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: Comic-Con returns to San Diego
22/07/2022 Duración: 26minComic-Con holds its first full scale event in downtown San Diego since 2019 after being sidetracked by the pandemic.
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Roundtable: In-person Pride Festival returns to San Diego
15/07/2022 Duración: 26minThe 2022 San Diego Pride Festival and related events are underway this weekend amid an uptick of public health and safety concerns.
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Roundtable: San Diego's changing sports landscape
08/07/2022 Duración: 26minThe Padres are making a playoff push, football and soccer teams will soon move into a brand new stadium and California will ask voters to weigh in on sports betting.
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Roundtable: California's response to the U.S. Supreme Court
01/07/2022 Duración: 26minCalifornia tries to bolster abortion access in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling to allow states to decide whether to legalize the procedure.
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Roundtable: Lessons from the Fat Leonard bribery scandal
24/06/2022 Duración: 26minAs the legal case nears its end, we take a look back at the largest scandal in Navy history.
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Roundtable: Water restrictions begin as California drought worsens
17/06/2022 Duración: 26minA discussion on environmental news this week, including the rollout of new water-use restrictions and new developments in the cross-border sewage contamination issue forcing the closure of beaches in Imperial Beach and Coronado.
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Roundtable: Looking ahead to November
10/06/2022 Duración: 26minA recap of the local and state results from this week's California primary election.
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Roundtable: San Diego's packed summer schedule as pandemic restrictions fade
03/06/2022 Duración: 26minLive music, Comic-Con and the San Diego County Fair are among the major events making a full comeback this summer.
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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.