Guest host Kyle Stokes talks with Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of UTLA, the union representing LAUSD teachers. We also get the latest on the partial government shutdown; discuss Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom's budget plans; and more.
Government shutdown enters 13th day, as Democrats take control of House
The partial government shutdown entered a 13th day Thursday with House Democrats prepared to pass their plan to reopen government and President Donald Trump accusing them of playing politics with an eye on the 2020 election.
Both sides appeared at an impasse over Trump's demand for billions of dollars to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. Congressional leaders will meet with Trump on Friday to try for a resolution.
The new Congress convenes Thursday with Democrats taking majority control of the House, and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, expected to be elected speaker, said they'd quickly pass legislation to re-open the government - without funds for Trump's border wall.
With files from the Associated Press.
With guest host Kyle Stokes.
Guest:
Jennifer Haberkorn, D.C.-based reporter covering Congress for the Los Angeles Times; she tweets
Interview with UTLA president Alex Caputo-Pearl
Teachers union leaders announced they will call a strike on Jan. 10 if they haven't reached a contract agreement with LAUSD by then.
It would be the first work stoppage called by United Teachers Los Angeles since the union's nine-day strike in 1989.
On yesterday’s AirTalk, guest host Kyle Stokes spoke with LAUSD superintendent Austin Beutner about the potential strike. Today, he talks with Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of UTLA, the union representing LAUSD teachers.
With guest host Kyle Stokes.
Guest:
Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), the teacher’s union
Distrustful, politically extreme consumers of news are also the most biased readers
Americans might think the news is growing more biased, but the news consumer might want to take a look in the mirror.
That’s according to a Gallup and Knight Foundation online experiment from earlier this year which looked at people’s biases, their trust in media and their perceptions of bias in media.
During the experiment, participants were asked to read content and rate its trustworthiness -- some participants saw the sources while others did not. The blind group was more generally trusting of the content. Attribution of sources lowered the rated trustworthiness of certain outlets, such as Vox and Breitbart News. And when the source was uncovered, readers’ bias drove their perception.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most politically extreme and wary readers were also the most biased.
We dive into these results.
With guest host Kyle Stokes.
Guests:
Jonathan Rothwell, principal economist at Gallup and a research consultant for the partnership between Gallup and the Knight Foundation, which designed and executed the experiment; he is the author of the forthcoming book “A Republic of Equals” which looks at the political economy of social inequality and access to markets; he tweets
Jane Kirtley, professor of media ethics and law at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota
Jeffrey McCall, professor of communication at DePauw University in Indiana and former journalist; he is a columnist for The Hill; he tweets
California is flush with a $9 billion budget surplus. What Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom plans to do with it
After close to two decades, California is going to have a new governor.
On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom will be sworn in as the next governor of the state, takes the reins from outgoing Jerry Brown, a fiscal hawk whose parting gift for his successor includes a nearly 9-billion in budgetary surplus.
And there are a lot of people who want to see the new Governor spend that money. Since the new state Legislature went into session, California lawmakers have introduced a slew of bills that could translate to tens of billions of dollars in new spending.
So how is Governor Newsom going to prioritize state spending?
With guest host Kyle Stokes.
Guest:
John Myers, Sacramento Bureau Chief for the LA Times; he tweets
Tips and tricks for curbing that New Year’s hangover you’ve been nursing all week
If you’ve ever woken up after a night of revelry and heavy drinking with a throbbing head, churning stomach, and a general distaste for being awake, you’ve probably also wished that there was some kind of hangover cure.
But as you try to peel your face from your sheets, silently wondering whether anyone got the license plate number of the bus you think might’ve hit you the night before, you realize that aside from traveling back in time and choosing not to drink as much, there isn’t anything out there that makes a hangover disappear.
That said, everyone has an answer when you ask what their preferred remedy is for taking the edge off. Some swear by food – cheeseburgers, bacon and eggs, pozole, or a breakfast burrito from Lucky Boy in Pasadena. Korean cuisine even has its own soup named just for such an occasion called ‘haejang guk’ which means ‘soup to chase a hangover.’ Others prefer mass rehydration – drink tons of water or Gatorade or Pedialyte and rest. Here in California, where it’s legal to consume recreational marijuana, some users swear by weed as the ultimate hangover killer, as cannabis has been known to be used to treat headaches and nausea. And yet still others turn to the “hair of the dog” method and simply start drinking again.
What’s your hangover remedy of choice? How did you discover that it worked? Does your family or culture have any special homemade remedies? Share your favorites by calling 866-893-5722.
With guest host Kyle Stokes.
Guests:
Elina Shatkin, food editor at KPCC and the LAist; she tweets
Quincy Surasmith, digital assistant producer for the KPCC In Person team