UpFront with Guest Host Marie Choi – March 25, 2016
An hour-long news magazine with a strong focus on state and local issues. Hosted by Brian Edwards-Tiekert and produced by the KPFA News Department.
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We spend the hour on housing and homelessness. First, the economics: why housing doesn’t follow the same supply and demand dynamics as other products. Then, the crisis: the push in San Francisco to get a state of emergency declaration to deal with homelessness. Guests: Richard Walker, professor of geography emeritus at UC Berkeley – his … Continued
In Arizona, voters had to wait in line up to five hours after polls closed to cast their ballots–we talk to Antonio Gonzalez about what made this primary different. Plus: BART has been suffering weeks of breakdowns, delays, and overcrowded trains – why? We talk to a spokesperson from the agency, a critic from Transform, … Continued
AIPAC holds its quadrennial candidates’ parade in the nation’s capital: Hillary Clinton denounces Donald Trump as disloyal to Israel; Trump announces he’ll blow up the Iran nuclear deal and move the US embassy to Jerusalem, and the only Jewish candidate given an invitation turns it down – we’ll run through it all with Youssef Munayyer. … Continued
Exiled Iranian human rights attorney and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi joins us to discuss her life and work, from the dawn of the Iranian revolution, to the backlash she and her family faced over her work. Plus: we look at health conditions for women in California prisons, and San Francisco’s latest attempt to … Continued
UpFront with Guest Host Marie Choi – March 18, 2016
An hour-long news magazine with a strong focus on state and local issues. Hosted by Brian Edwards-Tiekert and produced by the KPFA News Department.
On Wednesday, President Obama nominated Merrick B. Garland to replace the seat of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. We’ll talk to Marjorie Cohn about what challenges lie ahead for Obama. Then, this week Syria entered the 5th year of its civil war. Shortly after a fresh round of peace talks kicked off, Russian President … Continued
In Tuesday’s primaries, Hillary Clinton won Florida, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina and a near-tie in Missouri. Donald Trump swept every state but Ohio, where incumbent Governor John Kasich racked up his first significant victory. We talk about what’s next for both parties. Plus, the UC Berkeley administration is under intense scrutiny for mishandling a spate … Continued
We go live to the states that are voting today, and talk about what an assassination in Honduras has to do with the Democratic primary. Guests: Kari Lydersen, a contributing writer at In These Times and the author most recently of Mayor 1% – a book about the tenure of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Kate … Continued
The crisis of the 1970s exploded the dominant ways of thinking about growth – which, among other things, held that you couldn’t have high unemployment and high inflation at the same time, and which really hadn’t accounted at all for the shock of rising oil prices. That created an opening for a new way of … Continued