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Capitol Weekly Podcast: Inside the campaign to Recall Gov. Newsom
We are joined today by Anne Dunsmore, Campaign Manager for Rescue California, the organization that is heading the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Capitol Weekly Podcast: Who will be on the Top 100 List if Larry Elder becomes governor?
Illustration by Jason SeilerIn this episode we discuss the 2021 Top 100 list with Scott Lay, publisher of The Nooner and consummate capitol insider, and look at the forces – COVID, wildfires and the recall – that strongly shaped this edition of the list.
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Capitol Weekly Podcast: New census data
The decennial census data released last week by the US Census Bureau offered insights into how the country has changed since 2010 and will be instrumental in redrawing California’s political maps. Paul Mitchell of Political Data Inc., offers his thoughts on what the data portend for California’s redistricting.
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Capitol Weekly Podcast: Two new case books from Chris Micheli
Longtime lobbyist Chris Micheli stops by the Capitol Weekly Podcast to talk with John Howard and Tim Foster about his TWO new case books: Introduction to California State Government and Cases and Materials on Direct Democracy in California. Micheli is a lawyer and an adjunct professor at the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law.
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Capitol Weekly Podcast: Polls predict tight race for Newsom
Photo by Kelly M. Grow / California Department of Water Resources. March 2019The latest Berkeley IGS Poll finds that among likely voters, 47% favor recalling Gov. Gavin Newsom and only 50% favor his retention. Those numbers are a stark warning for a governor serving amid the most turbulent era in memory, where extreme circumstances within – and beyond – his control could impact the attitude of the electorate at any moment.
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Capitol Weekly Podcast: Lanterman, Laura’s Law, and Britney Spears
Today we welcome Randall Hagar, the Policy Consultant and Legislative Advocate for the Psychiatric Physicians Alliance of California. Hagar has been advocating for sound mental health policies for over 20 years and helped draft the language for the original Laura’s Law, a landmark state law that allows for court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment. Hagar joined John Howard and Tim Foster to talk about the growing numbers of mentally ill Californians that are either homeless or behind bars, and efforts to reform the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, the 1967 legislation that put strict limits on involuntary commitment. He also outlines the big difference between a Probate Conservatorship (i.e. what pop star Britney Spears has) and the mental illness conservatorships that exist under Lanterman-Petris-Short.
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Capitol Weekly Podcast: Asm. Kevin McCarty
We are joined this episode by Asm. Kevin McCarty of Sacramento, who walks Capitol Weekly’s John Howard and Tim Foster through some of the groundbreaking investments in education that are enshrined in the 2021-22 state budget, signed last Monday by Gov. Newsom. McCarty, a Democratic member of the Assembly Budget Committee, takes a victory lap, touting the unabashedly progressive education agenda outlined in the Budget.
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Capitol Weekly Podcast: This week -The 2021 Bash
David Quintana toasting with Lil Jon at the 2020 BashThe Bash (AKA The Back to Session Bash) has been a Capitol tradition for close to two decades now. The 2020 edition – the biggest ever – was held as usual in January, before COVID was a concern. Twelve months later, a January 2021 Bash was out of the question. The question then was: cancel
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Capitol Weekly Podcast: The Master of Disasters, Mark Ghilarducci
We are joined this episode by California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services chief Mark Ghilarducci. Ghilarducci leads the state response to disasters of all kinds. Ghilarducci has extensive experience: he has served California governors since the Deukmejian administration and was the incident commander on the Oklahoma City bombing recovery effort. We asked him for his thoughts on the recent building collapse in Surfside, Florida as well as on California’s 2021 fire season. Plus: Who had the #WorstWeekCA? Reporter Natalie Hanson joins us to explain what is happening on the Chico city council, which lost two councillors in the course of six days.
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Capitol Weekly Podcast: Bernadette Del Chiaro
When we think of solar energy, we think of Bernadette Del Chiaro. Bernadette is the executive director of the California Solar & Storage Association, whose mission is to promote the widespread deployment of local clean energy technologies. Rooftop solar has been one of the state’s biggest clean-energy success stories: California has built the equivalent of five nuclear power plants-worth of rooftop solar in the past 15 years. Now, proposed changes to net metering could put the brakes on the state’s rooftop solar expansion.