Sinopsis
Mark Sauer hosts KPBS Roundtable, a lively discussion of the week's top stories. Local journalists join Sauer to provide insight into how these stories affect residents of the San Diego region.
Episodios
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Roundtable: What's on the ballot in South Bay?
27/05/2022 Duración: 26minWe look ahead to the June 7 California primary election with a focus on some of the high profile races in the South Bay.
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Roundtable: What's on the ballot in North County?
20/05/2022 Duración: 26minWe look ahead to the June 7 California primary election with a focus on some of the high profile races in North County.
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Roundtable: The deadly situation inside San Diego's jails
13/05/2022 Duración: 25minAdvocates for criminal justice reform are calling for more accountability and preventative measures as a new study shows San Diego ranks at the top of all California counties in the number of excess deaths inside jails.
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Roundtable: A closer look at the U.S.-Mexico border today
06/05/2022 Duración: 26minReporters working in the San Diego-Tijuana border region on how federal immigration policies have shaped the border they see today.
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Roundtable: What Elon Musk means for the future of Black Twitter
29/04/2022 Duración: 26minElon Musk's Twitter buyout could mark the end of Black Twitter. A city audit finds major disparities in parks and rec center funding that favors high-income areas. And a recent investigation found changes in how San Diego enforces its rules on vehicle dwelling.
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Roundtable: Following the democratic process in Barrio Logan
22/04/2022 Duración: 26minA new documentary showcases a struggle for environmental justice in Barrio Logan, and nonvoters in the 80th Assembly District explain why they chose not to participate in the recent special election.
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Roundtable: San Diego tries again to bring transit to the airport
15/04/2022 Duración: 26minThe vision for a central transit hub in San Diego with direct access to the airport is scrambled, and there has been progress in bringing electric vehicle technology to heavy machinery.
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Roundtable: Climate change in San Diego's desert
08/04/2022 Duración: 26minThe Anza-Borrego Desert State Park suffers loss of vegetation and other effects due to climate change, San Diego weighs how to electrify buildings as part of its larger climate goals, and new details show where some of the questionable spending was done by SANDAG as part of an internal audit of the regional planning agency.
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Roundtable: SeaWorld owes millions in unpaid rent to city of San Diego
01/04/2022 Duración: 26minSeaWorld is negotiating past-due rent tied to the pandemic shutdown in San Diego, a privately operated federal jail will be allowed to stay open, and a local family wants to know why San Diego police didn't investigate a relative's suspicious death.
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Roundtable: Supermarket workers vote on whether to strike in Southern California
25/03/2022 Duración: 26minUnion vote could bring the first supermarket strike to the area since 2003, San Diego's new community choice energy program prepares for a big expansion, and immigration activists call for an end to strike asylum measures at the border.
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Why your SDG&E bill is so high
18/03/2022 Duración: 26minAn explanation for why SDG&E utility bills have increased in recent months, SANDAG investigates questionable spending within the transportation and planning agency, and some insight on what it's like to work as a reporter in a war zone.
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Roundtable: The mass exodus of refugees from the war in Ukraine
11/03/2022 Duración: 26minMore than two million people escape Russia's invasion of Ukraine including a family that arrived seeking asylum at the San Ysidro Port of Entry and a parents whose children attend a San Diego preschool say their kids were questioned by the state about COVID mask wearing.
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Roundtable: The climate crisis worsens
04/03/2022 Duración: 26minJade Hindmon hosts a discussion with KPBS reporters on stories in the news this week. Guests include Erik Anderson, Claire Trageser and Gustavo Solis.
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The debate over bike lanes and what it means for climate action in San Diego
25/02/2022 Duración: 26minA status check on the major bike lane project in North Park, how it fits into the region's larger climate strategy, and why scientists say we're falling short of reaching net-zero emissions by 2035.
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Roundtable: The increasingly high price of living in San Diego
18/02/2022 Duración: 25minA new survey ranks San Diego as the least affordable metro area in the country, the ACLU sues for more transparency over the future of downtown's privately-run federal prison, and local schools resume field trips as pandemic restrictions ease.
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Roundtable: The Super Bowl returns to Southern California
11/02/2022 Duración: 25minSuper Bowl weekend in Southern California, women athletes sue SDSU over alleged Title IX inequities and the ties civil rights icons have to San Diego in celebration of Black History Month.
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Roundtable: What's next for the Sheriff's Department?
04/02/2022 Duración: 25minAfter more than a decade in charge, San Diego Sheriff Bill Gore resigns, another defeat in Sacramento for proponents of a single-payer health care system, and San Diego's new women's soccer team begins training camp.
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Roundtable: Journalists killed in Tijuana
28/01/2022 Duración: 25minA discussion on the recent killings of journalists in Tijuana, the city of San Diego's struggle to fill open jobs, and the new lawsuit against the NFL over the Chargers move to Los Angeles.
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Roundtable: Local trailblazers in politics and sports
21/01/2022 Duración: 25minLatinos in Fallbrook overcome a racist history to secure elected office on local government boards, and congress recognizes Willie O'Ree, the first black player in NHL history who now calls San Diego home.
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Roundtable: Expanding health care in California
14/01/2022 Duración: 25minHealthcare proposals in Sacramento would greatly expand if not completely change California's health care system, local blood banks sound the alarm on critically low supply levels, and the city of Chula Vista investigates if the word 'gringo' is discriminatory.