Amy Mayer
Interim News DirectorAmy Mayer is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience in public radio. As an editor with the California Newsroom collaboration, she worked with reporters throughout the state. Previously, she was an editor at St. Louis Public Radio and for eight years she covered agriculture as the Harvest Public Media reporter based at Iowa Public Radio. She also worked at stations in Massachusetts and Alaska and has written for many newspapers, magazines and online news outlets. Amy is a past board member of the Association of Independents in Radio, a former chapter president of NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists and a big fan of trainings she has received through the Institute of Journalism and Natural Resources and IRE. Find more of her work at www.amymayerwrites.com.
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On Nov. 5, in addition to electing a new president and vice president, voters will choose a new senator and elect members to the U.S. House. -
The $38.5 million Edward “Ted” Taylor Science and Engineering Building is expected to open in June 2027. -
It may still be August, but winter is again looming large in Pajaro, where construction crews are at work shoring up the battered levee. -
The Biden administration hopes changes to farming can help achieve its climate agenda. The Department of Agriculture has an additional goal: improving service to Black and other underserved farmers. -
Most of the country's lettuce and leafy greens come from California, where 13 atmospheric rivers hit this winter. Farmers both welcome the water and sometimes suffer from the deluge.
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The parade of storms that have pummeled California this winter caused hundreds of rockslides around the state. Now, geologists are out assessing new risks and shoring up protections.
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Sea otters were hunted to near extinction along the U.S. West Coast. During the century they have been away, a lucrative shellfish industry has grown in the waters where restoration would take place. -
The meatpacking industry has slowed down due to the coronavirus outbreaks at the plants. Meatpackers warn that it could lead to meat shortages and stores limiting purchases.
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Winters are warming faster than summers in many places, and colder parts of the U.S. are warming faster than hotter ones. The warming winter climate has year-round consequences across the country. -
American farmers rely heavily on selling their goods overseas. As the trade war heats up again, many Midwest soybean farmers have huge surpluses and are receiving government aid.
