J.T. the L.A. Storyteller

This season, impress your friends and family by shopping local and on a bargain like a champ. This Xmas weekend only, grab not one but two new Los Cuentos beanies for the price of just one! Shipping included and while supplies last. J.T.

L.A. City Council Member Bonin and yours truly discuss a range of things: The racist L.A. City Council leaks. The fight against his office’s work to expand transitional housing for unhoused people in Venice beach. The Los Angeles Police Union’s efforts to recall Bonin. The passage of measure ULA (or a tax on transfers ofContinue reading EPISODE 108 – MIKE BONIN ON RACIST LEAKS AND NEVER RETIRING FROM THE WORK →

Who did we miss? J.T.

Yours truly sits down with Helen H. Kim (@theotherhelenkim) to discuss our vision for K-Town Is OK and how donor support on #GivingTuesday can make all the difference. We reflect on Helen’s family life in Koreatown, going on to learn that her dad–like my mom–worked at a sowing factory in downtown Los Angeles during herContinue reading EPISODE 107 – HELEN H. KIM ON KOREATOWN AS OAXACAN-KOREAN + GIVING TUESDAY →

Oscar Zarate and I hop on a call to discuss an upcoming L.A. Metro vote on changes to the fare system proposed by the agency, which L.A. Metro board members will vote on at their upcoming meeting on Thursday, December 1st at 10:00 AM. The agency changed its original proposal the very day of thisContinue reading EPISODE 106 – OSCAR ZARATE ON CANCELLING L.A. METRO FARE HIKES AND ABOLISHING FARES ALTOGETHER →

L.A. City Council Member-Elect Hernandez and I discuss so much it’s hard to believe it’s all in just one episode: The relationship between L.A. City Hall and L.A. County at the local level, the redistricting of K-Town into CD-10 with Council-Member Hutt, the leaked racist recordings from three L.A. City Council Members and Labor FederationContinue reading EPISODE 105 – EUNISSES HERNANDEZ IS THE NEWEST, MOST EXCITING INCOMING L.A. CITY COUNCIL MEMBER →

Post-voting all that’s left is to review the ballot’s efficacy, coverage of the elections by the L.A. Times, Gen-Z and Millennials’ historic participation, expanding the number of L.A. City Hall seats as soon as possible, Karen Bass, K-Town Is OK: The Shirts, and more. J.T.

Stay tuned. From Los Cuentos to our supporters everywhere, with love. J.T.

Fatima Iqbal-Zubair returns to the show on a very special day, her birthday! We discuss the roots of her two-year campaign for Assembly District 65 (formerly Assembly District 64) in Watts’ schools, including her seven years with the Robotics team there, as well as the final push for donations to her grassroots campaign leading upContinue reading EPISODE 103 – FATIMA FOR ASSEMBLY DISTRICT 65 IS CLOSING IN →

Hugo Soto-Martinez returns for a second time to chat with us about the upcoming vote for leadership in the neighborhood over the next four years. Hugo performed well during his primary contest against L.A. City Council incumbent Mitch O’Farrell for L.A.’s 13th district, when almost half of the area’s voters chose him as the nextContinue reading EPISODE 102 – HUGO SOTO-MARTINEZ FOR COUNCIL DISTRICT 13 →