Podcast
Covering the Capitol, with Lia Russell of the Sacramento Bee
Rich Ehisen (L) and Lia Russell (R) in the Capitol Weekly office. Photo by Tim FosterCAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: Today’s guest is Sacramento Bee reporter Lia Russell. Russell covers the governor for The Bee’s Capitol Bureau, and was part of the team that broke the story of Dana Williamson’s arrest last year. We asked about that story, covering the capitol, and what it was like to cover politics in their earlier gigs in Bangor, Maine and Baltimore, Maryland.
:47 Affordability
2:00 What’s on Capitol Weekly
4:16 Lia Russell
6:09 The race to replace Gov. Newsom
8:20 “Whether they like it or not…”
10:15 View from Maine
16:37 Working for the Baltimore Sun
18:37 The Dana Williamson story
23:45 Reading indictments
26:16 Origin story
32:04 The tattoos
33:43 Asm. Matt Harper mention
38:06 #WWCA
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