Monica Bushman
Producer, LAist Studios
(she/her)
I'm one of the producers on the LAist Studios podcast How To LA.
Before joining the How To LA team, I worked on other LAist Studios podcasts including The Academy Museum Podcast, Retake and Hollywood the Sequel. I got my start at LAist on the broadcast side, as a producer on Take Two, The Frame, and our local broadcasts of Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Prior to coming to LAist, I worked on NPR shows like Talk of the Nation and Morning Edition.
When I moved back to Southern California after living away for several years, I had to overcome my fear of driving on the freeway (think Dionne in "Clueless"). I've mostly mastered the driving part, but am still working on the ability to give out directions like "The Californians" on SNL.
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According to a new survey, more people say they want to pack up and leave town than in years past. -
The news is eye-opening. It could take five years or more to open the doors of the historic location again.
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The Trust for Public Land says there is an inequitable distribution of parks within the city of L.A.
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You'll be able to walk, run or bike the entire length of California's coast.
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While communities on the west side have vaccination rates upwards of 60%, rates are hovering around 30% in Lancaster, Palmdale and parts of south and East L.A.
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L.A. Democratic Congresswoman Judy Chu called on President Joe Biden to commit to stopping anti-Asian hate crimes during his first address to a joint session of Congress, which will take place Wednesday evening.
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L.A. Democratic Assemblyman Miguel Santiago’s Assembly Bill 570 would let adult children extend medical coverage to their older parents.
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A series of three drive-by shootings between USC and downtown Los Angeles ended early this morning in Orange County, and left three men dead, including the suspected gunman.
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Dr. Paul Simon, L.A County Public Health's chief science officer, says the department is putting together educational materials to hand out with the vaccine.
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President Biden has formally recognized the Ottoman Empire's killing of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians during World War I as genocide.
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