Episodes

A full-episode interview with Los Angeles City Councilmember MIKE BONIN. We talk with the Councilmember about a nonprofit’s campaign to fight the city over a density program, his recent break with the rest of the council over homelessness criminalization policies, and why a record-cheap solar deal is being held up.

Scott and Alissa talk to LA Times reporter MAYA LAU about Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s busy couple months. Before that: John Lee gets right to work on the city council, the city wants to pull encampments off the hills, the Controller gives LAHSA a failing grade, and Paul Koretz opens up to Curbed about scooters.

A Lancaster deputy shooting is revealed to have been fake, the amount of new housing Southern California has to build is revealed to be huge, a French restaurant in Echo Park is revealed to be sold to a luxury developer, the new version of LA’s sidewalk-sleeping laws are revealed to be cruel and unconstitutional, and a new elite scooter enforcement squad is revealed by Paul Koretz.

Alissa and Hayes are joined by the NRDC’s CARTER RUBIN (@CarterRubin) to talk about the results of last Tuesday’s special City Council election, the racist serial killer that didn’t make the news, the City of Industry kicking out a third of its residents for political reasons, the LA city planner who was too eager to become a lobbyist, the newest turns in the AHF/Amoeba Civil War, and Carter’s thoughts on the California Air Resources Board’s newest emissions report.

What Stephen Ross-owned properties do we have to boycott in LA? What amenities can you expect in your new $7,000-a-month downtown one-bedroom? Whose house did Mayor Garcetti ask the fire department to check on during the Woolsey fire? Why are so many city councilmembers staying out of the CD12 race? Why did USC not respond to complaints about yet another rapist doctor? And what is the current status of the Kanye Domes and Emoji House?

City Hall re-re-criminalizes sleeping in cars, and Mayor Garcetti’s office has a couple’s possessions thrown away after they posed with him for a photo op. Uber and Lyft sweat the possible passage of AB 5, and high-speed rail might come to LA, but a lot slower and shorter. Guest ALBERT CORADO joins Scott and Hayes to talk about seeking justice for his sister Mely Corado after she was killed by LAPD at Trader Joe’s one year ago.

The FBI raids the DWP and City Hall again, turns out the LAPD and the city were investigating Nipsey Hussle all along (and still are), SoCalGas set up a “grassroots” front group to get people excited about balanced energy solutions, another group fights to preserve the historic Amoeba building, and the NYT is going to LA summer camp.

A song parody submittied by a listener, the city opening a new natural gas plant in Utah despite its “Green New Deal,” a coalition sues the city for throwing out the property of people who are homeless, a bunch of people want to build a gondola to the Hollywood Sign, LAPD sent an officer to spy on some leftist protestors, and somehow more bizarre behavior from Sheriff Villanueva comes to light.

Residents fight over bus rapid transit in Eagle Rock! The IBEW fights Garcetti over his Green New Deal at the IBEW! LA fights “party houses” with new AirBnB regulations! Alissa fights for the truth about the ShakeAlertLA app! The Sheriff’s Department fights an FBI investigation! And all of us fight to breathe air that’s getting worse every day!

Recording just after the Friday earthquake, the hosts open up about how they reckoned with death two days in a row and discuss why the #ShakeAlertLA app didn’t alert anyone. Then they get into the automation fight at the Port of LA, Trump’s comments on LA homelessness and Garcetti’s polite response, and a new wrinkle in the fight over whether people who are homeless can keep their possessions.