California Sun Podcast

May 28, 2026 — Ivo Jeramaz grew up in the same Croatian soil as his uncle Mike Grgich — the man who made the Napa Valley Chardonnay that beat the French at the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976, which recently turned 50. Jeramaz later followed his uncle to California, where...

May 21, 2026 — With eleven days to go before the June 2 primary, Joe Mathews examines how California's race for governor has become strangely disconnected from the state itself. With almost all the campaigns built around generic national talking points and anti-Trump...

May 14, 2026 — William Riggs is a professor of engineering and management at the University of San Francisco and an expert on transportation innovation. He says San Francisco — now ground zero for America's autonomous vehicle future, with more than 1,000 Waymos on...

May 07, 2026 — Kate Washington spent years giving everything to everyone else — caregiving, motherhood, a failing marriage — until she was empty. Her answer was cold water: 50 dunks in California rivers, creeks, and swimming holes before her 50th birthday. The author...

Apr 30, 2026 — Dillon Osleger has spent a decade rebuilding what America has been quietly erasing — the trails, wagon roads, and Indigenous paths that once knitted California and the West together. As a geologist, trail builder, and public lands advocate, he brings...