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September 17, 2018 Episode 28

Raid on an artists squat on Hollywood Boulevard! The people who yell racial slurs at every City Council meeting might get banned! The first candidate throws her hat in the ring for the 2020 City Council election! And BRYN LINDBLAD from Climate Resolve tells us whether air in LA is healthy, how to cool neighborhoods by 10 to 20 degrees inexpensively, and what she and Alissa saw at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.

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August 6, 2018 Episode 21

USC teams up with former Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley-Thomas for an all-star scandal. Koreatown helps Herb Wesson settle on a new emergency shelter location that is not actually in Koreatown. More hard-boiled LA movie analysis with “Nightcrawler” and “Drive.” And one last bond proposition.

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June 25, 2018 Episode 13

A shocking threat from Mayor Garcetti to re-criminalize sleeping on the sidewalk. The Little Bangladesh vote generates the largest turnout in neighborhood council history, maybe for not-great reasons. And freelance journalist JASON MCGAHAN joins Scott and Hayes to talk about reporting he’s done for Capital and Main on the limited availability of bathrooms on Skid Row.

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June 4, 2018 Episode 10

The results of LA’s Homeless Count are in — DR. ROBIN PETERING worked on the count and she joins Scott and Hayes to talk about the results. BEFORE THAT, LA politicians are working hard to make the gas tax popular, and why a bunch of signature gatherers got arrested on Skid Row.

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May 7, 2018 Episode 6

The LAUSD board chose their new superintendent, hedge fund guy and political dilettante Austin “3:16” Beutner, and a school union is maybe going to go on strike. Plus a new politician gets accused of sexual assault, another one is maybe going to be primaried, and the possible bad news regarding new emergency shelter beds.

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April 16, 2018 Episode 3

Garcetti goes to Iowa because he wants to be President so bad he would do basically anything, Steve Ballmer and James Dolan are in a very relatable fight over their arenas in Inglewood, and JANET KIM and ALEXA ROMAN from the League of Women Voters talk to us about permanent supportive housing and what that is.

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