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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Podcasts:
Lane Parker's young son makes constructing even the biggest and most complicated things simple, and gives his father an adult lesson in creativity.
Hugh Biggar spends Christmas in Mali, where the locals do their best to prepare a suitable holiday feast.
Michael Ellis looks at one of the pagan origins of the holiday season.
Like many Muslim-Americans, Raj Chowdhury fears for his safety. But he takes comfort in the support of his community, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
Kevin Fisher-Paulson has become the oldest person in his family, and that changes everything.
Matt Mitchell makes the case for keeping Alexander Hamilton on the face of the $10 bill.
The sad death of Cecil the Lion reminds Carol Arnold that our own lions — mountain lions — aren't doing too well.
For teachers like Matt Biers-Ariel, summer means working to become a better educator.
Steven Saum and his son explore the fiery, snowy wonders of Mt. Lassen's Bumpass Hell.
Forget income inequality. Richard Swerdlow says the class divide really gets personal in the cabin of a commercial jetliner.
Michael Ellis takes a look at the big-eared, furry hoppers common to the Bay Area.
Charity Johnson is a teacher, but she spends a lot of time doing maintenance on buildings that are falling apart.
An elderly regular at the gym comes back from the dead and tells Richard Swerdlow what he learned.
At 76, Kay Brown can't do many of the things she loved to do, but new interests give her powerful reasons to live.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau's ambitious project to sleep at least one night in each of California's 58 counties has reaped terrific rewards.
