Today on the show, Peter Lee of Covered California on how the state's healthcare exchange differs from healthcare.gov; LA's water wars fictionalized in the iconic 1974 film 'Chinatown'; Owens Valley braces for possible new resource war as LADWP seeks the sun's gold; Major drug trafficking tunnel discovered at US-Mexico border, plus much more.
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• 7:57
All the media attention being paid to the technical glitches on Healthcare.gov, the federally run website to enroll for the Affordable Care Act, is confusing residents of states that have their own locally-run health care exchanges.
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• 4:25
Officials announced Wednesday that they had discovered a newly finished tunnel between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.
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• 2:00
University of California president Janet Napolitano has announced she'll spend $5 million to help undocumented students succeed in the UC system. That's despite the lack of federal financial aid.
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• 10:18
The iconic 1974 film "Chinatown" is a fictionalized version of the story of L.A. water, but one that's so ingrained in popular consciousness it's almost hard to separate from the truth.
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• 4:45
Owens Valley residents fear a DWP-proposed solar ranch will open new ways to drain resources from the valley.
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• 5:55
Tess Vigeland introduces us to the female chief executive of this heavily "fanboy" event.
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• 9:03
If you'd like to avoid the traditional Halloween music tonight, you can head to the Commonwealth Lounge in Fullerton. There you'll be able to listen to funk band Myron and E as well as the Boogaloo Assassins, who play a style of music called Boogaloo.
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• 15:06
It's Thursday and that means it's time for State of Affairs, our look at politics and government throughout California. To help us with that we're joined in studio now by KPCC political reporters Alice Walton and Frank Stoltze.
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• 4:11
The question of how people of Latin American descent choose to be identified surfaced again this week after the Pew Research Center put out a brief report.
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• 5:01
Underwood Farms here in California has a humongous pumpkin patch, which happens to grow some pretty big pumpkins. Their largest was about 625 pounds, but that's nothing compared to the pumpkin grown by Tim Mathison, the current World Champion of pumpkin growers.
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• 4:26
Increased learning standards mean less play - even for the littlest kids. And some are worried about what children are losing in the process.
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• 8:29
A new experimental technology called BrainGate at Brown University hopes to allow immobilized patients to control robotic limbs with their thoughts. Jessica Benko writes about Cathy Hutchinson in the most recent issue of The Atavist.
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• 5:51
Every week we get your weekend conversation starters with Rico Gagliano and Brendan Newnam, the hosts of the Dinner Party Download podcast and radio show