Take Two

The week in California politics, answering questions about that second dose of the vaccine, and music to take help you decompress from the stresses of this week.

Take Two devotes an hour to LAist's Racism 101 Project to help answer people's questions about race and facilitate conversation.

LA Supervisor Janie Hahn talks about why it's ok to reopen outdoor dining, California energy secretaries respond to Biden climate plan, Selena gets a podcast.

LA will be hit hard by rain this week, plus an audit of the state's unemployment agency finds it woefully unprepared for recession, restaurants react to re-opening

The Governor, citing flattening of curve, drops statewide stay-at-home orders, though LA still in purple tier; media literacy in 2021

We look at the future of CA's relationship with the Whitehouse, an update on L.A.'s vaccine rollout and Becerra announces a concerning "pattern and practice" by LASD.

We look at the implications of President Biden's environmental policy on the state, check in on how LA hospitals are holding up during the coronavirus surge, and look at history of Smallpox in L.A..

The historic inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, meet the mentor of the first Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, and a reflection on the Chilean coup.

We answer the latest questions about the spread of the coronavirus in LA County, So Cal teachers get serious about civics post-insurrection, and Biden expected to push for path to citizenship

Dodger Stadium opens up as a mass vaccination site, Kemp Powers has a written two films this winter, including 'One Night in Miami,' and we profile one of LA's to citizen journalists.

LAUSD teachers: to strike or not to strike? Which films wowed at the Telluride Film Festival, life after internment...according to Japanese-Americans.

The affect of Harvard's discrimination here in L.A., a new column that focuses on lady health issues, hunting treasure on Los Angeles beaches.

Santa Monica decides which scooter companies it will work with, Figueroa adds bike lanes near USC, California's Community Colleges end remedial courses.

How SoCal cities are responding to sea level rise, why L.A.'s job growth is so sluggish, a homeless housing initiative in Van Nuys lacks proper permitting.

A look at how the Trump Administration's new trade deal with Mexico might affective state, evictions may lead to homelessness, how pelicans recover from oil spills.

Al Gore will be in L.A. this week to run environmentalist activist training, tensions over homeless housing rise in Venice, music on the Porch Day in Highland Park.

Teachers in the L.A. Unified School District started voting Thursday on whether or not to strike, Arizona State University announced it will set up a campus in downtown L.A., Australians fighting California wildfires

The city moves to sue the U.S. Department of Justice, meet Pomona native and NASA-SpaceX astronaut Victor J. Glover, LAPD's new anti-street racing enforcement team.

The effects of Cohen and Manafort, ACLU on California bail reform, the state's net neutrality bill gets another shot in the assembly.

Bail reform loses support from ACLU, what utility fire liability changes can mean for consumers, the criteria to make something an official monument.

What's the potential for more fires this year? Charter Spectrum poises itself to launch a new 24-hour local news channel, new developments on Parker center debate.

CA politicians debate who should pay for post-fire cleanup, from the ashes of the L.A. riots came an urban farm, how to eat well while camping.