Mar 13 2012
Civic Circus on the LA Redistricting Battle
Listen to this segment | entire program
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
The gerrymandering continues for the 15 districts that make up the Los Angeles City Council and those that represent 7 elected seats on the Board of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
In theory, to prevent gerry mandering, instead …
Comments Off on Civic Circus on the LA Redistricting Battle
It has been one year since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster struck Japan. The accident began with a massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan’s Northeastern coast, destroying the Fukushima power plant’s electrical system, causing coolants to stop functioning and resulting in a reactor meltdown. More than 300 workers received significant radiation doses while attempting to contain the meltdown, …
Few Americans who have spent any time online in this past week have missed the excitement and furor over a super-viral video entitled Kony 2012. In just a week the short documentary-style advocacy video became one of the most watched Internet videos of all time with over 56 million views on YouTube since its March 5th posting. The …
Libyans protested on Friday against a call by regional leaders in the eastern part of the country for a self-ruled state. Tribal and militia representatives of the oil-rich area say the Barqa region needs to be semi-autonomous to stop the discrimination against its people that began under the ousted and killed dictator Moammar Gaddafi. Barqa encompasses nearly half of …
Peter Bergman, a founding member of the Firesign Theater comedy troupe and host of Radio Free Oz here on KPFK in the late the late ’60s, passed away Friday March 9th, in Santa Monica, at the age of 72. A spokesperson said he died due to complications of leukemia.
