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View the full archive of KQED's Perspectives My Name Is Changing your name isn't easy and it isn't cheap. But for Sho Sho Smith, it was worth every inconvenience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Penny Saved When she immigrated to this country, Youth Radio's Denise Tejada was taught relentlessly by her father about saving, credit and real estate. Now, at 20 years old, she's bought her own home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Year Later It's been a year since America elected its first African American president, and Brenda Payton says the country is still figuring out how to deal with it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dow 10,000 The stock market skips above and below the 10,000 mark, but Bob Goldman wonders why investors attach so much meaning to a number that doesn't mean much. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Let the Light Shine To Lewis Heathcote, California's referendum-soaked direct democracy means that a constitutional convention to cure what ails state governance is more likely to be a Trojan War than an Age of Aquarius. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From New Year's Day to Halloween How did a Celtic celebration of New Year's Day become our modern Halloween? Michael Ellis has the answer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Give a Little When John Mathias established a small arts scholarship, he didn't realize that perhaps its biggest beneficiary would be himself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Red, White and Blue Socialism Socialism isn't usually associated with Americanism, unless, as history teacher Josh Gnass notes, you happen to be the author of the Pledge of Allegiance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sound of Music There's a spot on Irving Street in the Inner Sunset where you're sure to find street musicians. Katherine Field-Rothschild's family taught her never to just walk on by the music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Times, They Are A-Changin' To some people time is a fact. To Jessica O'Dwyer, who doesn't have a single clock or watch keeping the same time, it's a little more complicated than that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Udo A dog is never just a dog. And nowhere is that truer than Berkeley, where Stan Pisle's dog, Udo, was born to bring people together. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Ridge Away Recent rains have lessened the threat of a major fire, but for vulnerable homeowners like Peggy Hansen the memory of approaching wildfire and gratitude for courageous firefighters are never out of season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NRA Calling Evan Sagerman is a member of the National Rifle Association, and proud of much of the work it does. But the NRA's politics? That's another question. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Headache Cindy Wheeler had a bicycle accident that landed her in the emergency room. But what really shocked her was the bill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good News for Women Workers Recent trends show women are about to outnumber men in the workplace, says Dick Meister. With that will come more bargaining clout. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Someone Said the Earth Moved She was underground on BART when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit, but Isobel White experienced the event vicariously. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Long Time Coming Walter Ko welcomes the state legislature's recent recognition of Chinese Americans who helped build California and the nation despite rampant, state-sponsored discrimination. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Never Alone Janet Schneider cherishes her rare moments of solitude, but her college-age daughter is never alone, never unavailable, not even when she sleeps. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website He Deserved So Much Better Alan Turing was the father of modern computer science, and his work on the German Enigma code was crucial to winning World War II. But he was gay, and his nation made him pay a horrendous price for it. Clyde Wadsworth comments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website So It's Right to Be Worried? Jocelyn Wiener's grandmother sometimes imagines things, but when she heard that something bad had happened in Chicago, she wasn't confused. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website