Dave Lee

KCRW is joining other public radio stations up and down the state to mark the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.

More than half of all American adults have been vaccinated, according to the Biden administration, and life is seemingly speeding back to normal.

Jobs numbers are up but a recovery still looks rocky as we emerge from the pandemic.

Joe Mathews says, “If America needs a 1/6 commission, then California must have a 3/13 commission.”

With the state’s color-coded reopening tiers riding off into the sunset, there’s no more social distancing, and masks in almost every indoor situation are being retired.

Legalizing the sale of cannabis in California has turned out to be a fruitful endeavor for the state thanks to taxes.

Some of the world’s largest corporations like Amazon, Walmart, Google, and UPS are all looking into using drones to deliver small packages.

Vice President Kamala Harris visited Central America this week. She told would-be migrants in Guatemala “do not come” (to the U.S.), which drew criticism from progressive democrats.

Joe Mathews says that focusing on the state budget, when it appears in good shape, obscures California’s systemic failures.