Autism Can Be An Asset In The Workplace, Employers And Workers Find
Battle Erupts Over Changes in California Autism Coverage
Panel Says Evidence Is Lacking On Universal Screening For Autism
A New Study Raises Old Questions About Antidepressants And Autism
Kaiser Recruits Members to Help Unlock Autism's Genetic Secrets
Sophie and Ben: A Story of Filmmaker and Son with Autism (Video)
Plenty of Research on Children with Autism, But What About Adults?
Steve Silberman on Autism's History and the 'Neurodiversity' Movement
Sponsored
window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={"attachmentsReducer":{"audio_0":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_0","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"}}},"audio_1":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_1","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"}}},"audio_2":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_2","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"}}},"audio_3":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_3","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"}}},"audio_4":{"type":"attachments","id":"audio_4","imgSizes":{"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"}}},"placeholder":{"type":"attachments","id":"placeholder","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-160x96.jpg","width":160,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-800x478.jpg","width":800,"height":478,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1020x610.jpg","width":1020,"height":610,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-lrg":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1920x1148.jpg","width":1920,"height":1148,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-med":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1180x705.jpg","width":1180,"height":705,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-sm":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-960x574.jpg","width":960,"height":574,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xxsmall":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-240x143.jpg","width":240,"height":143,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xsmall":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-375x224.jpg","width":375,"height":224,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"small":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-520x311.jpg","width":520,"height":311,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"xlarge":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1180x705.jpg","width":1180,"height":705,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-1920x1148.jpg","width":1920,"height":1148,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-50":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/GettyImages-896326950-e1514998105161.jpg","width":1920,"height":1148}}},"stateofhealth_205170":{"type":"attachments","id":"stateofhealth_205170","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"stateofhealth","id":"205170","found":true},"title":"Pam","publishDate":1467137631,"status":"inherit","parent":198989,"modified":1467137659,"caption":"Pam Raymond (R) with her daughter, Brianna. ","credit":"Courtesy: Pam Raymond","description":"Pam Raymond (R) with her daughter, Brianna. ","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/Pam-400x229.jpg","width":400,"height":229,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/Pam-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-50":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/Pam-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/Pam-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/Pam-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/Pam-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/Pam-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"jmtc-small-thumb":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/Pam-280x150.jpg","width":280,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/Pam.jpg","width":640,"height":366}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"stateofhealth_186176":{"type":"attachments","id":"stateofhealth_186176","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"stateofhealth","id":"186176","found":true},"title":"Gerald Franklin, who was diagnosed with autism as a child, is now lead developer for a website that matches workers with prospective employers. Job-related videos, he says, can help people with special needs showcase their talent.","publishDate":1463610526,"status":"inherit","parent":186175,"modified":1463610526,"caption":null,"credit":null,"description":"Gerald Franklin, who was diagnosed with autism as a child, is now lead developer for a website that matches workers with prospective employers. Job-related videos, he says, can help people with special needs showcase their talent.","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-400x266.jpg","width":400,"height":266,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-800x533.jpg","width":800,"height":533,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-768x511.jpg","width":768,"height":511,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-1440x959.jpg","width":1440,"height":959,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-lrg":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-1920x1279.jpg","width":1920,"height":1279,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-med":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-1180x786.jpg","width":1180,"height":786,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-sm":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-960x639.jpg","width":960,"height":639,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-50":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"jmtc-small-thumb":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-280x150.jpg","width":280,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/05/gerald-franklin_enl-45c968c29862e8420ebfd1c79fcf0933c285286d-e1463611231564.jpg","width":1920,"height":1279}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"stateofhealth_152701":{"type":"attachments","id":"stateofhealth_152701","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"stateofhealth","id":"152701","found":true},"title":"autism-full size","publishDate":1456349122,"status":"inherit","parent":152699,"modified":1456349174,"caption":"Autism therapy provider Hillary Baldi, owner of the Emeryville-based Behavioral Intervention for Autism, works with a 3-year-old client in Berkeley. ","credit":"David Gorn/California Healthline","description":null,"imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-400x267.jpg","width":400,"height":267,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-800x533.jpg","width":800,"height":533,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-768x512.jpg","width":768,"height":512,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-1440x960.jpg","width":1440,"height":960,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-lrg":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-1920x1280.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-med":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-1180x787.jpg","width":1180,"height":787,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-sm":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-960x640.jpg","width":960,"height":640,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-75x75.jpg","width":75,"height":75,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"jmtc-small-thumb":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-280x150.jpg","width":280,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autism-full-size-e1456349146390.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"stateofhealth_148704":{"type":"attachments","id":"stateofhealth_148704","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"stateofhealth","id":"148704","found":true},"title":"The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all children be screened for autism and other developmental disorders.","publishDate":1455649040,"status":"inherit","parent":148703,"modified":1494886899,"caption":null,"credit":"B Busco/Getty Images","description":"The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all children be screened for autism and other developmental disorders.","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-400x266.jpg","width":400,"height":266,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-800x533.jpg","width":800,"height":533,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-768x511.jpg","width":768,"height":511,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-1440x959.jpg","width":1440,"height":959,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-lrg":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-1920x1279.jpg","width":1920,"height":1279,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-med":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-1180x786.jpg","width":1180,"height":786,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-sm":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-960x639.jpg","width":960,"height":639,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-75x75.jpg","width":75,"height":75,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"jmtc-small-thumb":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-280x150.jpg","width":280,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/02/autismscreening_enl-ca4439befe73f6a7967c47d638168053a3f1bec4-e1455649306948.jpg","width":1920,"height":1279}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"stateofhealth_123540":{"type":"attachments","id":"stateofhealth_123540","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"stateofhealth","id":"123540","found":true},"title":"Scientists are trying to weigh the risks of taking antidepressants while pregnant.","publishDate":1450121908,"status":"inherit","parent":123539,"modified":1450121908,"caption":null,"credit":null,"description":"Scientists are trying to weigh the risks of taking antidepressants while pregnant.","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-400x266.jpg","width":400,"height":266,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-800x533.jpg","width":800,"height":533,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium_large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-768x511.jpg","width":768,"height":511,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-1440x959.jpg","width":1440,"height":959,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-lrg":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-1920x1279.jpg","width":1920,"height":1279,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-med":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-1180x786.jpg","width":1180,"height":786,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-sm":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-960x639.jpg","width":960,"height":639,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-75x75.jpg","width":75,"height":75,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"jmtc-small-thumb":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19-280x150.jpg","width":280,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/pregnant-woman-pills_enl-c6339c9cf9d3adc96ceb738b75666c6bda8dac19.jpg","width":2000,"height":1332}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"stateofhealth_113407":{"type":"attachments","id":"stateofhealth_113407","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"stateofhealth","id":"113407","found":true},"title":"joanna_alex","publishDate":1448398434,"status":"inherit","parent":113405,"modified":1448908136,"caption":"Joanna Jaeger and her son Alex, 23, selling his toffee and artwork at a holiday boutique in San Jose. Alex has autism, and the family is participating in Kaiser's 'biobank.'","credit":"Courtesy of Joanna Jaeger","description":"Joanna Jaeger and her son Alex, 23, selling his toffee and artwork at a holiday boutique in San Jose. Alex has autism. ","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-400x300.jpg","width":400,"height":300,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-800x600.jpg","width":800,"height":600,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-1440x1080.jpg","width":1440,"height":1080,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-lrg":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-1920x1440.jpg","width":1920,"height":1440,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-med":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-1180x885.jpg","width":1180,"height":885,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-sm":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-960x720.jpg","width":960,"height":720,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-75x75.jpg","width":75,"height":75,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"jmtc-small-thumb":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-280x150.jpg","width":280,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/joanna_alex-e1448398595753.jpg","width":1920,"height":1440}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"stateofhealth_113856":{"type":"attachments","id":"stateofhealth_113856","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"stateofhealth","id":"113856","found":true},"title":"Screen Shot 2015-11-25 at 10.37.48 AM","publishDate":1448476707,"status":"inherit","parent":113500,"modified":1448476767,"caption":"Documentary filmmaker Sophie Sartain and her son Ben.","credit":"Sophie and Ben","description":null,"imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-10.37.48-AM-400x221.png","width":400,"height":221,"mimeType":"image/png"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-10.37.48-AM-800x443.png","width":800,"height":443,"mimeType":"image/png"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-10.37.48-AM-1440x797.png","width":1440,"height":797,"mimeType":"image/png"},"fd-med":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-10.37.48-AM-1180x653.png","width":1180,"height":653,"mimeType":"image/png"},"fd-sm":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-10.37.48-AM-960x531.png","width":960,"height":531,"mimeType":"image/png"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-10.37.48-AM-672x372.png","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/png"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-10.37.48-AM-1038x576.png","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/png"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-10.37.48-AM-32x32.png","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/png"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-10.37.48-AM-64x64.png","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/png"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-10.37.48-AM-96x96.png","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/png"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-10.37.48-AM-128x128.png","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/png"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-10.37.48-AM-75x75.png","width":75,"height":75,"mimeType":"image/png"},"jmtc-small-thumb":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-10.37.48-AM-280x150.png","width":280,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/png"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-10.37.48-AM.png","width":1828,"height":1012}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"stateofhealth_92869":{"type":"attachments","id":"stateofhealth_92869","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"stateofhealth","id":"92869","found":true},"title":"city commuters","publishDate":1444929945,"status":"inherit","parent":92843,"modified":1444929973,"caption":null,"credit":"iStockphoto","description":"blurred man, city group, autism","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-400x268.jpg","width":400,"height":268,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"medium":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-800x536.jpg","width":800,"height":536,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"large":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-1440x964.jpg","width":1440,"height":964,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-lrg":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-1920x1285.jpg","width":1920,"height":1285,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-med":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-1180x790.jpg","width":1180,"height":790,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-sm":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-960x643.jpg","width":960,"height":643,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-672x372.jpg","width":672,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"twentyfourteen-full-width":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-1038x576.jpg","width":1038,"height":576,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-75x75.jpg","width":75,"height":75,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"jmtc-small-thumb":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-280x150.jpg","width":280,"height":150,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/iStock_000071826749_Large-e1444929977676.jpg","width":1920,"height":1285}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false},"stateofhealth_18394":{"type":"attachments","id":"stateofhealth_18394","meta":{"index":"attachments_1591205162","site":"stateofhealth","id":"18394","found":true},"title":"autism","publishDate":1395966550,"status":"inherit","parent":18387,"modified":1395966550,"caption":"(Getty Images)","credit":null,"description":"autism","imgSizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/183682661-e1395966642552-400x267.jpg","width":400,"height":267,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"fd-sm":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/183682661-e1395966642552-320x214.jpg","width":320,"height":214,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/183682661-e1395966642552-640x372.jpg","width":640,"height":372,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-32":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/183682661-e1395966642552-32x32.jpg","width":32,"height":32,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-64":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/183682661-e1395966642552-64x64.jpg","width":64,"height":64,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-96":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/183682661-e1395966642552-96x96.jpg","width":96,"height":96,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"guest-author-128":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/183682661-e1395966642552-128x128.jpg","width":128,"height":128,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"detail":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/183682661-e1395966642552-75x75.jpg","width":75,"height":75,"mimeType":"image/jpeg"},"kqedFullSize":{"file":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/03/183682661-e1395966642552.jpg","width":640,"height":427}},"fetchFailed":false,"isLoading":false}},"audioPlayerReducer":{"postId":"stream_live"},"authorsReducer":{"byline_stateofhealth_198989":{"type":"authors","id":"byline_stateofhealth_198989","meta":{"override":true},"slug":"byline_stateofhealth_198989","name":"Pam Raymond","isLoading":false},"byline_stateofhealth_186175":{"type":"authors","id":"byline_stateofhealth_186175","meta":{"override":true},"slug":"byline_stateofhealth_186175","name":"Yuki Noguchi\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/\">NPR Shots\u003c/a>","isLoading":false},"byline_stateofhealth_152699":{"type":"authors","id":"byline_stateofhealth_152699","meta":{"override":true},"slug":"byline_stateofhealth_152699","name":"David Gorn","isLoading":false},"byline_stateofhealth_148703":{"type":"authors","id":"byline_stateofhealth_148703","meta":{"override":true},"slug":"byline_stateofhealth_148703","name":"Nancy Shute","isLoading":false},"byline_stateofhealth_123539":{"type":"authors","id":"byline_stateofhealth_123539","meta":{"override":true},"slug":"byline_stateofhealth_123539","name":"Jon Hamilton","isLoading":false},"byline_stateofhealth_92843":{"type":"authors","id":"byline_stateofhealth_92843","meta":{"override":true},"slug":"byline_stateofhealth_92843","name":"Kenny Goldberg","isLoading":false},"astupi":{"type":"authors","id":"70","meta":{"index":"authors_1591205172","id":"70","found":true},"name":"Amanda Stupi","firstName":"Amanda","lastName":"Stupi","slug":"astupi","email":"astupi@kqed.org","display_author_email":false,"staff_mastheads":["science"],"title":"Senior Engagement Producer","bio":"Amanda joined KQED Science’s engagement team as a Senior Audience Engagement Strategist in the spring of 2019. She has helped craft messaging around wildfires, the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and many other stories. She has also brought KQED Science to new platforms such as Reddit’s Ask Me Anything series. Prior to joining KQED Science, Amanda spent seven years as an engagement producer with Forum, KQED’s daily live call-in show. She got her start in radio at KALW's weekly call in show, City Visions, before going on to an internship and stint at NPR's Talk of the Nation.\r\n\r\nPrior to journalism, Amanda taught English at Lowell High School. She's a native of Petaluma and currently lives under the \"South San Francisco the Industrial City\" sign in South City. She believes that engagement is vital to news’s future and that good journalism listens as much as it asks questions.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e981c503e5c162da701dcaccfbf87e35?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":null,"facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"arts","roles":["Contributor","editor"]},{"site":"news","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"pop","roles":["contributor"]},{"site":"bayareabites","roles":["contributor"]},{"site":"stateofhealth","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"science","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"forum","roles":["administrator"]},{"site":"perspectives","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"pressroom","roles":["editor"]}],"headData":{"title":"Amanda Stupi | KQED","description":"Senior Engagement Producer","ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e981c503e5c162da701dcaccfbf87e35?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e981c503e5c162da701dcaccfbf87e35?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/astupi"},"lisaaliferis":{"type":"authors","id":"240","meta":{"index":"authors_1591205172","id":"240","found":true},"name":"Lisa Aliferis","firstName":"Lisa","lastName":"Aliferis","slug":"lisaaliferis","email":"laliferis@kqed.org","display_author_email":false,"staff_mastheads":[],"title":null,"bio":"Lisa Aliferis is the founding editor of KQED's \u003cem>State of Health\u003c/em> blog. Since 2011, she's been writing and editing stories for the site. Before taking up blogging, she toiled for many years (more than we can count) producing health stories for television, including\u003cem> Dateline NBC\u003c/em> and San Francisco's CBS affiliate, KPIX-TV. She also wrote up a \u003ca title=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/health/obamacare/obamacare-guide.jsp\" href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/health/obamacare/obamacare-guide.jsp\">handy guide to the Affordable Care Act\u003c/a>, especially for Californians. Her work has been honored for many awards. Most recently she was a finalist for \"Best Topical Reporting\" from the Online News Association. You can follow her on Twitter: \u003ca title=\"https://twitter.com/laliferis\" href=\"https://twitter.com/laliferis\">@laliferis\u003c/a>","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/86c339d5cdcb0dcd2b6cf5d7c3f5886b?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":"laliferis","facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"news","roles":["subscriber"]},{"site":"futureofyou","roles":["subscriber"]},{"site":"stateofhealth","roles":["subscriber"]},{"site":"science","roles":["subscriber"]},{"site":"food","roles":["contributor"]}],"headData":{"title":"Lisa Aliferis | KQED","description":null,"ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/86c339d5cdcb0dcd2b6cf5d7c3f5886b?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/86c339d5cdcb0dcd2b6cf5d7c3f5886b?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/lisaaliferis"},"lisafine":{"type":"authors","id":"11105","meta":{"index":"authors_1591205172","id":"11105","found":true},"name":"Lisa Fine","firstName":"Lisa","lastName":"Fine","slug":"lisafine","email":"lisacfine@gmail.com","display_author_email":false,"staff_mastheads":[],"title":null,"bio":"Lisa Fine is a veteran journalist who's written for papers including the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch and Education Week.\r\n\r\n ","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a9390ffc82e66cee761ae45f61cef865?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":"@Lisa_Fine","facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"futureofyou","roles":["author"]},{"site":"stateofhealth","roles":["editor"]}],"headData":{"title":"Lisa Fine | KQED","description":null,"ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a9390ffc82e66cee761ae45f61cef865?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a9390ffc82e66cee761ae45f61cef865?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/lisafine"}},"breakingNewsReducer":{},"campaignFinanceReducer":{},"firebase":{"requesting":{},"requested":{},"timestamps":{},"data":{},"ordered":{},"auth":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"authError":null,"profile":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"listeners":{"byId":{},"allIds":[]},"isInitializing":false,"errors":[]},"navBarReducer":{"navBarId":"home","fullView":true,"showPlayer":false},"navMenuReducer":{"menus":[{"key":"menu1","items":[{"name":"News","link":"/","type":"title"},{"name":"Politics","link":"/politics"},{"name":"Science","link":"/science"},{"name":"Education","link":"/educationnews"},{"name":"Housing","link":"/housing"},{"name":"Immigration","link":"/immigration"},{"name":"Criminal Justice","link":"/criminaljustice"},{"name":"Silicon Valley","link":"/siliconvalley"},{"name":"Forum","link":"/forum"},{"name":"The California Report","link":"/californiareport"}]},{"key":"menu2","items":[{"name":"Arts & Culture","link":"/arts","type":"title"},{"name":"Critics’ Picks","link":"/thedolist"},{"name":"Cultural Commentary","link":"/artscommentary"},{"name":"Food & Drink","link":"/food"},{"name":"Bay Area Hip-Hop","link":"/bayareahiphop"},{"name":"Rebel Girls","link":"/rebelgirls"},{"name":"Arts Video","link":"/artsvideos"}]},{"key":"menu3","items":[{"name":"Podcasts","link":"/podcasts","type":"title"},{"name":"Bay Curious","link":"/podcasts/baycurious"},{"name":"Rightnowish","link":"/podcasts/rightnowish"},{"name":"The Bay","link":"/podcasts/thebay"},{"name":"On Our Watch","link":"/podcasts/onourwatch"},{"name":"Mindshift","link":"/podcasts/mindshift"},{"name":"Consider This","link":"/podcasts/considerthis"},{"name":"Political Breakdown","link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown"}]},{"key":"menu4","items":[{"name":"Live Radio","link":"/radio","type":"title"},{"name":"TV","link":"/tv","type":"title"},{"name":"Events","link":"/events","type":"title"},{"name":"For Educators","link":"/education","type":"title"},{"name":"Support KQED","link":"/support","type":"title"},{"name":"About","link":"/about","type":"title"},{"name":"Help Center","link":"https://kqed-helpcenter.kqed.org/s","type":"title"}]}]},"pagesReducer":{},"postsReducer":{"stream_live":{"type":"live","id":"stream_live","audioUrl":"https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio","title":"Live Stream","excerpt":"Live Stream information currently unavailable.","link":"/radio","featImg":"","label":{"name":"KQED Live","link":"/"}},"stream_kqedNewscast":{"type":"posts","id":"stream_kqedNewscast","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1","title":"KQED Newscast","featImg":"","label":{"name":"88.5 FM","link":"/"}},"stateofhealth_198989":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_198989","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"198989","score":null,"sort":[1467139503000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"when-autism-ages-out-of-the-school-system","title":"When Autism Ages Out of the School System","publishDate":1467139503,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's note: This essay was originally published by the\u003ca href=\"http://www.healthycal.org\" target=\"_blank\"> California Health Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>California’s day programs for adults with autism are underfunded and overcrowded. But with thousands of young people with developmental delays or disabilities about to reach the age at which they can no longer attend a public school and receive the many services offered there, the problem is soon going to get much, much worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My daughter’s story is just one example of the limited options available for these young adults and the parents who care for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Briana’s special education school abruptly closed in the fall, I was faced with the premature task of finding her a placement in an adult day program. Because she is just turning 21, she would only have one more year of special education services under the 1990 \u003ca href=\"https://www.disability.gov/individuals-disabilities-education-act-idea/\" target=\"_blank\">Individuals with Disabilities Educatio\u003c/a>n Act -- or IDEA -- which assures a free and appropriate public education to disabled students to age 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had not heard great things about the options out there, primarily because my daughter has a severe form of autism that requires a high staff-to-student ratio just to keep her safe and on task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several months prior to this I had gotten a small head start by touring a residential and adult day program, in a bucolic setting among redwoods, hills and the quaint downtown streets of Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feeling I got upon walking through the door was happiness and inclusion. A music session was winding down and most participants were engaged. Several art classes were also going on concurrently, and that was just the beginning. A textile art center was abuzz with some 30 people busy at their looms, while another group was outdoors working on the nearby garden. A residential hall and six group homes were scattered about in neighboring towns where most of the clients live. \"OK,\" I thought. \"This is a program I could see my Briana in. How do I sign her up?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not so easy. There is not even a waiting list per se, and the program prefers clients that are more independent than Briana. She still needs help sometimes in the bathroom, and she needs a pair of eyeballs on her at all times due to her wandering tendencies. There really was no space for someone with such great needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what else was out there? I began the search again, this time out of urgency due to Briana’s impending loss of school placement. Our social worker at the regional center, a state-funded agency that serves people with disabilities, loosely explained the structure of existing programs. There are behavioral programs in which staff members are trained to deal with severe behaviors, such as wandering, self-injury, aggression, and toileting needs. The staff-to-client ratios in these behavioral programs start at 1:3 – one staff person for every three clients — and if needed can be moved up to 1:2 and even 1:1. In other words clients first have to try the 1:3 and fail, 1:2 and fail to get a 1:1 -- instead of just asking for the 1:1 to begin with. The program I saw in Marin was non-behavioral, so the ratio is more like 1:6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My daughter’s social worker set up more tours, and I dutifully went to each one. The first one, another non-behavioral program, was quite the opposite of the Marin program. I saw 50-plus clients crowded into two run-down rooms, many in wheelchairs parked in front of a big-screen television. It was noisy and chaotic. There were some smiles, but I didn’t picture Briana there at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked the director how often the clients went out in the community. He said once a week and with special arrangements by parents if they wanted activities like swimming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t wait to get out of there, but the following two programs, which were behavioral, were not much better. They had greater staff-to-client ratio, but the clients almost never left the building. There was no outdoor space to utilize or enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briana is outdoorsy, energetic, enthusiastic and for the most part happy. She has her down days just like all of us, but I want her to access the most the community has to offer. I was overwhelmed by a sense of sadness that felt like an open wound for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These programs, with some exceptions like the well-established one in Marin, are buckling under current conditions, and they are only going to get worse with the increasing number of adults like my daughter about to age out of the school setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand is leading some new programs to open, but they are faced with trying to operate a business without failing. This can mean sub-optimal buildings, and paying low wages to staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ratios of staff members to clients are controlled by reimbursement rates by the regional centers. The regional centers receive funding from the state Department of Developmental Services. The pay rates of some of these professionals are on par with what caregivers are paid, which is close to minimum wage. Pet sitters or baristas that serve us our coffee may earn more than we pay those important, compassionate people that care for our loved ones. Are we OK with this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Time is needed to find a good day program for a disabled young adult because there are not enough options. In the next decade, 500,000 children with developmental delays will enter adulthood nationwide, overwhelming a system that is already inadequate for the current numbers. Legislative leaders need to know how bad the problem already is so that plans can be made to avoid this looming public crisis.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A mother looks for services as her daughter, who has autism, ages out of school and the services it provides.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1467139563,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":986},"headData":{"title":"When Autism Ages Out of the School System | KQED","description":"A mother looks for services as her daughter, who has autism, ages out of school and the services it provides.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"198989 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=198989","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/06/28/when-autism-ages-out-of-the-school-system/","disqusTitle":"When Autism Ages Out of the School System","nprByline":"Pam Raymond","path":"/stateofhealth/198989/when-autism-ages-out-of-the-school-system","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's note: This essay was originally published by the\u003ca href=\"http://www.healthycal.org\" target=\"_blank\"> California Health Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>California’s day programs for adults with autism are underfunded and overcrowded. But with thousands of young people with developmental delays or disabilities about to reach the age at which they can no longer attend a public school and receive the many services offered there, the problem is soon going to get much, much worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My daughter’s story is just one example of the limited options available for these young adults and the parents who care for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Briana’s special education school abruptly closed in the fall, I was faced with the premature task of finding her a placement in an adult day program. Because she is just turning 21, she would only have one more year of special education services under the 1990 \u003ca href=\"https://www.disability.gov/individuals-disabilities-education-act-idea/\" target=\"_blank\">Individuals with Disabilities Educatio\u003c/a>n Act -- or IDEA -- which assures a free and appropriate public education to disabled students to age 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had not heard great things about the options out there, primarily because my daughter has a severe form of autism that requires a high staff-to-student ratio just to keep her safe and on task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several months prior to this I had gotten a small head start by touring a residential and adult day program, in a bucolic setting among redwoods, hills and the quaint downtown streets of Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feeling I got upon walking through the door was happiness and inclusion. A music session was winding down and most participants were engaged. Several art classes were also going on concurrently, and that was just the beginning. A textile art center was abuzz with some 30 people busy at their looms, while another group was outdoors working on the nearby garden. A residential hall and six group homes were scattered about in neighboring towns where most of the clients live. \"OK,\" I thought. \"This is a program I could see my Briana in. How do I sign her up?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not so easy. There is not even a waiting list per se, and the program prefers clients that are more independent than Briana. She still needs help sometimes in the bathroom, and she needs a pair of eyeballs on her at all times due to her wandering tendencies. There really was no space for someone with such great needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what else was out there? I began the search again, this time out of urgency due to Briana’s impending loss of school placement. Our social worker at the regional center, a state-funded agency that serves people with disabilities, loosely explained the structure of existing programs. There are behavioral programs in which staff members are trained to deal with severe behaviors, such as wandering, self-injury, aggression, and toileting needs. The staff-to-client ratios in these behavioral programs start at 1:3 – one staff person for every three clients — and if needed can be moved up to 1:2 and even 1:1. In other words clients first have to try the 1:3 and fail, 1:2 and fail to get a 1:1 -- instead of just asking for the 1:1 to begin with. The program I saw in Marin was non-behavioral, so the ratio is more like 1:6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My daughter’s social worker set up more tours, and I dutifully went to each one. The first one, another non-behavioral program, was quite the opposite of the Marin program. I saw 50-plus clients crowded into two run-down rooms, many in wheelchairs parked in front of a big-screen television. It was noisy and chaotic. There were some smiles, but I didn’t picture Briana there at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked the director how often the clients went out in the community. He said once a week and with special arrangements by parents if they wanted activities like swimming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I couldn’t wait to get out of there, but the following two programs, which were behavioral, were not much better. They had greater staff-to-client ratio, but the clients almost never left the building. There was no outdoor space to utilize or enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briana is outdoorsy, energetic, enthusiastic and for the most part happy. She has her down days just like all of us, but I want her to access the most the community has to offer. I was overwhelmed by a sense of sadness that felt like an open wound for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These programs, with some exceptions like the well-established one in Marin, are buckling under current conditions, and they are only going to get worse with the increasing number of adults like my daughter about to age out of the school setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand is leading some new programs to open, but they are faced with trying to operate a business without failing. This can mean sub-optimal buildings, and paying low wages to staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ratios of staff members to clients are controlled by reimbursement rates by the regional centers. The regional centers receive funding from the state Department of Developmental Services. The pay rates of some of these professionals are on par with what caregivers are paid, which is close to minimum wage. Pet sitters or baristas that serve us our coffee may earn more than we pay those important, compassionate people that care for our loved ones. Are we OK with this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Time is needed to find a good day program for a disabled young adult because there are not enough options. In the next decade, 500,000 children with developmental delays will enter adulthood nationwide, overwhelming a system that is already inadequate for the current numbers. Legislative leaders need to know how bad the problem already is so that plans can be made to avoid this looming public crisis.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/198989/when-autism-ages-out-of-the-school-system","authors":["byline_stateofhealth_198989"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11","stateofhealth_13"],"tags":["stateofhealth_155","stateofhealth_96","stateofhealth_2519"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_205170","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_186175":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_186175","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"186175","score":null,"sort":[1463611461000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"autism-can-be-an-asset-in-the-workplace-employers-and-workers-find","title":"Autism Can Be An Asset In The Workplace, Employers And Workers Find","publishDate":1463611461,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cp>As the population of people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder keeps growing, so does the number of people with that diagnosis who aren't finding employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many young adults on the spectrum are considered \u003ca href=\"http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/autism-spectrum-disorders-asd/index.shtml\">high functioning\u003c/a>, recent research shows 40 percent don't find work — a higher jobless rate than people with other developmental disabilities experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research scientist \u003ca href=\"http://drexel.edu/autismoutcomes/about/our-team/anne-roux/\">Anne Roux\u003c/a>, of the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute in Philadelphia, studies young adults with autism and was the lead author of \u003ca href=\"http://drexel.edu/autisminstitute/research-projects/research/ResearchPrograminLifeCourseOutcomes/IndicatorsReport/#sthash.LbaN2N9S.dpbs\">that study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we learned that last year — that about 40 percent of people were never getting employment or continuing their education — we wondered, 'why is that, and what happens to them?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people on the spectrum — just like other young people — are eager to live independently and work, she and her team found as they looked deeper. But social services aimed at helping children overcome early deficits in communication and problems with social skills become less available as those students get older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once you develop into an adult, those resources plummet,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/leslie-long-97481b40\">Leslie Long\u003c/a>, vice president of adult services for the advocacy group Autism Speaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 50,000 people on the spectrum enter adulthood every year. Face-to-face job interviews can be a challenge for many, Long says, and some engage in repetitive behaviors, which can seem odd to the uninitiated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those idiosyncracies sometimes mask hidden talents, she says — like intense focus, or a facility with numbers and patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, look at what happened with the housing bubble and the financial market,\" she points out. \"It was a man on the spectrum who saw which mortgages were going to fall. And I don't think that's something an average person would have been able to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That particular case — of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1uJcTBrhME\">Dr. Michael Burry\u003c/a>, the physician and hedge fund manager featured in the book and movie \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKTXfDSKoJM\">\u003cem>The Big Short\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — is in many ways exceptional, Long admits. (Burry has a son with Asperger's syndrome, and has said he believes he fits the \u003ca href=\"http://www.autism-society.org/what-is/aspergers-syndrome/\">diagnosis,\u003c/a> as well.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, with baby boomers starting to retire, and with talent in increasingly short supply, companies as varied as Microsoft, Walgreens, Capital One, AMC Theaters, and Proctor & Gamble are all starting to actively recruit people who have autism spectrum disorder. They aren't yet putting a lot more people to work, but their recruiting and training programs are becoming models for other firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, Bank of America's support center in Dallas, which prints, checks and sorts reams upon reams of paperwork regarding bank customers. The work involves, as manager \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/duke-roberson-373730b6\">Duke Roberson\u003c/a> says, \"a \u003cem>lot \u003c/em>of paper handling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the members of Roberson's staff of 75 have some form of disability. His workers with high-functioning autism, he says, tend to be aces at catching errors — and they enjoy the repetition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I tell my guys as we start in the morning, 'We do the same thing the same way, every day,' \" Roberson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Methodical tasks others might find monotonous, these workers find comforting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have one individual who, when he comes in, has to have the same seat every day or it kind of upsets his whole day,\" Roberson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turnover within Roberson's team is incredibly low, and performance, profitability and morale are good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no charity to this at all,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Grein is executive director of Specialisterne USA, a company that, according to the website, helps people with autism find work as consultants \"in information technology and other sectors with technically oriented tasks and jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grein says accommodating an autistic worker is often as simple as adjusting lighting to prevent overstimulation, or permitting frequent breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our recommendation is just clear communication in terms of expectations,\" Grein says of his advice to companies. \"Be able to provide rules.\" It also helps, he says, to train co-workers beforehand, and provide a mentor who can help the worker with autism ease into the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grein says he's successfully placed hundreds of workers, and hopes to eventually reach a goal of 250,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting past the obstacles of a conventional job search, however, can be hard. Last year, Autism Speaks launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.thespectrumcareers.com/\">thespectrumcareers.com\u003c/a> a website to match workers who have autism with prospective employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerald Franklin, who is 24, is the website's lead developer. Among other helpful aids, he says, the site allows job seekers to post videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Video played a huge role in helping people with special needs showcase what they can do,\" Franklin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was diagnosed with autism at age 4, and says he's developed workarounds over the years for communicating with his team without long explanations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would try to explain something really cool or interesting to someone, but they did not understand,\" he says. \"So, it would be making lots of drawings, making lots of notes — and my team members are extremely appreciative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin sees his autism as an asset. It gives him insight, he says, into creating tools that can help others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Autism+Can+Be+An+Asset+In+The+Workplace%2C+Employers+And+Workers+Find&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Roughly 40 percent of young adults with autism spectrum disorder aren't finding jobs. But some employers are now recruiting adults on the spectrum as an untapped talent pool of focused workers.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1463611461,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":861},"headData":{"title":"Autism Can Be An Asset In The Workplace, Employers And Workers Find | KQED","description":"Roughly 40 percent of young adults with autism spectrum disorder aren't finding jobs. But some employers are now recruiting adults on the spectrum as an untapped talent pool of focused workers.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"186175 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=186175","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/05/18/autism-can-be-an-asset-in-the-workplace-employers-and-workers-find/","disqusTitle":"Autism Can Be An Asset In The Workplace, Employers And Workers Find","nprByline":"Yuki Noguchi\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/\">NPR Shots\u003c/a>","nprImageAgency":"Courtesy of Gerald Franklin","nprStoryId":"478387452","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=478387452&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/18/478387452/autism-can-be-an-asset-in-the-workplace-employers-and-workers-find?ft=nprml&f=478387452","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 18 May 2016 18:13:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 18 May 2016 12:40:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 18 May 2016 17:49:28 -0400","nprAudio":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2016/05/20160518_atc_autism_can_be_an_asset_in_the_workplace_employers_and_workers_find.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=250&p=2&story=478387452&t=progseg&e=478493574&seg=14&ft=nprml&f=478387452","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1478571315-f3c93d.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=250&p=2&story=478387452&t=progseg&e=478493574&seg=14&ft=nprml&f=478387452","path":"/stateofhealth/186175/autism-can-be-an-asset-in-the-workplace-employers-and-workers-find","audioUrl":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2016/05/20160518_atc_autism_can_be_an_asset_in_the_workplace_employers_and_workers_find.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=250&p=2&story=478387452&t=progseg&e=478493574&seg=14&ft=nprml&f=478387452","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the population of people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder keeps growing, so does the number of people with that diagnosis who aren't finding employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many young adults on the spectrum are considered \u003ca href=\"http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/autism-spectrum-disorders-asd/index.shtml\">high functioning\u003c/a>, recent research shows 40 percent don't find work — a higher jobless rate than people with other developmental disabilities experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research scientist \u003ca href=\"http://drexel.edu/autismoutcomes/about/our-team/anne-roux/\">Anne Roux\u003c/a>, of the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute in Philadelphia, studies young adults with autism and was the lead author of \u003ca href=\"http://drexel.edu/autisminstitute/research-projects/research/ResearchPrograminLifeCourseOutcomes/IndicatorsReport/#sthash.LbaN2N9S.dpbs\">that study\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we learned that last year — that about 40 percent of people were never getting employment or continuing their education — we wondered, 'why is that, and what happens to them?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people on the spectrum — just like other young people — are eager to live independently and work, she and her team found as they looked deeper. But social services aimed at helping children overcome early deficits in communication and problems with social skills become less available as those students get older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once you develop into an adult, those resources plummet,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/leslie-long-97481b40\">Leslie Long\u003c/a>, vice president of adult services for the advocacy group Autism Speaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 50,000 people on the spectrum enter adulthood every year. Face-to-face job interviews can be a challenge for many, Long says, and some engage in repetitive behaviors, which can seem odd to the uninitiated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those idiosyncracies sometimes mask hidden talents, she says — like intense focus, or a facility with numbers and patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, look at what happened with the housing bubble and the financial market,\" she points out. \"It was a man on the spectrum who saw which mortgages were going to fall. And I don't think that's something an average person would have been able to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That particular case — of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1uJcTBrhME\">Dr. Michael Burry\u003c/a>, the physician and hedge fund manager featured in the book and movie \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKTXfDSKoJM\">\u003cem>The Big Short\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — is in many ways exceptional, Long admits. (Burry has a son with Asperger's syndrome, and has said he believes he fits the \u003ca href=\"http://www.autism-society.org/what-is/aspergers-syndrome/\">diagnosis,\u003c/a> as well.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, with baby boomers starting to retire, and with talent in increasingly short supply, companies as varied as Microsoft, Walgreens, Capital One, AMC Theaters, and Proctor & Gamble are all starting to actively recruit people who have autism spectrum disorder. They aren't yet putting a lot more people to work, but their recruiting and training programs are becoming models for other firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, Bank of America's support center in Dallas, which prints, checks and sorts reams upon reams of paperwork regarding bank customers. The work involves, as manager \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/duke-roberson-373730b6\">Duke Roberson\u003c/a> says, \"a \u003cem>lot \u003c/em>of paper handling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the members of Roberson's staff of 75 have some form of disability. His workers with high-functioning autism, he says, tend to be aces at catching errors — and they enjoy the repetition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I tell my guys as we start in the morning, 'We do the same thing the same way, every day,' \" Roberson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Methodical tasks others might find monotonous, these workers find comforting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have one individual who, when he comes in, has to have the same seat every day or it kind of upsets his whole day,\" Roberson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turnover within Roberson's team is incredibly low, and performance, profitability and morale are good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no charity to this at all,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Grein is executive director of Specialisterne USA, a company that, according to the website, helps people with autism find work as consultants \"in information technology and other sectors with technically oriented tasks and jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grein says accommodating an autistic worker is often as simple as adjusting lighting to prevent overstimulation, or permitting frequent breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our recommendation is just clear communication in terms of expectations,\" Grein says of his advice to companies. \"Be able to provide rules.\" It also helps, he says, to train co-workers beforehand, and provide a mentor who can help the worker with autism ease into the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grein says he's successfully placed hundreds of workers, and hopes to eventually reach a goal of 250,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting past the obstacles of a conventional job search, however, can be hard. Last year, Autism Speaks launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.thespectrumcareers.com/\">thespectrumcareers.com\u003c/a> a website to match workers who have autism with prospective employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerald Franklin, who is 24, is the website's lead developer. Among other helpful aids, he says, the site allows job seekers to post videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Video played a huge role in helping people with special needs showcase what they can do,\" Franklin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was diagnosed with autism at age 4, and says he's developed workarounds over the years for communicating with his team without long explanations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would try to explain something really cool or interesting to someone, but they did not understand,\" he says. \"So, it would be making lots of drawings, making lots of notes — and my team members are extremely appreciative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin sees his autism as an asset. It gives him insight, he says, into creating tools that can help others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Autism+Can+Be+An+Asset+In+The+Workplace%2C+Employers+And+Workers+Find&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/186175/autism-can-be-an-asset-in-the-workplace-employers-and-workers-find","authors":["byline_stateofhealth_186175"],"categories":["stateofhealth_12"],"tags":["stateofhealth_155"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_186176","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_152699":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_152699","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"152699","score":null,"sort":[1456349614000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"battle-erupts-over-changes-in-california-autism-coverage","title":"Battle Erupts Over Changes in California Autism Coverage","publishDate":1456349614,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Hilary Baldi can’t get her mind around the idea that she might have to stop seeing many of the children with autism whom she has been helping for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Thousands of children receiving autism services could be forced to look for new providers under new state rules.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Baldi has been running a nonprofit called Behavioral Intervention for Autism for 23 years now. She has offices in Emeryville and Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now she fears she will have to shutter the Fresno office and discontinue therapy for about two-thirds of the 80 children she sees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to children’s health advocates, roughly half of the providers who work with the 9,000 children with autism at the state’s regional centers could be excluded from seeing those kids as the state shifts to managed care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning March 1, the state Department of Health Care Services will start the transition at 21 regional centers across the state. These centers are nonprofits that contract with the state to provide services for people with developmental disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials say the regional centers will continue to serve the kids. The children will not experience a disruption in service because no one will lose a provider without another one lined up, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is merely a shift in payment systems, according to state officials — moving from a Medi-Cal program run by the regional centers to one coordinated by managed care companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a practical matter, advocates say, the families of up to half of these kids could find themselves searching for new providers. The reason: The state’s new rules seem to exclude longtime providers from payment unless they are supervised by people with newer credentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could force people like Baldi to stop seeing regional center clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how [these children] are going to get absorbed. There are so many people on waiting lists now, I can’t imagine thousands of families suddenly needing to find a new provider,” Baldi said. “I don’t know where they’re going to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, children’s advocates and parents said they were reassured by the state’s promises that the transition would be nearly seamless and that the same providers would be caring for the kids. But now these groups say they are deeply concerned because, after talking to state officials about the new rules, it became clear that about half of the providers would not be authorized to perform the same duties as before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children’s advocates say under the rules only providers with newer credentials can be paid for care. Providers trained a dozen or more years ago cannot, if they are practicing on their own, the advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand for services is already greater than supply and the advocates say these rules will make matters far worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children with autism don’t handle change well and need consistent care, Baldi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about children who have fallen behind already,” Baldi said. “There’s a gap between them and other kids, and that gap will get bigger and bigger if they go without therapy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Unumb agreed. He is executive director of the Autism Legal Resource Center for Autism Speaks, a national advocacy group based in New York City with offices in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve eliminated half of the providers in the regional centers, where are you going to get new providers?” Unumb said. “Where is the other half going to come from? That’s the big question. How are they going to do this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QQv9e8noG6vNCxBIYQ03pp6euGAczahd\"]Autism Speaks is a sponsor of a recently introduced bill by Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) that seeks to eliminate the rule excluding so many providers from payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would ensure that children who need autism treatment continue to have access to the critical behavioral health treatments that they need,” Mitchell said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Unumb said that the department’s transition of these kids is expected to be finished before any bill can become law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s going to happen is there are a whole group of providers who can’t serve the kids they’ve been serving. So in practical terms, you’re going to have kids who are not having continuity of care,” Unumb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has promised “continuity of service,” which is slightly different from continuity of care, Unumb said. The state doesn’t have a legal obligation to ensure beneficiaries keep the same provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks feel they were misled,” Unumb said, “because this should just be a financing change. Families aren’t going to be perusing the State Plan Amendment and then cross-referencing the Institutions and Welfare Code to see if they can keep their provider. This whole thing is so unnecessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Cava, information officer at the Department of Health Care Services, said by email that the same providers can do exactly what they’ve been doing, as long as they meet the guidelines issued by the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The existing practices of … providers to care for children receiving [behavioral health treatment] services will remain the same,” Cava wrote, “and they can provide care under the direct supervision of a behavior analyst or behavior management consultant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kristin Jacobson, executive director of Autism Deserves Equal Coverage in Burlingame, the state is downplaying the consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sort of a technical song-and-dance, where it appears that they’re saying all of the providers can continue what they’re doing, but in practice they can only do the same thing if they’re now supervised,” Jacobson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, we’ve all been hoping that all providers will be able to provide the same services, but what [the department] has put out in writing doesn’t reflect that,” she said. “If you look at the numbers of providers who are excluded, you very well could be wiping out half the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Thousands of children receiving autism services could be forced to look for new providers under new state rules.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1456349706,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1055},"headData":{"title":"Battle Erupts Over Changes in California Autism Coverage | KQED","description":"Thousands of children receiving autism services could be forced to look for new providers under new state rules.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"152699 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=152699","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/02/24/battle-erupts-over-changes-in-california-autism-coverage/","disqusTitle":"Battle Erupts Over Changes in California Autism Coverage","source":"California Healthline","nprByline":"David Gorn","path":"/stateofhealth/152699/battle-erupts-over-changes-in-california-autism-coverage","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hilary Baldi can’t get her mind around the idea that she might have to stop seeing many of the children with autism whom she has been helping for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Thousands of children receiving autism services could be forced to look for new providers under new state rules.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Baldi has been running a nonprofit called Behavioral Intervention for Autism for 23 years now. She has offices in Emeryville and Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now she fears she will have to shutter the Fresno office and discontinue therapy for about two-thirds of the 80 children she sees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to children’s health advocates, roughly half of the providers who work with the 9,000 children with autism at the state’s regional centers could be excluded from seeing those kids as the state shifts to managed care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning March 1, the state Department of Health Care Services will start the transition at 21 regional centers across the state. These centers are nonprofits that contract with the state to provide services for people with developmental disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials say the regional centers will continue to serve the kids. The children will not experience a disruption in service because no one will lose a provider without another one lined up, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is merely a shift in payment systems, according to state officials — moving from a Medi-Cal program run by the regional centers to one coordinated by managed care companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a practical matter, advocates say, the families of up to half of these kids could find themselves searching for new providers. The reason: The state’s new rules seem to exclude longtime providers from payment unless they are supervised by people with newer credentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could force people like Baldi to stop seeing regional center clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how [these children] are going to get absorbed. There are so many people on waiting lists now, I can’t imagine thousands of families suddenly needing to find a new provider,” Baldi said. “I don’t know where they’re going to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, children’s advocates and parents said they were reassured by the state’s promises that the transition would be nearly seamless and that the same providers would be caring for the kids. But now these groups say they are deeply concerned because, after talking to state officials about the new rules, it became clear that about half of the providers would not be authorized to perform the same duties as before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children’s advocates say under the rules only providers with newer credentials can be paid for care. Providers trained a dozen or more years ago cannot, if they are practicing on their own, the advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand for services is already greater than supply and the advocates say these rules will make matters far worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children with autism don’t handle change well and need consistent care, Baldi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about children who have fallen behind already,” Baldi said. “There’s a gap between them and other kids, and that gap will get bigger and bigger if they go without therapy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Unumb agreed. He is executive director of the Autism Legal Resource Center for Autism Speaks, a national advocacy group based in New York City with offices in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’ve eliminated half of the providers in the regional centers, where are you going to get new providers?” Unumb said. “Where is the other half going to come from? That’s the big question. How are they going to do this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Autism Speaks is a sponsor of a recently introduced bill by Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) that seeks to eliminate the rule excluding so many providers from payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would ensure that children who need autism treatment continue to have access to the critical behavioral health treatments that they need,” Mitchell said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Unumb said that the department’s transition of these kids is expected to be finished before any bill can become law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s going to happen is there are a whole group of providers who can’t serve the kids they’ve been serving. So in practical terms, you’re going to have kids who are not having continuity of care,” Unumb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has promised “continuity of service,” which is slightly different from continuity of care, Unumb said. The state doesn’t have a legal obligation to ensure beneficiaries keep the same provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks feel they were misled,” Unumb said, “because this should just be a financing change. Families aren’t going to be perusing the State Plan Amendment and then cross-referencing the Institutions and Welfare Code to see if they can keep their provider. This whole thing is so unnecessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Cava, information officer at the Department of Health Care Services, said by email that the same providers can do exactly what they’ve been doing, as long as they meet the guidelines issued by the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The existing practices of … providers to care for children receiving [behavioral health treatment] services will remain the same,” Cava wrote, “and they can provide care under the direct supervision of a behavior analyst or behavior management consultant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kristin Jacobson, executive director of Autism Deserves Equal Coverage in Burlingame, the state is downplaying the consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sort of a technical song-and-dance, where it appears that they’re saying all of the providers can continue what they’re doing, but in practice they can only do the same thing if they’re now supervised,” Jacobson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, we’ve all been hoping that all providers will be able to provide the same services, but what [the department] has put out in writing doesn’t reflect that,” she said. “If you look at the numbers of providers who are excluded, you very well could be wiping out half the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/152699/battle-erupts-over-changes-in-california-autism-coverage","authors":["byline_stateofhealth_152699"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11","stateofhealth_14"],"tags":["stateofhealth_155","stateofhealth_2519"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_152701","label":"source_stateofhealth_152699"},"stateofhealth_148703":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_148703","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"148703","score":null,"sort":[1455649348000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"panel-says-evidence-is-lacking-on-universal-screening-for-autism","title":"Panel Says Evidence Is Lacking On Universal Screening For Autism","publishDate":1455649348,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The earlier a child with autism can be identified and get treatment the better, child development specialists say. So there's been a push to have pediatricians give all toddlers screening tests for autism during well child visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the influential U.S. Preventive Services Task Force\u003ca href=\"http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2491642\" target=\"_blank\"> said Tuesday \u003c/a>that there's not yet enough evidence to show that screening all children delivers measurable benefits, a decision sure to frustrate or anger many in the autism community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not a recommendation against screening, says \u003ca href=\"pediatrics.duke.edu/faculty/details/0014640\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Kemper\u003c/a>, a professor of pediatrics at the Duke University School of Medicine and a member of the panel. \"It's really a call for more research to be done around treatment for children identified through screening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have found that it's possible to identify symptoms of autism such as avoiding eye contact or not responding to one's name in children as young as 18 months. But usually those children are flagged for screening because a parent or caregiver sees behavior they think is troubling. Most studies finding a benefit in early intervention have involved those children, not children who appear be developing typically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child development specialists say there's plenty of evidence in favor of early screening and intervention, and that avoiding it could delay or deny crucial treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all acknowledge that more work needs to be done. More work is being done,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.kennedykrieger.org/patient-care/faculty-staff/rebecca-landa\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Landa,\u003c/a> director of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore.\"But the risk [of screening] is so minimal, why wouldn't we be all behind the children?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landa hopes that the USPSTF will be quick to change their \"insufficient evidence\" finding, \"and as they're sending out this inconclusive message, that they will be very vocal in standing with the American Academy of Pediatrics in saying that screening should happen as early as 18 months.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the task force released the draft of this recommendation last August, the pediatricians issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/AAP-Statement-on-U-S-Preventive-Services-Task-Force-Draft-Recommendation-Statement-on-Autism-Screening.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">statement \u003c/a>saying that \"it runs counter to AAP guidelines.\" The academy recommends screening all children at 18 and 24 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kemper does screen toddlers for autism in his own medical practice in Durham, N.C. \"We've thought a lot about it,\" he says. Many of the families don't have English as their primary language and sometimes have problems getting health care, he says. \"We were concerned that parents or other caregivers might not pick up on the signs or symptoms of autism.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 20-question \u003ca href=\"https://www.m-chat.org/mchat.php\" target=\"_blank\">M-CHAT\u003c/a> test takes five minutes or so, asking parents questions like \"If you point at something across the room, does your child look at it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USPSTF \u003ca href=\"http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2491642\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a>, which was published Tuesday in \u003cem>JAMA\u003c/em>, the journal of the American Medical Association, notes that potential harms of the test are minor, but could include the anxiety associated with a false positive result, as well as the time and expense of therapy if it later proved unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two editorials published Tuesday in \u003ca href=\"http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2491680\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>JAMA Psychiatry\u003c/em> \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2487491\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>JAMA Pediatrics\u003c/em> \u003c/a>both criticized the USPSTF, saying that the \"insufficient evidence\" recommendation could make it less likely that children who are members of minorities get screened, and also make it less likely that insurance will pay for it. \"Rigid, inflexible approach results in no recommendation for autism screening,\" the \u003ca href=\"http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2491680\">JAMA Psychiatry\u003c/a> headline says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the task force makes recommendations it doesn't take up issues of cost or insurance coverage,\" Kemper says. \"But because the AAP recommends autism screening, it's still covered under the Affordable Care Act.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he's standing firm with the panel's recommendation. \"I think again, by highlighting this gap in knowledge there's a real opportunity to figure out what the deal is,\" Kemper says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Panel+Says+Evidence+Is+Lacking+On+Universal+Screening+For+Autism&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Autism specialists say that the federal panel's decision could make it harder for children to get early treatment for autism.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1455649348,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":637},"headData":{"title":"Panel Says Evidence Is Lacking On Universal Screening For Autism | KQED","description":"Autism specialists say that the federal panel's decision could make it harder for children to get early treatment for autism.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"148703 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=148703","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/02/16/panel-says-evidence-is-lacking-on-universal-screening-for-autism/","disqusTitle":"Panel Says Evidence Is Lacking On Universal Screening For Autism","source":"NPR","nprImageCredit":"B Busco","nprByline":"Nancy Shute","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images","nprStoryId":"466915197","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=466915197&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/16/466915197/panel-says-evidence-is-lacking-on-universal-screening-for-autism?ft=nprml&f=466915197","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 16 Feb 2016 13:38:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 16 Feb 2016 13:18:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 16 Feb 2016 13:38:17 -0500","path":"/stateofhealth/148703/panel-says-evidence-is-lacking-on-universal-screening-for-autism","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The earlier a child with autism can be identified and get treatment the better, child development specialists say. So there's been a push to have pediatricians give all toddlers screening tests for autism during well child visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the influential U.S. Preventive Services Task Force\u003ca href=\"http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2491642\" target=\"_blank\"> said Tuesday \u003c/a>that there's not yet enough evidence to show that screening all children delivers measurable benefits, a decision sure to frustrate or anger many in the autism community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not a recommendation against screening, says \u003ca href=\"pediatrics.duke.edu/faculty/details/0014640\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Kemper\u003c/a>, a professor of pediatrics at the Duke University School of Medicine and a member of the panel. \"It's really a call for more research to be done around treatment for children identified through screening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have found that it's possible to identify symptoms of autism such as avoiding eye contact or not responding to one's name in children as young as 18 months. But usually those children are flagged for screening because a parent or caregiver sees behavior they think is troubling. Most studies finding a benefit in early intervention have involved those children, not children who appear be developing typically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child development specialists say there's plenty of evidence in favor of early screening and intervention, and that avoiding it could delay or deny crucial treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all acknowledge that more work needs to be done. More work is being done,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.kennedykrieger.org/patient-care/faculty-staff/rebecca-landa\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Landa,\u003c/a> director of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore.\"But the risk [of screening] is so minimal, why wouldn't we be all behind the children?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landa hopes that the USPSTF will be quick to change their \"insufficient evidence\" finding, \"and as they're sending out this inconclusive message, that they will be very vocal in standing with the American Academy of Pediatrics in saying that screening should happen as early as 18 months.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the task force released the draft of this recommendation last August, the pediatricians issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/AAP-Statement-on-U-S-Preventive-Services-Task-Force-Draft-Recommendation-Statement-on-Autism-Screening.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">statement \u003c/a>saying that \"it runs counter to AAP guidelines.\" The academy recommends screening all children at 18 and 24 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kemper does screen toddlers for autism in his own medical practice in Durham, N.C. \"We've thought a lot about it,\" he says. Many of the families don't have English as their primary language and sometimes have problems getting health care, he says. \"We were concerned that parents or other caregivers might not pick up on the signs or symptoms of autism.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 20-question \u003ca href=\"https://www.m-chat.org/mchat.php\" target=\"_blank\">M-CHAT\u003c/a> test takes five minutes or so, asking parents questions like \"If you point at something across the room, does your child look at it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USPSTF \u003ca href=\"http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2491642\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a>, which was published Tuesday in \u003cem>JAMA\u003c/em>, the journal of the American Medical Association, notes that potential harms of the test are minor, but could include the anxiety associated with a false positive result, as well as the time and expense of therapy if it later proved unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two editorials published Tuesday in \u003ca href=\"http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2491680\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>JAMA Psychiatry\u003c/em> \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2487491\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>JAMA Pediatrics\u003c/em> \u003c/a>both criticized the USPSTF, saying that the \"insufficient evidence\" recommendation could make it less likely that children who are members of minorities get screened, and also make it less likely that insurance will pay for it. \"Rigid, inflexible approach results in no recommendation for autism screening,\" the \u003ca href=\"http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2491680\">JAMA Psychiatry\u003c/a> headline says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When the task force makes recommendations it doesn't take up issues of cost or insurance coverage,\" Kemper says. \"But because the AAP recommends autism screening, it's still covered under the Affordable Care Act.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he's standing firm with the panel's recommendation. \"I think again, by highlighting this gap in knowledge there's a real opportunity to figure out what the deal is,\" Kemper says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Panel+Says+Evidence+Is+Lacking+On+Universal+Screening+For+Autism&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/148703/panel-says-evidence-is-lacking-on-universal-screening-for-autism","authors":["byline_stateofhealth_148703"],"categories":["stateofhealth_13"],"tags":["stateofhealth_155","stateofhealth_96"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_148704","label":"source_stateofhealth_148703"},"stateofhealth_123539":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_123539","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"123539","score":null,"sort":[1450122234000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-new-study-raises-old-questions-about-antidepressants-and-autism","title":"A New Study Raises Old Questions About Antidepressants And Autism","publishDate":1450122234,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Taking antidepressants during the second or third trimester of pregnancy may increase the risk of having a child with autism spectrum disorder, according to a study of Canadian mothers and children published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But scientists not involved in the research say the results are hard to interpret and don't settle the long-running debate about whether expectant mothers with depression should take antidepressants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This study doesn't answer the question,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://depts.washington.edu/chdd/iddrc/res_aff/king.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan King\u003c/a>, program director of the autism center at Seattle Children's Hospital and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington. \"My biggest concern is that it will be over-interpreted,\" says King, who wrote an \u003ca href=\"http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.3356\" target=\"_blank\">editorial\u003c/a> that accompanied the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ONRQqYisGaSBHQw05Fp9AlZXivzN4qqx\"]\"It kind of leaves you more confused,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://asp.cumc.columbia.edu/facdb/profile_list.asp?uni=asb11&DepAffil=Psychiatry\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Brown\u003c/a>, a professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at Columbia University who studies risk factors for autism. \"Mothers shouldn't get super worried about it,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason it's confusing is that there's strong evidence that mothers with depression are more likely than other women to have a child with autism, whether or not they take antidepressants during pregnancy. King and Brown say that makes it very hard to disentangle the effects of depression itself from those of the drugs used to treat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Clements+Perlin+Autism+antidepressant\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> of several thousand U.S. children found that prenatal antidepressant exposure did not increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder. In 2013, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24255601\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> of nearly 670,000 Danish children also found no association between prenatal exposure to antidepressant medication and autism spectrum disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Rai+BMJ+autism+antidepressant\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> of more than 4,400 Swedish children concluded that in utero exposure did increase the risk that a child would develop autism. And a 2011 \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21727247\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> of about 300 children with autism in California concluded that antidepressants \"may modestly increase the risk\" of an autism spectrum disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Canadian \u003ca href=\"http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.3356\" target=\"_blank\">study \u003c/a>looked at more than 145,000 children born in Quebec from 1998 to 2009. It found that children whose mothers took antidepressants during the second or third trimester of pregnancy were 87 percent more likely to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"oo6VpLDe5DAc6MqxeIYOUn3R0qAoB7zr\"]The study tried to account for depression's effect on risk by identifying mothers with a history of psychiatric disorders. It also compared mothers who stopped taking antidepressants during the first trimester with mothers who continued taking the medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those steps allowed the team to conclude that the 87 percent increase was \"above and beyond\" the risk posed by depression itself, says \u003ca href=\"http://pharm.umontreal.ca/faculte/lequipe/corps-professoral/fiche/anick-berard/\" target=\"_blank\">Anick Berard\u003c/a>, the study's senior author and an epidemiologist and biostatistician at the University of Montreal. Berard has done other studies that linked antidepressants to birth defects and has worked as a consultant for plaintiffs who are suing companies that make antidepressants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other scientists aren't so sure that Berard's study truly shows a risk associated with antidepressant use. Mothers who kept taking antidepressants may have had more severe depression, they say. Also, they say, the increase in risk was so small that it might have been a chance finding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An 87 percent increase \"sounds very concerning,\" King says. But the figure is based on just 31 children who developed autism after being exposed to antidepressants. And many of these children would have developed autism anyway, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The absolute risk numbers are small, Berard says. But she says a secondary analysis showed that the risk was highest for women who took drugs called SSRIs, which affect serotonin levels. And serotonin plays an important role in brain development, she says. The number of women using only other types of antidepressants was very small, so it was impossible to draw conclusions about their safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to be vigilant, even if the risk is small,\" Berard says. \"Maybe we should rethink our treatment process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King responds that untreated depression can result in poor nutrition, sleep problems and stress, all of which can affect the health of a developing fetus. So pregnant women who are concerned about taking antidepressants should consult with their doctor before taking any action, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Better information about the risks of antidepressants and other factors may emerge from a large, ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8960823&icde=27426089&ddparam=&ddvalue=&ddsub=&cr=1&csb=default&cs=ASC\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> of children born in Finland, says Brown, who is the study's principal investigator. Those results may be available in the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=A+New+Study+Raises+Old+Questions+About+Antidepressants+And+Autism&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A study finds that taking antidepressants while pregnant may increase a child's risk of autism. But is the real culprit depression itself?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1450153742,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":743},"headData":{"title":"A New Study Raises Old Questions About Antidepressants And Autism | KQED","description":"A study finds that taking antidepressants while pregnant may increase a child's risk of autism. But is the real culprit depression itself?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"123539 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=123539","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/12/14/a-new-study-raises-old-questions-about-antidepressants-and-autism/","disqusTitle":"A New Study Raises Old Questions About Antidepressants And Autism","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/14/459665937/a-new-study-raises-old-questions-about-antidepressants-and-autism","nprImageCredit":"Adam Hester","nprByline":"Jon Hamilton","nprImageAgency":"Getty Images/Blend Images","nprStoryId":"459665937","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=459665937&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/14/459665937/a-new-study-raises-old-questions-about-antidepressants-and-autism?ft=nprml&f=459665937","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:52:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 14 Dec 2015 11:03:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:52:58 -0500","path":"/stateofhealth/123539/a-new-study-raises-old-questions-about-antidepressants-and-autism","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Taking antidepressants during the second or third trimester of pregnancy may increase the risk of having a child with autism spectrum disorder, according to a study of Canadian mothers and children published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But scientists not involved in the research say the results are hard to interpret and don't settle the long-running debate about whether expectant mothers with depression should take antidepressants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This study doesn't answer the question,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://depts.washington.edu/chdd/iddrc/res_aff/king.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan King\u003c/a>, program director of the autism center at Seattle Children's Hospital and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington. \"My biggest concern is that it will be over-interpreted,\" says King, who wrote an \u003ca href=\"http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.3356\" target=\"_blank\">editorial\u003c/a> that accompanied the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\"It kind of leaves you more confused,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://asp.cumc.columbia.edu/facdb/profile_list.asp?uni=asb11&DepAffil=Psychiatry\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Brown\u003c/a>, a professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at Columbia University who studies risk factors for autism. \"Mothers shouldn't get super worried about it,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason it's confusing is that there's strong evidence that mothers with depression are more likely than other women to have a child with autism, whether or not they take antidepressants during pregnancy. King and Brown say that makes it very hard to disentangle the effects of depression itself from those of the drugs used to treat it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Clements+Perlin+Autism+antidepressant\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> of several thousand U.S. children found that prenatal antidepressant exposure did not increase the risk of autism spectrum disorder. In 2013, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24255601\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> of nearly 670,000 Danish children also found no association between prenatal exposure to antidepressant medication and autism spectrum disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Rai+BMJ+autism+antidepressant\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> of more than 4,400 Swedish children concluded that in utero exposure did increase the risk that a child would develop autism. And a 2011 \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21727247\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> of about 300 children with autism in California concluded that antidepressants \"may modestly increase the risk\" of an autism spectrum disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Canadian \u003ca href=\"http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.3356\" target=\"_blank\">study \u003c/a>looked at more than 145,000 children born in Quebec from 1998 to 2009. It found that children whose mothers took antidepressants during the second or third trimester of pregnancy were 87 percent more likely to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The study tried to account for depression's effect on risk by identifying mothers with a history of psychiatric disorders. It also compared mothers who stopped taking antidepressants during the first trimester with mothers who continued taking the medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those steps allowed the team to conclude that the 87 percent increase was \"above and beyond\" the risk posed by depression itself, says \u003ca href=\"http://pharm.umontreal.ca/faculte/lequipe/corps-professoral/fiche/anick-berard/\" target=\"_blank\">Anick Berard\u003c/a>, the study's senior author and an epidemiologist and biostatistician at the University of Montreal. Berard has done other studies that linked antidepressants to birth defects and has worked as a consultant for plaintiffs who are suing companies that make antidepressants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other scientists aren't so sure that Berard's study truly shows a risk associated with antidepressant use. Mothers who kept taking antidepressants may have had more severe depression, they say. Also, they say, the increase in risk was so small that it might have been a chance finding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An 87 percent increase \"sounds very concerning,\" King says. But the figure is based on just 31 children who developed autism after being exposed to antidepressants. And many of these children would have developed autism anyway, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The absolute risk numbers are small, Berard says. But she says a secondary analysis showed that the risk was highest for women who took drugs called SSRIs, which affect serotonin levels. And serotonin plays an important role in brain development, she says. The number of women using only other types of antidepressants was very small, so it was impossible to draw conclusions about their safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to be vigilant, even if the risk is small,\" Berard says. \"Maybe we should rethink our treatment process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King responds that untreated depression can result in poor nutrition, sleep problems and stress, all of which can affect the health of a developing fetus. So pregnant women who are concerned about taking antidepressants should consult with their doctor before taking any action, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Better information about the risks of antidepressants and other factors may emerge from a large, ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8960823&icde=27426089&ddparam=&ddvalue=&ddsub=&cr=1&csb=default&cs=ASC\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> of children born in Finland, says Brown, who is the study's principal investigator. Those results may be available in the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=A+New+Study+Raises+Old+Questions+About+Antidepressants+And+Autism&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/123539/a-new-study-raises-old-questions-about-antidepressants-and-autism","authors":["byline_stateofhealth_123539"],"categories":["stateofhealth_13"],"tags":["stateofhealth_155","stateofhealth_2582"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_123540","label":"source_stateofhealth_123539"},"stateofhealth_113405":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_113405","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"113405","score":null,"sort":[1448908221000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"kaiser-recruits-families-autism-genes-biobank","title":"Kaiser Recruits Members to Help Unlock Autism's Genetic Secrets","publishDate":1448908221,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cp>Thousands of Northern California families of children with autism are being recruited to join a new project to help scientists understand how heredity and environmental factors determine where each youngster falls on the spectrum of the disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Teasing apart the [autism] spectrum, we might makes some leaps forward.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Lisa Croen, Ph.D., Kaiser Autism Research Program\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente aims to sign up 5,000 children and adults with autism -- along with their biological parents -- to contribute a blood or saliva sample to a “\u003ca href=\"http://autismfamilybiobank.kaiser.org/\" target=\"_blank\">biobank\u003c/a>” that will enable researchers to track and identify common factors in various types of autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente has 3.8 million members in Northern California, with 17,000 children and adults diagnosed with autism. Because participating children are Kaiser health plan members, researchers plan to evaluate their health records in conjunction with the genetic samples in an effort to unlock insights into autism causes, best treatments, medications and possible prevention strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a really incredible population to study,” said Lisa Croen, director of the Kaiser Permanente Autism Research Program and a senior research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. “We have lots of information for them like lab tests, medications taken –- a huge wealth of clinical information. We have the ability to re-contact these families and collect even more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, funded by a $4.6 million grant from the Simons Foundation, will create the autism research bank over the next three years. It will be available as a resource for any researcher. A review committee will consider requests for use of the specimens, Croen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"VMeweA8IIaAbuyJ2sLjO5wsVwYgp93Yq\"]The rising rates of children being diagnosed with autism in the U.S. has been alarming to parents, doctors and educators struggling to understand the vast array of disorders that fall under this heading and how to provide the best care. Researchers believe genetics and environmental triggers combine to cause autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Autism\u003c/a> is an umbrella term for a spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders that emerge in early childhood, affecting social interaction, behavior and communication. Research has shown \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/treatment.html#ref\"> \u003c/a> early access to care and intervention can dramatically improve the progress, symptoms and daily functioning of kids with autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week the National Center for Health Statistics released a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr087.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">survey\u003c/a> that found autism rates in children may be higher than experts had thought. The report found that one in 45 children ages 3 to 17 has autism. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had previously pegged the rate at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html\" target=\"_blank\">1 in 68\u003c/a> American children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years studies have identified different genes associated with autism, but much remains to be learned about the interaction between specific genes and environmental factors and how they influence the development of subtypes of autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers have begun to focus on large-scale collections of data like Kaiser’s project. Such initiatives offer hope that certain factors in subtypes of autism can be identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being told your child has ‘autism’ doesn’t really tell you what you and your child will be dealing with for the rest of your lives,” said Mathew Pletcher, vice president and head of genomic discovery at Autism Speaks, an advocacy group for people with autism. “It’s a broad term that covers a huge number of kids and symptoms. It’s not like being told you have cancer, what type of cancer, what stage of cancer and which drugs best treat it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"qCp3opWG17SIbFx9VtmUmv4tP1YuzqQv\"]Autism Speaks is working with Google to sequence the DNA of more than 10,000 families living with autism. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.mss.ng/\" target=\"_blank\">data\u003c/a> will be made available to researchers at no cost, Pletcher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This data is now allowing us to break apart the spectrum into a much more meaningful diagnosis,” he said. “With trying to understand a complex disorder like autism, it comes down to numbers, the depth and breadth of data out there. There is never enough data. There’s always interest in another effort like the Kaiser study to bring more families in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work at Kaiser’s biobank and Google could lead to more tailored treatments to treat autism, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autism frequently coexists with physical ailments like gastrointestinal problems, seizures or allergies. Researchers may find that certain genes drive certain combinations of those conditions, Croen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teasing apart the spectrum, we might makes some leaps forward,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For participating Kaiser patients with an autism diagnosis, their biological parents will provide samples of blood or saliva and complete questionnaires. All patient identifiers will be removed before the data is provided to researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna Jaeger, who has a 23-year-old son with autism, said she and her family agreed to participate in the study to help other parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son, Alex, who has an \u003ca href=\"http://www.big-als-best.com/big-al-s-best-dark-chocolate-almond-toffee.html\" target=\"_blank\">at-home toffee making business\u003c/a>, used to have difficulty cooperating during blood tests, she said. A blood draw once took “five people 45 minutes,” to make happen. But she says now it’s something he can do without difficulty, so she thought it was especially important to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great way for parents to give back and advance the information,” said Joanna Jaeger, who lives in Milpitas and is on the community advisory board for the Kaiser Permanente Autism Research Program. “So much of the time we are all overwhelmed and in the moment in day-to-day life. This is something we can do to make things a little easier for families who will deal with autism in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since recruitment began in July, Kaiser has enrolled 270 families, health plan officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This resource can’t exist without families participating,” Croen said. “Hopefully, together we can all make a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about \u003ca href=\"http://autismfamilybiobank.kaiser.org\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser's autism biobank study\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Researchers aim to sign up 5,000 children and young adults with autism, plus their parents, to contribute a blood or saliva sample for research.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1449033785,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1000},"headData":{"title":"Kaiser Recruits Members to Help Unlock Autism's Genetic Secrets | KQED","description":"Researchers aim to sign up 5,000 children and young adults with autism, plus their parents, to contribute a blood or saliva sample for research.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"113405 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=113405","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/11/30/kaiser-recruits-families-autism-genes-biobank/","disqusTitle":"Kaiser Recruits Members to Help Unlock Autism's Genetic Secrets","path":"/stateofhealth/113405/kaiser-recruits-families-autism-genes-biobank","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Thousands of Northern California families of children with autism are being recruited to join a new project to help scientists understand how heredity and environmental factors determine where each youngster falls on the spectrum of the disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Teasing apart the [autism] spectrum, we might makes some leaps forward.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Lisa Croen, Ph.D., Kaiser Autism Research Program\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente aims to sign up 5,000 children and adults with autism -- along with their biological parents -- to contribute a blood or saliva sample to a “\u003ca href=\"http://autismfamilybiobank.kaiser.org/\" target=\"_blank\">biobank\u003c/a>” that will enable researchers to track and identify common factors in various types of autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser Permanente has 3.8 million members in Northern California, with 17,000 children and adults diagnosed with autism. Because participating children are Kaiser health plan members, researchers plan to evaluate their health records in conjunction with the genetic samples in an effort to unlock insights into autism causes, best treatments, medications and possible prevention strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a really incredible population to study,” said Lisa Croen, director of the Kaiser Permanente Autism Research Program and a senior research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. “We have lots of information for them like lab tests, medications taken –- a huge wealth of clinical information. We have the ability to re-contact these families and collect even more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, funded by a $4.6 million grant from the Simons Foundation, will create the autism research bank over the next three years. It will be available as a resource for any researcher. A review committee will consider requests for use of the specimens, Croen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>The rising rates of children being diagnosed with autism in the U.S. has been alarming to parents, doctors and educators struggling to understand the vast array of disorders that fall under this heading and how to provide the best care. Researchers believe genetics and environmental triggers combine to cause autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Autism\u003c/a> is an umbrella term for a spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders that emerge in early childhood, affecting social interaction, behavior and communication. Research has shown \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/treatment.html#ref\"> \u003c/a> early access to care and intervention can dramatically improve the progress, symptoms and daily functioning of kids with autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week the National Center for Health Statistics released a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr087.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">survey\u003c/a> that found autism rates in children may be higher than experts had thought. The report found that one in 45 children ages 3 to 17 has autism. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had previously pegged the rate at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html\" target=\"_blank\">1 in 68\u003c/a> American children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years studies have identified different genes associated with autism, but much remains to be learned about the interaction between specific genes and environmental factors and how they influence the development of subtypes of autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers have begun to focus on large-scale collections of data like Kaiser’s project. Such initiatives offer hope that certain factors in subtypes of autism can be identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being told your child has ‘autism’ doesn’t really tell you what you and your child will be dealing with for the rest of your lives,” said Mathew Pletcher, vice president and head of genomic discovery at Autism Speaks, an advocacy group for people with autism. “It’s a broad term that covers a huge number of kids and symptoms. It’s not like being told you have cancer, what type of cancer, what stage of cancer and which drugs best treat it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Autism Speaks is working with Google to sequence the DNA of more than 10,000 families living with autism. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.mss.ng/\" target=\"_blank\">data\u003c/a> will be made available to researchers at no cost, Pletcher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This data is now allowing us to break apart the spectrum into a much more meaningful diagnosis,” he said. “With trying to understand a complex disorder like autism, it comes down to numbers, the depth and breadth of data out there. There is never enough data. There’s always interest in another effort like the Kaiser study to bring more families in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work at Kaiser’s biobank and Google could lead to more tailored treatments to treat autism, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autism frequently coexists with physical ailments like gastrointestinal problems, seizures or allergies. Researchers may find that certain genes drive certain combinations of those conditions, Croen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teasing apart the spectrum, we might makes some leaps forward,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For participating Kaiser patients with an autism diagnosis, their biological parents will provide samples of blood or saliva and complete questionnaires. All patient identifiers will be removed before the data is provided to researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanna Jaeger, who has a 23-year-old son with autism, said she and her family agreed to participate in the study to help other parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son, Alex, who has an \u003ca href=\"http://www.big-als-best.com/big-al-s-best-dark-chocolate-almond-toffee.html\" target=\"_blank\">at-home toffee making business\u003c/a>, used to have difficulty cooperating during blood tests, she said. A blood draw once took “five people 45 minutes,” to make happen. But she says now it’s something he can do without difficulty, so she thought it was especially important to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great way for parents to give back and advance the information,” said Joanna Jaeger, who lives in Milpitas and is on the community advisory board for the Kaiser Permanente Autism Research Program. “So much of the time we are all overwhelmed and in the moment in day-to-day life. This is something we can do to make things a little easier for families who will deal with autism in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since recruitment began in July, Kaiser has enrolled 270 families, health plan officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This resource can’t exist without families participating,” Croen said. “Hopefully, together we can all make a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Learn more about \u003ca href=\"http://autismfamilybiobank.kaiser.org\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser's autism biobank study\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/113405/kaiser-recruits-families-autism-genes-biobank","authors":["11105"],"categories":["stateofhealth_11","stateofhealth_13"],"tags":["stateofhealth_155","stateofhealth_2519"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_113407","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_113500":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_113500","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"113500","score":null,"sort":[1448477810000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sophie-and-ben-a-story-of-filmmaker-and-son-with-autism-video","title":"Sophie and Ben: A Story of Filmmaker and Son with Autism (Video)","publishDate":1448477810,"format":"video","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cp>Sophie Sartain had long worked in documentary filmmaking as a writer and editor. For her first film as a director, she turned the camera on her own family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2009, she began filming her grandmother Mimi, then 92, who had cared for Sartain's aunt, Dona, for decades. Dona has an intellectual disability and \"perhaps some undiagnosed autism,\" Sartain says. From there the film \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/mimi-and-dona/\" target=\"_blank\">Mimi and Dona\u003c/a>\u003c/em> was born. It was released earlier this week on PBS' \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/mimi-and-dona/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Independent Lens\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sartain's grandmother was a \"wonderful moving presence\" who selflessly devoted herself to caring for her daughter. \"Could I be like that?\" Sartain wondered. \"I'm not that good, I'm not that unselfish. How could I measure up to Mimi?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But soon she would discover how her own path would overlap with that of her grandmother. \"It was during filming that I started to fear my own son might have autism,\" Sartain says. \"And I wondered if I was just beginning a journey that Mimi had just ended.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son Ben was diagnosed with autism. Sartain says she saw how her grandmother could be a role model for her and created this second, shorter, documentary, \u003cem>Sophie and Ben\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mimi and Dona\u003ca href=\"http://video.pbs.org/video/2365601272/\" target=\"_blank\"> is streaming online through Dec. 23, 2015.\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can learn more about the film and filmmaker Sophie Sartain by visiting \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/mimi-and-dona/\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Lens\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As Sophie Sartain was producing a film about her 92-year-old grandmother's devotion to her aunt with an intellectual disability, her own son was diagnosed with autism.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1448480752,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":228},"headData":{"title":"Sophie and Ben: A Story of Filmmaker and Son with Autism (Video) | KQED","description":"As Sophie Sartain was producing a film about her 92-year-old grandmother's devotion to her aunt with an intellectual disability, her own son was diagnosed with autism.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"113500 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=113500","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/11/25/sophie-and-ben-a-story-of-filmmaker-and-son-with-autism-video/","disqusTitle":"Sophie and Ben: A Story of Filmmaker and Son with Autism (Video)","videoEmbed":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOCh2nr7A64","path":"/stateofhealth/113500/sophie-and-ben-a-story-of-filmmaker-and-son-with-autism-video","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Sophie Sartain had long worked in documentary filmmaking as a writer and editor. For her first film as a director, she turned the camera on her own family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 2009, she began filming her grandmother Mimi, then 92, who had cared for Sartain's aunt, Dona, for decades. Dona has an intellectual disability and \"perhaps some undiagnosed autism,\" Sartain says. From there the film \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/mimi-and-dona/\" target=\"_blank\">Mimi and Dona\u003c/a>\u003c/em> was born. It was released earlier this week on PBS' \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/mimi-and-dona/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Independent Lens\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sartain's grandmother was a \"wonderful moving presence\" who selflessly devoted herself to caring for her daughter. \"Could I be like that?\" Sartain wondered. \"I'm not that good, I'm not that unselfish. How could I measure up to Mimi?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But soon she would discover how her own path would overlap with that of her grandmother. \"It was during filming that I started to fear my own son might have autism,\" Sartain says. \"And I wondered if I was just beginning a journey that Mimi had just ended.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her son Ben was diagnosed with autism. Sartain says she saw how her grandmother could be a role model for her and created this second, shorter, documentary, \u003cem>Sophie and Ben\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mimi and Dona\u003ca href=\"http://video.pbs.org/video/2365601272/\" target=\"_blank\"> is streaming online through Dec. 23, 2015.\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can learn more about the film and filmmaker Sophie Sartain by visiting \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/mimi-and-dona/\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Lens\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/113500/sophie-and-ben-a-story-of-filmmaker-and-son-with-autism-video","authors":["240"],"categories":["stateofhealth_12"],"tags":["stateofhealth_2598","stateofhealth_155","stateofhealth_2519"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_113856","label":"stateofhealth"},"stateofhealth_92843":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_92843","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"92843","score":null,"sort":[1444930549000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"plenty-of-research-on-children-with-autism-but-what-about-adults","title":"Plenty of Research on Children with Autism, But What About Adults?","publishDate":1444930549,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Mary and Ronin Curras look like happy-go-lucky kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They like to play video games, eat Flaming Hot Cheetos and spend time on their cell phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their mom, Melissa, said looks can be deceiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To get them looking this way has been this background of doctors, and educational professionals, and three parents, and it’s taken a lot of work to get to this point,\" Curras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary is seven and Ronin is five. They both have autism. They were diagnosed early on, and have benefited from intensive behavioral therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curras said managing the kids requires a constant team effort from her, her husband and her mom, who lives with the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92870\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Autism-Sibilings-HighRes.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-92870\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Autism-Sibilings-HighRes-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Curras and her brother, Ronin, both have been diagnosed with autism. \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Autism-Sibilings-HighRes-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Autism-Sibilings-HighRes-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Autism-Sibilings-HighRes-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Autism-Sibilings-HighRes-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Autism-Sibilings-HighRes-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Curras and her brother, Ronin, both have been diagnosed with autism. \u003ccite>(Nic McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's estimated one in every 68 children has autism. The brain disorder hampers one’s ability to socialize and communicate with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those children will grow to be adults, San Diego State University psychologist Ralph-Axel Müller said there’s little we know about how the disorder affects people with autism as they age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the age of maybe 40 years or so, we don’t know anything about what happens in people with autism, what happens in their brains, and how their thinking abilities might change,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Müller has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study autism in adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, Müller’s team will recruit 70 people with autism between the ages of 45 and 65. They’ll recruit an equal number of people who don’t have the disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each participant will undergo a series of tests of their cognitive, language and social skills. Researchers will take MRI scans of their brains, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants will go through the same regimen two-and-a-half years later. Researchers will compare the results to see if there have been any changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"f8DchecmJ3xXR0zDNmflOzCbjBLDqZ1l\"]Müller said the MRI scans reveal, in extremely fine detail, the nerve fibers that connect different parts of the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we can look at the volume of these fiber tracks, and can then study across age whether the fiber track shrinks,\" he said. \"And that’s something that would be expected in an aging brain, to some extent, but you don’t want this to happen too fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The images might also indicate whether these vital connections of the brain work differently in people with autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SDSU neuroscientist Ruth Carper, one of the study’s other investigators, said they hope to establish a baseline of what happens in the brains of people with autism ages 45 to 65.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d like to have a good understanding of what are their abilities over that time period, cognitively speaking, whether or not there are differences in structure of the brain that might explain that and correlate with that, and we’d like to have a baseline of what functional connections are there and how well they operate,\" Carper explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.afaa-us.org/core-issues\" target=\"_blank\">500,000\u003c/a> American children with autism will become adults over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard for Melissa Curras to think that far ahead. She’s busy getting her kids all of the help they need right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curras hoped it will hold them in good stead when they grow up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t really know what’s going to happen until they become an adult,\" she said. \"They shouldn’t regress necessarily any more. But there’s always a chance that they’re not going to progress past a certain point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers say there’s no indication that people with autism have a shorter lifespan. The new SDSU study hopes to answer whether some of them are at risk for greater neurological decline as they get older.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"“After the age of maybe 40 years or so, we don’t know anything about what happens in people with autism.\" ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1444930549,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":676},"headData":{"title":"Plenty of Research on Children with Autism, But What About Adults? | KQED","description":"“After the age of maybe 40 years or so, we don’t know anything about what happens in people with autism." ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"92843 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=92843","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/10/15/plenty-of-research-on-children-with-autism-but-what-about-adults/","disqusTitle":"Plenty of Research on Children with Autism, But What About Adults?","source":"KPBS","sourceUrl":"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/jul/20/sdsu-hopes-shed-light-adults-autism/","nprByline":"Kenny Goldberg","path":"/stateofhealth/92843/plenty-of-research-on-children-with-autism-but-what-about-adults","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Mary and Ronin Curras look like happy-go-lucky kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They like to play video games, eat Flaming Hot Cheetos and spend time on their cell phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their mom, Melissa, said looks can be deceiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To get them looking this way has been this background of doctors, and educational professionals, and three parents, and it’s taken a lot of work to get to this point,\" Curras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary is seven and Ronin is five. They both have autism. They were diagnosed early on, and have benefited from intensive behavioral therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curras said managing the kids requires a constant team effort from her, her husband and her mom, who lives with the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92870\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Autism-Sibilings-HighRes.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-92870\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Autism-Sibilings-HighRes-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Curras and her brother, Ronin, both have been diagnosed with autism. \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Autism-Sibilings-HighRes-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Autism-Sibilings-HighRes-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Autism-Sibilings-HighRes-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Autism-Sibilings-HighRes-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/10/Autism-Sibilings-HighRes-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Curras and her brother, Ronin, both have been diagnosed with autism. \u003ccite>(Nic McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's estimated one in every 68 children has autism. The brain disorder hampers one’s ability to socialize and communicate with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those children will grow to be adults, San Diego State University psychologist Ralph-Axel Müller said there’s little we know about how the disorder affects people with autism as they age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the age of maybe 40 years or so, we don’t know anything about what happens in people with autism, what happens in their brains, and how their thinking abilities might change,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Müller has been awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study autism in adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, Müller’s team will recruit 70 people with autism between the ages of 45 and 65. They’ll recruit an equal number of people who don’t have the disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each participant will undergo a series of tests of their cognitive, language and social skills. Researchers will take MRI scans of their brains, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants will go through the same regimen two-and-a-half years later. Researchers will compare the results to see if there have been any changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Müller said the MRI scans reveal, in extremely fine detail, the nerve fibers that connect different parts of the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we can look at the volume of these fiber tracks, and can then study across age whether the fiber track shrinks,\" he said. \"And that’s something that would be expected in an aging brain, to some extent, but you don’t want this to happen too fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The images might also indicate whether these vital connections of the brain work differently in people with autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SDSU neuroscientist Ruth Carper, one of the study’s other investigators, said they hope to establish a baseline of what happens in the brains of people with autism ages 45 to 65.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d like to have a good understanding of what are their abilities over that time period, cognitively speaking, whether or not there are differences in structure of the brain that might explain that and correlate with that, and we’d like to have a baseline of what functional connections are there and how well they operate,\" Carper explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.afaa-us.org/core-issues\" target=\"_blank\">500,000\u003c/a> American children with autism will become adults over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard for Melissa Curras to think that far ahead. She’s busy getting her kids all of the help they need right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curras hoped it will hold them in good stead when they grow up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t really know what’s going to happen until they become an adult,\" she said. \"They shouldn’t regress necessarily any more. But there’s always a chance that they’re not going to progress past a certain point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers say there’s no indication that people with autism have a shorter lifespan. The new SDSU study hopes to answer whether some of them are at risk for greater neurological decline as they get older.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/92843/plenty-of-research-on-children-with-autism-but-what-about-adults","authors":["byline_stateofhealth_92843"],"categories":["stateofhealth_13"],"tags":["stateofhealth_155"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_92869","label":"source_stateofhealth_92843"},"stateofhealth_68078":{"type":"posts","id":"stateofhealth_68078","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"stateofhealth","id":"68078","score":null,"sort":[1440785619000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"steve-silberman-on-autisms-history-and-the-neurodiversity-movement","title":"Steve Silberman on Autism's History and the 'Neurodiversity' Movement","publishDate":1440785619,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State of Health | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"stateofhealth"},"content":"\u003cp>Many parents likely fear the word “autism” but journalist Steven Silberman advocates a completely different approach in his sweeping book, \"\u003ca href=\"http://stevesilberman.com\" target=\"_blank\">Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">A very quick definition of 'neurodiversity' is ‘Great minds don’t think alike, necessarily.' We have to stop pathologizing different styles of cognition.\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Steve Silberman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Silberman dove into autism in 2001 when his article \"\u003ca href=\"http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aspergers_pr.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Geek Syndrome\u003c/a>\" appeared in \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/category/magazine/\" target=\"_blank\">Wired\u003c/a>. Back then, he was focused on autism's cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The popularity of that article introduced him to many parents of autistic children. But as Silberman began to spend more time alongside those on the autistic spectrum, he realized that much of the national conversation about autism (and Silberman argues, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0824-silberman-autism-speaks-20150824-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">the resources\u003c/a> available to help people live their lives) is focused on the wrong thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Years passed,\" he writes in his book, \"and I still got email about 'The Geek Syndrome' nearly every week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began to worry that he'd missed \"a larger and more important story.\" He continues in the book:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"A seemingly simple question began to formulate in my mind: After seventy years of research on autism, why do we still seem to know so little about it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To find the answer to that question for this book, I decided to start my reporting at the very beginning, even before Kanner's and Asperger's allegedly independent discoveries of autism in the 1940s. By taking nothing for granted, I learned that the standard time line of autism history -- its creation myth so to speak -- is fundamentally flawed in ways that render autistic people in previous generations harder to see. Until these inaccuracies in the time line are corrected, they will continue to hamper our ability to make wise choices about the kinds of research and societal accommodations that would be most beneficial to autistic people and their families.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In a wide-ranging conversation recently on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201508251000\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's Forum\u003c/a>, Silberman addressed questions about the history of autism and Asperger's, misperceptions about the disorders, how different genders are affected by autism and the need for more services and resources for adults and families coping with autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220862510\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some highlights of Silberman's discussion with host Michael Krasny:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Autism is Not New\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“I think it’s a mistake to see autism as a modern phenomenon and some kind of historical aberration,\" Silberman said. \"I actually think that’s one of the biggest traps in the world of autism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Quest for the Austism Gene\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“Every couple of years a scientist announces that they have found what could be a biomarker for autism -- 'too much white matter.' Then two years later you read, 'too little white matter.' Actually, we still haven't zeroed in on exactly what the biomarkers for autism are. There is still no brain scan or blood test that can diagnose somebody. People are diagnosed on the basis of subjective clinical observations and a set of standardized clinical instruments. But it's still about observing people and about behavior and social context. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back when I wrote 'Geek Syndrome' a lot of parents were telling me ‘Oh yes, they're going to discover the autism gene.' Well they did -- except it turned out that there were more than a thousand candidate genes that contribute to autism. Not only that, each autistic person is genetically quite unique. As one of the big autism geneticists said and there's a saying in the autistic community ‘If you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Great Minds Often Think Differently\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“That is the message of neurodiversity: the styles of human cognition should be celebrated rather than pathologized. A very quick definition of 'neurodiversity' is ‘Great minds don’t think alike, necessarily.' There are lots of different styles of cognition, and we have to stop pathologizing different ones, deal with the real, serious challenges that certain forms of neurodiversity present to people and their families and embrace that diversity as one of the strengths of our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There Are Autistic Adults, Too\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\"A truly shocking report came out in June from the Government Accountability Office that reported that the research into improving the lives of autistic adults has actually gone down in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to stop talking about ‘autistic children, autistic children, autistic children.’ We should talk about autistic people. If you think about it, there are more autistic adults than there are autistic children, and they are still virtually invisible to our society. There are very few services and resources available to them. It is one of the main things I want to change with my book. ... If you're an academic researcher who wants a promising area of study, please start looking at the lives -- and the life courses -- of autistic adults to figure out ways that we can support them as they go through these changes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parents are Heroes\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\"There are so few resources for families. People often end up quitting their jobs to become sort of case managers for their children. People have had to prevail in the face of medical models of autism that blamed them. ... The parents of autistic kids and autistic people themselves are all heroes.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"\"A very quick definition of neurodiversity is ‘Great minds don’t think alike, necessarily.’ We have to stop pathologizing different styles of cognition.”","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1440790267,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":930},"headData":{"title":"Steve Silberman on Autism's History and the 'Neurodiversity' Movement | KQED","description":""A very quick definition of neurodiversity is ‘Great minds don’t think alike, necessarily.’ We have to stop pathologizing different styles of cognition.”","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"68078 http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/?p=68078","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/08/28/steve-silberman-on-autisms-history-and-the-neurodiversity-movement/","disqusTitle":"Steve Silberman on Autism's History and the 'Neurodiversity' Movement","path":"/stateofhealth/68078/steve-silberman-on-autisms-history-and-the-neurodiversity-movement","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Many parents likely fear the word “autism” but journalist Steven Silberman advocates a completely different approach in his sweeping book, \"\u003ca href=\"http://stevesilberman.com\" target=\"_blank\">Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">A very quick definition of 'neurodiversity' is ‘Great minds don’t think alike, necessarily.' We have to stop pathologizing different styles of cognition.\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Steve Silberman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Silberman dove into autism in 2001 when his article \"\u003ca href=\"http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aspergers_pr.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Geek Syndrome\u003c/a>\" appeared in \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/category/magazine/\" target=\"_blank\">Wired\u003c/a>. Back then, he was focused on autism's cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The popularity of that article introduced him to many parents of autistic children. But as Silberman began to spend more time alongside those on the autistic spectrum, he realized that much of the national conversation about autism (and Silberman argues, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0824-silberman-autism-speaks-20150824-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">the resources\u003c/a> available to help people live their lives) is focused on the wrong thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Years passed,\" he writes in his book, \"and I still got email about 'The Geek Syndrome' nearly every week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began to worry that he'd missed \"a larger and more important story.\" He continues in the book:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"A seemingly simple question began to formulate in my mind: After seventy years of research on autism, why do we still seem to know so little about it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To find the answer to that question for this book, I decided to start my reporting at the very beginning, even before Kanner's and Asperger's allegedly independent discoveries of autism in the 1940s. By taking nothing for granted, I learned that the standard time line of autism history -- its creation myth so to speak -- is fundamentally flawed in ways that render autistic people in previous generations harder to see. Until these inaccuracies in the time line are corrected, they will continue to hamper our ability to make wise choices about the kinds of research and societal accommodations that would be most beneficial to autistic people and their families.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In a wide-ranging conversation recently on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201508251000\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's Forum\u003c/a>, Silberman addressed questions about the history of autism and Asperger's, misperceptions about the disorders, how different genders are affected by autism and the need for more services and resources for adults and families coping with autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220862510&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/220862510'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some highlights of Silberman's discussion with host Michael Krasny:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Autism is Not New\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“I think it’s a mistake to see autism as a modern phenomenon and some kind of historical aberration,\" Silberman said. \"I actually think that’s one of the biggest traps in the world of autism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Quest for the Austism Gene\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“Every couple of years a scientist announces that they have found what could be a biomarker for autism -- 'too much white matter.' Then two years later you read, 'too little white matter.' Actually, we still haven't zeroed in on exactly what the biomarkers for autism are. There is still no brain scan or blood test that can diagnose somebody. People are diagnosed on the basis of subjective clinical observations and a set of standardized clinical instruments. But it's still about observing people and about behavior and social context. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back when I wrote 'Geek Syndrome' a lot of parents were telling me ‘Oh yes, they're going to discover the autism gene.' Well they did -- except it turned out that there were more than a thousand candidate genes that contribute to autism. Not only that, each autistic person is genetically quite unique. As one of the big autism geneticists said and there's a saying in the autistic community ‘If you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Great Minds Often Think Differently\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n“That is the message of neurodiversity: the styles of human cognition should be celebrated rather than pathologized. A very quick definition of 'neurodiversity' is ‘Great minds don’t think alike, necessarily.' There are lots of different styles of cognition, and we have to stop pathologizing different ones, deal with the real, serious challenges that certain forms of neurodiversity present to people and their families and embrace that diversity as one of the strengths of our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There Are Autistic Adults, Too\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\"A truly shocking report came out in June from the Government Accountability Office that reported that the research into improving the lives of autistic adults has actually gone down in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to stop talking about ‘autistic children, autistic children, autistic children.’ We should talk about autistic people. If you think about it, there are more autistic adults than there are autistic children, and they are still virtually invisible to our society. There are very few services and resources available to them. It is one of the main things I want to change with my book. ... If you're an academic researcher who wants a promising area of study, please start looking at the lives -- and the life courses -- of autistic adults to figure out ways that we can support them as they go through these changes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parents are Heroes\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\"There are so few resources for families. People often end up quitting their jobs to become sort of case managers for their children. People have had to prevail in the face of medical models of autism that blamed them. ... The parents of autistic kids and autistic people themselves are all heroes.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/stateofhealth/68078/steve-silberman-on-autisms-history-and-the-neurodiversity-movement","authors":["70"],"categories":["stateofhealth_12","stateofhealth_14"],"tags":["stateofhealth_155"],"featImg":"stateofhealth_18394","label":"stateofhealth"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.","airtime":"SUN 2pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.possible.fm/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"Possible"},"link":"/radio/program/possible","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"}},"1a":{"id":"1a","title":"1A","info":"1A is home to the national conversation. 1A brings on great guests and frames the best debate in ways that make you think, share and engage.","airtime":"MON-THU 11pm-12am","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/1a.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://the1a.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/1a","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=1188724250&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/1A-p947376/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510316/podcast.xml"}},"all-things-considered":{"id":"all-things-considered","title":"All Things Considered","info":"Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.","airtime":"MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/all-things-considered"},"american-suburb-podcast":{"id":"american-suburb-podcast","title":"American Suburb: The Podcast","tagline":"The flip side of gentrification, told through one town","info":"Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"/news/series/american-suburb-podcast","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"13"},"link":"/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"}},"baycurious":{"id":"baycurious","title":"Bay Curious","tagline":"Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time","info":"KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"\"KQED Bay Curious","officialWebsiteLink":"/news/series/baycurious","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"4"},"link":"/podcasts/baycurious","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9jYXRlZ29yeS9iYXktY3VyaW91cy1wb2RjYXN0L2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdA","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"}},"bbc-world-service":{"id":"bbc-world-service","title":"BBC World Service","info":"The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.","airtime":"MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service","meta":{"site":"news","source":"BBC World Service"},"link":"/radio/program/bbc-world-service","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/","rss":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"}},"code-switch-life-kit":{"id":"code-switch-life-kit","title":"Code Switch / Life Kit","info":"\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />","airtime":"SUN 9pm-10pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"}},"commonwealth-club":{"id":"commonwealth-club","title":"Commonwealth Club of California Podcast","info":"The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.","airtime":"THU 10pm, FRI 1am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts","meta":{"site":"news","source":"Commonwealth Club of California"},"link":"/radio/program/commonwealth-club","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"}},"considerthis":{"id":"considerthis","title":"Consider This","tagline":"Make sense of the day","info":"Make sense of the day. Every weekday afternoon, Consider This helps you consider the major stories of the day in less than 15 minutes, featuring the reporting and storytelling resources of NPR. Plus, KQED’s Bianca Taylor brings you the local KQED news you need to know.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Consider-This-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"Consider This from NPR and KQED","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/considerthis","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"7"},"link":"/podcasts/considerthis","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1503226625?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/coronavirusdaily","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM1NS9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbA","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/3Z6JdCS2d0eFEpXHKI6WqH"}},"forum":{"id":"forum","title":"Forum","tagline":"The conversation starts here","info":"KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.","airtime":"MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal","officialWebsiteLink":"/forum","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"8"},"link":"/forum","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast","rss":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"}},"freakonomics-radio":{"id":"freakonomics-radio","title":"Freakonomics Radio","info":"Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png","officialWebsiteLink":"http://freakonomics.com/","airtime":"SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/freakonomics-radio","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/","rss":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"}},"fresh-air":{"id":"fresh-air","title":"Fresh Air","info":"Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.","airtime":"MON-FRI 7pm-8pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/fresh-air","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"}},"here-and-now":{"id":"here-and-now","title":"Here & Now","info":"A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.","airtime":"MON-THU 11am-12pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/here-and-now","subsdcribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"}},"how-i-built-this":{"id":"how-i-built-this","title":"How I Built This with Guy Raz","info":"Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this","airtime":"SUN 7:30pm-8pm","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/how-i-built-this","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"}},"inside-europe":{"id":"inside-europe","title":"Inside Europe","info":"Inside Europe, a one-hour weekly news magazine hosted by Helen Seeney and Keith Walker, explores the topical issues shaping the continent. No other part of the globe has experienced such dynamic political and social change in recent years.","airtime":"SAT 3am-4am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Inside-Europe-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg","meta":{"site":"news","source":"Deutsche Welle"},"link":"/radio/program/inside-europe","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-europe/id80106806?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Inside-Europe-p731/","rss":"https://partner.dw.com/xml/podcast_inside-europe"}},"latino-usa":{"id":"latino-usa","title":"Latino USA","airtime":"MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm","info":"Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://latinousa.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/latino-usa","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"}},"live-from-here-highlights":{"id":"live-from-here-highlights","title":"Live from Here Highlights","info":"Chris Thile steps to the mic as the host of Live from Here (formerly A Prairie Home Companion), a live public radio variety show. Download Chris’s Song of the Week plus other highlights from the broadcast. Produced by American Public Media.","airtime":"SAT 6pm-8pm, SUN 11am-1pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Live-From-Here-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.livefromhere.org/","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"american public media"},"link":"/radio/program/live-from-here-highlights","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1167173941","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Live-from-Here-Highlights-p921744/","rss":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/a-prairie-home-companion-highlights/rss/rss"}},"marketplace":{"id":"marketplace","title":"Marketplace","info":"Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.","airtime":"MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.marketplace.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"American Public Media"},"link":"/radio/program/marketplace","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/","rss":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"}},"mindshift":{"id":"mindshift","title":"MindShift","tagline":"A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids","info":"The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn","officialWebsiteLink":"/mindshift/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"2"},"link":"/podcasts/mindshift","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"}},"morning-edition":{"id":"morning-edition","title":"Morning Edition","info":"\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.","airtime":"MON-FRI 3am-9am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/morning-edition"},"onourwatch":{"id":"onourwatch","title":"On Our Watch","tagline":"Police secrets, unsealed","info":"For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"On Our Watch from NPR and KQED","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/onourwatch","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"1"},"link":"/podcasts/onourwatch","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw","npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"}},"on-the-media":{"id":"on-the-media","title":"On The Media","info":"Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us","airtime":"SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm","meta":{"site":"news","source":"wnyc"},"link":"/radio/program/on-the-media","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/","rss":"http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"}},"our-body-politic":{"id":"our-body-politic","title":"Our Body Politic","info":"Presented by KQED, KCRW and KPCC, and created and hosted by award-winning journalist Farai Chideya, Our Body Politic is unapologetically centered on reporting on not just how women of color experience the major political events of today, but how they’re impacting those very issues.","airtime":"SAT 6pm-7pm, SUN 1am-2am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Our-Body-Politic-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://our-body-politic.simplecast.com/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kcrw"},"link":"/radio/program/our-body-politic","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/our-body-politic/id1533069868","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9feGFQaHMxcw","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/4ApAiLT1kV153TttWAmqmc","rss":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/_xaPhs1s","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/Our-Body-Politic-p1369211/"}},"pbs-newshour":{"id":"pbs-newshour","title":"PBS NewsHour","info":"Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.","airtime":"MON-FRI 3pm-4pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"pbs"},"link":"/radio/program/pbs-newshour","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/","rss":"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"}},"perspectives":{"id":"perspectives","title":"Perspectives","tagline":"KQED's series of of daily listener commentaries since 1991","info":"KQED's series of of daily listener commentaries since 1991.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Perspectives-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"/perspectives/","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"kqed","order":"15"},"link":"/perspectives","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"}},"planet-money":{"id":"planet-money","title":"Planet Money","info":"The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.","airtime":"SUN 3pm-4pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/money/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/planet-money","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"}},"politicalbreakdown":{"id":"politicalbreakdown","title":"Political Breakdown","tagline":"Politics from a personal perspective","info":"Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.","airtime":"THU 6:30pm-7pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Political Breakdown","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"kqed","order":"11"},"link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5Nzk2MzI2MTEx","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"}},"pri-the-world":{"id":"pri-the-world","title":"PRI's The World: Latest Edition","info":"Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.","airtime":"MON-FRI 2pm-3pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world","meta":{"site":"news","source":"PRI"},"link":"/radio/program/pri-the-world","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/","rss":"http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"}},"radiolab":{"id":"radiolab","title":"Radiolab","info":"A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.","airtime":"SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/","meta":{"site":"science","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/radiolab","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/","rss":"https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"}},"reveal":{"id":"reveal","title":"Reveal","info":"Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.","airtime":"SAT 4pm-5pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/reveal","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/","rss":"http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"}},"says-you":{"id":"says-you","title":"Says You!","info":"Public radio's game show of bluff and bluster, words and whimsy. The warmest, wittiest cocktail party - it's spirited and civil, brainy and boisterous, peppered with musical interludes. Fast paced and playful, it's the most fun you can have with language without getting your mouth washed out with soap. Our motto: It's not important to know the answers, it's important to like the answers!","airtime":"SUN 4pm-5pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Says-You-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://www.saysyouradio.com/","meta":{"site":"comedy","source":"Pipit and Finch"},"link":"/radio/program/says-you","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/says-you!/id1050199826","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Says-You-p480/","rss":"https://saysyou.libsyn.com/rss"}},"science-friday":{"id":"science-friday","title":"Science Friday","info":"Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.","airtime":"FRI 11am-1pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/science-friday","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/","rss":"http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"}},"science-podcast":{"id":"science-podcast","title":"KQED Science News","tagline":"From the lab, to your ears","info":"KQED Science explores science and environment news, trends, and events from the Bay Area and beyond.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-News-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/category/science-podcast/","meta":{"site":"science","source":"kqed","order":"17"},"link":"/science/category/science-podcast","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqed-science-news/id214663465","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2Jsb2dzLmtxZWQub3JnL3NjaWVuY2UvZmVlZC8","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed-science-news","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/category/science-podcast/feed/podcast"}},"selected-shorts":{"id":"selected-shorts","title":"Selected Shorts","info":"Spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers take on a new life when they are performed by stars of the stage and screen.","airtime":"SAT 8pm-9pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Selected-Shorts-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.pri.org/programs/selected-shorts","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"pri"},"link":"/radio/program/selected-shorts","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=253191824&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Selected-Shorts-p31792/","rss":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/selectedshorts"}},"snap-judgment":{"id":"snap-judgment","title":"Snap Judgment","info":"Snap Judgment (Storytelling, with a BEAT) mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic, kick-ass radio. Snap’s raw, musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. WNYC studios is the producer of leading podcasts including Radiolab, Freakonomics Radio, Note To Self, Here’s The Thing With Alec Baldwin, and more.","airtime":"SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/snapJudgement.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://snapjudgment.org","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/snap-judgment","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=283657561&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Snap-Judgment-p243817/","rss":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/snapjudgment-wnyc"}},"soldout":{"id":"soldout","title":"SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America","tagline":"A new future for housing","info":"Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/soldout","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":3},"link":"/podcasts/soldout","subscribe":{"npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing","apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937","rss":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america","tunein":"https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vc29sZG91dA"}},"ted-radio-hour":{"id":"ted-radio-hour","title":"TED Radio Hour","info":"The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.","airtime":"SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/ted-radio-hour","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"}},"tech-nation":{"id":"tech-nation","title":"Tech Nation Radio Podcast","info":"Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.","airtime":"FRI 10pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://technation.podomatic.com/","meta":{"site":"science","source":"Tech Nation Media"},"link":"/radio/program/tech-nation","subscribe":{"rss":"https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"}},"thebay":{"id":"thebay","title":"The Bay","tagline":"Local news to keep you rooted","info":"Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"\"KQED The Bay","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/thebay","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"kqed","order":"6"},"link":"/podcasts/thebay","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM4MjU5Nzg2MzI3","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ","rss":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"}},"californiareport":{"id":"californiareport","title":"The California Report","tagline":"California, day by day","info":"KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED The California Report","officialWebsiteLink":"/californiareport","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"9"},"link":"/californiareport","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1MDAyODE4NTgz","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"}},"californiareportmagazine":{"id":"californiareportmagazine","title":"The California Report Magazine","tagline":"Your state, your stories","info":"Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.","airtime":"FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"/californiareportmagazine","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"10"},"link":"/californiareportmagazine","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"}},"theleap":{"id":"theleap","title":"The Leap","tagline":"What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?","info":"Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED The Leap","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/theleap","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"14"},"link":"/podcasts/theleap","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM0NTcwODQ2MjY2","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"}},"masters-of-scale":{"id":"masters-of-scale","title":"Masters of Scale","info":"Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.","airtime":"Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://mastersofscale.com/","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"WaitWhat"},"link":"/radio/program/masters-of-scale","subscribe":{"apple":"http://mastersofscale.app.link/","rss":"https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"}},"the-moth-radio-hour":{"id":"the-moth-radio-hour","title":"The Moth Radio Hour","info":"Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.","airtime":"SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://themoth.org/","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"prx"},"link":"/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/","rss":"http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"}},"the-new-yorker-radio-hour":{"id":"the-new-yorker-radio-hour","title":"The New Yorker Radio Hour","info":"The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.","airtime":"SAT 10am-11am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/","rss":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"}},"the-takeaway":{"id":"the-takeaway","title":"The Takeaway","info":"The Takeaway is produced in partnership with its national audience. It delivers perspective and analysis to help us better understand the day’s news. Be a part of the American conversation on-air and online.","airtime":"MON-THU 12pm-1pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Takeaway-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/takeaway","meta":{"site":"news","source":"WNYC"},"link":"/radio/program/the-takeaway","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-takeaway/id363143310?mt=2","tuneIn":"http://tunein.com/radio/The-Takeaway-p150731/","rss":"https://feeds.feedburner.com/takeawaypodcast"}},"this-american-life":{"id":"this-american-life","title":"This American Life","info":"This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.","airtime":"SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.thisamericanlife.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"wbez"},"link":"/radio/program/this-american-life","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","rss":"https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"}},"truthbetold":{"id":"truthbetold","title":"Truth Be Told","tagline":"Advice by and for people of color","info":"We’re the friend you call after a long day, the one who gets it. Through wisdom from some of the greatest thinkers of our time, host Tonya Mosley explores what it means to grow and thrive as a Black person in America, while discovering new ways of being that serve as a portal to more love, more healing, and more joy.","airtime":"","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Truth-Be-Told-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Truth Be Told with Tonya Mosley","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.kqed.ord/podcasts/truthbetold","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr","order":"12"},"link":"/podcasts/truthbetold","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/truth-be-told/id1462216572","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9jYXRlZ29yeS90cnV0aC1iZS10b2xkLXBvZGNhc3QvZmVlZA","npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/719210818/truth-be-told","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=398170&refid=stpr","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/587DhwTBxke6uvfwDfaV5N"}},"wait-wait-dont-tell-me":{"id":"wait-wait-dont-tell-me","title":"Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!","info":"Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.","airtime":"SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"}},"washington-week":{"id":"washington-week","title":"Washington Week","info":"For 50 years, Washington Week has been the most intelligent and up to date conversation about the most important news stories of the week. Washington Week is the longest-running news and public affairs program on PBS and features journalists -- not pundits -- lending insight and perspective to the week's important news stories.","airtime":"SAT 1:30am-2am","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/washington-week.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"pbs"},"link":"/radio/program/washington-week","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/washington-week-audio-pbs/id83324702?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Current-Affairs/Washington-Week-p693/","rss":"http://feeds.pbs.org/pbs/weta/washingtonweek-audio"}},"weekend-edition-saturday":{"id":"weekend-edition-saturday","title":"Weekend Edition Saturday","info":"Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.","airtime":"SAT 5am-10am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"},"weekend-edition-sunday":{"id":"weekend-edition-sunday","title":"Weekend Edition Sunday","info":"Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.","airtime":"SUN 5am-10am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"},"world-affairs":{"id":"world-affairs","title":"World Affairs","info":"The world as we knew it is undergoing a rapid transformation…so what's next? Welcome to WorldAffairs, your guide to a changing world. We give you the context you need to navigate across borders and ideologies. Through sound-rich stories and in-depth interviews, we break down what it means to be a global citizen on a hot, crowded planet. Our hosts, Ray Suarez, Teresa Cotsirilos and Philip Yun help you make sense of an uncertain world, one story at a time.","airtime":"MON 10pm, TUE 1am, SAT 3am","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/World-Affairs-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg ","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.worldaffairs.org/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"World Affairs"},"link":"/radio/program/world-affairs","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/world-affairs/id101215657?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/WorldAffairs-p1665/","rss":"https://worldaffairs.libsyn.com/rss"}},"on-shifting-ground":{"id":"on-shifting-ground","title":"On Shifting Ground with Ray Suarez","info":"Geopolitical turmoil. A warming planet. Authoritarians on the rise. We live in a chaotic world that’s rapidly shifting around us. “On Shifting Ground with Ray Suarez” explores international fault lines and how they impact us all. Each week, NPR veteran Ray Suarez hosts conversations with journalists, leaders and policy experts to help us read between the headlines – and give us hope for human resilience.","airtime":"MON 10pm, TUE 1am, SAT 3am","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/12/onshiftingground-600x600-1.png","officialWebsiteLink":"https://worldaffairs.org/radio-podcast/","meta":{"site":"news","source":"On Shifting Ground"},"link":"/radio/program/on-shifting-ground","subscribe":{"apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/on-shifting-ground/id101215657","rss":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/36668/rss"}},"hidden-brain":{"id":"hidden-brain","title":"Hidden Brain","info":"Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain","airtime":"SUN 7pm-8pm","meta":{"site":"news","source":"NPR"},"link":"/radio/program/hidden-brain","subscribe":{"apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2","tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"}},"city-arts":{"id":"city-arts","title":"City Arts & Lectures","info":"A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available","imageSrc":"https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.cityarts.net/","airtime":"SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am","meta":{"site":"news","source":"City Arts & Lectures"},"link":"https://www.cityarts.net","subscribe":{"tuneIn":"https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/","rss":"https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"}},"white-lies":{"id":"white-lies","title":"White Lies","info":"In 1965, Rev. James Reeb was murdered in Selma, Alabama. Three men were tried and acquitted, but no one was ever held to account. Fifty years later, two journalists from Alabama return to the city where it happened, expose the lies that kept the murder from being solved and uncover a story about guilt and memory that says as much about America today as it does about the past.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/White-Lies-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510343/white-lies","meta":{"site":"news","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/white-lies","subscribe":{"npr":"https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/whitelies","apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1462650519?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM0My9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbA","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/12yZ2j8vxqhc0QZyRES3ft?si=LfWYEK6URA63hueKVxRLAw","rss":"https://feeds.npr.org/510343/podcast.xml"}},"rightnowish":{"id":"rightnowish","title":"Rightnowish","tagline":"Art is where you find it","info":"Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/rightnowish","meta":{"site":"arts","source":"kqed","order":"5"},"link":"/podcasts/rightnowish","subscribe":{"npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast","apple":"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"}},"jerrybrown":{"id":"jerrybrown","title":"The Political Mind of Jerry Brown","tagline":"Lessons from a lifetime in politics","info":"The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg","imageAlt":"KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown","officialWebsiteLink":"/podcasts/jerrybrown","meta":{"site":"news","source":"kqed","order":"16"},"link":"/podcasts/jerrybrown","subscribe":{"npr":"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown","apple":"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549","rss":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/","tuneIn":"http://tun.in/pjGcK","stitcher":"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown","spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w","google":"https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvbmV3cy9zZXJpZXMvamVycnlicm93bi9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Qv"}},"the-splendid-table":{"id":"the-splendid-table","title":"The Splendid Table","info":"\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.","imageSrc":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg","officialWebsiteLink":"https://www.splendidtable.org/","airtime":"SUN 10-11 pm","meta":{"site":"radio","source":"npr"},"link":"/radio/program/the-splendid-table"}},"racesReducer":{"5921":{"id":"5921","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 7","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":158422,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.97,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Doris Matsui","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":89456,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tom Silva","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":48920,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"David Mandel","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":20046,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-09T01:00:38.194Z"},"5922":{"id":"5922","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 8","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Rudy Recile","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"John Garamendi","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"5924":{"id":"5924","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 10","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":185034,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.07,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mark DeSaulnier","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":121265,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Katherine Piccinini","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":34883,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Nolan Chen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":19459,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Joe Sweeney","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":7606,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Mohamed Elsherbini","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":1821,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-09T01:02:32.415Z"},"5926":{"id":"5926","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 12","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":153801,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.88,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:41 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Lateefah Simon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":85905,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Jennifer Tran","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":22964,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tony Daysog","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":17197,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Stephen Slauson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":9699,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Glenn Kaplan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":6785,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eric Wilson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":4243,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Abdur Sikder","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2847,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ned Nuerge","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":2532,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Andre Todd","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1629,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-16T00:22:36.062Z"},"5928":{"id":"5928","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 14","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":125831,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.14,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:41 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Eric Swalwell","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":83989,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Vin Kruttiventi","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":22106,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Alison Hayden","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":11928,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Luis Reynoso","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":7808,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:51:36.366Z"},"5930":{"id":"5930","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 16","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":182135,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.91,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","timeUpdated":"3:04 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Sam Liccardo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":38489,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Evan Low","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":30249,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Joe Simitian","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":30249,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Peter Ohtaki","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":23275,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Peter Dixon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":14673,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Rishi Kumar","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":12377,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Karl Ryan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":11557,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Julie Lythcott-Haims","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":11383,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ahmed Mostafa","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":5811,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Greg Tanaka","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2421,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Joby Bernstein","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1651,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:32:05.002Z"},"5931":{"id":"5931","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 17","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":117534,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.92,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Ro Khanna","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":73941,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Anita Chen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":31539,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Ritesh Tandon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":5728,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Mario Ramirez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":4491,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Joe Dehn","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"Lib","voteCount":1835,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-08T01:50:53.956Z"},"5932":{"id":"5932","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 18","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":96302,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.93,"eevp":98.83,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Zoe Lofgren","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":49323,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Peter Hernandez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":31622,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Charlene Nijmeh","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":10614,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Lawrence Milan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2712,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Luele Kifle","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2031,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:26:02.706Z"},"5963":{"id":"5963","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 2","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":139085,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.62,"eevp":98.6,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Michael Greer","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":38079,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Chris Rogers","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":27126,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Rusty Hicks","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":25615,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ariel Kelley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":19483,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Frankie Myers","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":17694,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ted Williams","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":9550,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Cynthia Click","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1538,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-22T21:38:36.711Z"},"5972":{"id":"5972","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 11","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":99775,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Lori Wilson","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":50085,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Dave Ennis","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":26074,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Wanda Wallis","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":14638,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jeffrey Flack","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":8978,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-08T02:01:24.524Z"},"5973":{"id":"5973","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 12","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":143532,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.19,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:38 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Damon Connolly","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":111275,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Andy Podshadley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":17240,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Eryn Cervantes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":15017,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-21T00:25:32.262Z"},"5975":{"id":"5975","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 14","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":106997,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.06,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Buffy Wicks","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":78678,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Margot Smith","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":18251,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Utkarsh Jain","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":10068,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-15T01:30:34.539Z"},"5976":{"id":"5976","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 15","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":97144,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.98,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Sonia Ledo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":30946,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Anamarie Farias","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":29512,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Monica Wilson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":24775,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Karen Mitchoff","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":11911,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-14T00:19:38.858Z"},"5977":{"id":"5977","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 16","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Joseph Rubay","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Rebecca Bauer-Kahan","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"5978":{"id":"5978","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 17","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":111003,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"8:25 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Matt Haney","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":90915,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Manuel Noris-Barrera","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":13843,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Otto Duke","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":6245,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:36:19.697Z"},"5979":{"id":"5979","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 18","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":86008,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.1,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:41 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mia Bonta","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":73040,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Andre Sandford","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"AIP","voteCount":4575,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Mindy Pechenuk","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":4389,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Cheyenne Kenney","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":4004,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T08:03:23.729Z"},"5980":{"id":"5980","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 19","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":113959,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.8,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Catherine Stefani","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":64960,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"David Lee","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":33035,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Nadia Flamenco","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":8335,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Arjun Sodhani","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":7629,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-11T23:50:23.109Z"},"5981":{"id":"5981","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 20","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:36 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Liz Ortega","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"5982":{"id":"5982","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 21","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mark Gilham","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Diane Papan","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"5984":{"id":"5984","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 23","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":116963,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.91,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Marc Berman","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":67106,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Lydia Kou","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":23699,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Gus Mattammal","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":13277,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Allan Marson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":12881,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T01:13:06.280Z"},"5987":{"id":"5987","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 26","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":72753,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.19,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Patrick Ahrens","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":25036,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tara Sreekrishnan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":19600,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Sophie Song","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":15954,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Omar Din","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":8772,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Bob Goodwyn","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"Lib","voteCount":2170,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ashish Garg","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":1221,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-13T21:06:29.070Z"},"5989":{"id":"5989","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 28","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:10 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Gail Pellerin","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Liz Lawler","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6010":{"id":"6010","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 49","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:36 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mike Fong","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Long Liu","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6018":{"id":"6018","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 2","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":229348,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.05,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:38 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jared Huffman","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":169005,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Chris Coulombe","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":37372,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tief Gibbs","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":18437,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jolian Kangas","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":3166,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jason Brisendine","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":1368,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:46:10.103Z"},"6020":{"id":"6020","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 4","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":187640,"precinctsReportPercentage":96.32,"eevp":96.36,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mike Thompson","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":118147,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"John Munn","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":56232,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Andrew Engdahl","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":11202,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Niket Patwardhan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":2059,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-07T00:30:57.980Z"},"6025":{"id":"6025","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 9","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":121271,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.17,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:10 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Josh Harder","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":60396,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Kevin Lincoln","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":36346,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"John McBride","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":15525,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Khalid Jafri","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":9004,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:49:44.113Z"},"6031":{"id":"6031","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 15","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Anna Kramer","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Kevin Mullin","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6035":{"id":"6035","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 19","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":203670,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.11,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jimmy Panetta","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":132540,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Jason Anderson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":58120,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Sean Dougherty","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"Grn","voteCount":13010,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-07T00:23:46.779Z"},"6066":{"id":"6066","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 3","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:10 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jamie Gallagher","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Aaron Draper","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6067":{"id":"6067","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 4","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Cecilia Aguiar-Curry","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6087":{"id":"6087","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 24","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":66643,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.19,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Alex Lee","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":45544,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Bob Brunton","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":14951,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Marti Souza","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":6148,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-14T23:23:49.770Z"},"6088":{"id":"6088","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 25","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":69560,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.31,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Ash Kalra","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":35821,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Ted Stroll","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":18255,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Lan Ngo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":15484,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-14T02:40:57.200Z"},"6092":{"id":"6092","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State House, District 29","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Robert Rivas","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"J.W. Paine","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6223":{"id":"6223","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 46","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:16 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Lou Correa","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"David Pan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6530":{"id":"6530","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 3","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":222193,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Thom Bogue","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":61776,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Christopher Cabaldon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":59041,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Rozzana Verder-Aliga","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":45546,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jackie Elward","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":41127,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jimih Jones","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":14703,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-15T01:24:31.539Z"},"6531":{"id":"6531","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 5","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":171623,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.09,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:10 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jim Shoemaker","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":74935,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Jerry McNerney","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":57040,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Carlos Villapudua","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":39648,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-13T20:07:46.382Z"},"6532":{"id":"6532","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 7","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":192446,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.72,"eevp":98.78,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:48 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jesse Arreguín","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":61837,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Jovanka Beckles","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":34025,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Dan Kalb","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":28842,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Kathryn Lybarger","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":28041,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sandre Swanson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":22862,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jeanne Solnordal","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":16839,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-16T00:58:11.533Z"},"6533":{"id":"6533","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 9","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Tim Grayson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Marisol Rubio","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6534":{"id":"6534","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 11","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":228260,"precinctsReportPercentage":99.09,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Scott Wiener","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":166592,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Yvette Corkrean","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":34438,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Cynthia Cravens","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":18513,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jing Xiong","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":8717,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T02:01:51.597Z"},"6535":{"id":"6535","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 13","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":227191,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.88,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Josh Becker","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":167127,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Alexander Glew","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":42788,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Christina Laskowski","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":17276,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T01:56:24.964Z"},"6536":{"id":"6536","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 15","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":180231,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.81,"eevp":98.95,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:20 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Dave Cortese","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":124440,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Robert Howell","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":34173,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Tony Loaiza","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":21618,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-13T01:15:45.365Z"},"6548":{"id":"6548","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"State Senate, District 39","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":0,"uncontested":true,"precinctsReportPercentage":0,"eevp":0,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 20, 2024","timeUpdated":"4:55 PM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Akilah Weber","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Bob Divine","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":0,"isWinner":true}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:00:30.000Z"},"6611":{"id":"6611","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 11","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":188732,"precinctsReportPercentage":98.89,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 22, 2024","timeUpdated":"8:25 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Nancy Pelosi","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":138285,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Bruce Lou","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":16285,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Marjorie Mikels","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":9363,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Bianca Von Krieg","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":7634,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jason Zeng","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":6607,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jason Boyce","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":4325,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Larry Nichelson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":3482,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eve Del Castello","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":2751,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-12T00:31:55.445Z"},"8589":{"id":"8589","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. Senate, Class I","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":7276537,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Adam Schiff","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2299507,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Steve Garvey","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":2292414,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Katie Porter","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1115606,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Barbara Lee","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":714408,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eric Early","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":240723,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"James Bradley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":98180,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Christina Pascucci","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":61755,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sharleta Bassett","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":54422,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sarah Liew","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":38483,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Laura Garza ","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":34320,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Jonathan Reiss","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":34283,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sepi Gilani","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":34056,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Gail Lightfoot","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"Lib","voteCount":33046,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Denice Gary-Pandol","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":25494,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"James Macauley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":23168,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Harmesh Kumar","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":21522,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"David Peterson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":21076,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Douglas Pierce","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":19371,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Major Singh","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":16965,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"John Rose","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":14577,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Perry Pound","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":14134,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Raji Rab","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":13558,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Mark Ruzon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":13429,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Forrest Jones","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"AIP","voteCount":13027,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Stefan Simchowitz","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":12717,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Martin Veprauskas","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":9714,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Don Grundmann","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"NPP","voteCount":6582,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T05:01:46.589Z"},"8686":{"id":"8686","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"President,","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top1","totalVotes":3589127,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:48 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Joe Biden","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":3200188,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Marianne Williamson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":145690,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Dean Phillips","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":99981,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Armando Perez-Serrato","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":42925,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Gabriel Cornejo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":41261,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"President Boddie","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":25373,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Stephen Lyons","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":21008,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eban Cambridge","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":12701,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:12:27.559Z"},"8688":{"id":"8688","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"President,","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top1","totalVotes":2466569,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Donald Trump","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":1953947,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Nikki Haley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":430792,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ron DeSantis","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":35581,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Chris Christie","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":20164,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Vivek Ramaswamy","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":11069,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Rachel Swift","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":4231,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"David Stuckenberg","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":3895,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Ryan Binkley","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":3563,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Asa Hutchinson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":3327,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:13:19.766Z"},"81993":{"id":"81993","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"U.S. Senate, Class I Unexpired Term","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top2","totalVotes":7358837,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Steve Garvey","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":2444940,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Adam Schiff","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":2155146,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"Katie Porter","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":1269194,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Barbara Lee","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":863278,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Eric Early","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"R","voteCount":448788,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Christina Pascucci","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":109421,"isWinner":false},{"candidateName":"Sepi Gilani","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"D","voteCount":68070,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-06T04:31:08.186Z"},"82014":{"id":"82014","type":"apRace","location":"State of California","raceName":"Proposition, 1 - Behavioral Health Services Program","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceType":"top1","totalVotes":7221972,"precinctsReportPercentage":99,"eevp":99,"tabulationStatus":"Tabulation Paused","dateUpdated":"March 25, 2024","timeUpdated":"5:47 AM","source":"AP","candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":null,"voteCount":3624998,"isWinner":true},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":null,"voteCount":3596974,"isWinner":false}],"winnerDateTime":"2024-03-21T00:11:06.265Z"},"timeLoaded":"April 19, 2024 6:47 AM","nationalRacesLoaded":true,"localRacesLoaded":true,"overrides":[{"id":"5921","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 7","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5922","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 8","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5924","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 10","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5926","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 12","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/congress-12th-district"},{"id":"5928","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 14","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5930","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 16","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/congress-16th-district"},{"id":"5931","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 17","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5932","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 18","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5963","raceName":"State Assembly, District 2","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5972","raceName":"State Assembly, District 11","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5973","raceName":"State Assembly, District 12","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5975","raceName":"State Assembly, District 14","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5976","raceName":"State Assembly, District 15","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/contracosta/state-assembly"},{"id":"5977","raceName":"State Assembly, District 16","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5978","raceName":"State Assembly, District 17","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5979","raceName":"State Assembly, District 18","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5980","raceName":"State Assembly, District 19","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5981","raceName":"State Assembly, District 20","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5982","raceName":"State Assembly, District 21","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"5984","raceName":"State Assembly, District 23","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/state-assembly-23rd-district"},{"id":"5987","raceName":"State Assembly, District 26","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/santaclara/state-assembly-26th-district"},{"id":"5989","raceName":"State Assembly, District 28","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6010","raceName":"State Assembly, District 4","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6018","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 2","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6020","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 4","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6025","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 9","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6031","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 15","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6035","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 19","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6067","raceName":"State Assembly, District 4","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6087","raceName":"State Assembly, District 24","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6088","raceName":"State Assembly, District 25","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6092","raceName":"State Assembly, District 29","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6223","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 4","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6530","raceName":"State Senate, District 3","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/state-senate-3rd-district"},{"id":"6531","raceName":"State Senate, District 5","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6532","raceName":"State Senate, District 7","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/state-senate-7th-district"},{"id":"6533","raceName":"State Senate, District 9","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6534","raceName":"State Senate, District 11","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6535","raceName":"State Senate, District 13","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6536","raceName":"State Senate, District 15","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"6611","raceName":"U.S. House of Representatives, District 11","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":""},{"id":"8589","raceName":"U.S. Senate (Full Term)","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/senator"},{"id":"8686","raceName":"California Democratic Presidential Primary","raceDescription":"Candidates are competing for 496 delegates.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/president/democrat"},{"id":"8688","raceName":"California Republican Presidential Primary","raceDescription":"Candidates are competing for 169 delegates.","raceReadTheStory":"https://kqed.org/elections/results/president/republican"},{"id":"81993","raceName":"U.S. Senate (Partial/Unexpired Term)","raceDescription":"Top two candidates advance to general election."},{"id":"82014","raceName":"Proposition 1","raceDescription":"Bond and mental health reforms. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/proposition-1"}],"AlamedaJudge5":{"id":"AlamedaJudge5","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 5","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":200601,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Terry Wiley","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":200601}]},"AlamedaJudge12":{"id":"AlamedaJudge12","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 12","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":240853,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mark Fickes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":133009},{"candidateName":"Michael P. Johnson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":107844}]},"AlamedaBoard2":{"id":"AlamedaBoard2","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Education, Trustee Area 2","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":33580,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"John Lewis","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6943},{"candidateName":"Angela Normand","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":26637}]},"AlamedaBoard5":{"id":"AlamedaBoard5","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Education, Trustee Area 5","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":26072,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Guadalupe \"Lupe\" Angulo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7521},{"candidateName":"Janevette Cole","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":13338},{"candidateName":"Joe Orlando Ramos","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5213}]},"AlamedaBoard6":{"id":"AlamedaBoard6","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Education, Trustee Area 6","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":30864,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"John Guerrero","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":9989},{"candidateName":"Eileen McDonald","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":20875}]},"AlamedaSup1":{"id":"AlamedaSup1","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":41038,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"David Haubert","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":41038}]},"AlamedaSup2":{"id":"AlamedaSup2","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":31034,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Elisa Márquez","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":31034}]},"AlamedaSup4":{"id":"AlamedaSup4","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/supervisor-4th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":57007,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jennifer Esteen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":22400},{"candidateName":"Nate Miley","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":34607}]},"AlamedaSup5":{"id":"AlamedaSup5","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/supervisor-5th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":81059,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Ben Bartlett","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":13518},{"candidateName":"Nikki Fortunato Bas","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":27597},{"candidateName":"John J. Bauters","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":16783},{"candidateName":"Ken Berrick","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7520},{"candidateName":"Omar Farmer","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1240},{"candidateName":"Gregory Hodge","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3419},{"candidateName":"Chris Moore","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7428},{"candidateName":"Gerald Pechenuk","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":305},{"candidateName":"Lorrel Plimier","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3249}]},"AlamedaBoard7":{"id":"AlamedaBoard7","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Flood Control & Water Conservation District Director, Zone 7, Full Term","raceDescription":"Top three candidates win seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top3","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":134340,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Alan Burnham","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":15723},{"candidateName":"Sandy Figuers","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":22454},{"candidateName":"Laurene K. Green","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":30343},{"candidateName":"Kathy Narum","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":23833},{"candidateName":"Seema Badar","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7468},{"candidateName":"Catherine Brown","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":34519}]},"AlamedaAuditor":{"id":"AlamedaAuditor","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Oakland Auditor","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":59227,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Michael Houston","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":59227}]},"AlamedaMeasureA":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Alameda County. Civil service. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":282335,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":167903},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":114432}]},"AlamedaMeasureB":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Alameda County. Recall rules. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/measure-b","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":282683,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":182200},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":100483}]},"AlamedaMeasureD":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Oakland. Appropriations limit. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":79797,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":59852},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":19945}]},"AlamedaMeasureE":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureE","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure E","raceDescription":"Alameda Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":22692,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":17280},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5412}]},"AlamedaMeasureF":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureF","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure F","raceDescription":"Piedmont. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":4855,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3673},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1182}]},"AlamedaMeasureG":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureG","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure G","raceDescription":"Albany Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote. ","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":5898,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4651},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1247}]},"AlamedaMeasureH":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureH","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure H","raceDescription":"Berkeley Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":33331,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":29418},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3913}]},"AlamedaMeasureI":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureI","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure I","raceDescription":"Hayward Unified School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":21929,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":14151},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7778}]},"AlamedaMeasureJ":{"id":"AlamedaMeasureJ","type":"localRace","location":"Alameda","raceName":"Measure J","raceDescription":"San Leandro Unified School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:02 PM","dateUpdated":"April 1, 2024","totalVotes":12338,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7784},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4554}]},"CCD2":{"id":"CCD2","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":45776,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Candace Andersen","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":45776}]},"CCD3":{"id":"CCD3","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":25120,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Diane Burgis","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":25120}]},"CCD5":{"id":"CCD5","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/contracosta/supervisor-5th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":37045,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mike Barbanica","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":14338},{"candidateName":"Jelani Killings","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5683},{"candidateName":"Shanelle Scales-Preston","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":12993},{"candidateName":"Iztaccuauhtli Hector Gonzalez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4031}]},"CCMeasureA":{"id":"CCMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Martinez. Appoint City Clerk. Passes with a majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":11513,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7554},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3959}]},"CCMeasureB":{"id":"CCMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Antioch Unified School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":17971,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10397},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7574}]},"CCMeasureC":{"id":"CCMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Martinez Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":9230,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6917},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2313}]},"CCMeasureD":{"id":"CCMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Contra Costa","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Moraga School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:45 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":6007,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4052},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1955}]},"MarinD2":{"id":"MarinD2","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/marin/supervisor-2nd-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":18466,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Brian Colbert","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7971},{"candidateName":"Heather McPhail Sridharan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4851},{"candidateName":"Ryan O'Neil","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2647},{"candidateName":"Gabe Paulson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2997}]},"MarinD3":{"id":"MarinD3","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":13274,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Stephanie Moulton-Peters","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":13274}]},"MarinD4":{"id":"MarinD4","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":12986,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Dennis Rodoni","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10086},{"candidateName":"Francis Drouillard","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2900}]},"MarinLarkspurCC":{"id":"MarinLarkspurCC","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Larkspur City Council (Short Term)","raceDescription":"Top candidate wins seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":4176,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Stephanie Andre","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2514},{"candidateName":"Claire Paquette","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1008},{"candidateName":"Lana Scott","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":654}]},"MarinRossCouncil":{"id":"MarinRossCouncil","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Ross Town Council","raceDescription":"Top three candidates win seat.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top3","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":1740,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Charles William \"Bill\" Kircher, Jr.","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":536},{"candidateName":"Mathew Salter","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":502},{"candidateName":"Shadi Aboukhater","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":187},{"candidateName":"Teri Dowling","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":515}]},"MarinMeasureA":{"id":"MarinMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Tamalpais Union High School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":45345,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":24376},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":20969}]},"MarinMeasureB":{"id":"MarinMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Petaluma Joint Union High School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":132,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":62},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":70}]},"MarinMeasureC":{"id":"MarinMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Belvedere. Appropriation limit. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":870,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":679},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":191}]},"MarinMeasureD":{"id":"MarinMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Larkspur. Rent stabilization. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/marin/measure-d","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":4955,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2573},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2382}]},"MarinMeasureE":{"id":"MarinMeasureE","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure E","raceDescription":"Ross. Special tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/marin/measure-e","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":874,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":683},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":191}]},"MarinMeasureF":{"id":"MarinMeasureF","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure F","raceDescription":"San Anselmo. Flood Control and Water Conservation District. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":5193,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3083},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2110}]},"MarinMeasureG":{"id":"MarinMeasureG","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure G","raceDescription":"Bel Marin Keys Community Services District. Special tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":830,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":661},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":169}]},"MarinMeasureH":{"id":"MarinMeasureH","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure H","raceDescription":"Marinwood Community Services District. Appropriations limit, fire protection. Passes with a majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":1738,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1369},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":369}]},"MarinMeasureI":{"id":"MarinMeasureI","type":"localRace","location":"Marin","raceName":"Measure I","raceDescription":"Marinwood Community Services District. Appropriations limit, parks. Passes with a majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:54 PM","dateUpdated":"March 27, 2024","totalVotes":1735,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1336},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":399}]},"NapaD2":{"id":"NapaD2","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":8351,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Liz Alessio","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6340},{"candidateName":"Doris Gentry","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2011}]},"NapaD4":{"id":"NapaD4","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/napa/supervisor-4th-district","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":7306,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Amber Manfree","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3913},{"candidateName":"Pete Mott","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3393}]},"NapaD5":{"id":"NapaD5","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/napa/supervisor-5th-district","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":5356,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mariam Aboudamous","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2379},{"candidateName":"Belia Ramos","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2977}]},"NapaMeasureD":{"id":"NapaMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Howell Mountain Elementary School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":741,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":367},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":374}]},"NapaMeasureU":{"id":"NapaMeasureU","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Measure U","raceDescription":"Lake Berryessa Resort Improvement District. Appropriations limit. Passes with majority vote. ","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":86,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":63},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":23}]},"NapaMeasureU1":{"id":"NapaMeasureU1","type":"localRace","location":"Napa","raceName":"Measure U","raceDescription":"Yountville. Appropriations limit. Passes with majority vote. ","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"April 3, 2024","totalVotes":925,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":793},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":132}]},"SFJudge1":{"id":"SFJudge1","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Seat 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/superior-court-seat-1","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":202960,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Michael Begert","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":124943},{"candidateName":"Chip Zecher","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":78017}]},"SFJudge13":{"id":"SFJudge13","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Seat 13","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/superior-court-seat-13","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":202386,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jean Myungjin Roland","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":90012},{"candidateName":"Patrick S. Thompson","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":112374}]},"SFPropA":{"id":"SFPropA","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition A","raceDescription":"Housing bond. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/proposition-a","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":225187,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":158497},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":66690}]},"SFPropB":{"id":"SFPropB","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition B","raceDescription":"Police staffing. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":222954,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":61580},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":161374}]},"SFPropC":{"id":"SFPropC","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition C","raceDescription":"Transfer tax exemption. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":220349,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":116311},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":104038}]},"SFPropD":{"id":"SFPropD","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition D","raceDescription":"Ethics laws. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":222615,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":198584},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":24031}]},"SFPropE":{"id":"SFPropE","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition E","raceDescription":"Police policies. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/proposition-e","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":222817,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":120529},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":102288}]},"SFPropF":{"id":"SFPropF","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition F","raceDescription":"Drug screening. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/proposition-f","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":224004,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":130214},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":93790}]},"SFPropG":{"id":"SFPropG","type":"localRace","location":"San Francisco","raceName":"Proposition G","raceDescription":"Eighth-grade algebra. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:50 PM","dateUpdated":"March 21, 2024","totalVotes":222704,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":182066},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":40638}]},"SMJudge4":{"id":"SMJudge4","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":108919,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Sarah Burdick","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":108919}]},"SMD1":{"id":"SMD1","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanmateo/supervisor-1st-district","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":29650,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jackie Speier","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":20353},{"candidateName":"Ann Schneider","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":9297}]},"SMD4":{"id":"SMD4","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanmateo/supervisor-4th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":22725,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Antonio Lopez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5730},{"candidateName":"Lisa Gauthier","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10358},{"candidateName":"Celeste Brevard","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1268},{"candidateName":"Paul Bocanegra","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1909},{"candidateName":"Maggie Cornejo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3460}]},"SMD5":{"id":"SMD5","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":19937,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"David Canepa","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":19937}]},"SMMeasureB":{"id":"SMMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"County Service Area #1 (Highlands). Special tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":1549,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1360},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":189}]},"SMMeasureC":{"id":"SMMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Jefferson Elementary School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":12234,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8543},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3691}]},"SMMeasureE":{"id":"SMMeasureE","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure E","raceDescription":"Woodside Elementary School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":1392,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":910},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":482}]},"SMMeasureG":{"id":"SMMeasureG","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure G","raceDescription":"Pacifica School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":11548,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7067},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4481}]},"SMMeasureH":{"id":"SMMeasureH","type":"localRace","location":"San Mateo","raceName":"Measure H","raceDescription":"San Carlos School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:56 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":9938,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6283},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3655}]},"SCJudge5":{"id":"SCJudge5","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":301953,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Jay Boyarsky","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":142549},{"candidateName":"Nicole M. Ford","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":52147},{"candidateName":"Johnene Linda Stebbins","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":107257}]},"SCD2":{"id":"SCD2","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/santaclara/supervisor-2nd-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":44059,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Corina Herrera-Loera","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10519},{"candidateName":"Jennifer Margaret Celaya","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2394},{"candidateName":"Madison Nguyen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":12794},{"candidateName":"Betty Duong","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":14031},{"candidateName":"Nelson McElmurry","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4321}]},"SCD3":{"id":"SCD3","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":42549,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Otto Lee","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":42549}]},"SCD5":{"id":"SCD5","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/santaclara/supervisor-5th-district","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":88712,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Margaret Abe-Koga","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":37172},{"candidateName":"Sally J. Lieber","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":21962},{"candidateName":"Barry Chang","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6164},{"candidateName":"Peter C. Fung","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":17892},{"candidateName":"Sandy Sans","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5522}]},"SCSJMayor":{"id":"SCSJMayor","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José Mayor","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":167064,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Matt Mahan","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":144701},{"candidateName":"Tyrone Wade","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":22363}]},"SCSJD2":{"id":"SCSJD2","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":14131,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Joe Lopez","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4950},{"candidateName":"Pamela Campos","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3436},{"candidateName":"Vanessa Sandoval","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2719},{"candidateName":"Babu Prasad","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3026}]},"SCSJD4":{"id":"SCSJD4","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":14322,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Kansen Chu","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5931},{"candidateName":"David Cohen","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8391}]},"SCSJD6":{"id":"SCSJD6","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 6","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":25108,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"David Cohen","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":9875},{"candidateName":"Alex Shoor","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3850},{"candidateName":"Angelo \"A.J.\" Pasciuti","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2688},{"candidateName":"Michael Mulcahy","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8695}]},"SCSJD8":{"id":"SCSJD8","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 8","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":21462,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Tam Truong","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6982},{"candidateName":"Domingo Candelas","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8466},{"candidateName":"Sukhdev Singh Bainiwal","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5513},{"candidateName":"Surinder Kaur Dhaliwal","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":501}]},"SCSJD10":{"id":"SCSJD10","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"San José City Council, District 10","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top2","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":22799,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"George Casey","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8805},{"candidateName":"Arjun Batra","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8354},{"candidateName":"Lenka Wright","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5640}]},"SCMeasureA":{"id":"SCMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Santa Clara. Appointed city clerk. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":20315,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6580},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":13735}]},"SCMeasureB":{"id":"SCMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Santa Clara. Appointed police chief. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":20567,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5680},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":14887}]},"SCMeasureC":{"id":"SCMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Santa Clara","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Sunnyvale School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:05 PM","dateUpdated":"April 4, 2024","totalVotes":14656,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10261},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4395}]},"SolanoD15":{"id":"SolanoD15","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Department 15","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":81709,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mike Thompson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":36844},{"candidateName":"Bryan J. Kim","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":44865}]},"SolanoD1":{"id":"SolanoD1","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/solano/supervisor-1st-district","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":13786,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Michael Wilson","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6401},{"candidateName":"Cassandra James","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7385}]},"SolanoD2":{"id":"SolanoD2","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 2","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":19903,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Monica Brown","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10951},{"candidateName":"Nora Dizon","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3135},{"candidateName":"Rochelle Sherlock","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5817}]},"SolanoD5":{"id":"SolanoD5","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":17888,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Mitch Mashburn","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":11210},{"candidateName":"Chadwick J. Ledoux","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6678}]},"SolanoEducation":{"id":"SolanoEducation","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Sacramento County Board of Education","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":3650,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Heather Davis","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2960},{"candidateName":"Shazleen Khan","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":690}]},"SolanoMeasureA":{"id":"SolanoMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Benicia. Hotel tax. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/solano/measure-a","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":10136,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7869},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2267}]},"SolanoMeasureB":{"id":"SolanoMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Benicia. Sales tax. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/solano/measure-b","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":10164,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7335},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":2829}]},"SolanoMeasureC":{"id":"SolanoMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Benicia Unified School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":10112,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6316},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3796}]},"SolanoMeasureN":{"id":"SolanoMeasureN","type":"localRace","location":"Solano","raceName":"Measure N","raceDescription":"Davis Joint Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"7:08 PM","dateUpdated":"March 28, 2024","totalVotes":15,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10}]},"SonomaJudge3":{"id":"SonomaJudge3","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":115405,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Kristine M. Burk","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":79498},{"candidateName":"Beki Berrey","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":35907}]},"SonomaJudge4":{"id":"SonomaJudge4","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 4","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":86789,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Paul J. Lozada","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":86789}]},"SonomaJudge6":{"id":"SonomaJudge6","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Superior Court Judge, Office 6","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":117990,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Omar Figueroa","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":42236},{"candidateName":"Kenneth English","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":75754}]},"SonomaD1":{"id":"SonomaD1","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 1","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":30348,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Rebecca Hermosillo","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":23958},{"candidateName":"Jonathan Mathieu","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":6390}]},"SonomaD3":{"id":"SonomaD3","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 3","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sonoma/supervisor-3rd-district","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":16312,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Chris Coursey","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":11346},{"candidateName":"Omar Medina","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":4966}]},"SonomaD5":{"id":"SonomaD5","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Board of Supervisors, District 5","raceDescription":"Candidate with majority vote wins seat. If no candidate reaches majority, top two candidates advance to runoff in general election.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"top1","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":23356,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Lynda Hopkins","candidateIncumbent":true,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":23356}]},"SonomaMeasureA":{"id":"SonomaMeasureA","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure A","raceDescription":"Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":13756,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":10320},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3436}]},"SonomaMeasureB":{"id":"SonomaMeasureB","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure B","raceDescription":"Petaluma Joint Union High School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":24877,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":15795},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":9082}]},"SonomaMeasureC":{"id":"SonomaMeasureC","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure C","raceDescription":"Fort Ross School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":286,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":159},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":127}]},"SonomaMeasureD":{"id":"SonomaMeasureD","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure D","raceDescription":"Harmony Union School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":1925,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":1089},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":836}]},"SonomaMeasureE":{"id":"SonomaMeasureE","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure E","raceDescription":"Petaluma City (Elementary) School District. Parcel tax. Passes with 2/3 vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":11133,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":7622},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":3511}]},"SonomaMeasureG":{"id":"SonomaMeasureG","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure G","raceDescription":"Rincon Valley Union School District. School bond. Passes with 55% vote.","raceReadTheStory":"","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":14577,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":8668},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":5909}]},"SonomaMeasureH":{"id":"SonomaMeasureH","type":"localRace","location":"Sonoma","raceName":"Measure H","raceDescription":"Sonoma County. Sales tax. Passes with majority vote.","raceReadTheStory":"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sonoma/measure-h","raceType":"yesNo","timeUpdated":"6:51 PM","dateUpdated":"March 29, 2024","totalVotes":145261,"candidates":[{"candidateName":"Yes","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":89646},{"candidateName":"No","candidateIncumbent":false,"candidateParty":"","voteCount":55615}]}},"radioSchedulesReducer":{},"listsReducer":{"posts/stateofhealth?tag=autism":{"isFetching":false,"latestQuery":{"from":0,"postsToRender":9},"tag":null,"vitalsOnly":true,"totalRequested":9,"isLoading":false,"isLoadingMore":true,"total":29,"items":["stateofhealth_198989","stateofhealth_186175","stateofhealth_152699","stateofhealth_148703","stateofhealth_123539","stateofhealth_113405","stateofhealth_113500","stateofhealth_92843","stateofhealth_68078"]}},"recallGuideReducer":{"intros":{},"policy":{},"candidates":{}},"savedPostsReducer":{},"pfsSessionReducer":{},"siteSettingsReducer":{},"subscriptionsReducer":{},"termsReducer":{"about":{"name":"About","type":"terms","id":"about","slug":"about","link":"/about","taxonomy":"site"},"arts":{"name":"Arts & Culture","grouping":["arts","pop","trulyca"],"description":"KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.","type":"terms","id":"arts","slug":"arts","link":"/arts","taxonomy":"site"},"artschool":{"name":"Art School","parent":"arts","type":"terms","id":"artschool","slug":"artschool","link":"/artschool","taxonomy":"site"},"bayareabites":{"name":"KQED food","grouping":["food","bayareabites","checkplease"],"parent":"food","type":"terms","id":"bayareabites","slug":"bayareabites","link":"/food","taxonomy":"site"},"bayareahiphop":{"name":"Bay Area Hiphop","type":"terms","id":"bayareahiphop","slug":"bayareahiphop","link":"/bayareahiphop","taxonomy":"site"},"campaign21":{"name":"Campaign 21","type":"terms","id":"campaign21","slug":"campaign21","link":"/campaign21","taxonomy":"site"},"checkplease":{"name":"KQED food","grouping":["food","bayareabites","checkplease"],"parent":"food","type":"terms","id":"checkplease","slug":"checkplease","link":"/food","taxonomy":"site"},"education":{"name":"Education","grouping":["education"],"type":"terms","id":"education","slug":"education","link":"/education","taxonomy":"site"},"elections":{"name":"Elections","type":"terms","id":"elections","slug":"elections","link":"/elections","taxonomy":"site"},"events":{"name":"Events","type":"terms","id":"events","slug":"events","link":"/events","taxonomy":"site"},"event":{"name":"Event","alias":"events","type":"terms","id":"event","slug":"event","link":"/event","taxonomy":"site"},"filmschoolshorts":{"name":"Film School Shorts","type":"terms","id":"filmschoolshorts","slug":"filmschoolshorts","link":"/filmschoolshorts","taxonomy":"site"},"food":{"name":"KQED food","grouping":["food","bayareabites","checkplease"],"type":"terms","id":"food","slug":"food","link":"/food","taxonomy":"site"},"forum":{"name":"Forum","relatedContentQuery":"posts/forum?","parent":"news","type":"terms","id":"forum","slug":"forum","link":"/forum","taxonomy":"site"},"futureofyou":{"name":"Future of You","grouping":["science","futureofyou"],"parent":"science","type":"terms","id":"futureofyou","slug":"futureofyou","link":"/futureofyou","taxonomy":"site"},"jpepinheart":{"name":"KQED food","relatedContentQuery":"trending/food,bayareabites,checkplease","parent":"food","type":"terms","id":"jpepinheart","slug":"jpepinheart","link":"/food","taxonomy":"site"},"liveblog":{"name":"Live Blog","type":"terms","id":"liveblog","slug":"liveblog","link":"/liveblog","taxonomy":"site"},"livetv":{"name":"Live TV","parent":"tv","type":"terms","id":"livetv","slug":"livetv","link":"/livetv","taxonomy":"site"},"lowdown":{"name":"The Lowdown","relatedContentQuery":"posts/lowdown?","parent":"news","type":"terms","id":"lowdown","slug":"lowdown","link":"/lowdown","taxonomy":"site"},"mindshift":{"name":"Mindshift","parent":"news","description":"MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.","type":"terms","id":"mindshift","slug":"mindshift","link":"/mindshift","taxonomy":"site"},"news":{"name":"News","grouping":["news","forum"],"type":"terms","id":"news","slug":"news","link":"/news","taxonomy":"site"},"perspectives":{"name":"Perspectives","parent":"radio","type":"terms","id":"perspectives","slug":"perspectives","link":"/perspectives","taxonomy":"site"},"podcasts":{"name":"Podcasts","type":"terms","id":"podcasts","slug":"podcasts","link":"/podcasts","taxonomy":"site"},"pop":{"name":"Pop","parent":"arts","type":"terms","id":"pop","slug":"pop","link":"/pop","taxonomy":"site"},"pressroom":{"name":"Pressroom","type":"terms","id":"pressroom","slug":"pressroom","link":"/pressroom","taxonomy":"site"},"quest":{"name":"Quest","parent":"science","type":"terms","id":"quest","slug":"quest","link":"/quest","taxonomy":"site"},"radio":{"name":"Radio","grouping":["forum","perspectives"],"description":"Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.","type":"terms","id":"radio","slug":"radio","link":"/radio","taxonomy":"site"},"root":{"name":"KQED","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","imageWidth":1200,"imageHeight":630,"headData":{"title":"KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California","description":"KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."},"type":"terms","id":"root","slug":"root","link":"/root","taxonomy":"site"},"science":{"name":"Science","grouping":["science","futureofyou"],"description":"KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.","type":"terms","id":"science","slug":"science","link":"/science","taxonomy":"site"},"stateofhealth":{"name":"State of Health","parent":"science","type":"terms","id":"stateofhealth","slug":"stateofhealth","link":"/stateofhealth","taxonomy":"site"},"support":{"name":"Support","type":"terms","id":"support","slug":"support","link":"/support","taxonomy":"site"},"thedolist":{"name":"The Do List","parent":"arts","type":"terms","id":"thedolist","slug":"thedolist","link":"/thedolist","taxonomy":"site"},"trulyca":{"name":"Truly CA","grouping":["arts","pop","trulyca"],"parent":"arts","type":"terms","id":"trulyca","slug":"trulyca","link":"/trulyca","taxonomy":"site"},"tv":{"name":"TV","type":"terms","id":"tv","slug":"tv","link":"/tv","taxonomy":"site"},"voterguide":{"name":"Voter Guide","parent":"elections","alias":"elections","type":"terms","id":"voterguide","slug":"voterguide","link":"/voterguide","taxonomy":"site"},"stateofhealth_155":{"type":"terms","id":"stateofhealth_155","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"stateofhealth","id":"155","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Autism","slug":"autism","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Autism Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null,"imageData":{"ogImageSize":{"file":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","width":1200,"height":630},"twImageSize":{"file":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"},"twitterCard":"summary_large_image"}},"ttid":155,"isLoading":false,"link":"/stateofhealth/tag/autism"},"source_stateofhealth_152699":{"type":"terms","id":"source_stateofhealth_152699","meta":{"override":true},"name":"California Healthline","isLoading":false},"source_stateofhealth_148703":{"type":"terms","id":"source_stateofhealth_148703","meta":{"override":true},"name":"NPR","isLoading":false},"source_stateofhealth_123539":{"type":"terms","id":"source_stateofhealth_123539","meta":{"override":true},"name":"NPR","link":"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/14/459665937/a-new-study-raises-old-questions-about-antidepressants-and-autism","isLoading":false},"source_stateofhealth_92843":{"type":"terms","id":"source_stateofhealth_92843","meta":{"override":true},"name":"KPBS","link":"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/jul/20/sdsu-hopes-shed-light-adults-autism/","isLoading":false},"stateofhealth_11":{"type":"terms","id":"stateofhealth_11","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"stateofhealth","id":"11","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Community Health","slug":"place-matters","taxonomy":"category","description":"\r\n\r\nFrom rural California to urban neighborhoods, where you live affects your health","featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Community Health Archives | KQED Arts","description":"From rural California to urban neighborhoods, where you live affects your health","ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":11,"isLoading":false,"link":"/stateofhealth/category/place-matters"},"stateofhealth_13":{"type":"terms","id":"stateofhealth_13","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"stateofhealth","id":"13","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Tests & Treatments","slug":"tests-treatments","taxonomy":"category","description":"Information and new research about advances in discovering and treating diseases and conditions.","featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Tests & Treatments Archives | KQED Arts","description":"Information and new research about advances in discovering and treating diseases and conditions.","ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":13,"isLoading":false,"link":"/stateofhealth/category/tests-treatments"},"stateofhealth_96":{"type":"terms","id":"stateofhealth_96","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"stateofhealth","id":"96","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Children's Health","slug":"childrens-health","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Children's Health Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":96,"isLoading":false,"link":"/stateofhealth/tag/childrens-health"},"stateofhealth_2519":{"type":"terms","id":"stateofhealth_2519","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"stateofhealth","id":"2519","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"News","slug":"news","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"News Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":2528,"isLoading":false,"link":"/stateofhealth/tag/news"},"stateofhealth_12":{"type":"terms","id":"stateofhealth_12","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"stateofhealth","id":"12","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Living Healthy","slug":"living-healthy","taxonomy":"category","description":"Health is about much more than medicine. We show you what's new to help you attain and maintain a healthy life","featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Living Healthy Archives | KQED Arts","description":"Health is about much more than medicine. We show you what's new to help you attain and maintain a healthy life","ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":12,"isLoading":false,"link":"/stateofhealth/category/living-healthy"},"stateofhealth_14":{"type":"terms","id":"stateofhealth_14","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"stateofhealth","id":"14","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Policy","slug":"policy","taxonomy":"category","description":"Actions by people in power – lawmakers, regulators and the like – can make a difference to your health, for better or for worse. We keep you informed","featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Policy Archives | KQED Arts","description":"Actions by people in power – lawmakers, regulators and the like – can make a difference to your health, for better or for worse. We keep you informed","ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":14,"isLoading":false,"link":"/stateofhealth/category/policy"},"stateofhealth_2582":{"type":"terms","id":"stateofhealth_2582","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"stateofhealth","id":"2582","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Depression","slug":"depression","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Depression Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":2591,"isLoading":false,"link":"/stateofhealth/tag/depression"},"stateofhealth_2598":{"type":"terms","id":"stateofhealth_2598","meta":{"index":"terms_1591234321","site":"stateofhealth","id":"2598","found":true},"relationships":{},"included":{},"name":"Arts","slug":"arts","taxonomy":"tag","description":null,"featImg":null,"headData":{"title":"Arts Archives | KQED Arts","description":null,"ogTitle":null,"ogDescription":null,"ogImgId":null,"twTitle":null,"twDescription":null,"twImgId":null},"ttid":2607,"isLoading":false,"link":"/stateofhealth/tag/arts"}},"userAgentReducer":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isBot":true},"userPermissionsReducer":{"wpLoggedIn":false},"localStorageReducer":{},"browserHistoryReducer":[],"eventsReducer":{},"fssReducer":{},"tvDailyScheduleReducer":{},"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer":{},"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer":{},"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer":{},"userAccountReducer":{"routeTo":"","showDeleteConfirmModal":false,"user":{"userId":"","isFound":false,"firstName":"","lastName":"","phoneNumber":"","email":"","articles":[]}},"youthMediaReducer":{},"checkPleaseReducer":{"filterData":{},"restaurantData":[]},"reframeReducer":{"attendee":null},"location":{"pathname":"/stateofhealth/tag/autism","previousPathname":"/"}}
