time 5% tax on Californians whose net worth is over a billion dollars. The resulting revenue would be prim...
Prop 39: Requires Voters Show ID to Cast A Ballot
Proposition 39 on the 2026 California ballot would require voters to show a valid ID when casting their ballot. Currently, voters have to sh...
Prop 38: Immunology Research Bond
Proposition 38 on the 2026 California ballot would authorize the state to borrow money to fund immunology research. Additional Resources: Re...
Prop 37: Creates Middle-Income Homebuyer Program
Proposition 37 on the 2026 California ballot authorizes the state to borrow money to create a middle-income homebuyers program. Additional R...
Prop 5: Recall Reform
Proposition 5 on the 2026 California ballot would change the rules around recalls of elected officials. Additional Resources: Read the trans...
Prop 4: Public Financing For Political Campaigns
Proposition 4 on the California 2026 ballot would repeal an earlier statewide ban on public financing programs. It would open the door for s...
Prop 2: The Rainy Day Fund
Proposition 2 on your 2026 California ballot would make changes to how the state's Rainy Day Fund would work. It would both allow lawmakers...
Prop 3: Tax on High-Income Earners
California has what’s known as a “progressive tax system” – basically, the more money you make, the more you pay in income taxes. For years,...
Prop 1: Affordable Housing Bond
Proposition 1 on the 2026 California ballot authorizes the state to take out an $11.25 billion bond to fund an array of affordable housing p...
Bay Curious Presents: The Speaker
Nancy Pelosi is many things: Trailblazer. Lightning rod. First woman Speaker of the House. Mom of five. To some, she’s an out-of-touch eliti...
The Best Scary Movies Set in the Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area isn't as popular of a filming location as Los Angeles or Vancouver, Canada, but there are some very creepy films...
The Forgotten Chinese Flower Growers in the S.F. Bay Area
For much of the 20th century, swaths of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties were home to seas of chrysanthemums, asters and irises. About 200...
The Island Lighthouse Turned Romantic B&B
Just off San Pablo Point, near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, there's a tiny spec of an island with a beautiful Victorian-era building on i...
Why So Many Golf Courses in Public Parks?
Bay Curious listener Mary Newsom went on a lot of walks during the coronavirus pandemic. While hiking in the Oakland and Berkeley hills, she...