On Tuesday Take Two discusses how much candidates rack up on credit cards during campaigns, a doctor who worked in Liberia quarantining himself in California and why Taylor Swift decided to pull her new album from the free music streaming service Spotify and what this means for the music industry.
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• 8:07
Lawmakers in California used credit cards to make more than $4 million in purchases in the first 18 months of the election period, according to an investigation by the Sacramento Bee.
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• 6:17
Doctor Colin Bucks practices emergency medicine at Stanford and until about a week ago he was on the front lines of the Ebola fight in Liberia. He decided to go into quarantine before the state of California mandated such measures for returning health workers.
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• 8:48
Take Two speaks with Sherman Alexie, one of the producers of the film, who is also the author of books such as "Reservation Blues" and "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian."
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• 6:02
A shuttle van that goes off-road. A car/guitar amp. And tires designed to be recycled into shoe soles. A trade show for auto customizers opens in Vegas.
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• 5:33
The singer effectively dumped Spotify by removing all of her albums from its catalogue. For more on what this means for the music industry, Steve Knopper joins Take Two.
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• 9:24
Oliver Wang and Morgan Rhodes are back in the studio with their picks of new music that they think you should be listening to.
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• 6:19
For more on why race has become such a difficult issue to talk about in politics, Mark Sawyer, director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, joins Take Two.
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• 3:35
Alex Cohen talks with reporter Matthias Gafni for the latest in this story.
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• 4:25
Chile is now allowing marijuana cultivation for medical use. It's also allowed a Chilean woman, who is terminally ill, to import a cannabis-based medicine from Europe. The BBC's Gideon Long reports.
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• 4:01
This summer's water main break at UCLA sent 20 million gallons of water gushing into streets, storm drains and into the ocean, all during a drought. The owners of Sticker Planet launched "Make it Up LA" to help conserve water.
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• 7:03
It is no question that parts of the city's water distribution system are badly in need of a repair, in the wake of significant bursts. But how to prioritize? Senior Assistant General Manager of the LADWP Water System joins Take Two.
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• 4:31
County supervisors will spend $3 million to revamp the open space near Whittier Narrows Nature Center, but the plan has divided environmentalists. SCPR's Jed Kim reports.
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• 4:13
In Texas, mountain lions can be hunted at will. Still, preliminary results from a four-year-old study suggest the number of Texas mountain lions is stable, and may be growing.
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• 1:12
The killings at a coyote hunting contest in Bakersfield this past weekend are legal, but they've outraged conservationists who are working to ban predator killing competitions state-wide in California.
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• 8:04
For anyone who puts off cooking because of the time it takes, New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman’s new book, "How to Cook Everything Fast," has a solution.