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Joe Mathews Guest
Joe Mathews

Host, "Zocalo's Connecting California"

KCRW contributor and Connecting California editor at Zócalo Public Square; co-president of the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy;  Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation; author of The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy and California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It; former contributor to the Washington Post and writer of its Class Struggle blog; former contributor to NBC's Prop Zero blog 

FROM Joe Mathews

Putting faith in L.A.'s virtues
Zócalo's Connecting California

Putting faith in L.A.'s virtues What the country needs now is some good, old-fashioned Los Angeles values.

5 MIN, 32 SEC Apr 26, 2018

Loyal treatment for the crown
Zócalo's Connecting California

Loyal treatment for the crown A royal wedding might be just the thing to repair the faltering relationship between the U.S. and the U.K.

6 MIN Apr 19, 2018

A downtown looking up
Zócalo's Connecting California

A downtown looking up The conversion of an old rail yard in Truckee could be just the kind of growth that California’s mountain hamlets need.

5 MIN, 20 SEC Apr 12, 2018

Bitter winds blowing in Orange County
Zócalo's Connecting California

Bitter winds blowing in Orange County Recent decisions on homelessness and immigration show that Orange County leaders are out of step with their constituents.

5 MIN, 51 SEC Apr 05, 2018

Los Angeles water follies
Zócalo's Connecting California

Los Angeles water follies Governor Brown’s proposed Delta water tunnels are surprisingly unpopular in L.A., which would be the main beneficiary of the plan.

5 MIN, 47 SEC Mar 29, 2018

Going back to school on education spending
Zócalo's Connecting California

Going back to school on education spending Why not let California students be involved in decisions about spending education funds? They couldn’t do worse than the adults.

5 MIN, 21 SEC Mar 22, 2018

A lake apart
Zócalo's Connecting California

A lake apart Lake Mathews in Riverside County is one of the state’s last protected reservoirs, and it should stay that way.

5 MIN, 14 SEC Mar 15, 2018

Is California America's Taiwan?
Zócalo's Connecting California

Is California America's Taiwan? An increasingly antagonistic relationship with the Trump Administration has put California in the position of being something of a “halfway country.”

5 MIN, 53 SEC Mar 08, 2018

A (campaign) tale of two cities
Zócalo's Connecting California

A (campaign) tale of two cities The governor’s race could come down to a question of which major California city voters disdain less.

5 MIN, 39 SEC Mar 01, 2018

Right on the rails
Zócalo's Connecting California

Right on the rails Whoever said that “Californians don’t like trains’ probably hasn’t ridden Amtrak lately.

5 MIN, 24 SEC Feb 22, 2018

Building a new river city
Zócalo's Connecting California

Building a new river city Cooperation between neighboring cities and counties has not been a hallmark of development in California. But what if it was?

5 MIN, 41 SEC Feb 15, 2018

Bridges and Walls: High Speed Rail
Design and Architecture

Bridges and Walls: High Speed Rail California’s biggest infrastructure project is a high-speed rail network that would connect San Francisco, the Central Valley and Los Angeles. It promises to bridge communities cut off by California’s difficult geography. And yet push-back is strong from farmers who see the train as driving a wall through their land. But despite criticism and widespread negative press, parts of the route are being built in Fresno...

28 MIN, 38 SEC Feb 13, 2018

Coachella's Canadian connection
Zócalo's Connecting California

Coachella's Canadian connection Canadian snowbirds are important to the economy and cultural life of the Coachella Valley. Maybe we should make it easier for them to spend more time there.

5 MIN, 39 SEC Feb 01, 2018

L.A. doesn't stand for Latin America
Zócalo's Connecting California

L.A. doesn't stand for Latin America Despite its Spanish and Mexican past, Los Angeles really isn't anything at like Latin America, in spite of what some art exhibits might say.

5 MIN, 33 SEC Jan 25, 2018

A savior for Santa Barbara?
Zócalo's Connecting California

A savior for Santa Barbara? Forget the White House, Oprah should keep her talents in Santa Barbara, which could really use some help.

5 MIN, 42 SEC Jan 18, 2018

California's elephant in the room
Zócalo's Connecting California

California's elephant in the room It may be old and kind of boring, but McKesson Corp. is a pillar of California’s business community.

5 MIN, 24 SEC Jan 11, 2018

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51 MIN, 17 SEC Jun 09, 2017

Trump's new look at civil rights and global warming
To the Point

Trump's new look at civil rights and global warming President Trump is reportedly ready to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We look at the possible consequences. On the second half of the program, we hear about cuts in Obama-Era civil rights programs called for by the Trump Administration's first budget plan.

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51 MIN, 12 SEC Jun 02, 2017

Replacing Obamacare: Now you see it… now you don’t
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Replacing Obamacare: Now you see it… now you don’t As the Senate deliberates replacing Obmacare, health coverage for millions of people is at stake. There've been no public hearings, and a draft measure won't be made public. Is the House version so unpopular that that Senate is hiding a version that looks much the same?

51 MIN, 17 SEC Jun 12, 2017

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