LA Redux

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A weekly podcast about LA news with Alexandra Schmidt and Hillel Aron

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Episodes

LA Redux #26

LA Redux #26 Winners and losers of 2012! What to keep an eye on for 2013… Get it all AQUI.

Dec 19, 2012

LA Redux#25 In this episode! Alex & Hillel discuss: – Notorious B.I.G. autopsy unsealed – L.A. hit & run #’s crazy high – Port strike over – Digital billboards coming down – You park at a broken meter…you pay! – LAPD finds secret stash of loot

Dec 12, 2012

LA Redux #24

LA Redux #24 This week, we discuss! – PORT STRIKE – Downtown streetcar gonna happen – Monster IKEA coming to burbank – Can we talk about Andrea Alarcon yet? – Study finds LA has very long urban center – Garcetti get Valley Democratic Endorsement...

Dec 05, 2012

LA Redux #23

LA Redux #23 Very special guest Eve Bachrach , of the LA Review of Books, joins Alex Schmidt and Hillel Aron to talk about: – Riordan suspends pension reform signature gathering – Latino leaders endorse Wendy – Elephant bans?! – #s out on permitted/unpermitted billboards in L.A. – LA must (still) control Owens Lake dust – Venice police deciding what is art in order to patrol beach vendors – caviar by ATM...

Nov 28, 2012

LA Redux #22

LA Redux #22 This week’s L.A. Redux was taped before a live studio audience composed solely of Alex’s brother, Aaron Schmidt, who joins Alex and Hillel to discuss such weighty topics as the brand new Kevin James Super PAC, the recent goings on surrounding Richard Riordan’s pension proposal and City Council President Herb Wesson’s sales tax hike proposal, the LA County Courthouses scheduled to close, California’s brand new cap and trade program, CicLAvia’s funding boost, the Expo Line’s court win...

Nov 21, 2012

LA Redux #21

LA Redux #21 This week on L.A. Redux, Richie Duchon joins Alex Schmidt and Hillel Aron to discuss: – LA’s new toll lane era – sales tax increase cookin? – digital billboards in the spotlight – Meatless Monday is hereby decreed – mayoral candidate Jan Perry comes out anti-union (sorta, not really) – bus rape – graffiti removing entrepreneur...

Nov 14, 2012

LA Redux #20

LA Redux #20 In our very special post-election wrap up show, we cut a swath through last night’s results with KPCC’s Mike Roe: Jerry Brown’s triumph! The Mungers’ defeat! And doesn’t money count for anything in politics anymore

Nov 08, 2012

LA Redux #19

LA Redux #19 A “double pod” all-ballot special episode! Featuring a favorite guest, and unabashed activist journalist, Matt Fleischer. State Propositions 30-40, County Measures A-J. It’s all here.

Oct 31, 2012

LA Redux #18

L.A. Redux #18 In another vintage episode sans guest, Hillel Aron & Alex Schmidt discuss many things including: – corruption in the LA tax assessing world – digital billboard regulations & revenues – ID card for undocumented immigrants – new 6th St. bridge design revealed – pension reform emerging as candidate differentiator in mayoral race – LA developer ordered to let hikers use trails on his land – map treasure trove found, puts LAPL on the map...

Oct 24, 2012

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