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Alissa, Scott, and Matt give a brief update on what's next for LA Podcast as we head into the thick of Election Season. We don't know much about you, listener! We would be grateful if you spend a few minutes on our short listener survey. Click Here. If you want to help us with election coverage, please send us an email: hello@thelapod.com Have a question about the upcoming election you'd like us to answer? Leave us a voicemail by calling: 323-250-2106 And, if you really want to see it, here is Mayor Garcetti's 2022 State of the City address. 

Alissa and Matt talk about climate change and LA's City Attorney. Then, Cerise Castle joins for a debrief on a recent candidate forum in the race to replace Alex Villanueva as LA County Sheriff. Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Read Edition 34 in your browser here. Purchase an LA Podcast fanny pack! Subscribe to Thirty Mile Zone, LA Podcast's sister podcast about LA Movies. Below you can find links to some subjects discussed on LA Podcast #221. Headlines: Read Peter Kalmus' Op-Ed in The Guardian on his protest Read his book called "Being the Change." Mike Feuer is in big trouble. See Justin Kloczko's write-up. Listen to Justin's appearance on LA Podcast. Watch Cerise Castle and Knock-LA's Sheriff's candidate forum. Read more about the court order to make Sheriff V testify under oath. And, read more about the latest LASD cover-up.

Alissa, Rachel, and Scott sit down to talk about how close we are to a grocery strike, celebrities thoughtlessly crossing picket lines, another legal settlement on homelessness, and the continuing implosion of Eric Garcetti.  Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Read Edition 33 in your browser here. Subscribe to Thirty Mile Zone, LA Podcast's sister podcast about LA Movies. Below you can find links to some subjects discussed on LA Podcast #220 Headlines: UFCW 770 has authorized a strike for grocery store workers. Celebrities crossed picket line at the Chateau Marmont to attend Jay-Z's Oscar afterparty. The LA Alliance Case has partially settled. Just the City of LA, and not the county. Read the settlement document for yourself. Read the LA Community Action Network's response. Eric Garcetti is even more toast now than ever before. An op-ed we liked about how much of a joy it is to watch Garcetti implode. Also mentioned: RSVP for Cerise Castle and Knock LA's sheriff's candidate forum on Tuesday.Watch the Black Lives Matter LA candidate forum from late March.Read Elijah Chiland's story on the slowness of state rent relief to tenants in rent debt.  

Alissa, Rachel, and Matt talk about civility in LA politics, how it's been one year since the Echo Park Lake closure, and the latest Garcetti news. Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Read Edition 32 in your browser here. Subscribe to Thirty Mile Zone, LA Podcast's sister podcast about LA Movies. Below you can find links to some subjects discussed on LA Podcast #219 Headlines: Read the UCLA report on where people displaced by the Echo Park Lake closure are one year later See Sam Levin's reporting in The Guardian on the same. Read Lisa Kwon's reporting in L.A. TACO about a sweep last week in Little Tokyo. Listen to LA Podcast's special episode on the no-longer-confidential report about sexual harassment in the LA Mayor's office. Plus: Yasmine Pomeroy's February announcement that she's suspending her campaign.

Alissa and Matt talk over no-longer-confidential report investigating allegations of sexual harassment inside the office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. The report's confidentiality was waived on March 18th. We obtained a copy, and have been reading it carefully.  Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Read Alissa's New York Magazine Story on accusations of sexual harassment in the Mayor's office.  

Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Read Edition 31 in your browser here. Subscribe to Thirty Mile Zone, LA Podcast's sister podcast about LA Movies. Below you can find links to some subjects discussed on LA Podcast #218 Headlines: Herb Wesson is (probably?) back. Read more from about "quo warranto" claims from the state attorney general's office. Read Alissa's story about pedestrian access to the LA River.  Read the LA Times Story about another former Mayor's office staffer who says she was harassed by Rick Jacobs.

Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Read Edition 30 in your browser here. Subscribe to Thirty Mile Zone, LA Podcast's sister podcast about LA Movies. Below you can find links to some subjects discussed on LA Podcast #217 Headlines: Republican Senator Chuck Grassley has objected to Garcetti's nomination to be Ambassador to India. Click here to learn about accusations that Mayor Garcetti perjured himself in front of the US Senate. Learn more about bargaining between grocery workers and their bosses across SoCal. Read more about the Provider Alliance mayoral candidate forum on homelessness. Watch it on Facebook video. 

Scott, Alissa, and Rachel get together to talk about the week’s events.

Scott, Alissa, and Rachel get together to talk about the week’s events, including a surprising end to City Council’s bid to reappoint former president Herb Wesson, a state demand for a rapid change to LA’s housing plan, and this week’s initial debate between mayoral candidates at LMU. Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Subscribe to Thirty Mile Zone, LA Podcast's sister podcast about LA Movies. Read Edition 28 in your browser here. Have a question about LA that you’ve never had a good answer to? You hear a lot from us, but we want to hear from you, too. Leave us a voicemail with a question, and we’ll answer it on the show: 323-250-2106

Alissa, Rachel, and Scott get together to talk about the bungled RAMS HOUSE sign in Hollywood, Rick Caruso’s early campaign rollout, a plan to return Herb Wesson to City Council (#StillWithHerb) and how the state’s duplex bill is being handled in Los Angeles and other cities in the county. Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Subscribe to Thirty Mile Zone, LA Podcast's sister podcast about LA Movies. Read Edition 27 in your browser here. Have a question about LA that you’ve never had a good answer to? You hear a lot from us, but we want to hear from you, too. Leave us a voicemail with a question, and we’ll answer it on the show: 323-250-2106

Alissa, Rachel and Scott get together to discuss updates in the city’s mayoral field including Karen Bass’s public safety plan. Also this week: The first LA super bowl in a generation, local politicians are responding to news about the state’s announced relaxing of mask rules, and LA City Council could make it a crime to have a broken bike in public. Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Subscribe to Thirty Mile Zone, LA Podcast's sister podcast about LA Movies. Read Edition 26 in your browser here. Purchase an LA Podcast fanny pack! Have a question about LA that you’ve never had a good answer to? You hear a lot from us, but we want to hear from you, too. Leave us a voicemail with a question, and we’ll answer it on the show: 323-250-2106 Below you can find links to some subjects discussed on LA Podcast #213. Headlines: An asinine proposal to criminalize fixing bikes in public. Rick Caruso is running for mayor. Read Karen Bass' public safety plan for yourself. Mask restrictions remain in Los Angeles, but maybe not other California counties. Super Bowl security theater.

Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Subscribe to Thirty Mile Zone, LA Podcast's sister podcast about LA Movies. Read Edition 25 in your browser here. Purchase an LA Podcast fanny pack! Have a question about LA that you’ve never had a good answer to? You hear a lot from us, but we want to hear from you, too. Leave us a voicemail with a question, and we’ll answer it on the show: 323-250-2106 Below you can find links to some subjects discussed on LA Podcast #212. Headlines: Eric Garcetti continues making a fool of himself. He's also being accused of perjury. Mitch O'Farrell's staff gets confrontational in an alleyway. How UCLA handled threats of violence on its campus.

Alissa and Scott are joined by Justin Kloczko to learn about what's behind the federal indictments relating to a complicated conspiracy at the heart of the LADWP and City Attorney's office. Justin Kloczko is an independent reporter. He writes for his own publication called The Debaser where he decodes LA's world of lawyers, and the corruption scandal touching several wings of Los Angeles's city government. Previously he worked for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, one of LA's legal-oriented newspapers.

Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Read Edition 24 in your browser here. Purchase an LA Podcast fanny pack! Have a question about LA that you’ve never had a good answer to? You hear a lot from us, but we want to hear from you, too. Leave us a voicemail with a question, and we’ll answer it on the show: 323-250-2106 Below you can find links to subjects discussed on LA Podcast #211. Headlines: Mike Bonin has decided to not seek reelection to his post on the LA City Council. He made the announcement in a video posted last week. Grove developer Rick Caruso might actually run for Mayor. LA's actually closing in on outlawing oil drilling in city limits. Street vendors in Santa Monica protest, saying the city unfairly targets them.

Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Read Edition 23 in your browser here. Purchase an LA Podcast fanny pack! Have a question about LA that you’ve never had a good answer to? You hear a lot from us, but we want to hear from you, too. Leave us a voicemail with a question, and we’ll answer it on the show: 323-250-2106 Below you can find links to subjects discussed on LA Podcast #210. Headlines: Read Cerise Castle's story on how Mayor Garcetti's staff diminished Black Lives Matter-LA in emails Garcetti nominates a new LAFD chief, who is also LA's first woman fire chief.  Read more about the LAFD's sexist and racist internal culture. Read more about convicted-for-corruption former LA City Councilmember Mitch Englander. Read more about corruption over at LADWP and the LA City Attorney's office.  Read Mike Ade's reporting in L.A. TACO on train robberies on LA's eastside. Read DA Gascón's response letter to Union Pacific's where he argues he is not blame for the robberies. Recall Bonin fails.  

Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Purchase an LA Podcast fanny pack! Have a question about LA that you’ve never had a good answer to? You hear a lot from us, but we want to hear from you, too. Leave us a voicemail with a question, and we’ll answer it on the show: 323-250-2106 Below are some links to topics discussed in the show: Alissa's story in Curbed about the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing. Dakota Smith's story in the Los Angeles Times about Vision Zero. Joe Linton's story in Streetsblog Los Angeles about Gil Cedillo nuking some bike lanes.

Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Purchase an LA Podcast fanny pack! Have a question about LA that you’ve never had a good answer to? You hear a lot from us, but we want to hear from you, too. Leave us a voicemail with a question, and we’ll answer it on the show: 323-250-2106

Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Purchase an LA Podcast fanny pack! Have a question about LA that you’ve never had a good answer to? You hear a lot from us, but we want to hear from you, too. Leave us a voicemail with a question, and we’ll answer it on the show: 323-250-2106

Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Purchase an LA Podcast fanny pack! Have a question about LA that you’ve never had a good answer to? You hear a lot from us, but we want to hear from you, too. Leave us a voicemail with a question, and we’ll answer it on the show: 323-250-2106

Support us on Patreon! Subscribe to the LA Newsletter!  Purchase an LA Podcast fanny pack! Have a question about LA that you’ve never had a good answer to? You hear a lot from us, but we want to hear from you, too. Leave us a voicemail with a question, and we’ll answer it on the show: 323-250-2106 Below you can find links to subjects discussed on LA Podcast #205. Headlines: See new lines for the Los Angeles County Supervisorial Districts here. The blurry lines between the Mayor's Fund For LA, and LA City Government. The latest on the Dominguez Channel cleanup. Prosecutors charge an allegedly negligent company for the OC Oil Spill in October. Garcetti sits for his confirmation, and little of note happened.