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Capitol Weekly Podcast: Scott Lay Memorial Edition
Anthony York and Paul Mitchell join Capitol Weekly’s John Howard and Tim Foster to remember Nooner publisher Scott Lay, who died suddenly in September.
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Capitol Weekly Podcast: Robb Korinke looking for “the Fishhook”
Today’s guest is Robb Korinke, who projected in August that Gov. Newsom would win, and win handily. Korinke joined John Howard and Tim Foster to talk Recall, and also shared “the most bananas political story in the state, bar none.”
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Capitol Weekly Podcast: SB9 and Accessory Dwelling Units
Accessory Dwelling Unit, image courtesy of United DwellingA little-discussed impact of SB9 is that it helps homeowners finance new construction on their property without tying up the equity in their existing home. We’re joined today by Steven Dietz of United Dwelling, an LA-based housing builder leading the Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) industry with the most rental units built in California.
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Capitol Weekly Podcast: The Recall – Jonathan Brown predicts
We sat down on Friday for a chat about the looming Recall election with Jonathan Brown, president of Sextant Strategies & Research, a Democratic polling firm based in Southern California. He offers his thoughts on the state of the race, what the Recall says about the parties and even offers his estimate on the final numbers.
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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.