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Whether covering the manhunt and eventual capture of Eric Robert Rudolph in the mountains of North Carolina, the remnants of the Oklahoma City federal building with its twisted metal frame and shattered glass, flood-ravaged Midwestern communities, or the terrorist bombings across the country, including the blast that exploded in Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta, correspondent Kathy Lohr has been at the heart of stories all across the nation.

Hank Hadley has worked as KCBX's Operations Manager since 1988. For his first nine years at KCBX he was the local host of NPR's Morning Edition, arriving at the station weekday mornings at 5:30. Each morning when the alarm went off, a mighty struggle took place pitting the joy of sleep against the love of the job. The job almost always won out. Since 1997 hank has been sleeping in. That's when he became the local host of All Things Considered.

Rick Mathews, host of Freedom Jazz Dance, has been hosting jazz and radio programs on KCBX since 1978, when the founding managers of the station allowed Rick to begin producing ‘Jazz Toward The One’, a late-night eclectic jazz show (running 1978-1999). That show, like Freedom Jazz Dance, did not show much respect for arbitrary genre barriers. Rick is more interested in the spirit that good music shares, rather than the exclusion of particular styles or cultural backgrounds. In addition to ‘Toward The One’ and 'Freedom Jazz Dance', Rick began producing ’Night Train’, KCBX's Saturday night R&B show in 1983, with several KCBX DJs, at a time when R&B, Soul and Funk Music was sadly absent from the airwaves.

Steve V, as he calls himself on air, is co-host of Pacific Standard Time, which explores the Great American Songbook. Steve has a great love for the standards, and has been known to sing some of them himself from time to time. Steve also loves beer and baking. He keeps bees and chickens, and helps his wife rescue and relocate rattlesnakes (and other serpents) in his spare time.

John Walsh hosts Pacific Standard Time, the KCBX show that features music from the Great American Songbook. John is a guy with a lot of interests -- from computers and teaching to gardening and cooking. And since 2015, the Great American Songbook has been somewhere near the top of his list of interests. He makes regular singing appearances with Cabaret805, a loose-knit group of singers from around SLO County who seek to create a popular Cabaret scene locally.

Beth Thornton was a freelance reporter for KCBX, and a contributor to Issues & Ideas from 2019 to 2024. She was a 2021 Data Fellow with the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, and was accepted by the Center to receive a 2024 California Health Equity Impact grant. Beth has contributed reporting to KQED's statewide radio show The California Report.

Kim Lisagor Bisheff (M.A. UC Berkeley, 1999; B.A. UCLA, 1995) is a Cal Poly journalism professor who worked at the Los Angeles Times and Outside magazine before becoming a freelance writer, author and lecturer. She contributed a regular segment to Issues & Ideas about about important issues making their way through SLO County government.

StellaChávezisKERA’seducation reporter/blogger. Her journalism roots run deep: She spent a decade and a half in newspapers – including seven years atThe Dallas Morning News, where she covered education and won the Livingston Award for National Reporting, which is given annually to the best journalists across the country under age 35. The award-winning entry was “Yolanda’s Crossing,” a seven-partDMN series she co-wrote that reconstructs the 5,000-mile journey of a young Mexican sexual-abuse victim from a smallOaxacanvillage to Dallas. For the last two years, she worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,where she was part of the agency’s outreach efforts on the Affordable Care Act and ran the regional office’s social media efforts.