Elena Neale-Sacks
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KAZU News
San Benito County adopts a temporary moratorium on battery energy storage facilities. And, the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran has increased nitrogen fertilizer costs as the spring planting season gets underway—are more conservation-minded farms insulated? Plus, Cal State Monterey Bay president Vanya Quiñones is stepping down.
KAZU Green Room
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Watsonville Film Festival
The Watsonville Film Festival opens tonight at Green Valley Cinemas. This year's theme is "art as resistance."
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- Tig Notaro has no time to waste
- Meet the KAZU on-air hosts!
- Local rock trio Yeobo's debut album blends world music and electric songwriting
- Salinas musician Flaco El Jandro enters original song "Cobarde" in NPR's Tiny Desk Contest
The Latest From NPR
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So you want to spend less time on your phone. How do you do that when it's designed to suck you in? Life Kit spoke to experts in behavioral science, psychology and technology for real-world advice. -
The White House wants tougher rules for commercial licenses after several high-profile crashes involving foreign-born drivers. But critics say that would do little to make the nation's roads safer. -
Swing voters who helped reelect President Trump in 2024 don't support his decision to go to war in Iran and instead want to see U.S. tax dollars spent tackling economic pressures facing Americans. -
U.S.-Israel strikes continue as Iran effectively closes Strait of Hormuz, Trump ran on lower gas prices, but the Iran war challenges that, probe points to U.S. being at fault for Iran school strike.
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The Department of Justice has quietly restarted a decades-dormant program to restore gun rights to felons. One name on the list is raising questions about transparency.
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A Zambian scientist is on a quest to prevent brain drain from Africa so he's established a state-of-the-art drug discovery lab in South Africa.
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The latest on the Iran war and the growing oil crisis across the Middle East from Dubai, Iraq, Lebanon and Israel.
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Friendship Bench DC, an adaptation of Friendship Bench Zimbabwe, trains older volunteers to sit and listen to people who need someone to talk to for free.
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The threat of Iran laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz -- the narrow waterway through which about 20% of the world's oil supply travels -- is raising fresh fears about global oil prices.
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Detractors point to Adebayo's one-of-a-kind stat line — 43 field goal attempts, 22 3-point attempts and, most of all, NBA records of 36 free throws and 43 attempts — as proof of stat-padding.
