UpFront with Guest Host Marie Choi – February 12, 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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Consumer Watch Dog released a sweeping into the oil refining industry and says there’s evidence of price fixing in California. Then a look at what it would take to reverse climate change. Australian palaeontologist and global warming activist Tim Flannery speaks to us about how he thinks we can do that. Guests: Jaime Court, … Continued
New Hampshire delivers a landslide for Bernie Sanders and a hot mess for the Republican Party, which saw Donald Trump take first place with only a third of the vote, and the rest of the pack so close that there’s still no consensus challenger for the party establishment to get behind. We will wrap up … Continued
Today New Hampshirites get their turn in the spotlight — if they can actually make it to a ballot box. Those voters who manage to dig out from yesterday’s blizzard will also be confronted with a new Voter ID law that requires they either produce government ID, or sign an affidavit and pose for something … Continued
This Wednesday, the California Coastal Commission will vote publicly on whether to fire its Executive Director–the culmination of a months-long power struggle over an agency that determines the fate of coastal developments worth multiple billions of dollars. We’ll ask Sierra Club California Director Kathryn Phillips why it’s happening. Plus: A major victory for the movement … Continued
UpFront – February 5, 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.
A marathon planning hearing in a county four hours away from here is poised to determine whether half the Bay Area will become a corridor for 80-tanker oil trains carrying explosive loads–we talk to two of the people trying to stop it. Plus: the Trans Pacific Partnership gets signed today – which marks the start … Continued
The week before the Iowa caucus, Robert Reich called Hillary Clinton “the most qualified candidate for president of the political system we now have,” and Bernie Sanders “the most qualified candidate to create the political system we should have.” He joins us for a sweeping conversation about the limits of America’s political system, and whether … Continued
Ted Cruz takes first place in the Republican caucus; Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton end in a statistical dead heat. We’ll talk to Ruth Coniff, who’s been covering the campaign from on the ground, Isaiah Poole, who’s following it from Washington, and Craig Holman, who’s tracking the money behind the campaigns. Plus: John Burris joins … Continued
The first presidential contest of the year takes place tonight in Iowa, where voters will file into roughly 2,000 caucus precincts just as a blizzard descends on the state. We get the view from on the ground, and discuss why the candidate with the most votes doesn’t necessarily win. Plus: the conventional wisdom on how … Continued