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with Larry Mantle

Larry Mantle hosts lively and in-depth discussions of city news, politics, science, the arts, entertainment, and more. Airs weekdays 9-11am on 89.3 FM and streaming online at LAist.com and the LAist app. Austin Cross hosts AirTalk Fridays — watch the Friday show live on Instagram (@laistofficial).

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  • The Los Angeles City Council approved a new minimum wage for hotel workers Wednesday. It will be the highest minimum wage in the country will it takes effect next summer.
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    We examine a motion directing City Attorney Mike Feuer’s office to draft an ordinance that would govern paid parental leave in the City of Los Angeles. We also get an update on LAUSD's charter moratorium resolution; discuss how employers should talk to their older employees about cognitive decline; and more.
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  • El Camino Real Charter High School in Woodland Hills, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016.
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    We get the latest on Tuesday’s LAUSD school board vote regarding a moratorium on charter schools. We also discuss a proposal to slash taxes as a way to jump start the legal marijuana marketplace; analyze if teen screen time is actually harmful; and more.
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  • US President Donald Trump speaks about the government shutdown on January 25, 2019, from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. - Trump on Friday brought a temporary end to the longest government shutdown in US history, while dropping his previous insistence on immediate funding for wall construction along the Mexican border. (Photo by Alex Edelman / AFP) (Photo credit should read ALEX EDELMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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  • WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 23: Furloughed federal workers and those aligned with them protest the partial government shutdown in the Hart Senate Office Building January 23, 2019 in Washington, DC. Members of the National Federation of Federal Employees, the American Federation of Government Employees, the AFL-CIO, the Communications Workers of America, DC Jobs With Justice, International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers and the Machinists Union sponsored an "Occupy Hart" protest on Capitol Hill against the partial government shutdown. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Larry Mantle, Host
Austin Cross, Host
Lindsey Wright, Senior Producer
Lucy Copp, Producer
Nicolas Perez, Producer
Manny Valladares, Associate Producer
Payton Seda, Associate Producer
Faheem Khan, Associate Producer
Courtney Eileen Fulcher, Apprentice News Clerk