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You want to know how our politics got so bats*&t crazy? You want to know how Donald Trump got to be president. Well, Long Shots with Conor Powell has all the...
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You know it's happening, you care a lot, but you wonder what you can do about it? In Our Backyard is a 6-part series about getting your hands around climate change by rethinking the global threat as a local concern. kcrw.com/inourbackyard hosted by Warren Olney
Climate change is a big, global problem. But in Southern California, the impacts are unique. We’ve got megacities, coastlines, mountains, deserts and forests, after all. Not to mention the diverse communities throughout. In Our Backyard is a six-part series from Warren Olney that explores the ways...
A new way of thinking about climate change... and how to keep it from getting worse. In Our Backyard makes the global local.
Show To the Point, Ep In Our Backyard: Warren Olney looks at the changing climate in Southern California - Apr 22, 2021
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Have you ever seen a Southern California Polar Bear?
Warren Olney's newest series, out for Earth Day, focuses on the consequences of climate change here in our backyard.
Southern California has a unique relationship with climate change. So what’s happening now? How did we get here? And what can we do? This first episode of my limited series "In Our Backyard" explores all that.
Something new from Warren Olney, just in time for Earth Day.
In Our Backyard, a new series on climate change, from Warren Olney. Coming Thursday!
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(By Conor Powell) The fact that women and minorities are underrepresented, inadequately represented or sometimes not represented at all, in media is no secret. Society is still not doing nearly enough to address this glaring inequity.
Herman Cain, who ran for president in 2012, died today from complications of the coronavirus. Cain, a businessman and Tea Party activist, lost the GOP primary but he was a clear influence on the campaign style of Donald Trump four years later.
The Long Shots podcast profiled him as one of the losing presidential primary candidates who changed the American political landscape.
Show Long Shots, Ep Herman Cain: The Godfather - May 21, 2020
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On this day June 30, 1918 leader and 4-time presidential candidate was charged with 10 counts of for opposing US involvement in .
He would run again from prison as . He was the most successful presidential candidate ever to run from prison.
Also on this day in 1894, Pres. Grover Cleveland sent troops to to enforce a court order ending the . Workers went on strike after Pullman Co. cut wages, increased living expenses & fired employees. The strike was backed by and the American Railway Union.
The turned violent with the arrival of US troops.
At least 30 people were killed and millions of dollars in damage done.
It was a major turning point in American economic history.
The Pullman Strike radicalized Debs and introduced the federal government as a regulator of US economic life.
Show Long Shots, Ep Eugene V. Debs: The American Socialist - May 14, 2020
History is the stage on which today's politics play out.
On this day in 1963, Alabama Gov. George Wallace stood in the doorway at University of Alabama as a symbolic bulwark against integration. "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," was his motto. In 1972, he ran for president as a Democrat, challenging Supreme Court-ordered bussing. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-shots/id1508767275?i=1000473852262
Republicans like Pat Buchanan, then working for President Richard Nixon, saw a "silent majority" of voters resistant to these government-imposed changes and led a populist revolt to bring anxious white voters into the Republican fold. His efforts culminated in a 1992 challenge to his own party's incumbent, with calls to "take our country back" and build a border wall. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-shots/id1508767275?i=1000476765266
Already, conservative Christians like Pat Robertson were making a moral case for white religious conservatives to join the Republican base; his Christian Broadcasting Network and 1988 presidential campaign solidified the bloc we call the Religious Right. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-shots/id1508767275?i=1000477525516
Meantime, the Democratic Party, seeing the loss of white support, especially in the South, rallied behind Jesse Jackson's 1984 vision of a "rainbow coalition" of minorities and urban whites to shore up the ranks and become competitive again nationally. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-shots/id1508767275?i=1000473852262
On June 1, 2020, as President Trump cleared the protesters from Lafayette Park and marched to St. John's Church to hold up a Bible, he channeled this evolution within the GOP electorate - the resistance to change, the appeal for law and order, the distrust of multiculturalism, and the visual signal to religious whites. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/politics/trump-walk-lafayette-square.html
History is the stage on which today's politics plays out.
How did we get here?
Show Long Shots, Ep George Wallace: The Segregationist - Apr 30, 2020
Which Way, L.A. started as a one-hour special program in the aftermath of the riots. But the audience responded, and Warren was invited back for another day, and then another week until the conversations evolved into the signature public affairs program it became. Tonight is the last broadcast. Listen here.
23 years ago, the fires of the Rodney King riots were burning and the sirens wailing when KCRW first asked, WWLA? We've been through fires, floods, earthquakes and massive social, cultural and economic change. While this is the last program titled WWLA? the question still needs to be asked. We talk…
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This week, Los Angeles radio listeners will lose an extraordinary element of our civic life — a unique vehicle for the exploration of issues that confront this city. In an age when hyperbole, sensationalism, rancor and mindless chatter occupy so much of the airwaves, "Which Way L.A.?&…
Have you heard about the Zika virus?
A teenage girl who traveled to Central America is the first confirmed case of Zika virus infection in Los Angeles County.
State regulators waited months to respond to the gas leak near Porter Ranch. But they waited years to respond to the toxic contamination from Exide. People on the Eastside feel there's a double standard. More tonight.
Porter Ranch and Vernon are mirror images of each other. In one, schools have been closed and thousands of residents are being moved away by the polluter—just months after a natural gas leak was discovered. In the other, residents complained for years about health risks to school children from expos…
Resolved: The has significantly improved its procedures and safeguard to prevent wrongful convictions.
Discuss.
The City of Los Angeles will pay $24 million for the wrongful murder convictions of two men who spent years of their lives in prison because of proven misconduct by the LAPD. The City Attorney says going to court would cost even more.
As Which Way, L.A.? winds down its run, we're planning a series of special conversations. Tonight: Racial and ethnic divisions were the backdrop to the riots in 1992. How much has changed in 23 years?
WWLA? began its 23-year run in the wake of an incident so complex we still haven’t decided what to call it. The Rodney King 'riots?" The "uprising?" The "civil disturbance?" As WWLA? winds down, we look back and measuring what’s changed and what hasn’t. One major component was race relations. Hav…
Some of the big new developments in South Los Angeles include provisions to hire locally -- a big boon to the economically depressed area. But once completed, will the projects force these local hires out of their homes?
Several large developments are under construction south of the 10 Freeway, and some have initiatives to fill jobs with local, low-income workers.
Critics are slamming L.A. Police Chief Charlie Beck for suggesting that an officer was wrong to fire his weapon at an unarmed homeless man.
L.A. Police Chief Charlie Beck is defending his decision to recommend criminal charges against an officer involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed homeless man in Venice.
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Unions are bracing for the worst : a loss of their power in the political arena, and at the bargaining table. More here on the latest politically charged case before the Supreme Court.
The California Teachers Association has been called an obstacle to education reform in Sacramento. Now, the US Supreme Court is poised to reduce its power. The case is about union fees and First Amendment rights, but the decision could be a blow to unionized police officers, fire fighters and other…
Caveat emptor: The Pl***oy mansion is for sale for $200 million, and it comes with a boarder.
The main house has 29 rooms, vast lawns, lush gardens, aviaries and a tennis court. It’s also one of the few homes in L.A., with a zoo license.
The heavy rains and flooding have been predicted for months, but a grand jury finds LA County plans to protect the homeless are 'unconscionable and grossly inadequate.' What's being done to shelter the vulnerable?
Mudslides, floods and road-closings have been predicted for weeks — and so has the plight of 29,000 homeless people who sleep on the streets of Los Angeles County. But today, the Civil Grand Jury called preparations "unconscionable and grossly inadequate." We get a response from local officials and…
There's a good news story behind the bad rise in LA crime.
Last year, for the first time in more than a decade, all categories of crime in Los Angeles increased over the year before. Homicides went up by 10% to 280. That's a tragedy for the people directly involved — and for the community. But consider that in 1992 there were almost four times as many murde…
A Southern California businessman wants state legislators to make a political fashion statement.
It may seem silly, but a California businessman is funding a ballot initiative that would require members of the state legislators to wear the logos and emblems of their biggest donors on their clothing – just like race car drivers.
Did you get a drone for Christmas? Here's what you need to know before you start to fly it.
New FAA rules might require you to register your drone before you fly it, and there are several regulations here in California about where these airborne overlords can go. But Sacramento and the FAA aren't exactly on the same page. Guest host Barbara Bogaev tries to make sense of the territorial dis…
Do you like your political sausage spicy or bland?
Come the New Year, state lawmakers will tackle a raft of big divisive issues: guns, environment & more.
A new medical school is coming to Southern California, will it change the way doctors practice medicine?
A medical school with a difference is planned for Southern California by Kaiser, the managed care system that runs hospitals and provides health insurance. The goal is hands-on experience for doctors trained to practice in systems of what's called "coordinated care." With the emphasis on new technol…
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