A “student” “walkout” in Beverly Hills over the Purple Line! A typhus outbreak in Downtown LA! A city councilmember bails on his job in the middle of his term! A fraudulent robocall from the Yes on 6 campaign! And the conclusion of Prop, Lock and Drop It (for the state props)!
Listen NowScott and Hayes talk about the end of the celebrity burglar reign of terror, LASD’s racially-charged traffic stop campaign, and a little trouble for two different City Councilmembers. Then Alissa and Hayes travel to UCLA to interview State Senator SCOTT WIENER about his many plans for getting LA and the rest of California to build more housing.
Listen NowScott, Alissa, and Hayes join forces with Liam Dillon and Matt Levin of “Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast” to talk about the freakout over homeless housing in Sherman Oaks, a bad poll for Prop 10, and the Northern California bias in Sacramento.
Listen NowLA Stories about In-N-Out fundraisers and mountain lions, a new ruling on whether cities in LA County are allowed to coordinate with ICE, and a visit from CHRIS ROTH of Ground Game LA on Charter Amendment B, the city initiative on the November ballot to create a public bank.
Listen NowHayes, Alissa and Chicago Scott tell some nice long LA stories, then get into the new member of the LA Police Commission, the multiple murders of people who were sleeping outside, the Long Beach PD’s secret texting, and what Prop 11 means for ambulance drivers.
Listen NowRaid 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.
Listen NowAn ENTIRE EPISODE dedicated to Prop 10, the most expensive November state ballot measure in America and one with major ties to LA. Scott, Alissa and Hayes get into Costa-Hawkins, the rent control law that Prop 10 would repeal, the man behind the measure, and what passing or not passing it could mean for the city.
Listen NowScott and Alissa on: the Santa Monica scooter decision, a tunnel meeting at Dodger Stadium, the completion of My Figueroa finally, Garcetti raising money for Dems everywhere but LA, the possibility of last call at 4AM, truly horrifying charges against LASD, Patrick Soon-Shiong’s maybe-shady hospital bankruptcy, and the truly bewildering Prop 8.
Listen NowPacked episode! All hosts are present as LAUSD chooses how to replace disgraced board member Ref Rodriguez, the City Council pays another big settlement after a fatal LAPD shooting, developers want to build a new city in middle-of-nowhere North LA County, Measure H gets its first report card, we Prop It Like It’s Hot for Prop 7’s Daylight Saving Time repeal, AND we interview LA Times data reporters JACK DOLAN and RYAN MENEZES about their coverage of the LAPD’s DROP program.
Listen NowAlissa and Hayes go over the new proposal from Elon Musk’s Boring Company to dig a tunnel to Dodger Stadium, then welcome ASSEMBLYMEMBER LAURA FRIEDMAN to talk about her Vision Zero bill and Prop, Lock and Drop It for Prop 6, the gas tax repeal.
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