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With gas prices rising, parking a headache, and a desire to reduce their carbon footprint, more and more San Franciscans are cycling. What are cities like San Francisco doing to help people who want to pedal rather than drive?

Richard Swerdlow is cast as an extra in a new movie that returns him to headier days of gay liberation.

The Giants brought Major League Baseball to San Francisco when they left New York in 1958. Forum looks back at 50 years of baseball history and ahead to what the future may hold for the orange and black.

Saving the Sierra -- Some of California's best known and most loved recreational areas are in the Sierra Nevada. Yosemite National Park and Lake Tahoe alone are destinations for millions of visitors each year. The Sierra is also home to some two million residents, and that number is expected to triple in the coming decades. There's plenty of disagreement between developers, residents, environmentalists and small business owners about what the Sierra should look like in the future.That conflict is the subject of "Saving the Sierra," a one hour documentary airing this month on public radio stations throughout California. We talk with the co-creators of the documentary.

After a 78 percent win in a special election to complete the late Tom Lantos' term, congresswoman Jackie Speier joins us in the first half-hour to talk about her new post. Then, as the issue of international trade pacts heats up in Congress, host Dave Iverson and guests discuss how such trade talks affect citizens and consumers.

Prison Doctors. End Music.

The Olympic torch passed through San Francisco without the violence that accompanied its passage through Paris and London. Forum discusses the politics of protesting the Olympic torch.

Masha Tupitsyn reads "Kleptomania," the story of three intergenerational female movie icons meeting for cocktails at a bar. "Kleptomania" is from Tupitsyn's short story collection, BEAUTY TALK AND MONSTERS.

Thought California has consigned coal-burning to the scrap bin? Think again! California has 11 coal-fired power plants, all used to heat limestone into cement making us one of the biggest cement-producing states in the country. In addition to cement, these kilns produce 95% of the state's airborne mercury pollution and 2% of its greenhouse gas emissions. Mostly, they've slipped under the radar of regulators, but that is changing fast.

Thought California has consigned coal-burning to the scrap bin? Think again! California has 11 coal-fired power plants, all used to heat limestone into cement making us one of the biggest cement-producing states in the country. In addition to cement, these kilns produce 95% of the state's airborne mercury pollution and 2% of its greenhouse gas emissions. Mostly, they've slipped under the radar of regulators, but that is changing fast.

This week, breaking news about a pop star's quest for elected office ... and other more, ahem, real news in California politics and public policy.

It's one of the most expensive high-tech projects the United States has ever attempted, and some say it will never work. QUEST visits the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, where scientists will soon aim the world's largest laser at a target the size of a pencil eraser. The goal? Nuclear fusion -- and, they say, the answer to the world's clean energy needs.

Monterey's Asian American History, Japan's Boomers Retire, A Look Back at Pacific Time