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.

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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. 

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Read Alissa's New York Magazine Story on accusations of sexual harassment in the Mayor's office.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.