The Bay

San Francisco is one of the last major U.S. cities to arm police officers with Tasers. The city’s Police Commission approved a Taser policy on Wednesday. The fight over this weapon has been ongoing for more than a decade. What happened? Guest: Alex Emslie, KQED criminal justice reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if you saw gun violence all the time? Some Bay Area students do. We check in with high schoolers in Oakland where shootings are common, as other students around the country walkout to protest gun control. Guest: Vanessa Rancano, KQED education reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The housing bill that could remake Bay Area neighborhoods. SB 827 would make it easier to build higher near transit. It pits city versus state. We break it down from North Berkeley BART. Guest: Bay Area News Group transportation reporter Erin Baldassari Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Combat veterans fight invisible but very real battles at the Pathway Home in Yountville. We talk to a reporter who visited the facility months before last Friday’s deadly shooting to see how veterans struggle with the hidden scars of PTSD. Guest: Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle feature writer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Journalists cover protests. They don't organize them. So it's rare when they pick a side. That's what a group of Bay Area journalists did this week, to protest the gutting of their newsroom by the "secretive, vulture" hedge fund that owns them. Guest: Bay Area News Group investigative reporter Thomas Peele Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Delayed evacuations, communication gaps, the North Bay on fire. KQED investigated emergency alerts during the North Bay fires. Today, we trace the first eight hours of October 8. Guest: KQED News reporter Sukey Lewis. Sukey reported this story with KQED's data reporter Lisa Pickoff-White and politics reporter Marisa Lagos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The U.S. attorney general calls out Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf after filing a lawsuit against California over its sanctuary state laws. During a speech in Sacramento, Jeff Sessions targeted The Town, specifically. Today, how Oakland became a defender against the Trump administration's recent immigration operations in the Bay Area. Guest: Robert Gammon, news editor and columnist for the East Bay Express Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One Bay Area school is preparing students to join a national movement for stricter gun laws following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. We’ll take you inside a San Francisco classroom where students and teachers talk tactics for next week’s national school walkout. Guest: Vanessa Rancano, KQED education reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Immigration officials made mass arrests of hundreds of undocumented Bay Area residents last week. Today, we’ll walk you through an ICE arrest and what happens next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tubbs Fire in the North Bay created a whole new group of homelessness in Santa Rosa. Since October, those who lost their homes have received most of the attention but many people were already living on the streets. Guest: Jennielynn Holmes, Director of Shelter & Housing at Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The San Francisco taxi driver is going extinct. And it seems nothing cab companies try is enough to survive the competition of app-based ride hailing services like Uber and Lyft. The recent suicide of a driver in New York highlights the emotional toll of the economic hardship pressuring cab drivers. We explore how taxi companies and their drivers are coping in the birthplace of Uber and Lyft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices