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Special Report: Immediate Jeopardy in California Nursing Homes

Holiday wreaths the old-fashioned way, from a wreath farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains that sits on the site of an old mountain town. This story originally aired on <a href="http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201312201630/e">The California Report.</a>

Christmas Wreaths from a Ghost Town

Meet a pilot who donates his plane to take patients in remote areas to and from medical procedures. He works with a group called Angel Flights, and today he’s taking off from Palo Alto. Part of The California Report's Giving State series--<a href="http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201312250850/a?utm_content=bufferf0227&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer">link here</a>.

Gil Takemori's Angel Flight

King's Boxing Gym is an out of the way place, one you can’t find unless you know where it is. A no-nonsense spot, King's that evokes the era when boxing was huge. The training ground for a current champion, and a destination for celebrities, the gym remains a temple to the sport.

This audio postcard aired on <a href="http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201401031630/e">The California Report</a>.

Oakland's Old-School Boxing Gym

Among the art galleries in San Francisco’s Mission District, Savernack Street is different. It’s a few blocks from the main thoroughfares, features just one piece of art per month and doesn’t allow patrons to come inside. At Savernack Street, visitors can view the art only through a peephole. But that's not the only thing that sets Savernack Street apart.

The story <a href="http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201401171630/f">first aired</a> on The California Report in January 2014.

San Francisco's Smallest Gallery Invites Patrons to Take a Peek

Collaborated on this story about fourth graders learning about love at Malcolm X elementary. For the Valentine's Day 2014 episode of The California Report.

Fourth-Graders Grapple With Meaning of Love (for The California Report)

School's out for summer, and for some kids that means carefree summer days. For others, it can mean going hungry. Thousands of schools, community centers and libraries serve free meals to kids during the summer, but they only reach 1 in 5 children who qualify for free or reduced price lunch during the school year. This story was broadcast on <a href="http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201407230850/c#sthash.7vl3dkHK.dpuf">The California Report</a>.

Millions of California Kids Missing Out on Nutrition, Meals During the Summer

The bulls raced by in a cloud of dust. Runners sprinted alongside them, as the bulls came in waves of eight to 10. Many runners documented the event with their cellphones and GoPro cameras mounted on heads, hands and chests.

“You could hear them coming, and then you could feel the panic in the crowd as they started coming closer,” said Amy Anderson, who came from Santa Cruz for the event.

“All of a sudden you get this rush of hot beast running past you. And you remember you’re alive and you don’t want to die,” she said.

<a href="http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2014/07/28/great-bull-run-debuts-at-pleasanton-racetrack/">This story aired on KQED</a>.

‘Great Bull Run’ Debuts at Pleasanton Racetrack (for KQED)

Two-thirds of released prisoners will be arrested again within three years. With the deck stacked against them, how do the newly-released survive in an environment that can be, in its own way, as unforgiving as life on the inside? In this half-hour radio documentary, producer Aaron Mendelson follows ex-prisoner Kevin Tindall as he navigates housing, money and even dating on the outside.

First broadcast on <a href="http://www.radioproject.org/2014/07/getting-out-the-journey-out-of-prison/">Making Contact</a>.

Getting Out: Kevin's Journey Out Of Prison

The suburb of San Leandro sits just east of Oakland, California, within striking distance of San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Underneath the city lies a loop of ultrafast fiber optic cable known as Lit San Leandro. Data speeds through these cables about 2,000 times faster than a typical internet hookup. 

The cable exists because of one guy: Pat Kennedy.

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