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Mike Roe

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Former associate editor
  • KPCC Archive
    California Senate Democrats propose budget plan
    California Senate Democrats responded to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's May Revise on Monday, proposing $4.9 billion in new taxes to close the state's $19.1 billion budget shortfall. Over $2 billion in added revenue would come from delaying corporate tax breaks, while $1.4 billion would come from changes to personal income taxes.
    File photo: California State Sen. Denise Ducheny (D-San Diego) reacts to Republican efforts to hold up the vote on a solution to the state's budget problem on the evening of July 23, 2009 in Sacramento.
  • KPCC Archive
    Lucha VaVoom brings wrestling and burlesque together in downtown LA
    Joey Ryan stood on the outside, taking a breather in the middle of his match. Suddenly he looked up and saw a man in a giant chicken costume ready to come crashing down on him from high above.
    Li'l Chicken leaps onto his opponent.
  • KPCC Archive
    LAPD Chief Beck answers questions at town hall
    LAPD Chief Charlie Beck answered questions Wednesday night in a special edition of KPCC's Patt Morrison's "Ask the Chief" feature. Beck spoke and answered questions about undocumented immigration and Special Order 40, gang intervention, the end of the consent decree, and other topics.
    Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Charlie Beck responds to questions from a Los Angeles City Council panel Monday Nov. 9, 2009, in Los Angeles. The panel recommended Monday that Beck be confirmed as Los Angeles' 55th chief of police. Beck, 56, a veteran for 33 years, is expected to succeed former LAPD Chief Bill Bratton.
  • KPCC Archive
    Former OC sheriff's deputy pleads guilty to obstructing Fish & Game warden
    Former Orange County Sheriff's Department Deputy Phillip Romero, 39, pleaded guilty today to a misdemeanor account of obstructing an officer after he lied to protect a friend from being cited by the California Department of Fish and Game for illegal lobster poaching. Romero had falsely claimed that co-defendant Deputy William Robb, an off-duty officer, was a confidential informant.
    Deputy William Robb was caught poaching spiny lobsters.
  • KPCC Archive
    Charlie Beck named as next LAPD chief
    A longtime "true-blue" officer raised in a family of cops and who was a Rampart reformer was named the new chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Charlie Beck will be Los Angeles' next police chief, the mayor announced at an 11 a.m. news conference.
    Deputy Chief Charlie Beck looks on as Los Angeles Police chief William Bratton holds his last press conference outside the new Police Administration Building on October 28, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.
  • KPCC Archive
    Pasadena police chief leaves for Justice Department
    Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that Pasadena Police Chief Bernard Melekian will be leaving the Pasadena Police to head up the Community Oriented Police Services Office (the COPS program) at the Justice Department.
    Pasadena Police Chief Bernard Melekian
  • KPCC Archive
    Post Office unveils new Gary Cooper stamp
    The U.S. Postal Service unveiled a new commemorative stamp for actor Gary Cooper, star of films like High Noon and Sergeant York, in a ceremony at the Autry National Center.
    Leonard Maltin welcomes visitors to the U.S. Postal Service’s Gary Cooper Commemorative Stamp unveiling at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles.