Today on the show, Superintendent John Deasy pulls the plug on the $1 billion iPad program, but the bidding process continues. Plus, Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto is in town and meeting with Gov. Jerry Brown, we'll have more on their meeting. Then, we look at what one cemetery is doing to be more water-friendly amidst concerns of the drought and 'Breaking Bad' sweeps several Emmys Awards. All this and more.
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• 5:24
Last week, KPCC obtained emails from L.A. Unified officials indicating that the road to that deal wasn't entirely transparent. Now those contracts are being canceled.
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• 5:06
Yesterday, Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy canceled the district’s $1 billion iPad program.
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• 4:14
While eight of the 10 costliest earthquakes in U.S. history have occurred in California, only about 10 percent of Californians have earthquake insurance.
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• 6:19
Ann Louise Bardach wrote about the "Lifestyles of the Rich and Parched" for Politico. She says that wealthy residents in Montecito are trucking in water by the thousands of gallons.
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• 4:10
Cemeteries rely on a lot of water to keep grounds nice for the departed. But one historic memorial park in Rosemead, CA has decided to let the grass go brown and bring in native plants.
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• 4:29
Amazon is betting big on the future of streaming video games online by purchasing Twitch.TV for $970 million, but will their investment pay off?
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• 6:09
Many hoped some new names would make waves onstage at last night's Emmys, but in the end familiar faces wound up making the biggest splash.
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• 9:42
Justino Aguila, associate editor of Latin at Billboard Magazine, and music critic Steve Hochman join the show for another edition of Tuesday Reviewsday.
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• 4:14
This week, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is making his first official visit to California since taking office two years ago.
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• 5:10
A plan is moving forward to build a massive desalination plant in Rosarito Beach, Mexico which could serve both sides of the border.
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• 5:00
One-third of all AIDS patients in the world die from complications of an infection by the fungus Cryptococcus gattii. Its source in Southern California has been unknown for more than four decades until 13-yo Elan Filler was looking for a science project.
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• 4:48
The Station Fire began five years ago today. It swept through the Angeles National Forest and is considered the largest in LA County history
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• 7:41
Pluto - the solar system's loneliest dwarf planet - is getting a friend... eventually. It's the New Horizons probe from NASA and it just passed Neptune's orbit.
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• 4:18
Last year's Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park was another record-breaking fire. It burned a quarter of a million acres and left a lot of dead trees in its wake.
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• 5:36
The 90-year-old Berkeley Tuolomne Family Camp was destroyed by the Rim Fire last year, but efforts are underway to rebuild the camp.
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• 5:56
Funeral services for Michael Brown were held on Monday, but what awaits his family now is a long and complicated trial against the officer who shot the teen.