Vice President of the Association for Postal Commerce
Vice President of the Association for Postal Commerce, a trade group that represents companies that use mail as their primary form of communication
PROFILE
Kate Muth
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FROM Kate Muth
To the Point
Small Companies to Feel Pinch of First-Class Postal Increase The price of a US postage stamp went up today from 39¢ to 41¢. You can now buy a " forever stamp " that will always have the value of the one-ounce letter rate, but that's not the only change being imposed by the US Postal Service.
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Who are the political players in the LA teachers strike? Thousands of LA public school teachers are going to be back out on the picket lines for a second day. They walked off the job Monday after failing to reach a contract agreement with the LA Unified School District, despite months of negotiations.
KCRW Features
What are charter schools? LAUSD teachers were picket lines for a second day Tuesday. And this morning the teachers union organized a march to the California Charter Schools Association office downtown, to draw attention to their criticisms of local charter schools. But what are charter schools anyway?
To the Point
Politics, the World Order and Donald Trump’s New Year Newly divided government could mean change in this new year… or not. House Democrats don’t always stick together--and presidential campaigns could get in the way. The GOP might not heed Mitt Romney’s call for respectability. Meantime, will America’s allies unify to sustain world order without America’s leadership?
The 805
One year later, the threat of more mudslides still exists One year ago, torrential rain pelted the hillside community of Montecito, which was scorched a month earlier by the Thomas Fire. It unleashed a flow of mud and boulders the size of cars and killed 23 people. We check in with the community one year later and talk about what’s being done to prevent another debris flow.