Capitol Weekly Podcast: Behind the Scenes at the Back to Session Bash

by Capitol Weekly Staff posted 12.23.2019

January means one thing on the Sacramento legislative calendar (well, aside from the governor’s budget): the annual Back to Session Bash!

Capitol Weekly Podcast: Kamala, what happened?.. and what now?

Photo by Gage Skidmore. www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/

by Capitol Weekly Staff posted 12.04.2019

In a surprise move, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris suspended her run for the presidency Tuesday ending what had once been a promising campaign, launched with great fanfare in front of 22,000 Oakland supporters. So what happened? Paul Mitchell joins the Capitol Weekly Podcast to weigh in.

Capitol Weekly Podcast: Kabatalks!

Brian and John Kabateck

by Capitol Weekly Staff posted 11.25.2019

Brian and John Kabateck visit the podcast to answer the question on everyone’s lips: what is Thanksgiving like for two brothers who are on opposing sides of nearly every political fight in the state? John Kabateck is a lifelong Republican and longtime spokesperson for the NFIB; Brian Kabateck is a lifelong Democrat and the former head of the Consumer Attorneys Association.

Capitol Weekly Podcast: Who Saved the Redwoods?

1919 photo of four Humboldt County women and a touring car bearing a Save the Redwoods banner has become an iconic image of the early save the redwoods movement. The women are, from left to right, Lucretia Anna Huntington Monroe, Kate Harpst, Mary Anne Atkinson, and Ella Georgeson. All were members of the newly-formed Humboldt County Women’s Save the Redwoods League and pillars of the Humboldt County establishment. The driver is Eureka chauffeur Frank Silence. The photograph originally appeared in The Humboldt Standard on September 6, 1919. Photo courtesy of The Humboldt County Historical Society Archives.

by Capitol Weekly Staff posted 11.12.2019

California’s Redwood forests are celebrated worldwide for their beauty and wonder – but few realize that the Redwoods came close to being logged out of existence. The first reports of California’s giant trees made it back to the US in the mid 1800s, before statehood. It wasn’t long afterward that loggers began harvesting the redwoods,

Capitol Weekly Podcast: 25 years with the California Voter Foundation

Kim Alexander with the online version of the Californai Voter Guide, 1998

by Capitol Weekly Staff posted 10.09.2019

California Voter Foundation President Kim Alexander is celebrating 25 years since the CVF was ‘relaunched’ in 1994. She sat down with John Howard and Tim Foster of the Capitol Weekly Podcast to chat about voting, registration, access, security — and more.

Political date maven Paul Mitchell joins the Capitol Weekly Podcast’s John Howard and Tim Foster to talk about the latest buzzword in the 2020 election lexicon — electability. Electability is that indefinable something that every candidate wants but few have. It’s hard to nail down, but you know it when you see it. 

Capitol Weekly Podcast: A chat about the Top 100

by Capitol Weekly Staff posted 08.14.2019

It’s been a decade (!) since we launched the Top 100 list, so on the Capitol Weekly Podcast today thought we’d chat with the person who was there and started it all — Anthony York, a veteran reporter and the founding editor of the revamped Capitol Weekly. What began as a reward-your-friends-and-punish-your-enemies exercise in clickbait and cheek gradually morphed into a document of some value, however limited and flawed.

Capitol Weekly Podcast: Elaine Howle on redistricting

California State Auditor Elaine Howle (Photo: Auditor's office)

by Capitol Weekly Staff posted 06.28.2019

The U.S. Supreme Court’s split decision Thursday on the states’ gerrymandering of political districts was the perfect set-up for today’s episode of the Capitol Weekly Podcast: State Auditor Elaine Howle sat down with us in her office to talk about the process for choosing the 14 members of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission.

Capitol Weekly Podcast: It’s the interns’ turn

by Capitol Weekly Staff posted 05.15.2019

Capitol Weekly’s Journalism Internship Program has been established for more than a decade, and in that time we’ve hosted dozens of interns from a variety of schools across the state — and even a few from outside the state!

Capitol Weekly Podcast: Hilary McLean, Roger Salazar a duo again

Photo by Tim Foster, Capitol Weekly

by Capitol Weekly Staff posted 05.03.2019

Prominent political consultants Roger Salazar and Hilary McLean worked together in tiny digs in Gov. Gray Davis’ press office before the current crop of Capitol Weekly interns were even born. Those were trying times for the Davis communications team — you may ‘recall’ that Davis’ gig didn’t end well.