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Ten of the nation’s largest banks reached a settlement with federal regulators on Monday that cuts short a foreclosure review process in exchange for paying out $3.3 billion in cash and offering $5.2 billion worth of program credits such as loan modification, to affected homeowners. More than four million homeowners who were foreclosed upon between 2009-2010 were invited to submit …

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More than 100 protesters stormed the Houston, Texas offices of the TransCanada Corporation on Monday kicking off a new phase of action for the movement to stop the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. That pipeline is designed to transport tarsands oil from Western Canada to US Gulf Coast refineries in the South East. Also on Monday, more than 70 …

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“We won’t have a society, if we destroy the environment.” — Margaret Mead …

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A report this week that crime in Los Angeles had dropped to a historic low for the tenth year in a row, has prompted the LAPD to take credit. While overall crime in the city dropped 1.5%, violent crime dropped 8.5%. The statistics are part of a growing trend nationwide and internationally and while law enforcement will cite increased numbers …

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Versailles from Los Angeles, CA!

We played the song “Targets” on today’s show.

Nearly half of California’s children live in poverty or “perilously close” to it, according to a new report that warns about a trend of increasing childhood poverty in the state.

The report from nonprofit advocacy group the Center for the Next Generation, released Tuesday, said that children live in poverty at twice the rate of California seniors.

“We’ve taken steps to provide our seniors with some level of assurance that they’ll be cared for in their later …

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SACRAMENTO — A combative Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday declared that “the prison crisis is over in California” and demanded an end to years of intervention by federal judges and expensive edicts designed to reduce crowding and improve inmate healthcare.

“At some point, the job’s done,” Brown said at a Capitol news conference before catching a plane for Los Angeles, where he repeated the message. “We spent billions of dollars” complying with the court orders, the …

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Los Angeles County got a reprieve in an ongoing dispute over who is responsible for pollution from storm water when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ruling won by environmentalists.

However, the court’s 9-0 decision Tuesday did not deal with the larger question of how to regulate storm water and urban runoff flowing into the region’s waterways.

Gary Hildebrand, assistant deputy director of the county’s Department of Public Works, said the court’s decision “validates the approach the …

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We’ll examine a new federal settlement with ten banks involved in foreclosure fraud that critics say amounts to a paltry sum and a slap on the wrist. And, we’ll get a live report from Texas where actions against the Tar Sands pipeline have escalated. Plus, as LA celebrates a drop in violent crime this week, we’ll examine what decades of scientific studies are now finding – that the rise and fall in crime rates are …

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“Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth the man walks on. It is not man.” — Martin Luther King Jr. …