Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Getting Ahead of the Summer Crud

There are a lot of bugs going around and the warmer temperatures are doing little to lessen the chance of getting sick. As we head towards graduations and holiday crowds, we check in with an infectious disease expert about the different strains capturing the headlines. Dr. Dean Blumberg, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UC Davis weighs in on what you need to know to stay healthy and have a good time.

California Stoneworkers With Silicosis

Artificial stone, or quartz, is the most popular countertop in the country. But in recent years, there has been a growing concern about the health consequences workers face, particularly breathing in toxic dust when powercutting the engineered stone. There have been hundreds of confirmed cases of silicosis, an often incurable lung disease. Farida Jhabvala Romero is a Labor Correspondent at KQED and she joined us today to share her reporting on the topic.

Roy and Gaynell Rogers

Roy and Gaynell Rogers both have storied careers in the world of music, film and the arts. Roy is an eight-time Grammy nominated producer, songwriter, and slide guitar player. Taking his talents as a blues artist, on tour around the globe for decades now. Gaynell has had her own storied career in the worlds of film, publicity and marketing. Working for the likes of Pixar and Lucasfilm. Between the two of them, the married couple have enough stories to fill endless hours. And Gaynell has now turned those stories and her experience as a chef into a new book “Gaynell’s Kitchen: Down Home Cooking from a Wayward Southern Belle.” And alongside the cookbook, Roy has a new album out, his first in ten years, called “The Sky’s the Limit.” He’ll also be performing this Saturday at the Center for the Arts in Grass Valley. They both joined the show to tell us more about the book and the album.