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California Groundbreakers — 95 episodes

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This Changes Everything #20: The Show Must Go On in Post-Pandemic Hollywood

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This Changes Everything #19: How Technology Is Getting Better, Worse & More Dominant In Our Lives

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This Changes Everything #18: Redesigning the Art World

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This Changes Everything #17: A Very Different Type of Food Scene

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This Changes Everything #16: The New "Experience" of Shopping

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This Changes Everything #15: New Types of Trips and Travel Styles

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This Changes Everything #13: How We'll Be Getting Around California

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This Changes Everything #12: Covid's Effect on Cities, Suburb and Small Towns

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This Changes Everything #11: How Higher Education Will Be Totally Different

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This Changes Everything #10: The Outlook for Youth and Young Adults

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This Changes Everything #9: Dating, Relationships and a "Hot Vax Summer"

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This Changes Everything #8: Will Parents Get a Better Work/Life Balance?

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This Changes Everything #7: California's Plan for Your Senior-Citizen Years

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This Changes Everything #6: How to Improve Our Public Health System

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This Changes Everything #5: Doing Business in California - The Workers' Point of View

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This Changes Everything #4: Doing Business in California - The CEOs' Point of View

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This Changes Everything #3: Back to School

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This Changes Everything #2: Back to Work

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This Changes Everything #1: The Future of News in California

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This Changes Everything: Our New Podcast Series

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What Does Systemic Change Look Like #2: Xavier Brown & Assemblyman Kevin McCarty Talk Politics

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What Does Systemic Change Look Like: Stevante Clark and Chief Bob Harrison Talk Police Reform

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The New Normal in California #9: The Future of Restaurants

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The New Normal in California, #8: Strategies for Keeping Your Mental Health Strong and Sound

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The New Normal in California, #7: TV and Podcast Picks for "Pandemic Time"

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The New Normal in California #6: Grocery Stores in Pandemic Time, or Where's the Toilet Paper?

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The New Normal in California #5: Fixing the Broken Food Supply Chain

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The New Normal in California #4: One Chef's Plan to Feed California and Save Its Restaurants

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The New Normal in California #3: Ordinary People Doing Amazing Things

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The New Normal in California #2: How Will This Thing (Hopefully) End?

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The New Normal in California #1: How Did This Thing Get Started?

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Groundbreakers Q&A: The Women Training Other Women to Run for Political Office -- and Win

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Christine Pelosi and "The Nancy Pelosi Way"

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Food for Thought: Meatless Meat, Plant-Based Dairy and the New "Alt Proteins"

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Policy and a Pint: California's Chief Business and Economic Advisor Lenny Mendonca

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Policy and a Pint: How California Is Changing "Gig Economy" Employment

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Icebreaker Q&A: Talking Wildfire Season with California's Chief Firefighter

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Groundbreakers Q&A: Architecture and Urban Planning with Kristopher Barkley and Nikky Mohanna

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Food for Thought: Getting "Farm to Fork" into California's Public Schools

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Policy and a Pint: How to Handle Living in a High-Risk Wildfire Zone

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Groundbreakers Q&A with UC Davis Chancellor Gary May

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Policy and a Pint: Can We Fix California's Crazy Cannabis Market?

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Pop-up Panel: Travel and Tourism in the Central Valley

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Groundbreakers Q&A with State Senator Scott Wiener

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Policy and a Pint: Talking "Wildfire Season" with Wade Crowfoot, Secretary of Natural Resources

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Grapes and Groundbreakers: Talking and Tasting Sacramento-Grown Wines

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Groundbreakers Q&A: Chefs Rick Mahan and Patrick Mulvaney

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Pop-Up Panel: Blockchain & Cryptocurrency - What Are They, and How California Wants Us to Use Them

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The Future of Transportation in Sacramento

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Groundbreakers Q&A: Art Mavens Liv Moe and Estella Sanchez

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Pop-Up Panel: Getting Economic Growth to the Neighborhoods that Need It

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Groundbreakers Q&A: Katherine Bardis and Bay Miry

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Policy and a Pint: We Voted . . . Now What?

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Policy and a Pint: How You Gonna Vote on the Environment? Proposition 12

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Policy and a Pint: How You Gonna Vote on the Environment? Proposition 3

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Policy and a Pint: How You Gonna Vote on Taxes? Sacramento's Measure U

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Policy and a Pint: How You Gonna Vote on Taxes? Proposition 6

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Policy and a Pint: How You Gonna Vote on Housing? Proposition 2

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Policy and a Pint: How You Gonna Vote on Housing? Proposition 1

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Policy and a Pint: How You Gonna Vote on Housing? Proposition 5

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Policy and a Pint: How You Gonna Vote on Housing? Proposition 10

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Pop-Up Panel: The Sound and the Fury of Sacramento's Music Scene

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Groundbreakers Q&A: The Men in Charge of Sacramento Schools

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Groundbreakers Q&A: The Activist Artists

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Sacramento Style: What Is It? And Do We Have It Yet?

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Policy and a Pint: Women Running for Office

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Policy and a Pint: Affordable Housing on the Voting Ballot

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Food for Thought: How Immigration Issues Are Affecting California's Food

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Food for Thought: Local Chefs with Michelin-Star Skills

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Policy and a Pint: Sexual Harassment at the State Capitol

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The Future of Downtown Sacramento

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Food for Thought #5: The Future of Farming

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Policy and a Pint: The Gas Tax and California Transportation

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Food for Thought #4: The Brewmasters

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Icebreaker Podcast: Kate Whelan of Sacramento Beer Week

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Icebreaker Podcast: Glynn Phillips of Rubicon Brewing

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Icebreaker Podcast - Charlie Bamforth, the "Pope of Foam" at UC Davis

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Icebreaker Podcast - J-E Paino of Ruhstaller

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Food for Thought #3: Los Autenticos - The "Real" Mexican Food Movement

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Wide Open Walls: The Impact of Street Art in Sacramento

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Food for Thought #2: Chris Jarosz and Garrett Van Vleck, the Empire Builders

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Food for Thought #1: Andrea Lepore and the Kavookjians

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Fixing the Dams and Our Whole Water Infrastructure System

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CEQA Reform: California's Crazy Housing Market, Part 4

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The Good and The Bad of Gentrification: California's Crazy Housing Market, Part 3

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Is "Affordable Housing" an Oxymoron Here? - California's Crazy Housing Market, Part 2

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Sex, Love, Dating & Relationships -- California Style

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Why Are Housing Costs So Damn High: California's Crazy Housing Market, Part 1

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Innovation City: Does Sacramento Have What It Takes to Be One?

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Policy and a Pint: Pot Is Legal . . . Now What?

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The Future of Food: How Yolo County Is Shaping It

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Policy and a Pint: Placer County's Measure M

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Policy and a Pint: Shaking Up the Election Process

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On the Waterfront: Revitalizing the Sacramento River

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Future of California Craft Beer