KQED's Perspectives
Summary: Perspectives is KQED Public Radio's series of daily commentaries by our listeners. Essays cover a broad range of social and political issues, cultural observations and personal experiences of interest to KQED's Northern California audience.
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The East Bay trails, soon to be bursting with flowers, are where Karina Moreno goes to find her mother.
The new administration has hinted it may put the brakes on collection of climate change-related scientific data. Paul Wolber says that would be a big mistake.
Russian immigrant Jane Shamaeva finds opposing images of America in two poems of the same name.
Pamela Kan’s manufacturing business has been in the family for 65 years, and what it needs most is skilled workers.
Ever since she was a little girl playing dress-up in her aunt's closet, Kendra Scott loved fashion. Her first business was a hat shop, which she started at 19 – it failed. A few years later, she started a jewelry business out of her spare bedroom. Today the company is reportedly valued at more than a billion dollars.
It’s the spring equinox, when light and dark are in equal balance. Paul Staley asks why it isn’t a holiday?
In remembering her deceased mother, Jolie Kanat remembers that life is for the living.
Eighth grader Martha Fishburne learns that the tendency to reduce a person to a simple stereotype not only starts early, it hurts.
Joe Epstein says President Trump’s promise to build two new pipelines with American steel is an empty one.
Aaron Foppe copes with caring for a son who was essentially born with no immune system.
After living as a monk in India and running a plastics company in Florida, Manoj Bhargava decided to launch something new: a one-shot energy drink in a bright, battery-shaped bottle. Today, 5-Hour ENERGY is one of the most recognizable energy drinks in the world.
Dr. Sarah Gmach worries the toxic immigration debate is scaring away the immigrant doctors and skilled health workers increasingly vital to American health care.
Michael Ellis discovers the concept of totem animals, and reveals which animal is his totem.
Twenty-five years ago, when Mei Xu emigrated from China to the U.S., she loved going to Bloomingdale's to gaze at their housewares. She eventually started making candles in her basement with Campbell's Soup cans, an experiment that led to the multi-million dollar company Chesapeake Bay Candle.
Before he turned 40, Nolan Bushnell founded two brands that permanently shaped the way Americans amuse themselves: the iconic video game system Atari, and the frenetic family restaurant Chuck E. Cheese's.
