Brooke Ruth
Senior Producer of Audio NewsBrooke Ruth is the senior producer of Audio News. She previously served as a producer for KPBS Midday Edition and a web producer. Before joining KPBS, Brooke was a web editor for four newspapers and a local television station. She began her career in news at the Imperial Valley Press. She has also been part of the web teams at the Napa Valley Register, North County Times, and U-T San Diego. While pursuing her undergraduate degree at UCLA in psychology, she worked on the student newspaper, the Daily Bruin.
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Vote counts from the election are still underway. In today’s podcast, we’ll be updating you on the unofficial results that came in late last night. Those results will continue to be updated over the coming days, but we won’t have the final certified results until next month. -
Former Navy contractor Leonard Francis is due in a San Diego courtroom today. He’ll be sentenced more than 11 years after his arrest rocked the Navy. In other news, local activists honor the memory of migrants who died trying to cross the southern border last year. Plus, we have details on San Diego Beer Week, which runs through Sunday.
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A new poll of likely California voters, shows presidential candidate Kamala Harris underperforming in a state where she and president Joe Biden won handily four years ago. In other news, in the South Bay, where many residents have close ties to immigrant communities, voting isn’t just about civic duty, it’s a chance to make their voices heard in a system they say often overlooks them. Plus, San Diego is holding a virtual open house to collect input on how to improve street safety.
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A bipartisan group of San Diego County politicos gathered earlier this week to denounce Republican Assembly candidate Carl DeMaio. In other news, we go over the sales tax measures in the North County that are on the ballot. Plus, the executive director of Susan G. Komen San Diego joins the podcast to talk about breast cancer awareness and this weekend’s More Than Pink Walk.
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The San Diego City Council is moving to ban software used by landlords to set rental prices. In other news, how pollsters survey people in this era of cell phones, texts and social media. Plus, one border artist is reimagining abandoned Baja buildings as lost souls.
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A major project is now underway to fix and expand the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant. In other news, residents in National City are calling on the city council to block a fuel transfer station from being built nearby homes. Plus, this election season, Americans have been exposed to a surge of unfounded claims, and disinformation is only expected to intensify.
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