Take Two

Today's show was devoted to LAist's Racism 101 project: how to be an ally, what it mean to 'code switch' and defund the police, the legacy of slavery

Plan to spend $88 Million of LAPD budget on poor communities moves forward, the challenges of vaccinating California's farmworkers, film production comes back to LA.

Compton Unified reopens schools March 8, how the pandemic has compounded our grief, a wind power company to breed California Condors to replace those killed by turbines

LA's Board of Supervisors have a plan to use vacant property to house the homeless, explaining how vaccine passports might work, more vaccine doses being set aside for LAUSD staff.

State of Affairs and California's new relief package, the fight over "hero pay" for grocery store workers, how state regulators are prepping our grid for extreme heat this summer

West Covina Moves Ahead With Plan to Start Own Health Department, How Banana Trees can Help Fight Fires, Goodbye Fry's (and Your Whimsical So Cal Storefronts).

Who's running to fill Holly Mitchell's senate seat, why Facebook should deliver targeted vaccine PSAs, Hollywood is seeking federal pandemic assistance

Health experts say we're getting near the end of the long pandemic tunnel; LA school board president on prioritizing vulnerable communities when reopening schools; vaccine production challenges

Small, more affluent public school districts will back in class sooner than others, LA Schools hopeful for a return to sports soon, the film 'Mank' is straight outta 1930s Hollywood.

The politics of reopening schools and vaccinating teachers; an argument for a third, more center, political party in the U.S., thoughts about how to reform policing in LA

What J&J Vaccine Stoppage Means for California's Rollout, Settlement with City in Sight Over Homeless in LA, What Dryness in Santa Cruz Mountains Means for Wildfires this Summer

Everyone 16 and Over Are Eligible for Coronavirus Vaccine in LA County on Tuesday, LAUSD Students Finally Heading Back to Class, The Fate of Bruce's Beach

How the Pandemic is Slowing the Census Count, California's Sweeping State Fire Prevention Plan Explained, Fans Are Back at Dodger Stadium.

Biden Takes Executive Action on 'Ghost Guns' and Red Flag Laws, California's New System to Collect Data about the State's Homeless, Apple Launches a Podcast That's Also a Doc Series

What to Expect when California's Economy Opens Back Up, OC DA Todd Spitzer Talks Tough About Crime and Reform

LA and the Getty Collaborate on the Black Heritage Project, How One 'Unfit' Nursing Home Was Still Able to Operate, the Oscar-Nominated Scribe of film 'One Night in Miami'

What it Means That LA County Is In The Orange Tier, We Go Behind-the-Scenes as LAUSD Preps to Reopen Classrooms, The Ongoing Saga of Burbank's Tin Horn Flats Saloon

Looking at the implications Bide's infrastructure proposal has for CA, breaking down another year of drought, and what it takes to reopen CA museums

Asian-American communities are reeling in the wake of surging attacks, Exploring the poignancy of The film “Minari”, and Godzilla vs. Kong hits viewer screens.

Balancing More Vaccines and More Businesses Re-opening With Growing COVID cases, LAPD Program Celebrated for Positive Community Relationships, How Kemp Powers Became Integral to Pixar's "Soul."

SOA on Rob Bonta's AG Appointment and changes to Cash Bail, USC awards $852 million to patients of Dr. George Tyndall, Disneyland Aims to Remodel

Fencing Around Echo Park Lake - and Removal of Homeless - Draws Protests, Gun Violence was Up in 2020, We Say Goodbye to 'Servant of Pod'