The LA City Council votes to require all residents to lock up their handguns. Former MBL player says taxi driver snubbed him based on race. Styleside looks at the candidates
Round three for the GOP: Candidates to spar over ‘your money’
Ten presidential hopefuls take to the stage tonight in Boulder Colorado for the third GOP primary debate, televised on CNBC.
Candidates will speak on topics ranging from the economy to jobs in an installment titled, "Your Money, Your Vote."
At the center will be a very familiar face: businessman Donald Trump. This time, however, he shares the spotlight with Ben Carson. They're both political outsiders, but it's fair to say their approaches are a little different.
Scott Adler is a professor of political science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He gave a preview to Take Two.
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LA's new rule to handgun owners: lock em'up
The LA City Council voted unanimously to pass a new law requiring hand gun owners to store their weapons in a locked container or disable them with a trigger lock unless they are close by.
Take Two's Alex Cohen talks to Councilman Paul Krekorian, the law's author, about the new rule.
Northrop Grumman's new Air Force deal could revive Southern California's ailing aerospace industry
The Air Force announced Tuesday that Northrop Grumman was chosen to build a new, top-secret stealth bomber, beating out Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
The company has said it plans to build the half-billion-dollar airship at its Palmdale complex in north Los Angeles County.
That could bring thousands of jobs to the area and beyond, and re-energize an ailing aerospace industry in Southern California.
William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy, joined the show to tell more.
State Assembly Speaker Rendon: Cuts in early childhood education 'a very bad thing for our workforce'
Incoming state Assembly speaker, Anthony Rendon, is known as an environmentalist. His career, however, began in different field -- running childcare and preschool centers for low-income children. He knows well the challenges faced by the early childhood field.
“During my time running early childhood organizations in this state, our funding was cut by $1.3 billion for early childhood education,” Rendon said. He sees funding as the the primary obstacle to getting more children into quality preschool.
During his watch, Rendon said, the impact of the budget cuts translated to a dramatic drop in per child funding for programs that accept low-income children and get reimbursed from state coffers. He said that his reimbursement rate was “$31 per child per day in 2008 [and] by 2012 we were reimbursed at $17 per child per day.”
It’ a problem faced by preschool directors statewide: how to provide quality programs for less money. Since the recession ended, Rendon said, only about $400 million of the cuts have been restored. It’s something he plans to continue working on in Sacramento despite Governor Brown’s veto of the most recent childcare bill.
Rendon’s district, which encompasses much of southeast L.A., qualifies as a desert when it comes to finding childcare. Cudahy and Maywood are some of the hardest places to find childcare in L.A. County. “We have about 3,000 children who are between 0 to 5 and we only have about 350 spaces for them,” said Maywood Mayor Oscar Magana, told KPCC last year.
It’s a problem that Rendon acknowledges has affected a swath of children in his district who were born right before the recession in 2008. Many of those children may well have missed out on any early education, and right now they are showing up in kindergarten and first grade.
“It’s a very bad thing for our K-12 schools, it’s a very bad thing for our [future] workforce,” Rendon said. “Losing the ability to send children to early childhood education for a generation is a crime, doing it twice, doing it for the next generation is even worse.”
Another concern in the early childhood field is the potential of more poor families losing childcare when the minimum wage increase goes into effect in Los Angeles. The small wage rise might push some families above the state threshold to qualify for free or subsidized childcare, forcing parents to choose between pulling kids out of childcare as they will be unable to afford market rates for preschool, or dropping out of the workforce. But raising the income threshold would mean more children statewide would qualify for subsidized preschool increasing demand for already limited seats.
“It’s a conundrum that can be solved through increased funding of early childhood education,” Rendon said.
Does he agree with raising the income threshold by which families qualify? “Absolutely,” Rendon said, “I’m completely in favor of that.”
Doug Glanville on getting shunned by a taxi driver at LAX
Here in Los Angeles, many residents like to think we do better than other parts of the country when it comes to racism.
That we disprove the stereotypes like the commonly held notion that it's tough, if not impossible, for an African American to catch a cab.
But, as Doug Glanville recently discovered, we don't always live up to our name as the City of Angels.
Glanville is a former Major League Baseball player and a current commentator for ESPN. He flew into LAX recently and when he reached the front of the taxi line, the driver refused to take him, telling him to take the bus instead.
Glanville, who is African American, believes it was racially motivated. He wrote about his experience for The Atlantic, and joined Take Two to talk about what's happened since the incident.
"It's stressful as an African American male," Glanville says, "things that seem to be simple are not simple. You know, I'm shoveling my driveway, I get a police officer in my driveway. I try to go get a cab in all these different cities-- and it's not just L.A., it's all over the country-- where, unless it's in a controlled environment, which theoretically the sort of airport structure would be, I run into a lot of these issues."
Deborah Flint, the newly installed executive director of the Los Angeles World Airports, has spoken with Glanville.
"I was very concerned, very upset, to hear about his experience at LAX," Flint says. "And I expressed that to him immediately."
Flint says an investigation was launched, the driver was identified, and he is currently under investigation.
The driver, Flint explained, "is not able to drive while these charges are being investigated against him... He does have a hearing process that is under way and he will have choices to appeal the findings of that process whatever that might be. But ultimately, the penalty is a stiff one for refusal of service. And that is, his license could be revoked for a year."
For Doug Glanville, the whole incident has taken on a larger purpose.
"This is a basic thing I'm trying to do. Land, and just get to my hotel. Why am I going through this type of nonsense, and weeks later still trying to navigate this? Well, to me, then it has to have sort of a bigger cause, and that is to really try to help a lot of other people, not just myself."
To hear the full interview with Doug Glanville and Deborah Flint, click the blue player above.
Walking while black: drivers less likely to stop for black pedestrians
It's well known that African-Americans have a tougher time on the road. They are less likely to get a cab, for example, and more likely to be pulled over.
Add "more difficulties crossing the street" to that list.
A new study shows that at crosswalks, drivers are less likely to stop for African-American men.
Those pedestrians spent 32 percent more time waiting for cars to slow down compared to white pedestrians.
The research was conducted by professors Kimberly Kahn at Portland State University and Arlie Adkins at the University of Arizona.
For the study, they went to downtown Portland during the day with six men. Each was around the same age with similar heights, builds, outfits, pace and posture.
But half were black and the other half were white.
They were instructed to walk across a marked crosswalk that's mid-block – that's where there are no signals to stop traffic, but drivers are required by law to stop for pedestrians crossing the street.
The first cars to reach the crosswalk were slightly more likely to stop for the white men. However, if the first car didn't stop, that's where a big racial discrepancy happened.
As they were on the curb, the black men were twice as likely to wait for multiple cars to pass by before one would stop.
The results were so dramatic that it took the researchers by surprise.
Social psychology professor Kimberly Kahn joins Take Two to explain more about her study.
Sports Roundup: Abby Wambach drops the mic and The World Series keeps going and going and going …
It was the LONGEST game one in World Series history. Fourteen innings that took more than five hours when it was all said and done. We'll hear comments on that epic contest - and other hot topics in our regular Wednesday sports segment with
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The Styled Side: presidential campaign couture
Forget about who's wearing what on the runway. Today, it's all about who's wearing what behind the debate lectern.
The next Republican presidential debate takes place Wednesday night. While we've parsed over the candidate's platforms and statements, their looks are just as important.
A red color tie may convey one thing to voters than a striped blue one. A vibrantly colored pant suit may help you visually stand out among your black-suited challengers on stage.
Michelle Dalton Tyree, founder of Fashion Trends Daily, joins Take Two to assess the importance of campaign couture.
A non-crafty parent's dilemma: what to do about Halloween?
Halloween isn't until Saturday, but for many kids, the big day is Friday— that's the day when most schools are holding their Halloween celebrations.
For parents of younger kids who aren't coming up with their own costumes, that means right now is crunch time to get the costumes done. And there can be a lot of pressure to make something AWESOME.
But how to go about it? Buy something from a store? Make a costume yourself? Cobble something together from things around the house?
Freelance writer
recently wrote a piece in Slate about her quest to craft a homemade costume for her son for Halloween. She joined Alex Cohen and Deepa Fernandes for a chat about the pressures of Halloween for parents lacking in the time and talent departments.
To listen to the full interview, click the blue player above.