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August 24, 2020 Episode 135

A new theme song. Fires in California. Gangs in the Sheriff’s Department. Declining COVID-19 numbers. The start of the LAUSD school year. Shuttered emergency shelters. Resumed sweeps in Venice. A QAnon protest in Hollywood. A police killing in Pasadena. A Postal Board Governor in San Marino. And one of the last bills in the state housing package.

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February 3, 2020 Episode 103

Remembering what Kobe Bryant meant to Los Angeles. SB50 goes down again. A proposal for a roast diet in Hollywood. And a laundry heir has it out for a school board member.

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May 13, 2019 Episode 64

A labor shortage delays the regional connector to 2022! Zev Yaroslavsky gets his sources cited! We make our endorsements in the CD12 primary and the LAUSD District 5 runoff! Gun house!

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March 11, 2019 Episode 55

Goldberg jackhammers the competition in the LAUSD primary, the Mar Vista road diet gets through City Council, a local homeless charity is tied up in a for-profit college scheme thanks to the Trump administration, Sheriff Villanueva continues to burn his credibility to let his friend Caren Mandoyan keep a gun, and Scott, Alissa and Hayes talk to KPCC’s ANNIE GILBERTSON about her work getting access to law enforcement records in use of force cases.

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March 4, 2019 Episode 54

Whooping cough invades Harvard-Westlake, LAUSD moves forward on a parcel tax, Metro studies Uber and scooter levies, LA changes the way it measures driving, and Paul Koretz has an opinion on SB50. Scott, Alissa and Hayes talk about them all.

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February 18, 2019 Episode 52

Men’s Central Jail is being replaced by a mental health facility for inmates! LA kills three natural gas plants! Gavin Newsom killed high speed rail… and then didn’t! Kevin De Leon is running for city council, Holly Mitchell for county supervisor! Alex Villanueva is using fake numbers to make jails seem more violent! Lee Baca may actually be going to prison! And Alissa, Scott and Hayes talk about their picks for the LAUSD District 5 election.

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February 11, 2019 Episode 51

City Hall is infested with rats! One of the biggest construction projects in downtown LA has stopped work! The city dropped all charges against Melina Abdullah! And we’re joined by KPCC/LAist’s KYLE STOKES to talk about the school board race for LAUSD District 5.

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January 28, 2019 Episode 49

The LAUSD strike is over… what was the final deal and why did it take so long? Mark Ridley Thomas is running for City Council… why hasn’t he announced it, and who’s running to take his place? Adam Schiff might run for President… is he a possible candidate for an AOC-style primary from the left? And congestion pricing gets introduced at a Metro board meeting… how did the board members try to slow down the process this time?

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January 21, 2019 Episode 48

Where we stand a week into the UTLA strike, Metro’s CEO gets bold on congestion pricing, the bribery scandal at City Hall continues to unfold, the council appoints a new member, and Sheriff Villanueva makes a very unsettling hire. Scott and Hayes talk about all of these things and a couple more.

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January 14, 2019 Episode 47

Alissa, Scott and Hayes go through the federal search warrant document that names Jose Huizar along with many other people, make predictions for the UTLA strike, and run through Gavin Newsom’s housing proposals in his first budget.

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