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Host Dave Schlom talks to three contributors to the book NASA and The Long Civil Rights Movement. Recently published for the first time as a paperback, the book is a collection of essays that came out of a symposium that drew on the expertise of historians to examine NASA's role in the deep south (and beyond) during the height of the space race and to the present day.

Journalist Jyoti Thottam on his mother's journey as a nurse in India. Also, author Brian T. Marshall delivers magic in his latest.

The California primary election is three weeks away and thousands of voters may be in new political districts. Also, two residents from the North State were appointed to the California State Board of Food and Agriculture, and the FBI has opened a federal hate crime investigation into the shooting at an Orange County Church on Sunday.

Redding singer-songwriter Arianna Khamsaly details her process and life story.

Prosecutors say the Oroville bus shooting suspect is competent to stand trial. Also, Cal Fire Local 2881 president says firefighter staffing shortage didn't happen overnight, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report drug overdoses have set another record.

A wrongful death lawsuit filed against the city on behalf of a man fatally shot by Chico police and a security guard can proceed toward trial. Also, community members will soon have a chance to give input on how the state plans to use grant funding to aid recovery efforts from 2020 wildfires, and a law requiring corporations to include a certain number of women on their boards has been ruled unconstitutional by a California judge.

Today is Election Day in California’s primary election. Voters in a new congressional district that includes Plumas County will decide who will face off in the general election. Also, Gov. Gavin Newsom is on the ballot, facing opponents including state Sen. Brian Dahle, and triple-digit temperatures are expected in the Sacramento Valley this week.

A small plane crashed Thursday at the Oroville Municipal Airport, leaving two people dead. Also, a political strategist says the percentage of mailed ballots returned in California’s Tuesday primary is lagging previous elections, and the state attorney general is sounding the alarm on so-called crisis pregnancy centers.

With the idea of mental health care being intertwined with our gardens, this week Cultivating Place revisits a best-of conversation from 2020 with British psychiatrist/psychotherapist, researcher, and gardener, Sue Stuart-Smith.

Dave talks to scientists from the Nature Conservancy, NASA, and the University of California Santa Barbara in this special look at a cooperative new study called SHIFT for "Surface Biology and Geology High-Frequency Time Series."