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Everything is getting more expensive, rent, groceries, insurance.

And because California's excessive ride share insurance laws attract litigation

abused by billboard lawyers, costs are going up for everyone.

Bogus claims and inflated settlements drive up state-required insurance costs, which make

up nearly a third of your Uber ride fare.

Join our fight to protect your access to affordable rides go to uber.com

for slash fair dash insurance to learn more from k QED from KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Many Americans have become increasingly aware of the brutal dispossession that European colonizers visited upon indigenous people in what is now the United States.

But fewer are aware of the specific history of what happened in Hawaii, an independent

nation that was overthrown by colonists.

Fewer and fewer Native Hawaiians own land in their ancestral places.

And in a new book,

journalist Sarah Kahulani Gu tells the story of her family's fight

to hold on to their little piece of Maui.

It's all coming up next, many people answer nothing. But Sarah Kehlani's new book, Kuliana, describes the calling and

commitment that she felt to hold on to her family's land in Hawaii or to follow the real

pronunciation more closely, Hawaii. She and many others in her family feel a duty to their

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