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A news and politics podcast for people who live in LA. We invite you to become a paid subscriber so we can keep delivering the show to you every week!

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💵 New Monday, new LA podcast, and we’re asking the big questions! 💵

Mike, Godfrey, and Mariel analyze the deep-pocketed players funding LA’s expensive mayoral race, and their motivations (spoiler alert: one wants new bike lanes). California billionaires are responding as one might expect to the possibility of a one-time wealth tax. And with ballots arriving now — voting early is so important! — a look at efforts to protect the polls.

All of us at LA Podcast love making episodes for you every week and we want to keep delivering them to you every Monday. Please become a paid subscriber to keep us hard at work — thank you so much to the 23(!) who joined us over the past week. We’re more than a third of the way to our goal of 100 new subscribers by Election Day. Sign up today at lapodcast.org

Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, on the web at lapodcast.org, or virtually wherever you get your podcasts 💰 by @thelapod

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Mike’s here to give you a sneak peek of this week’s LA Pod and you won’t want to miss it! Out tomorrow morning — turn on post notifications and we’ll remind you ☀️ by @thelapod

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📝 get your pencils out — class is in session on this week’s new episode of LA Pod!

Alissa, Godfrey, and guest co-host Robert Greene dig into the minutiae of ongoing County governance reform and our upcoming ballot measure alphabet soup. A new poll turns the mayoral race on its head: Nithya Raman is now leading Karen Bass by double digits. And does Los Angeles have a weak mayor… or is it just a weak city?

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, on the web at lapodcast.org, or almost anywhere you get your podcasts. And don’t forget to check us out on all our new platforms! 🗳️

LA Podcast can only publish on a weekly basis thanks to the support of our paid subscribers — thank you to the 10 folks who have recently joined us! Our goal is 100 new subscribers by Election Day to cover our costs and keep this show on the metaphorical road. Sign up today at lapodcast.org by @thelapod

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Fifty years ago, LA was run by an old-school downtown establishment. The LAPD held outsized power. Communities of color had little institutional voice. Then Liberty Hill Foundation was founded — and started funding the movements that would reshape the city from the ground up. 🌆

On the new episode, I sit down with Shane Murphy Goldsmith, President & CEO of @libertyhillfound, to trace LA's arc of changemaking through Liberty Hill's 50-year history — tenants' rights, labor, immigrant rights, environmental justice, youth justice, police reform, and more.

Link in bio to listen 🎙️

#LibertyHill #LosAngeles #LAPolitics #SocialJustice #Podcast #Changemaking #GrassrootsOrganizing by @thelapod

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✅ new episode of LA Podcast ✅

Alissa, Mike, and guest co-host Matthew Reagan of The LA Local dive into accountability, litigation, and federal assistance in Boyle Heights after the Lineage fire. LAHSA as we know it is over. And on the same day as a safe streets rally, five Angelenos are killed when a driver crashes an SUV into a Metro bus, then a news helicopter covering the crash also crashes. Only in LA?

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, on the web at thinkforward.la, or almost anywhere you get your podcasts. 🏡 by @thelapod

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Happy Monday and happy new LA Podcast day 🌴

Mike, Memo, and guest co-host Faizah Malik look back on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and its legacies, including the Department of Homeland Security, which recently decided they will not (yet) revoke Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans. Then: childcare in Los Angeles is becoming more difficult and more expensive to find — but maybe a billionaire tax could help?

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, on the web at thinkforward.la, or almost anywhere you get your podcasts. 💵 by @thelapod

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🚀💫 a new episode of LA Pod has arrived from a galaxy far, far away 👽🛸

Scott, Alissa, and Sophie attempt to understand the Lucas Museum’s decade-long arrival in Expo Park and what “narrative art” actually means. Does this mean the La La Land optimism of 2016 LA is back? MacArthur Park hosts a picnic — and potentially a new fence? And more major endorsements in the mayoral race.

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, on the web at Think Forward, or almost anywhere you get your podcasts. 🪐 by @thelapod

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Today is @awalkerinla's birthday! A great way to help her celebrate would be become a paid subscriber to her amazing Torched newsletter. It is a vital source of information about preparations for the Olympics, transportation, infrastructure and a whole lot more. Visit Torched.LA and subscribe. Happy Birthday, Alissa!

You are already a paid subscriber to LA Podcast, right? If not, thinkforward.la is where you sign up. by @thelapod

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Long Beach is the second-largest city in LA County and one of the most diverse, running its own port, airport, and health department. We talk with its mayor, Rex Richardson, and ask if he's eyeing the county's new elected CEO seat. On the first episode of a new season of What's Next Los Angeles. 🎙️ taken in Long Beach, California by @thelapod

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🚨New LA Podcast alert — and it’s a hot one 🥵🚨 Alissa, Mike, and Olga discover that extreme humidity pairs nicely with our already-crumbling infrastructure. Luckily, social media is the key to fixing potholes! Controller Kenneth Mejia tries to demystify LA28’s finances. And will DSA-LA make an LA mayoral endorsement — and does it matter?

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, on the web at Think Forward, or almost anywhere you get your podcasts. 🔥 by @thelapod

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On this week’s LA Podcast…. Mike, Godfrey, and Olga dissect the heated mayoral debate at the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association. Will LA see a Paramount Skydance Warner Brothers lot? Uber and Lyft drivers won the right to organize, making labor history. Then: you can file to run for LA County CEO starting next month, but what does this job actually entail?

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, on the web at Think Forward, or almost anywhere you get your podcasts by @thelapod

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New week, new LA Podcast! Alissa, Godfrey, and Loraine go deep on LAUSD’s many changes and challenges as this new school year begins. LA’s City Council is set to make big shifts on how to address homelessness, but the hardest part might be getting everyone to agree. And what will actually get Angelenos out of their cars?

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, on the web at Think Forward, or almost anywhere you get your podcasts. by @thelapod

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