California Groundbreakers

We're running a monthly series called "Food for Thought," in-depth conversations with groundbreakers who run farms, restaurants, wineries, breweries and bars around California and are shaking up the way we eat and drink.

Our second talk is with a couple of "empire builders" in the region's restaurant scene: Chris Jarosz of Broderick Roadhouse fame and Garrett Van Vleck, one of the partners in the Shady Lady crew. Neither of them are top chefs or award-winning bartenders, but they sure know how to build brands and turn concepts into drink and dining hotspots.

Listen to Jarosz and Van Vleck talk about how their pasts, presents and futures, where they're rolling out the next phases of their dining empires, and how they manage all these places without losing their sanity.

PODCAST TIMEFRAME

* O to 4:40 min - Intro to California Groundbreakers

* 4:40 min - "I'm Garrett Van Vleck and I'm an exotic dancer . . . " - the panelists introduce themselves

* 9:10 min - A drifter with tattoos and "jail time" - Chris Jarosz's back story

* 21:25 min - Meanwhile, back at the ranch . . . the childhood home that comprises 1.5 percent of all land in Sacramento County - Garrett Van Vleck's back story

* 27:30 min - "Either they're going to be okay over there, or they might be dead" - turning derelict buildings in not-so-great locations during the Great Recession into today's hot spots

* 37 min - "When someone walks into a place, they should look around and say, 'I know what this is'" - turning a concept into a fleshed-out establishment

* 45:30 min - "I spent two years saying 'I can fix this' . . . and the next thing you know, I'm almost $1 million in debt" - biggest failures, and biggest lessons learned from them

* 56:45 min - "We argue about every little detail, all day, every day" - the Shady Lady crew branching out from bars to food-focused spots

* 1 hr, 1:25 min - "People are coming through from all over the world and the message when they go home [should be], "Holy shit, Sacramento is pretty bad ass" - Chris J. branching out into the 'burbs and into the State Capitol

* 1 hr, 13:15 min - "Keep it small" - Garrett V.V's top advice for aspiring restaurateurs

* 1 hr, 16:40 min - "For what we deal with in our lives, I think we need to be more appreciative and value every day that we have" - Chris J. on the Marines and the military

* 1 hr, 21:45 min - "They kept going after me" - what made Garrett V.V. take the plunge

* 1 hr, 24 min - "He does not like Davis. He will never go to Davis." - how to pick locations outside Sacramento to open up a new place

* 1 hr, 28: 45 - "There were 30 restaurant permits pulled recently in the City of Sacramento area alone, and we're all thinking, 'Oh shit, how are we going to get through this?'" - camaraderie vs competition in the business

* 1 hr, 32:35 min - "A lot of us are standing on the sidelines and waiting to see what happens over the next couple of years" - would you open up your next place in Sacramento today?

* 1 hr, 38 min - "I'll never forget the first time we started putting on the menu, 'This cocktail was made by this bartender'" - the cocktail-creation process

* 1 hr, 42:25 min - "At the time, he was running around with a shotgun, trying to take out food trucks. I have the bullet holes to prove it." - how being a restaurateur is kind of like being a politician

* 1 hr, 47:45 min - "Joe's Crab Shack is the highest-volume restaurant in the entire city" - can Old Sacramento ever become the city's next hot spot?

We've started a new series called "Food for Thought," in-depth conversations with groundbreakers who run farms, restaurants, breweries and bars around California and are shaking up how we eat and drink - and the way we think about food and drink.

Kicking it off is a discussion with two well-known Sacramento restaurateurs -- Andrea Lepore of Hot Italian, and N'Gina and Ian Kavookjian of South. While one restaurant focuses on pizza and the other on down-home Southern cooking, the three owners share a common trait: they wanted to serve food they've since childhood that is rooted in their cultural heritage. They're also now branching out into different, new-to-them areas (a Jewish deli and the Food Factory business incubator for Lepore, the Quinn vintage retail shop and an "urban country club" called the Good Saint for the Kavookjians).

Hear them talk about how they got started, where they're going now, what food means to them, and how they want to change up Sacramento with their restaurants and future endeavors.

PODCAST TIMELINE

* O to 5:55 min - Intro to California Groundbreakers and the "Food for Thought" series

* 5:55 min - Panelists introduce themselves - and the food/drinks they're currently craving

* 10 min - How did food fit into your childhood, and how did it play a role while you were growing up?

* 17:35 - What made you decide to open a restaurant focused on your childhood-favorite cuisine?

* 27:05 - Lessons learned about opening up a restaurant

* 35:30 - The importance of design and sustainability in your restaurants and other projects

* 44:20 - Plans (or not) for the new Jewish delis

* 50:40 The Kavookjians' new "urban country club"

* 58 min - The Food Factory, Andrea Lepore's new business incubator

* 1 hr, 3 min - What does food innovation mean to you?

* 1 hr, 12 min - Adapting traditional recipes to make them healthier and more wholesome but still "real"

* 1 hr, 17:20 min - Molecular gastronomy: Truly innovative or tech just gone plain wild?

* 1 hr, 21:35 min - How do you feel about serving boxed wine and canned beers in your restaurants?

* 1 hr, 27:20 min - What are the opportunities and the skill gaps in the food industry around here?

* 1 hr, 33:15 min - What you would love to see added to the Sacramento region's food scene?

After the epic winter of 2017, we all know what the term "atmospheric river" means, and what a "spillway" is. Now we're about to learn more about the state of our aging levees and crumbling dams; how (or if) they can be repaired; how much will that all cost; and who's supposed to pay that particular water bill.

Our good group of panelists explain what repairs are needed to our massive water infrastructure system to keep the Central Valley from turning back into the inland sea it used to be, and what local and state government have planned if/when we go back to drought.

PANELISTS

* James Gallagher, California Assemblyman representing the 3rd District, which includes the Oroville Dam

* Leslie Gallagher, executive officer of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board

* Brent Hastey, director of the Yuba County Water Agency, and a board director for the Association of California Water Agencies

* Jay Lund, executive director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis

* Michael Mierzwa, lead flood management planner at the California Department of Water Resources

PODCAST TIMEFRAME

0 to 4:15 min - Intro to California Groundbreakeras

4:15 min - Panelists introduce themselves

14 min - Lessons learned by the Department of Water Resources after the Oroville Dam break

17:35 min - Status report on the Central Valley levees

23:30 min - How is the state legislature thinking about water-infrastructure fixes?

32:30 min - Can we breathe easier now that the reservoirs are filled and the drought has been officially ruled as over?

37 min - The view from UC Davis' Center for Watershed Sciences on California's weather forecast

44:15 min - How to fund the fixes - and who will pay for it?

49:30 min - How do we handle the issue of restoring California's dwindling groundwater levels?

1 hr, 20 min - The Yolo Bypass is an successful example of flood plain management - can it be replicated elsewhere in the state?

1 hr, 8:15 min - Can't we just tear down some of our dams?

1 hr, 16 min - The Central Valley is an inland sea, and many of us live deep in a flood basin - do we move out or do we just accept the risks (and the costs) of living here?

1 hr, 21:15 min - The trade off between having vegetation and eco habitats around the levees vs. flood safety

1 hr, 28:30 min - How the state is -- and should be -- integrating climate change into its future plans for our water infrastructure

An affordable housing project for seniors in San Francisco's Mission District was just taken to court. Affordable housing for low-income residents in Orange County was waylaid for several months. And a homeless shelter for teenagers originally planned for San Francisco's Marina District had to move elsewhere.

They're just a few examples of how the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, is used as a way to block housing and other types of development.

But CEQA’s defenders say the landmark law, passed in 1970, has given California cleaner air, less congestion and sewage, and made it a more desirable place to live. Home developers say that, depending where you are in the California, the onorous fees, codes and CEQA-specific reviews mean they pay at least $50,000 before even putting a shovel in the ground.

So do we love CEQA for keeping California from being congested and over-built? Do we champion it as it is because it gives people the power to block development they want? Or should we tell state government to reform CEQA or even scrap it?

This is the final part of our Crazy Housing Market Series, held on April 28 in the basement of Graciano's Speakeasy in Old Sacramento which, based on CEQA regulations, maybe wouldn't get the go-ahead for construction today.

PANELISTS

* Tom Buford, senior planner with the City of Sacramento

* Chris Norem, director of government and legislative affairs at the North State Building Industry Association

* Howard Penn, executive director of the Planning and Conservation League

* Tina Thomas, founder of the Thomas Law Group in Sacramento and original co-author of the environmental-law textbook "Guide to the California Environmental Quality Act"

PODCAST TIMEFRAME

O to 5:15 min - Intro to California Groundbreakers

5:15 min - Panelists introduce themselves

11:15 min - The layman's description of CEQA, how it works, and what it covers?

14:40 min - How does CEQA affect housing?

16:15 min - What real estate developers and homebuilders think about CEQA, and how they want it to change

20 min - An environmentalist's POV of CEQA and how it should change/not change

26 min - How CEQA has shaped the City of Sacramento, and how it's shaping its future landscape

31:55 min - How does our CEQA act compare and contrast to what other states and the Feds have on the books

34 min - The process for how anyone can file a CEQA-related lawsuit

46:20 min - Does CEQA affect where developers build, and not build?

47:40 min - How CEQA has turned into an industry

49:25 min - How can cities and developers create accurate Environmental Impact Reports on empty plots of land?

1 hr, 1:25 min - How Mayor Darrell Steinberg has affected CEQA and made changes to it

1 hr, 15:15 min - How are local jurisdictions doing in streamlining CEQA

1 hr, 24:25 min - What's the sweet spot for CEQA being streamlined, and the public still having their say?

According to Realtor. com, Sacramento is #7 of the Top 10 U.S. cities that are gentrifying the fastest in 2017. And while our median home price increase during 2000-2015 has more than doubled (from $127,500 to $255,000) we're only 26.5 percent gentrified.

Sacramento is also on Top 10 Lists of most diverse cities. How can we gentrify our city and still keep the neighborhoods diversified in age, race and income?

That's the topic of Part 3 of our four-part panel series, "California's Crazy Housing Market," held in Ground Zero of gentrification in Sacramento today - Oak Park.

PANELISTS

* William Burg, Sacramento historian and author -- his latest book is "Midtown Sacramento: Creative Soul of the City"

* Tom Karvonen, co-owner of Oak Park Brewing

* Barbara Range, owner and curator of the Brickhouse Art Gallery in Oak Park

* Tracy Stigler, president of St. Hope Development Company

* Katie Valenzuela Garcia, president of the Oak Park Neighborhood Association, and co-facilitator for the Sacramento Neighborhood Coalition (which is currently working on creating a community land trust)

PODCAST TIMEFRAME

* 0 to 6 min - Intro to California Groundbreakers

* 6 min - Panelists introduce themselves

* 16:15 min - The role of former Mayor and (Oak Park native) Kevin Johnson's St. Hope Development in developing and revitalizing Oak Park

* 21:30 min - Why Oak Park Brewery decided to open up shop in Oak Park

* 23:20 min - Why Brickhouse Galley chose to open in Oak Park

* 27:45 min - Why racial discrimination, "redlining" and segregation still exists in Sacramento, and what Oak Park Neighborhood Association is doing about it

* 33 min - How gentrification has changed Sacramento through the years, and how Oak Park compares and contrasts to examples of other neighborhoods in the past

* 42:15 min - What is St Hope's mission and vision in balancing the "old" and the "new" in Oak Park?

* 49:30 - How a "new" business like Oak Park Brewery gets involved in, and gives back to, the neighborhood

* 53 min - Artists are often "pioneers" who move into a under-the-radar neighborhood. So do they boost a neighborhood, or just speed up its gentrification?

* 1 hr, 5:45 min - How a community land trust works to keep housing affordable in a neighborhood

* 1 hr, 14:40 min - What is the City of Sacramento's view of redeveloping/revitalizing underserved neighborhoods?

* 1 hr, 20 min - What are the hiring policy and local outreach efforts that local businesses are using? And how do long-term residents benefit from gentrification?

* 1 hr, 30: 20 min - How can a land trust connect to money and partners to make it sustainable?

* 1 hr, 36:40 min - How to include the local community in revitalizing their own neighborhood

* 1 hr, 47: 05 min - The real "good" and "bad" of gentrification in Oak Park

* 1 hr, 51:30 - How can residents get a "seat at the table" for discussing the future of their neighborhoods?

What does "affordable housing" mean in California, especially when only 30 percent of state residents can afford the median-priced home?

What will it take to make housing affordable -- build more of it, pass some more laws, repeal some others?

And with the crazy supply-and-demand status of housing here these days, can it even be done?

Listen to our panelists talk about the current options and potential opportunities for the affordable-housing market in California -- and who, if anyone, will benefit from it.

PANELISTS

* Melinda Coy, policy specialist for the California Department of Housing and Community Development

* Rachel Iskow, CEO of the nonprofit homebuilder Mutual Housing

* Todd Leon, development director at Capitol Area Development Authority

* Darryl Rutherford, executive director of the Sacramento Housing Alliance

* Sonja Trauss, founder of Bay Area Renters Federation, and leader of the YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) movement to build high-density housing

* Daniel Weisfeld, a consultant at McKinsey & Company's San Francisco office who authored the McKinsey Global Institute’s report “A Tool Kit to Close California’s Housing Gap."

PODCAST TIMEFRAME

* 0 to 5:30 min - Intro to California Groundbreakers

* 5:35 min - Panelists introduce themselves

* 25:30 min - How housing goals, planning and regulations get started on the state level, and move on down to the counties/cities level

* 31: 25 min - What makes certain affordable housing projects successful (i.e., the Warehouse Artist Lofts on R St. in Sacramento), and what forces other affordable housing projects to fall through (i.e., Westminster Presbyterian Church's mixed-use project, also in downtown Sacramento)

* 36:20 min - What the "new breed" of affordable housing looks like, and what it will take to get it built

* 44:45 min - Connecting the dots between Sacramento's homelessness situation and an affordable-housing solution - what's the status?

* 55:10 min - How the Bay Area Renters Federation (a.k.a. BARF) wants to increase YIMBYism and housing density -- which includes suing a city in the East Bay to force it to build more housing

* 1 hr, 3:20 min - Where are California's "housing hot spots" that we can build in, and how much can we build there?

* 1 hr, 7:45 min - Many affordable housing-focused bills are going through the state legislature right now - which ones have the most promise of passing, and which have the most potential for working?

* 1 hr, 18:50 min - How people as individuals can help to get the bills they like passed

* 1 hr, 21:30 min - What residents can do on the local level to address affordable housing

* 1 hr, 25:45 min - What's the definition of "affordability" today, and can we change the clock back to make that truly be affordable for most Californians?

* 1 hr, 31:30 min - How can we replicate the success of the Warehouse Artists Lofts?

* 1 hr, 34:45 min - Are the city and county of Sacramento helping to replicate that success?

* 1 hr, 40:20 min - The Sacramento version of BARF is starting! Plus, what are examples of affordable housing projects done right in California?

* 1 hr, 44:10 min - How can we move housing development from being consumer-focused to community-focused?

* 1 hr, 48:33 min - Is it time to revisit Proposition 13, and how would that affect affordable housing?

* 1 hr, 55:20 min - A home developer voices her concerns about doing affordable housing and "making it pencil"

* 1 hr, 58:50 min - The big deal about Assembly Bill 199

* 2 hr - The Legislative Analyst's Office states that the only way to make housing affordable will come from residents and communities changing the way they view housing. How do we convince them to change -- and how do we get them to convince their legislators to make the change?

-- Recorded February 12, 2017 at the CLARA auditorium in Midtown Sacramento

This may not be considered as "serious" a topic for discussion as policy and politics, but relationships are truly serious matters of the heart. Most of us want that special someone, sometimes for a night or for a lifetime. And California has had a big impact on how dating and relationships are done around the globe -- websites and apps that started here include Match.com, Tinder, Grindr, Snapchat and Down (formerly Bang With Friends). And don't forget "Netflix and Chill."

Listen to this post-Sunday brunch discussion about dating, love, sex and relationships -- and how California's culture, technology and higher-ed research are changing how we experience them.

Whether you're single, married, committed or "it's complicated," you'll learn something interesting about why the heart wants what it wants.

PANELISTS

* Jenn Brian, CEO of The Dating Queen, which does date planning, coaching and matchmaking

* Adam Busch, founder of DateNight XO, a weekly email that provides ideas for date nights

* Joey Garcia, relationships columnist for Sacramento News & Review

* Patrick Harbison, owner of Patrick Harbison Public Relations

* Leigh Smith, graduate researcher in the Attraction and Relationships Laboratory at UC Davis

* Jordan Venema, contributing writer for Sacramento magazine -- he wrote the "Dating Game" feature in this month's issue

We're planning a four-part panel series on California's Crazy Housing Market, taking a look at why it's crazy, can it ever calm down, and what can be done -- economically, politically, and locally -- to make it easier for renters and homebuyers to afford a roof over their heads in this state.

This first panel is a 360-degree overview of the housing market (the other three will be about Affordable Housing, Gentrification, and the love-it/hate-it effects of the California Environmental Quality Act). We focus on the Sacramento area's real estate and rental markets -- who and what are affecting the prices, what's the forecast for 2017, will anything change, what renters, home owners and potential buyers should know, and other burning questions from frustrated renters and potential homebuyers.

PANELISTS

* Tom Bannon, CEO of the California Apartment Association

* Ryan Lundquist, a residential appraiser who writes the Sacramento Appraisal Blog

* Mike Paris, founder and president of BlackPine Communities, which built The Creamery and Curtis Park Village in Sacramento,

* David Tanner, CEO of the Sacramento Association of Realtors

* Ling Tseng, residential and commercial real estate broker for Lyon Real Estate

* Ben van der Meer, staff writer for the Sacramento Business Journal who covers real estate, development and construction

PODCAST TIMEFRAME

0 to 6 minutes - Intro to California Groundbreakers

6 min - Panelists introduce themselves

18:30 min - How Sacramento's real estate market did in 2016 -- and how different will 2017 be?

22:30 min - The appraiser's POV on the real estate market and rising prices

27:10 min - What stops and starts are affecting new housing developments here?

29:30 min - The homebuilders' POV: Is it harder or easier to build these days?

33:30 min - Is Sacramento still a great place to invest in real estate?

38 min - How hot is Sacramento's rental market?

43:20 min - Why the Sacramento region overall (i.e., El Dorado, Placer, Yolo Counties) is like a Hot Pocket

49:10 min - Can local and state government do anything to help homeowners and renters out?

55:45 min - How will the Trump Administration help or hinder our housing market?

59 min - The "Bay Area Effect" on Sacramento's housing market

1 hour, 2:25 min - I'm almost 30 and I worry that I can never afford to buy a home . . . is there any hope for me?

1 hr, 10: 55 min - What new types of housing are being built?

1 hr, 13 min - How will the City of Sacramento's skyline change in the future?

1 hr, 15 min - Rent control's effect on the housing market

1 hr, 22:20 min - The NIMBY factor

1 hr, 25 min - Can microhousing work here?

1 hr, 29 min - What does an "Innovative home" look like in Sacramento?

1 hr, 39:15 min - The future of home lending -- are all-cash offers the only way to go?

1 hr, 44:50 min - How dense can we build housing here?

1 hr, 46 min - How do homebuilders take the "uniqueness of Sacramento" into consideration when planning future developments?

1 hr, 49 min - Can rents ever go down when the housing bubble isn't bursting?

1 hr, 51 min - Where did the construction workers and trade labor go, and can we ever get them back?

1 hr, 53 min - Crystal-ball predictions for what will happen in the housing market this year

California Groundbreakers and Comstock's Magazine partnered up to present "Innovation City" at the CLARA auditorium on January 23, 2017.

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Before he left office, former Mayor Kevin Johnson put a plan in place to jumpstart Sacramento's innovation economy. That includes investing $1 million in local companies via the city’s RAILS grant program, which stands for Rapid Acceleration, Innovation and Leadership. So what's next? If Sacramento wants to succeed in becoming an innovation hub, what needs to happen now?

Mayor Darrell Steinberg, kicked off the talk with his hopes and plans for jump-starting innovation in Sacramento. Then a moderated Q&A with some RAILS grant winners and other innovators about how they're helping to turn Sacramento into an innovation city.

PANELISTS

* Brian Collins, chief advisor to the accelerator program at I/O Labs, which received a $250,000 RAILS grant

* Alona Jennings, co-founder of Operation Innovate, a program that gives digital badge certification in STEM careers to Sacramento's underserved youth, and just received a $50,000 RAILS grant

* Vaibhav Nadgauda, managing partner at Moneta Ventures -- one of Sacramento's few venture capital firms, Moneta recently announced it would give $60,000 each to 20 startups in I/O Labs' new accelerator program.

* Clay Nutting, food- and arts-focused entrepreneur -- he helped put Lowbrau, TBD Fest and Art Hotel on the map; his latest efforts include Art Street, which just got $25,000 from the Mayor's Innovation & Growth Fund

* Crystal Strait, senior advisor to Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg -- she helped set up the Mayor's Innovation & Growth Fund, as well as the City of Sacramento's Creative Economy Initiative, which includes funding for local arts, food and tech initiatives.

* Eric Ullrich, co-founder and chief operating officer of Hacker Lab, which offers office space, tools and training for makers and entrepreneurs in Sacramento, Rocklin, and soon in Rancho Cordova

PODCAST TIMEFRAME

* 0 to 5 minutes - Allison Joy of Comstock's magazine and Vanessa Richardson of California Groundbreakers do their intros

* 5 minutes - Mayor Darrell Steinberg gives his vision of innovation in Sacramento

* 10 minutes - Panelists introduce themselves

* 23 min - What are MOFIE and RAILS?

* 29:50 min - I/O Labs got a $250,000 grant form the City -- its plans for what to do with all that money

* 37 min - Hacker Lab's vision for a "Fab City"

* 44:30 min - Where's the venture capital funding going to in Sacramento?

* 47:50 min - Getting the diversity and youth of Sacramento into STEM training and careers

* 52 min - Tying together innovation in tech, food and the arts

* 58 min - Besides funding, what should the City's role be in innovation?

* 1 hr, 2:10 min - Can Sacramento be the capital of GovTech?

* 1 hr, 10:20 min - The private sector's role in Sacramento innovation

* 1 hr, 16:30 min - Silicon Valley: How should Sacramento work with it, and how should it stand on its own?

* 1 hr, 19:20 min - The City's efforts to recruit companies from elsewhere

* 1 hr, 22:20 min - How about funding for tech infrastructure? And tech education in the schools?

* 1 hr, 27:25 min - What incentives can Sacramento provide to keep talent here and not moving away?

* 1 hr, 32:20 min - The Digital Badge program: replacement for a college degree?

* 1 hr, 35:45 min - How state regulations could hinder innovation

* 1 hr, 41 min - How can citizens support -- and track -- RAILS grant winners' efforts? And . . .drones!

* 1 hr, 44:15 min - How can state government more effectively recruit innovators? And what areas there are most ripe for innovation?

* 1 hr, 49:50 min - Public and private support for funding companies that have race and gender diversity

* 1 hr, 54:20 min - Where are the black people in the tech community here?

* 1 hr, 58:55 min: I have a revolutionary tech idea . . . where do I go around here to get it off the ground?

2 hr - Introducing the 15 RAILS grant winners

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So Proposition 64 has passed. The first thing you may want to know is, "When can I start buying recreational pot, and use it legally?" Yeah, but there's so many more questions to ask -- and the answers are still evolving.

For our first "Policy and a Pint" panel of 2017, we gathered people who are shaping and creating the state's cannabis industry explain the highs and lows of Proposition 64, how it's going to affect California economically, culturally and politically -- and, whether you partake or not, what you need to know about our biggest cash crop.

PANELISTS

* Lori Ajax, Chief of California's Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation

* Hezekiah Allen, executive director of California Growers Association

* Nate Bradley, executive director of California Cannabis Industry Association

* Gabriel Garcia, co-leader of the Cannabis Law practice at Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard

* Jay Schenirer, Sacramento City Council Member for District 5

* Andrea Unsworth, founder of StashTwist, a cannabis delivery service in Oakland, and co-founder of Supernova Women, a group focused on getting more women and people of color running businesses in the cannabis industry

PODCAST TIMEFRAME

* 0 to 5 minutes - Intro to California Groundbreakers

* 5 min - Panelists introduce themselves and explain how they got involved with the cannabis trade

* 19:45 min - The timeframe for rolling out the different parts of Prop 64

* 23:30 min - How does California compares and contrast to Colorado, Washington and other states where recreational pot is legal?

* 25 min - How the state government is doing in regulating cannabis -- is it on track to meet Prop 64's deadlines?

* 28:50 min - How will the two-tier system of state laws and city/county ordinances for the cannabis industry work ?

* 33 min - Oakland has been a trendsetter in medical marijuana regulation -- what can other California cities learn from it?

* 37 min - The City of Sacramento's post-Prop 64 plan for marijuana regulation

* 40:50 min - The pros and cons of Proposition 64 passing

* 45 min - The "Gold Rush of Pot" - boom or bust?

* 54:20 min - What will the state and the City of Sacramento do with the taxes generated from medical and recreational marijuana?

* 56:30 min - The law-enforcement aspect of regulating Prop 64

* 1 hr - How will California try to avoid the adverse impact of legalized marijuana use on youth and people of color?

* 1 hr, 4 min - What are the major challenges ahead for Prop 64, and what can the public do to help?

* 1 hr, 11:45 min - What's the future of regulating trademarks and branding for cannabis products?

* 1 hr, 17:30 min - How will state regulation of cannabis compare and contrast to regulation of alcohol and tobacco?

* 1 hr, 21 min - Can Prop 64 change anything about Federal banking and financial restrictions on the cannabis industry ?

* 1 hr, 25 min - Will Jeff Sessions as Attorney General affect Prop 64?

* 1 hr, 29 min - As a business owner, can I smoke cannabis on my outdoor patio? And can I host a cannabis vendor event?

* 1 hr, 31:50 min - Interstate and intrastate commerce -- and collaboration -- with Nevada next door, which also legalized pot?

* 1 hr, 34:50 min - Biggest hopes and biggest fears this year for the cannabis industry

* 1 hr, 35:50 min - Councilman Schenirer, are you liberal or conservative on cannabis?

* 1 hr, 36:50 min - How can the state create a unifying message for Prop 64?

* 1 hr, 39:45 min - What will Prop 64 do, if anything, in shaping the cannabis industry geographically - can Sacramento be the Napa County of Cannabis?