Meet the Team

Brendan Price

Newsroom Assistant

Brendan Price attends San Diego State University where he is pursuing a bachelor's degree in Spanish and a minor in History. He has earned certificates in translative studies and a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language). He is also an active member of KCR, the student-run radio station at San Diego State University. Price grew up here in East County San Diego and graduated from El Capitan High School. He enjoys running and basketball.

RECENT STORIES ON KPBS

Politics

Trump still would have won in 2024 even if everyone had turned out to vote, Pew finds

Domenico Montanaro

In 2024, 64% of the eligible-voting population turned out, the second highest in 120 years. New data show that even if all those voters who stayed home had voted, Trump would still be president today.
Health

RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers raise disproven fears about the preservative thimerosal

Will Stone

Pien Huang

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted on the flu vaccine, raising concerns about a rarely used preservative. Medical groups worry this will "sow distrust" in vaccines.
GZERO WORLD WITH IAN BREMMER: Free Speech for Me, Not Thee

Jennifer Robinson

Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with the PBS app. Talk may be cheap, as the saying goes, but is it still free? It depends on what your politics are. On this week's show, we tackle the woke backlash, campus protests, and detained foreign students. It's free speech in Trump's America. Guest: Jeremy Peters, New York Times and Ilya Shapiro, Manhattan Institute.
GZERO WORLD WITH IAN BREMMER: Free speech for me, not thee

Talk may be cheap, as the saying goes, but is it still free? It depends on what your politics are. On this week’s show, we tackle the woke backlash, campus protests, and detained foreign students. It's free speech in Trump’s America with New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters and the Manhattan Institute's Ilya Shapiro.
Education

Turnitin charged some California colleges 3 times more for the same plagiarism detector

Tara García Mathewson

Experts say companies often base their pricing on what they think colleges are willing to pay.
Economy

Congress is fighting over this tax deduction. Here’s how it affects Californians

Levi Sumagaysay

The House wants to raise the SALT deduction cap, which would help wealthy Californians pay less in federal taxes. The Senate wants to keep it where it is.