Every day at KCBX News, we work to report the stories you want to hear, and now we’d like to recruit you! We want to bring you - our audience - closer to the news and into the journalistic storytelling we strive to do here at KCBX by answering your questions about the region. Central Coast Curious is a regular KCBX News series that lets you be a part of the news reporting process.
Here’s how it works: You send us your questions about the Central Coast region by emailing them to news@kcbx.org. Later, you’ll have opportunities to vote on the ones you most want us to answer. Then, we’ll work with our question askers to report the answers together and broadcast our reports on the air and on NPR One.
You can ask us anything, silly or serious. You might wonder: Why do we have so few mental health facilities in our area? What's the status of the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary? Where are secret beaches? How much is the city of San Luis Obispo spending on recycling? What defines Central Coast cuisine?
So, ask away. Be Central Coast curious! Email your questions to news@kcbx.org
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Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk and junk bond creator Michael Milken were among the recipients of the 2024 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award.
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Republican lawmakers in Georgia are advancing a bill that would require police to help identify undocumented immigrants and detain them for deportation.
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The Texas Republican Party has gotten more conservative over the years. Immigration policies once pushed by top GOP officials now seem moderate. Party leaders crack down on dissension in their ranks.
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Two new government studies found no unusual pattern of injury or illness in people with the mysterious cluster of symptoms known as Havana syndrome.
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More than 50 other countries have already banned the substance, which has been known to lead to lung and ovarian cancer, mesothelioma and other deadly illnesses.
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Last week, a federal appeals court ordered Navarro to surrender to a federal prison in Florida on March 19 to serve his four-month sentence.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Justin Williams, a staff writer at The Athletic, about what to look out for when the NCAA basketball tournament starts Tuesday.
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More than half of Gaza's population is experiencing catastrophic food insecurity, according to a new report. Despite international pressure on Israel to allow more aid in, it hasn't been enough.
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The Central Coast Greenhouse Growers Association (CCGGA) will hold its 21st Annual Open House. Nine CCGGA member nurseries throughout Nipomo and Arroyo Grande will open their doors to the public in effort to raise money for their scholarship fund. Several growers will offer nursery tours of their facilities, in addition to their highly anticipated local plant and flower sales. This is an opportunity for the public to visit with growers and learn firsthand, how to care for the outstanding plant and flower products that these nurseries are selling.
Nurseries open for tours and plant sales will be: Altman Plants, Ball FloraPlant, Ball Tagawa Growers, Cal Coast Orchids, Eufloria Flowers, Holland America Flowers, Native Sons, Ocean Breeze and West Covina Nursery.
Each participating nursery proudly donates a portion of that day’s sales to the CCGGA Scholarship Fund, which is made available to Horticulture students and CCGGA grower members’ children. -
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jessica Kutz, a reporter for The 19th, about a recent study that sheds light on how polluted air in Louisiana has affected pregnant people and their children.