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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

Standards of caring
Zócalo's Connecting California

Standards of caring California’s impressive children’s hospitals illustrate what it really looks like to put kids first. It’s too bad they’re an anomaly.

5 MIN, 29 SEC Sep 13, 2018

California billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk could both use some positive news
Zócalo's Connecting California

California billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk could both use some positive news Maybe they should buy newspapers.

5 MIN, 36 SEC Sep 06, 2018

In praise of the 'Modesto Girls'
Zócalo's Connecting California

In praise of the 'Modesto Girls' In a state where the population is increasingly transient, a group of close-knit sisters demonstrate the power of staying put.

5 MIN, 26 SEC Aug 30, 2018

The Great California Schools Squeeze
Zócalo's Connecting California

The Great California Schools Squeeze If California schools are getting more money than ever, then why are they so broke?

5 MIN, 40 SEC Aug 16, 2018

Coming of age in the Valley
Zócalo's Connecting California

Coming of age in the Valley Two new biographies shed light on what it was like growing up in multicultural Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s.

5 MIN, 36 SEC Aug 09, 2018

Rooting for the homegrown team
Zócalo's Connecting California

Rooting for the homegrown team California is losing too many of its young people, and there are only so many LeBron James around to save us.

5 MIN, 40 SEC Jul 19, 2018

Not as big as we think
Zócalo's Connecting California

Not as big as we think Sometime this summer, California will hit 40 million residents. But it may be quite a while before we reach 41 million.

5 MIN, 26 SEC Jul 19, 2018

In war and peace
Zócalo's Connecting California

In war and peace Russian collusion in California affairs is older than the state itself.

5 MIN, 42 SEC Jul 05, 2018

Tired of the crowds? Try the 'Northstate'
Zócalo's Connecting California

Tired of the crowds? Try the 'Northstate' Summering in Redding might not be everyone’s idea of a good time, but the small northern California city has its charms. It’s also the gateway to a region that remains unexplored to a lot of state residents.

5 MIN, 31 SEC Jul 05, 2018

A splitting headache
Zócalo's Connecting California

A splitting headache The latest proposal to divide California into separate states gets its wrong, just like all the ones before it.

5 MIN, 33 SEC Jun 21, 2018

California is failing preschool
Zócalo's Connecting California

California is failing preschool California politicians have been promising universal preschool for 20 years, but we still don’t have it.

5 MIN, 14 SEC Jun 14, 2018

Congratulations, California. We're No. 2
Zócalo's Connecting California

Congratulations, California. We're No. 2 California’s open primary system means that all the drama in statewide races is focused on who will finish in second place.

5 MIN, 51 SEC May 31, 2018

Sign here and make California better
Zócalo's Connecting California

Sign here and make California better California’s bustling ballot initiative process is supported by a paid army of petition circulators whose job is to get your signature on the bottom line.

5 MIN, 43 SEC May 24, 2018

L.A.'s man of many hats
Zócalo's Connecting California

L.A.'s man of many hats Austin Beutner’s no-experience-needed post-business career has taken him to City Hall, the Department of Water Power, the Los Angeles Times and now Los Angeles Unified School District.

5 MIN, 36 SEC May 17, 2018

Stars and strife
Zócalo's Connecting California

Stars and strife It’s up to California and Texas to address the polarization of the nation.

5 MIN, 43 SEC May 10, 2018

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

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