How California’s pension fund for professional boxers is struggling to find– and pay– eligible athletes. Protecting the biological diversity of Molok Luyuk, located near Berryessa Snow Mountain. Insight’s “Concert Connect” highlights upcoming live music in Northern California. 

CA Boxing pensions

More than four decades ago, California became the first and still the only state in the nation to create a pension fund for retired professional boxers. The goal of the California Professional Boxers’ Pension Plan was to provide a financial safety net to help these athletes with life after the ring and prevent the most vulnerable from becoming impoverished. If you’ve never heard of this pension before, you’re not alone. Many former boxers haven’t heard about it either. An investigation from the LA Times found the California State Athletic Commission, which is the agency overseeing the pension, has fallen short of its goal of notifying and providing this safety net to hundreds of former boxers and their beneficiaries.This revelation has left many retired boxers frustrated and comes as a similar pension is being considered at the State Capitol for Mixed Martial Arts fighters (aka MMA). Melody Gutierrez, an Investigative reporter for the LA Times, joined Insight to share her reporting.

Protecting Molok Luyuk's biological diversity

Between Napa and Mendocino is a relatively new national monument. Berryessa Snow Mountain received the federal designation back in 2015,  but those long devoted to protecting the habit feel it is incomplete and are pushing for an addition. Once known as Walker Ridge, Molok Luyuk was renamed by the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, and is considered a haven for biological diversity and touches Berryessa Snow Mountain. But it was left out of the national monument designation due to competing interests for clean energy. That is now changing this year, and a bill in Congress is now asking for Molok Luyuk to be incorporated into the federal designation which includes protections and funding. CapRadio Environment Reporter Manola Secaira joined Insight to share the trip to this landscape and its biological significance.

Insight's "Concert Connect"

It’s that time to hear some of the best live music that will be performing in Sacramento and beyond on Concert Connects. This edition features concerts in San Francisco, Oakland and culminates in Sacramento. Highlighted today are artists who made waves at this year’s Coachella Music Festival and those with years of perfecting their craft and sound. Spearheading this list of concerts is CapRadio’s Andrew Garcia who guarantees a packed list of artists and concerts to tune in and enjoy.