This week, Mark Keppler sits down to discuss the key influencers in California politics with John Myers (KQED’s Senior Editor for California Politics & Government) and Marisa Lagos (KQED Reporter, California Politics and Government). 

This week, Mark Keppler discusses the importance of voter registration and subsequent voter turnout on our elections and on democracy with special guests California Secretary of State Alex Padilla and Mindy Romero, Executive Director of the California Civic Engagement Project at the UC Davis Center for Regional Change

Tune in this week to hear Mark Keppler and California's Little Hoover Commission Executive Director Carole D'Elia discuss open meeting laws in California and their impact on the outcomes of those meetings.

Hear Mark Keppler and Carole D'Elia of the Little Hoover Commission discuss California's response the ever growing yet slow moving emergency that is climate change.

On this week's episode, hear from Mark Keppler, Dr. Casey Gray of Kaiser, Laurence Du Sault of Mercury News and CalMatters, Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, and Barb Yellowlees of CETF on telemedicine and its impact on health and health care in the Valley. 

On this week's episode, Mark Keppler is joined by guests Dr. Casey Gray of Kaiser; Laurence Du Sault of Mercury News/CalMatters; Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula, and Barb Yellowlees of CETF to discuss the status of technological access in the Valley and its implications for the developing telemedicine practice. 

Listen in as Mark Keppler discusses with Merced Mayor Matthew Serratto, Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, Visalia Mayor Steve Nelson, and Bakersfield Mayor Karen Goh about their agendas for their cities in the new year. Then hear from Robert Price of Bakersfield's KGET and the Bakersfield Californian, Joe Kieta of the Fresno Bee, Paul Hurley, formerly with the Visalia Times Delta and now with the College of the Sequoias, and Brian Clark with the Modesto Bee about the biggest issues facing their cities in 2021. 

Hear Mark Keppler speak with Dan Walters of CalMatters and John Myers of the Los Angeles Times about the next year of California politics as well as with Robert Price of Bakersfield's KGET and the Bakersfield Californian, Joe Kieta of the Fresno Bee, Paul Hurley, formerly with the Visalia Times Delta and now with the College of the Sequoias, and Brian Clark of the Modesto Bee about the next year of Valley politics.

Hear Mark Keppler speak with UC Merced Chancellor Juan Sanchez Munoz about his role at UC Merced and in the community. Then hear from Fresno State President Joseph Castro, Stanislaus State President Ellen Junn, and CSU Bakersfield President Lynnette Zelezny give an update on some of the public universities that serve our students. 

On this episode, Mark Keppler speaks with State Auditor Elaine Howle about California's worker's comp system and state oversight.