freelance journalist
Emily Green is a freelance reporter based in Mexico City and a producer with KCRW's Independent Producer Project.
Green is a former City Hall reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and a former Supreme Court reporter for the Los Angeles/San Francisco Daily Journal.
Facing uncertainty in the US, a Dreamer moves to Mexico President Trump wants to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. But a federal judge has ordered that the program stay in place. Congress still has no plan to offer them citizenship. As the debate drags on, some Dreamers are taking their fate into their own hands and moving back to Mexico voluntarily. Noe Martinez is one of them.
Mexico City digs out from another earthquake A man holds up a sign that reads "silence" as rescue personnel look for people underneath the rubble of a collapsed building after an earthquake hit Mexico City, Mexico September 19, 2017. Photo by Claudia Daut/Reuters In Mexico City today, responders are still searching for survivors of buildings collapsed by yesterday's massive, 7.1 earthquake. Dozens of children were killed and more are still missing after the collapse of the Enrique Rebsamen elementary school. We get an update as the city digs out from the rubble.
Why is violence on the rise in Baja? Baja California is a go-to destination for Southern Californians looking for beautiful beaches just across the border. But the murder rate in the touristy region has soured due to a spike in violence in Los Cabos.
LA Watches as Airbnb Wins in San Francisco The tech colossus Airbnb spent $9 million to defeat Measure F yesterday in San Francisco's local election. The measure was just one part of a campaign described as being about "the soul of the city." Members of HomeSharersSF, doing a rally at City Hall in San Francisco before the big vote on the Airbnb law Photo: Kevin Krejci
The Drought, Our Dwindling Water Supplies and the Need to Conserve It's often reported that California is in its fourth year of drought. Well, it's actually lasted more than twice that long.
Golf Courses in the Time of Drought Despite adding a million people, Los Angeles still uses the same amount of water it did 40 years ago. According to Mark Gold, conservation is an environmental success story.
Should LA Build Mass Transit to LAX? Today, Metro officials proposed a so-called “people mover” that runs from a new light-rail station to LAX.
Dov Gets Booted, Obama Updates Iraq Plan, and Animals Go Mad President Obama on the situation in the Middle East. American Apparel founder Dov Charney accused of sexually harassing his employees, ousted by his own board of directors. Two senators propose reducing the FAFSA form questions. Author Laurel Braitman shares studies on madness in animals. And another California Supreme Court justice is stepping down.
Is LA Now on the Cutting Edge of Sustainability? Environmentalist and UCLA sustainability researcher Jon Christensen is impressed with LA’s new commitment to sustainability and sees the city as a model for the rest of the country. Water resources watchdog Emily Green couldn’t disagree more .
Undocumented Immigrants and the Meaning of Citizenship Tomorrow, the California State Supreme Court will hear the case of a man who's not here legally, but who went to law school and passed the State Bar.
Can LA's District Attorney Dust Off the Death Penalty? LA District Attorney Steve Cooley is more than impatient about the death penalty in California. The population of death row is 725, and there's been no execution since 2006. Voters will be asked to repeal capital punishment in November, but Cooley wants executions right now. He's gone to yet another court asking that the one-drug procedure be implemented now.
The Kavanaugh Factor and the Midterm Elections Republicans have secured their long-term goal: a right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court. There are conflicting expectations for rulings on abortion, immigration, voting rights--and the powers of both the White House and Congress. In this divided nation, public trust in the rule of law is also at stake. How will the bitter battle over Brett Kavanaugh impact next month’s midterm elections?
Implicit bias training discriminates against white people, anonymous parents say Author Pico Iyer returns to Santa Barbara to preview his upcoming speaker series. Columnist Starshine Roshell brings us inside the surprisingly large world of local trivia nights. And more controversy at the Santa Barbara Unified School District, as a group of anonymous parents threatens to sue school leaders over an implicit bias training program it claims discriminates against white people.
Rebecca Traister and the Power of Women’s Anger One of America’s leading feminist writers says women have changed history since Ancient Greece. And, she says, they’ll do it again. The backlash to President Trump was just the beginning. Record numbers of women are running for congress, state governorships and local offices. She tells Warren about her latest book,“Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger.”